White shortlisted for 2013 Bernard Schwartz Book Award
Australian author Hugh White has been shortlisted for the 2013 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award for his book The China Choice: Why America Should Share Power (Black Inc.).
White’s book, which examines the role of America in the Asian Century, is one of five titles shortlisted for the $20,000 award. The other shortlisted titles are: Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (Scribe), China’s Search for Security by Andrew J Nathan and Andrew Scobell (Columbia University Press), From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia by Pankaj Mishra (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux) and Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 by Odd Arne Westad (Basic Books).
The winner of the award will be announced in September, along with honourable mentions for two other books, whose authors will each receive a cash prize of $2000. A special event honouring the authors of the three books will be held in New York in late 2013.
The Bernard Schwartz Award is presented annually by the Asia Society for books published in the previous calendar year that ‘provide special insights and new perspectives into understanding contemporary Asia and/or US-Asia relations’; ‘describe and explain changes taking place in Asia and/or in US-Asia relations and the implications for the wider world to a general audience’; and ‘bring forth ideas that offer potential policy impacts relating to the region’.
For more information about the award, visit the Asia Society website here.
Category: Local news
