The IBP 5 Reading Committee Accolades
Reading Committee Accolades - Social Sciences
Publishers Accolade for outstanding production values
Inge Daniels, The Japanese House, Material Culture in the Modern Home. Oxford/New York: Berg, 2011.
Most accessible and captivating work for the non-specialist reader Accolade
Duncan McDuie-Ra, Northeast Migrants in Delhi: Race, Refuge and Retail. Amsterdam University Press, 2012
Specialist publication Accolade
Jonardon Ganeri, The Lost Age of Reason. Oxford University Press, 2011
Teaching tool Accolade
David Lockwood, The Indian Bourgeoisie. A Political History of the Indian Capitalist Class in the Early Twentieth Century. I.B. Tauris, 2012
Ground-breaking subject matter Accolade
Robert Marks, China. Its Environment and History. Rowman & Littlefield, 2012
Edited volume Accolade
James W. Heisig, Thomas Kasulis & John. C. Maraldo (eds), Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook. University of Hawai'i Press, 2011
Reading Committee Accolades - Humanities
Publishers Accolade for outstanding production values
Jiren Feng, Chinese Architecture and Metaphor: Song Culture in the Yong Zao Fashi Building Manual. University of Hawaii Press/Hongkong Press, 2012.
Most accessible and captivating work for the non-specialist reader Accolade
Karen Laura Thornber, Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures. University of Michigan Press, 2012.
Specialist publication Accolade
Erica Fox Brindley, Music, Cosmology, and the Politics of Harmony in Early China. SUNY Press, 2012.
Teaching tool Accolade
Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History. Oxford University Press: Oxford 2012.
Ground-breaking subject matter Accolade
Patricia L. Maclachlan, The People’s Post Office. The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871-2010. Harvard University Asia Center, 2011.
Edited volume Accolade
Jeffrey W. Cody, Nancy S. Steinhardt &Tony Atkin (eds), Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts. University of Hawai’i Press, 2011.
Best Dissertation Accolades - Social Sciences
Most accessible and captivating Accolade
Jenneke Arens, Women, Land and Power in Bangladesh. Jhagrapur revisited (2011)
Specialist publication Accolade
Roman Sieler, Lethal spots - Vital secrets. Varmakkalai, a South Indian healing/martial art (2012)
Ground-breaking subject matter Accolade
Heidi Hoefinger, Negotiating Intimacy: Transactional Sex and Relationships Among Cambodian Professional Girlfriends (2010)
Best Dissertation Accolades - Humanities
Most accessible and captivating Accolade
Thomas Barker, A Cultural Economy of the Contemporary Indonesian Film Industry (2011)
Specialist publication Accolade
Nahoko Fukushima, ‘Sharebon’ and Courtesans: A Phase of Edo Aesthetics as the dispersal of Ideology (2011)
Ground-breaking subject matter Accolade
Tom Hoogervorst, Southeast Asia in the Ancient Indian Ocean World: Linguistic Archaeological Approaches (2012)