EXHIBIT AWARDS


(Presented at stamp shows where the Annual Conventions are held.)

Paul Ke-Shing Chang Chinese Postal History Award

Award: The award is a cash award CSS membership is not required.
Criteria: The exhibit must have received a Gold medal.  To be eligible, the exhibit must be a multi-frame postal history exhibit of Chinese postal history.
Chinese postal history shall also include Chinese Offices in Tibet and Mongolia, Taiwan Black Flag era, Chinese Provincial issues and Chinese Regional issues. Exhibits of the postal history of the Treaty Ports, Foreign Offices, Manchukuo and Japanese Occupation are not eligible, although these areas may be present in an exhibit of a certain period so long as they do not exceed 10% of the overall exhibit.
If there is no Gold medal postal history entry, a Gold medal traditional exhibit can be considered for the award if it contains more that 50% Chinese postal history. An exhibit may only receive this award once. The previous recipients are:
Chinese Airmails and Their Forerunners, by David Y. Lu
Rates During The Post-War Chinese National Currency Era, by H. James Maxwell
The Late Civil War Forerunners and Provisional Issues of East China, by Hugh Lawrence 
  1. China Stamp Society Scholarship Award
    Award: A $1,000 check payable to the college or university of their choice for the payment of fees, books, etc. The scholarship is not transferable.
    CSS membership is required.

    Criteria: The exhibit must be entered in the stamp show at which the CSS annual meeting is being held. To be eligible, the exhibitor must be in the 16 to 21 age group and be a member of the Society. Years of age eligibility will be based on the date of the show opening. The exhibit must be of Chinese philatelic material and consist of a minimum of three frames and receive at least a Silver Award. In the case of multiple entries at the same show, the one with the highest award will prevail. In the case of the same awards, the judges will decide the winner of the scholarship. No more then one scholarship will be awarded each year for exhibiting. Only one scholarship will be awarded to any one member.

    Additional information
  2. China Stamp Society Best Exhibit of China Award
    Award: Chinese Art Object
    CSS membership is not required.

    Criteria: This award is for the best Exhibit of China (Imperial, Republic of China on the Mainland and Taiwan, Japanese Occupation of China, People's Republic of China), or one of the related areas (Formosa 1886-1895, Shanghai and all of the Treaty Ports, Foreign Offices in China, Tibet, Manchukuo, Hong Kong used in China).
  3. China Stamp Society First Time Exhibitor Award
    Title: Norman W. Townsend Memorial Award
    Award: Chinese Art Object

    CSS membership is required. The recipient must have been a member on the date the entry form was submitted, as well as a current member at the time of the award.
    Criteria: This award is for the first time exhibitors, it will be awarded regardless of the other awards received. In the event that two or more such exhibitors are in the same show, the award will be presented to the one selected by the judges.

    The exhibit includes China and related area: Imperial, Republic (including Taiwan), People's Republic of China, Japanese Occupation, Formosa (1886-1895), Shanghai and other Treaty Ports, Foreign Offices in China, Hong Kong (used in China only), Tibet, Mongolia, Manchukuo and Macao.  When paying their dues, CSS members may make contributions to the fund for this award.
  4. CSS Chia Nan Chapter Award (Los Angeles)
    Award: Chinese Art Object
    CSS membership is not required.
    Criteria: Best exhibit of Chinese Philatelic Material issued since the 1911 Revolution.
    1. The term "Chinese Philatelic Material" includes and is limited to postage stamps, postal history, postal stationery and revenues issued by any one or more of the Republic of China (whether on the mainland or on Taiwan), the People's Republic of China, including the border posts and regional postal administrations, the postal administrations of the areas within China which were under Japanese occupation prior to 1946, the local postal administrations in Manchuria from and after 1945, and Manchukuo. The inclusion of small amounts of material issued prior to the 1911 revolution or from areas not listed above shall not serve to disqualify an exhibit if the focus of such exhibit is on material issued during the time period and from the areas listed above.
    2. Even if there is only one exhibit of Chinese Philatelic Material issued since the 1911 revolution entered in the exhibition, this special award may be given if such exhibit receives either a Gold or Vermeil award.
  5. James R. Lee Memorial Award - CSS Chiu Chin Shan Chapter (San Francisco).
    Award: Certificate
    CSS membership is not required.
    Criteria: The James R. Lee Memorial Award Certificate shall be bestowed as a special award to the best China Exhibit or to the China Exhibit that displays a high degree of artistic achievement in its design and presentation.
    1. The certificate shall NOT be given to an exhibit that has already been awarded the prestigious China Stamp Society Best Exhibit of China Award (Award 3), which shall always be accorded preference.
    2. The following areas are considered to be included in the term "China Exhibit", Imperial China, Republic of China (Mainland and Taiwan), People's republic of China (including the Regional issues before 1950), Foreign offices in China, (Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, CEF and BRA), Shanghai and other Treaty Ports, Tibet and Chinese Offices in Tibet, Formosa (1886-1895), Manchukuo, Manchurian Local overprints (both Nationalist and Communist), Mongolia, Hong Kong and Macao.
  6. CSS Republic of China (Taiwan) Chapter Award
    Award: Chinese Art object
    CSS membership is not required.
    Criteria: Best exhibit of Postal History or Postal Stationery. Must have also won a Gold medal in the exhibition. This award is given for China and related areas as listed under Award 4, First Time Exhibitor.
(Presented at stamp shows at which Regional Membership Meetings are held)

             China Stamp Society Best Exhibit of China Award 
             Award: A book published by the CSS
             CSS membership is not required.
             Criteria: This award is for the best Exhibit of China (Imperial, Republic of China on the Mainland or              Taiwan, Japanese Occupation of China, Liberated Areas, People's Republic of China), or one of the  
             related areas (Formosa 1886-1895, Shanghai Local Post, Treaty Ports, Foreign Offices in China, Tibet,              Manchukuo, Macau or Hong Kong). 
     
                                             
                                             H. James Maxwell receiving an award from Janet Klug, past President of APS.