The ICAS Book Prize 2019

The ICAS Book Prize (IBP) was established 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, and has always been organised around broad interdisciplinary bases (Social Sciences and Humanities) rather than traditional geographic or disciplinary compartmentalisations.

Starting in 2017, so as to reflect ICAS’ decentralising approach, the IBP now also honours publications in Chinese, French, German, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish (in addition to the original English Edition).

Since its inception, the IBP has grown from an experiment with 50 books and 5 dissertations to a prestious prize with more than 400 publications submitted by 60 publishers worldwide and 150 dissertations. In 2013, a new category of prizes was added: The Reading Committee Accolades. This gives the Reading Committees the opportunity to single out and give credit to more outstanding books and dissertations. In 2007, the Colleagues' Choice Award was established. This award is determined by the public, who cast their votes online through the IBP Polling Booth (opens 15 March 2019).

For more information, see https://icas.asia/en/icas-book-prize.