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Very good news, indeed. Susan Kepner<br><br>
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At 19:02 17/09/2009, Michael Montesano wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=2>>> Subject:
Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award<br>
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<font size=2>>> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:12:08 -0400<br>
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<font size=2>>> From: "President, Asia Society"
<<a href="mailto:president@asiasoc.org">president@asiasoc.org</a>
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</font><br>
<font size=2>>> September 16, 2009<br>
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<font size=2>>> On behalf of the Asia Society and jury co-chairs
Carol Gluck and <br>
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<font size=2>>> Tommy Koh, it is my great pleasure to inform you
that the winner of <br>
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<font size=2>>> the 2009 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award
is Tearing<br>
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<font size=2>>> Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern
Thailand.  <br>
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<font size=2>>> Our jury spent many months reading and deliberating
over roughly</font> <br><br>
<font size=2>>> 65 excellent book submissions received for the
inaugural Asia Society <br>
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<font size=2>>> Bernard Schwartz Book Award. Tearing Apart
the Land was selected by <br>
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<font size=2>>> our jury of eleven experts across the U.S. and Asia
for its superb <br>
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<font size=2>>> fieldwork and reporting on this critical part of
the world. The jury <br>
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<font size=2>>> found the book to offer a significant contribution
to our <br>
</font><br>
<font size=2>>> understanding of Southeast Asia, Islam, and
insurgency and minority <br>
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<font size=2>>> movements more broadly.<br>
</font><br>
<font size=2>>> It has long been the mission of the Asia Society to
promote <br>
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<font size=2>>> understanding among the peoples of Asia and the
United States through <br>
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<font size=2>>> education, policy, business, arts and
culture. Through this book <br>
</font><br>
<font size=2>>> award, we hope to raise public awareness of the
changes taking place <br>
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<font size=2>>> in Asia and the implications for the wider
world. We couldn’t be <br>
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<font size=2>>> more thrilled to honor Tearing Apart the Land for
this purpose.<br>
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The <font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#666666">Asia Society established
the first annual</font><b>
<font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#666666">Bernard Schwartz Book
Award</b> in 2009. This major international award will recognize
nonfiction books that provide outstanding contributions to the
understanding of contemporary Asia or U.S.-Asia relations. In
keeping with the Asia Society’s mission, the award is designed to
further public awareness of the changes taking place in Asia and the
implications for the wider world, and to raise the profile of authors
making a meaningful contribution to this dialogue. <br>
</font><br>
<font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#666666">Books will be evaluated based
on their ability to: <br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#666666">• Provide special insights
and new perspectives into undeerstanding contemporary Asia or U.S.-Asia
relations <br>
</font><br>
<font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#666666">• Describe and explain
changes taking place in Asia or inn U.S.-Asia relations and the
implications for the wider world to a general audience <br>
</font><br>
<font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#666666">• Bring forth ideas that make
a significant impact on pollicy dialogues relating to the region <br>
</font><br>
<font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#666666">An independent jury comprised
of experts in the fields of policy, media, academia, cultural affairs,
and business will select the winner, who will receive a $20,000 prize and
will be honored at a special event at the Asia Society. In addition to
the winner, four books will be chosen to receive honorary mentions. <br>
</font><br>
<font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#6F6851"><b>2009 Bernard Schwartz Book
Award Finalists <br>
</b></font><br>
<font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#666666"><b>William W.
Grimes:</font><br>
</b><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#666666"><i>Currency and Contest
in East Asia: The Great Power Politics of Financial
Regionalism</i></font><br>
<font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#666666">(Cornell University
Press)<br><br>
<b>David M. Lampton:</b></font><br>
<font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#666666"><i>The Three Faces of Chinese
Power: Might, Money, and Minds</i><br>
(University of California Press)<br><br>
<b>Duncan McCargo:</b></font><br>
<font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#666666"><i>Tearing Apart the Land:
Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand</i><br>
(Cornell University Press)<br><br>
<b>Philip P. Pan:</b></font><br>
<font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#666666"><i>Out of Mao's Shadow: The
Struggle for the Soul of a New China</i><br>
(Simon & Schuster)<br>
</font><b><br>
<font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#666666">Ahmed
Rashid:</b></font><i><br>
<font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#666666">Descent into Chaos: The
United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan
and Central Asia</i><br>
(Penguin Group USA) <br>
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