Outstanding book
Architectural history volume recognized by 'Choice' journal
8:47 a.m., Dec. 9, 2015--A book co-edited by Vimalin Rujivacharakul, associate professor of art history at the University of Delaware, has been selected as an “outstanding academic title” by Choice, the official publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Architecturalized Asia: Mapping a Continent Through History, published by the University of Hawaii Press in association with Hong Kong University Press, was reviewed by Choice during 2014 and selected for the honor as one of the year’s best academic books. The list represents less than 10 percent of the more than 7,300 books and other media titles reviewed by the publication.
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“In contrast to studies that take the continent’s boundaries as cartographically or ontologically given, this volume emphasizes how Asia has been constructed and produced since the early modern period,” according to the review, which called the book “a valuable resource for specialists in art history, architectural history, anthropology, history, geography, religion, cultural studies, and Asian studies.”
Rujivacharakul is the project's originator and chief editor of the volume. In addition to co-editing the book with three other scholars, she contributed the first chapter, "Asia in World Architecture and World Cartography."
She focuses her research on the interplay between architectural history, intellectual history and cultural anthropology and has published on architectural history and historiography, Sino-European intellectual history, the history of cartography, history of collecting and the materiality of things.
Rujivacharakul is the co-author of Liang Sicheng and the Temple of the Buddha’s Light, published in 2015, and the editor of Collecting China: The World, China and a History of Collecting, published in 2010.
At UD, she supervises graduate students in both art history and art conservation.