Polling booth 2011
Colleagues' Choice Award 2011
Nearly 200 books were submitted for the ICAS Book Prize 2011. You can vote for the book you appreciate most till 20 March 2011. The winner will be announced during the IBP Awards Ceremony on 1 April 2011 in Honolulu.
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Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange
40% (2047 votes)
Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan
22% (1133 votes)
Retro-modern India. Forging the Low-caste Self
19% (955 votes)
Japanese Fashion: A Cultural History
6% (311 votes)
Colonialism, Violence and Muslims in Southeast Asia
4% (213 votes)
Forest of Tigers. People, Politics & Environment in the Sundarbans
4% (200 votes)
Ancestors, Virgins, and Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China
1% (62 votes)
Winged Faith: Rethinking Globalization and Religious Pluralism Through the Sathya Sai Movement
1% (43 votes)
A History of Bangladesh
0% (18 votes)
Japan's Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism
0% (12 votes)
Gender Diversity in Indonesia
0% (8 votes)
Kabuki's Forgotten War: 1931-1945
0% (7 votes)
When Empire Comes Home: Repatriation and Reintegration in Postwar Japan
0% (6 votes)
Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai
0% (6 votes)
Collaborative Nationalism: The Politics of Friendship on China's Mongolian Frontier
0% (6 votes)
Digital Atlas of Indonesian History
0% (5 votes)
Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan: The Tenmu Dynasty, 650-800
0% (4 votes)
Sacred Economies: Buddhist Monasticism and Territoriality in Medieval China
0% (4 votes)
Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature
0% (4 votes)
Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami
0% (4 votes)
Between Frontiers: Nation and Identity in a Southeast Asian Borderland
0% (4 votes)
Proper Islamic Consumption Shopping among the Malays in Modern Malaysia
0% (3 votes)
Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue 南嶽) in Medieval China
0% (3 votes)
Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China
0% (3 votes)
Bengal in Global Concept History: Culturalism in the Age of Capital
0% (3 votes)
Superstitious Regimes: Religion and the Politics of Chinese Modernity
0% (3 votes)
Legacy in cloth; Batak textiles of Indonesia
0% (2 votes)
Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture
0% (2 votes)
The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen
0% (2 votes)
Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
0% (2 votes)
The Art of the Gut: Manhood, Power, and Ethics in Japanese Politics
0% (2 votes)
Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong
0% (2 votes)
China with a Cut. Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music
0% (2 votes)
The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan
0% (2 votes)
Labor Relations in New Democracies
0% (2 votes)
Islam, Education and Reform in Southern Thailand: Tradition and Transformation
0% (2 votes)
Asia as Method
0% (2 votes)
From monologue to dialogue; Radio and reform in Indonesia
0% (2 votes)
Green Peony and the Rise of the Chinese Martial Arts Novel
0% (2 votes)
Surviving Nirvana: Death of the Buddha in Chinese Visual Culture
0% (2 votes)
The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and Property in China
0% (1 vote)
Women's Rights? The Politics of Eugenic Abortion in Modern Japan
0% (1 vote)
The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa
0% (1 vote)
Village China Under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948-2008
0% (1 vote)
The Appearances of Memory: Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia
0% (1 vote)
Vietnam 1946: How the War Began
0% (1 vote)
Women Playing Men: Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Shanghai
0% (1 vote)
A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta through the Memories of Its Intellectuals
0% (1 vote)
Whaling in Japan
0% (1 vote)
The Blacks of Premodern China
0% (1 vote)
Through the Eyes of the King: The Travels of King Chulalongkorn to Malaya
0% (1 vote)
The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online
0% (1 vote)
Tours of Vietnam: War, Travel Guides, and Memory
0% (1 vote)
Tough Choices: Bearing an Illegitimate Child in Japan
0% (1 vote)
Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization
0% (1 vote)
Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China
0% (1 vote)
Contemporary Japan: History, Politics, and Social Change since the 1980s
0% (1 vote)
Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India
0% (1 vote)
Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots: The Social History of a Community of Handicraft Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920–2000
0% (1 vote)
Cambodians and their Doctors
0% (1 vote)
Burmese Painting: A Linear and Lateral History
0% (1 vote)
Art for a Modern India, 1947–1980
0% (1 vote)
Spirits of the Place: Buddhism and Lao Religious Culture
0% (1 vote)
Asian Empire and British Knowledge: China and the Networks of British Imperial Expansion
0% (1 vote)
Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire
0% (1 vote)
Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China
0% (1 vote)
Clinton and Japan: The Impact of Revisionism on US Trade Policy
0% (1 vote)
Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition
0% (1 vote)
New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China
0% (1 vote)
Riven by Lust: Incest and Schism in Indian Buddhist Legend and Historiography
0% (1 vote)
Indonesia: Towards Democracy
0% (1 vote)
Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan
0% (1 vote)
Modern Japan: Origins of the Mind: Japanese Traditions and Approaches to Contemporary Life
0% (1 vote)
Islam and Healing: Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600-1900
0% (1 vote)
Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs: Indian Business in the Colonial Era
0% (1 vote)
Judge Bao and the Rule of Law: Eight Ballad-Stories from the Period 1250–1450
0% (1 vote)
Songs for the Spirits: Music and Mediums in Modern Vietnam
0% (1 vote)
Sino-Malay Trade and Diplomacy from the Tenth through the Fourteenth Century
0% (0 votes)
Sharia incorporated: A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present
0% (0 votes)
Scents and Scent-sibilities: Smell and Everyday Life Experiences
0% (0 votes)
South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society
0% (0 votes)
Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India
0% (0 votes)
Strategic Asia 2009–10: Economic Meltdown and Geopolitical Stability
0% (0 votes)
Salman Rushdie and Indian Historiography: Writing the Nation into Being
0% (0 votes)
Srikandhi dances lènggèr; A performance of music and shadow theater in Central Java
0% (0 votes)
Splashed by the saint; Ritual reading and Islamic sanctity in West Java
0% (0 votes)
Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China
0% (0 votes)
Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China
0% (0 votes)
Political Reform in Indonesia after Soeharto
0% (0 votes)
Politics of China's Environmental Protection: Problems and Progress
0% (0 votes)
Polygamy and Sublime Passion: Sexuality in China on the Verge of Modernity
0% (0 votes)
Politics in Pacific Asia
0% (0 votes)
Submitting to God Women and Islam in Urban Malaysia
0% (0 votes)
Political Booms: Local Money and Power in Taiwan, East China, Thailand, and the Philippines
0% (0 votes)
Postcolonial Environments: Nature, Culture and the Contemporary Indian Novel in English
0% (0 votes)
Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys
0% (0 votes)
Reinventing Thailand: Thaksin and His Foreign Policy
0% (0 votes)
Refracted Visions: Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java
0% (0 votes)
Reading Shenbao: Nationalism, Consumerism and Individuality in China 1919-37
0% (0 votes)
Rationalizing Migration Decisions
0% (0 votes)
Remapping the Past: Fictions of History in Deng’s China, 1979-1997
0% (0 votes)
The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation
0% (0 votes)
Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique
0% (0 votes)
Trespasses: Selected Writings
0% (0 votes)
Through a Forest of Chancellors: Fugitive Histories in Liu Yuan's /Lingyan ge/, an Illustrated Book from Seventeenth-Century Suzhou
0% (0 votes)
The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China: Environmental Values and Civil Society
0% (0 votes)
The Singapore Lion: A Biography of S. Rajaratnam
0% (0 votes)
Understanding Chinese Families: A Comparative Study of Taiwan and Southeast China
0% (0 votes)
Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India’s New Media Assemblage
0% (0 votes)
Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China: Fostering Talent
0% (0 votes)
Women in the Portuguese Colonial Empire: The Theatre of Shadows
0% (0 votes)
Watching 'Si Doel'; Television, language and cultural identity in contemporary Indonesia
0% (0 votes)
Violence and Belonging Land, Love and Lethal Conflict in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan
0% (0 votes)
The Singapore and Melaka Straits: Violence, Security and Diplomacy in the 17th Century
0% (0 votes)
The People of the Book and the People of a Dubious Book in Islamic Religious Tradition
0% (0 votes)
