The ICAS Book Prize (IBP) was established by the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) in 2004. It aims to create an international focus for academic publications on Asia, thus increasing their worldwide visibility. The biennial ICAS Book Prize is awarded for outstanding English-language works and dissertations on Asia, in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Since 2015 the IBP English Edition is sponsored by The Asian Library at Leiden University. In 2017 the biennial IBP will for the first time also award outstanding works on Asia in the Humanities and Social Sciences, in the following languages: Chinese, French, German and Korean.

2017 IBP Korean Edition will be held under the supervision of SNUAC.

• Publications on Asia in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences that are published between August 2014 and October 2016 are eligible.
• The English-language edition of the IBP for books consists of three awards: (1) best study in the Humanities; (2) best study in the Social Sciences; (3) the Colleagues’ Choice Award.
• The prizes for ‘best study in the Humanities’ and ‘best study in the Social Sciences’ each consist of €2,500 (in the case of a multi-authored work the prize will be shared equally).
• For more information: http://snuac.snu.ac.kr/2017ibp

This would be a great chance to show outstanding books internationally. We look forward for your participation.