The ICAS Book Prize 2017

The ICAS Book Prize (IBP) was established by the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) in 2004. It aims to create an international focus for academic publications on Asia, thus increasing their worldwide visibility. The biennial ICAS Book Prize is awarded for outstanding English-language works and dissertations on Asia, in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The IBP English Edition has been sponsored by The Asian Library at Leiden University since 2015. In 2017 the IBP will for the first time also award outstanding works on Asia in the Humanities and Social Sciences, in the following languages: Chinese, French, German and Korean.

Since its inception the IBP has grown from an experiment with 50 books and 5 dissertations to an established prize with more than 200 publications submitted by 60 publishers worldwide and 100 dissertations competing. Therefore a new category of prizes was added in 2013: The Reading Committee Accolades. This gives the Reading Committees the opportunity to single out more books and dissertations than just the winners. In 2007 the Colleagues' Choice Award was established. This award is determined by the public, who can cast their votes online through the IBP Polling Booth from 16 March 2017 to 1 July 2017. 

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Courier: ICAS Secretariat | Rapenburg 59 | 2311 GJ Leiden | The Netherlands | Tel: +31715272227