At ICAS 8 in Macao, we celebrated the fifth edition of the ICAS Book Prize, a lustrum. In the past 10 years the ICAS Book Prize has grown from an experiment with 50 books and 5 dissertations submitted to an established prize with 250 publications of 60 publishers worldwide and 100 dissertations competing.

Therefore we have added a new category this year: The Reading Committee Accolades. This gave the Reading Committees the opportunity to single out more books and dissertations than just the winners because so many excellent publications were submitted.

The Reading Committees for the ICAS Book Prize (IBP) and the Reading Committee for the Best Ph.D have decided on the short lists with 5 books and 3 Ph.Ds in each category.

Long list Social Sciences

Burning Money: The Material Spirit of the Chinese Lifeworld Fred C. Blake	Afghanistan and the Defence of Empire: Diplomacy and Strategy During the Great Game Christopher M. Wyatt	Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China Thomas S. Mullaney	Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture Andrew F. Jones
Hard Interests, Soft Illusions: Southeast Asia and American Power Natasha Hamilton-Hart	Islam on the Move. The Tablighi Jama'at in Southeast Asia Farish A. Noor	Malaysia's Foreign Policy, the First Fifty Years: Alignment, Neutralism, Islamism Johan Saravanamuttu	Militant Publics in India: Physical Culture and Violence in the Making of a Modern Polity Arafaat A. VALIANI
Ordinary People Extraordinary Violence: Naxalites & Hindu Extremists in India Chitralekha	Run of the Red Queen: Government, Innovation, Globalization, and Economic Growth in China Dan Breznitz, Michael Murphree	Tahiti Beyond the Postcard: Power, Place, and Everyday Life Miriam Kahn	The Other Cold War Heonik Kwon

Long list Humanities

Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts Jeffrey W. Cody; Nancy S. Steinhardt; Tony Atkin	Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom Stephen Platt	China: A Modern History Michael Dillon	Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures Karen Laura Thornber
Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh: Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits Bruce Baird	Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia Ronit Ricci	Merchants of Canton and Macao: Politics and Strategies in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Trade Paul A. Van Dyke	Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing David B. Lurie
Sandalwood and Carrion James McHugh	The Architecture of Mon Buddhist Monasteries in Lower Burma Chotima Chaturawong	The Art of Modern China Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen	The Silk Road: A New History Valerie Hansen

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We are pleased to announce that ICAS 8 will take place in Macao from 24-27 June 2013.