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

Longlist - Dissertations in the Humanities

• Sam H. Bass, The Bound Steppe: Slavery, State, and Family in Qing Mongolia
• Kathleen Burke, Global Cuisine in the Dutch Indian Ocean Empire
• Adam K. Frost, Speculation and Profiteering: The Entrepreneurial Transformation of Socialist China
• Rui Hua, Peasants Versus Empires: Transnational Civil Justice and National Legal Decolonization in Manchuria, 1881-1951
• Hema Kiruppalini, Military Fraternity, Migrant Alterity: A Transnational History of Gurkha Families in Asia (1947-1971)
• Nicolo Ludovice, Domesticated Geographies: Animals and the Making of Modern Health in the Philippines
• Jonas Ruegg, The Kuroshio Frontier Business, State and Environment in the Making of Japan's Pacific
• Donghyun Woo, Leveraging Uneven Cooperation: Socialist Assistance and the Rise of North Korea, 1945-1965
• Pao-Yi Yang, Framing China: Performativity and Narrative in Museum Displays of Chinese Porcelain
• Shoufu Yin, The “Chinese” Rhetorical Curriculum and A Transcultural History of Political Thought, ca. 1250–1650

Longlist - Dissertations in the Social Sciences

• Kamalika Banerjee, Thinking through the Postcolonial Neighborhood: Jugaad Politics and the Everyday Production of Space in Mumbai
• Raka Banerjee, Adrift in the Bay, at Home in the Island: Post-Partition ‘Settler Women’ in Neil Island, Bay Of Bengal
• Kathrin Eitel, Recycling Infrastructure: Practices of Waste Handling in Phnom Penh
• Terese V. Gagnon, Seeding Sovereignty: Sensory Politics and Biodiversity in the Karen Diaspora
• Didi Kyoung-ae Han, Practising Urban Commons Amidst Precarity: A Genealogical Analysis of the Urban Precariat Movements in Tokyo and Seoul
• Zaki Habibi, Creative Voices of the City: Articulating Media, Space and Cultural Identities by Creative Collectives in Southeast Asia
• Ping-hsiu Lin, Precious Economies: Gems and Value Making in the Pakistan-Afghanistan Borderlands
• Farhana Afrin Rahman, Making a Life for Themselves: Gender, Identity, and Everyday Negotiations of Rohingya Women in Bangladesh's Refugee Camps
• Shozab Raza, Theory from the Trenches: Revolutionary Decolonization on Pakistan's Landed Estates
• Rupak Shrestha, The Border Came Between Us: Securing Development, Surveillance and Securitization, and Refugee Memory and Placemaking in Nepal

Shortlists announced

With delight we are announcing the shortlists of all categories of the ICAS Book Prize 2023!  
Please visit this website to view the shortlisted submissions in all categories:  
https://icas.asia/ibp-2023-shortlists