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At the 64th annual business meeting of the Southeast Conference Association for Asian Studies, the best article prize was awarded to Emily Matson (research associate, University of Virginia) for
“Complicity and Cold War Politics: The Long Shadow of Unit 731 in Sino-U.S. Relations.”
Published in the Journal of American-East Asian Relations, this article’s research was first presented at the SEC-AAS 2024 annual meeting in Winston-Salem, and it pushes for new understandings of the legacy of wartime atrocities involving biomedical experimentation on human beings in East Asia—and especially a fresh perspective on how the memory of these events continues to impact China’s foreign relations today.