ICAS Book Prize

ICAS Book Prize

The ICAS Book Prize (IBP) was established in 2003 by the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS). The IBP is awarded to outstanding publications in the field of Asian Studies. It was originally launched to bring a focus to academic publications on Asia; to increase their worldwide visibility and to encourage a further interest in the world of Asian Studies.

Update on the next edition will follow later this year.

If you would like to be updated about the next IBP edition, you can fill in this IBP interest form. As soon as more details are confirmed, you will receive an email if you have completed the interest form. These details will also be shared on the ICAS website.

Winners announced!

All winners of each IBP 2023 category have been now announced! Missed out on the announcements and curious which titles won? Then go visit the Award announcements webpage! All winners have been announced in separate clips.

To celebrate all winners, shortlisted authors and accolade winners, a special IBP 2023 Booklet was put together as an insert in the 2023 Autumn issue of The Newsletter.

Organised every two years, the IBP has grown from a small experiment, to one of the largest book prizes of its kind. In addition to the English Book and Dissertation prizes with which it all started, publications in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish have also been included in the most recent editions of the book prize. With this multilingual approach, in cooperation with a host of partners and sponsors worldwide, ICAS is increasingly decentring the landscape of knowledge about and in Asia. For the 2023 edition, IBP continued to work together with of the Association for Hong Kong Studies on our newest initiative: IBP for Best Article on Global Hong Kong Studies. For the second time, this turned out to be a great success with over a hundred submissions.