Sherman Cochran, the Hu Shih Professor of Chinese History in the Department of History at Cornell, has been awarded the annual Joseph Levenson Prize in Chinese Studies (post-1900 category) for his book, "Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia" (Harvard University Press, 2006).

The award was announced April 4 at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) meeting in Atlanta, Ga. Every year, the AAS China and Inner Asia Council awards two Levenson Prizes to the English-language books that make the greatest contribution to increasing understanding of the history, culture, society, politics or economy of China.

Cochran's other books include "Encountering Chinese Networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880-1937" (2000) and "Cities in Motion: Interior, Coast and Diaspora in Transnational China," which he co-edited with David Strand (2007).