ICAS Book Prize 2023 English Edition - Longlists

We are extremely grateful to all the Committee members in the four categories for their time and energy in this process so far. They put in a tremendous effort in reading and judging all the submitted books and dissertations for this edition! Below are the longlists for the Books in the Humanities and Social Sciences in alphabetical order of authors' surnames. These lists, together with the Dissertation longlists, can be found on this website: https://icas.asia/ibp-2023-english-longlists

Longlist - Books in the Humanities

	Katerina Clark, Eurasia without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919–1943, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022
	Bryna Goodman, The Suicide of Miss Xi: Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic, Harvard University Press, 2021
	Vincent Goossaert, Heavenly Masters: Two Thousand Years of the Daoist State, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press and University of Hawai’i Press, 2021
	Victoria Lee, The Arts of the Microbial World: Fermentation Science in Twentieth-Century Japan, The University of Chicago Press, 2021
	Morgan Pitelka, Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan, Cambridge University Press, 2022
	Ruth Rogaski, Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland, The University of Chicago Press, 2022
	Jeannie N. Shinozuka, Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950, The University of Chicago Press, 2022
	Maria Montt Strabucchi, Carol Chan and María Elvira Ríos, Chineseness in Chile: Shifting Representations During the Twenty-First Century, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
	Heather Sutherland, Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600–c.1906, NUS Press, 2021
	Anand A. Yang, Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia, University of California Press, 2021

Longlist - Books in the Social Sciences

	Simon Avenell, Asia and Postwar Japan: Deimperialization, Civic Activism, and National Identity, Harvard University Asia Center, 2022
	Eyck Freymann, One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World, Harvard University Asia Center, 2020
	Syed Irfan Ashraf, The Dark Side of News Fixing: The Culture and Political Economy of Global Media in Pakistan, Anthem Press, 2021
	Aynne Kokas, Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty, Oxford University Press, 2022
	John Lie, Japan, the Sustainable Society: The Artisanal Ethos, Ordinary Virtues, and Everyday Life in the Age of Limits, University of California Press, 2021
	Ken MacLean, Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar, University of California Press, 2022
	Antje Missbach, The Criminalisation of People Smuggling in Indonesia and Australia: Asylum Out of Reach, Routledge, 2022
	Sylvia Tidey, Ethics or the Right Thing? Corruption and Care in the Age of Good Governance, HAU Books, 2022
	Shobana Shankar, An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre of Race, Hurst Publishers and African Arguments, 2021
	Timothy M. Yang, A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan, Cornell University Press, 2021

 

The shortlists of all eight Editions – English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese/Spanish and the Hong Kong Studies Article Prize – will be announced by summer 2023.

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