Announcement nominations ICAS Book Prize 2007

The Secretariat of ICAS established the ICAS Book Prize (IBP) in 2005. Our aim is to create by way of a global competition both an international focus for publications on Asia while at the same time increasing their visibility worldwide.

All scientific books published in 2005 and 2006 on topics pertaining to Asia were eligible. Four prizes will be awarded: 1. best study in the field of the Humanities; 2. best study in the field of Social Sciences; 3. best PhD in the field of Asia studies; and, 4. Colleagues Choice Award.

Nominations

The IBP Reading Committee has in recent months reviewed 80 books (46 Humanities and 34 Social Sciences) and 10 dissertations. In has short listed 3 books in the Humanities and Social Sciences categories and 2 dissertations have been short listed. The short listed books and dissertations are given in alphabetical order on author.

Humanities

Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells, Nature and Nation. Forests and Development in Peninsular Malaysia (NIAS Press 2005)

Mark Metzler, Lever of Empire. The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan (University of California Press 2006)

Madeleine Zelin, The Merchants of Zigong (Columbia University Press 2006).

Social Sciences

David R. Ambaras, Bad Youth, Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (University of California Press 2005)

Pei-Chia Lan, Global Cinderellas. Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan (Duke University Press 2006)

John Roosa, Pretext for Mass Murder. The September 30^th Movement and Suharto's Coup d'Etat in Indonesia (University of Wisconsin Press 2006)

Dissertations

Alicia Schrikker, Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka c. 1780-1815: Expansion and Reform (Leiden University Thesis 2006)

Karen Thornber, Cultures and Texts in Motion: Negotiating and Reconfiguring Japan and Japanese Literature in Polyintertextual East Asian Contact Zones (Japan, Semicolonial China, Colonial Korea, Colonial Taiwan) (Harvard University Thesis 2006)

Colleagues Choice Award

It still possible to vote for the Colleagues Choice Award till 15 July.

We hope to see you all in Kuala Lumpur 2-5 August.

Dr Paul van der Velde

Secretary IBP Reading Committee 2007