The Ascendancy of Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia
0% (0 votes)
The Art of Doing Good: Charity in Late Ming China
0% (0 votes)
The Arabian Nights in Historical Context: Between East and West
0% (0 votes)
The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand
0% (0 votes)
The Chinese in Britain, 1800 - Present: Economy, Transnationalism, Identity
0% (0 votes)
The Chinese in Southeast Asia and Beyond: Socioeconomic and Political Dimensions
0% (0 votes)
The Indian English Novel: Nation, History, and Narration
0% (0 votes)
The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India
0% (0 votes)
The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy
0% (0 votes)
The Failure of Civil Society?: The Third Sector and the State in Contemporary Japan
0% (0 votes)
Tang Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader
0% (0 votes)
Cosmopolitan Thought Zones: South Asia and the Global Circulation of Ideas
0% (0 votes)
Embattled Glory: Veterans, Military Families, and the Politics of Patriotism in China, 1949–2007
0% (0 votes)
Feminism and Contemporary Indian Women's Writing
0% (0 votes)
Eighteenth-Century Gujarat: The Dynamics of Its Political Economy, 1750-1800
0% (0 votes)
Domestic Goddesses: Maternity, Globalization and Middle-class Identity in Contemporary India
0% (0 votes)
Different Voices: The Singaporean/Malaysian Novel
0% (0 votes)
Fiery Dragons Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in Burma
0% (0 votes)
Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China
0% (0 votes)
Gender and Green Governance: The Political Economy of Women's Presence Within and Beyond Community Forestry
0% (0 votes)
From Ah Q to Lei Feng: Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in 20th Century China
0% (0 votes)
Freedom of Political Speech and Social Responsibility in Malaysia
0% (0 votes)
For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India
0% (0 votes)
Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley
0% (0 votes)
Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai
0% (0 votes)
Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary
0% (0 votes)
ASEAN's Myanmar Crisis: Challenges to the Pursuit of a Security Community
0% (0 votes)
A Concise History of Indian Literature in English
0% (0 votes)
(Re)negotiating East and Southeast Asia: Region, Regionalism, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
0% (0 votes)
Balasaraswati: Her Art and Life
0% (0 votes)
Behind the Veil: Resistance, Women and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia
0% (0 votes)
Constructing Singapore - Elitism, Ethnicity and the Nation-Building Project
0% (0 votes)
China: The Pessoptimist Nation
0% (0 votes)
China's Energy Geopolitics
0% (0 votes)
Bustan al-Salatin: A Malay Mirror for Rulers
0% (0 votes)
Gender Struggles: Wage-Earning Women and Male-Dominated Unions in Postwar Japan
0% (0 votes)
Guanxi or Li shang wanglai? Reciprocity, Social Support Networks & Social Creativity in a Chinese Village
0% (0 votes)
Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal
0% (0 votes)
Making the Political
0% (0 votes)
Love, Passion and Patriotism: Sexuality and the Philippine Propaganda Movement, 1882-1892
0% (0 votes)
Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India
0% (0 votes)
Memory Is Another Country: Women of the Vietnamese Diaspora
0% (0 votes)
Military Politics, Islam and the State in Indonesia: From Turbulent Transition to Democratic Consolidation
0% (0 votes)
Paradigm City: Space, Culture, and Capitalism in Hong Kong
0% (0 votes)
Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract
0% (0 votes)
Other-Worldly: Making Chinese Medicine through Transnational Frames
0% (0 votes)
Oil in China: From Self-Reliance to Internationalization
0% (0 votes)
Liberalization’s Children: Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India
0% (0 votes)
Korea Yearbook (2009): Politics, Economy and Society
0% (0 votes)
Indonesian Postcolonial Theatre: Spectral Genealogies and Absent Faces
0% (0 votes)
In Lieu of Ideology: An Intellectual Biography of Goh Keng Swee
0% (0 votes)
Imperial Andamans: Colonial Encounter and Island History
0% (0 votes)
How Taiwan Became Chinese
0% (0 votes)
Inequality and Growth in Modern China
0% (0 votes)
Islam and the Secular State in Indonesia
0% (0 votes)
Islamization and Activism in Malaysia
0% (0 votes)
Islamism in Indonesia: Politics in the Emerging Democracy
0% (0 votes)
Islamism and Democracy in Indonesia: Piety and Pragmatism
0% (0 votes)
Islamic Chinoiserie
0% (0 votes)
Paths and rivers; Sa'dan Toraja society in transformation
0% (0 votes)
Total voters: 5132
