​Book Awards

2025 NZASIA Book Awards
The biennial NZASIA Book Awards were established in 2021 to recognize outstanding scholarship and contribution to the field of Asian Studies. 
More information on the 2025 Book Awards is available here. The deadline is 1 July 2025.

2023 NZASIA Book Awards
First Prize (in alphabetical order)
Beban, Alice, Unwritten Rule: State-making through Land Reform in Cambodia. Cornell University Press, 2021.
Mullins, Mark R., Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration (Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture, 
                               vol.16). Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2021.
Second prize was not awarded in 2023

2021 NZASIA Book Awards
First Prize
Richard Weiss, The Emergence of Modern Hinduism: Religion on the Margins of Colonialism. University of California Press, 2019.
Second prize (in alphabetical order)
Yongchun Fu, The Early Transnational Chinese Cinema Industry. Routledge, 2019.
Douglas Osto, An Indian Tantric Tradition and its Modern Global Revival: Contemporary Nondual Śaivism. Routledge, 2020.

​The Reid Prize
For the most significant book contributing to the understanding of Asia
http://asaa.asn.au/the-reid-prize/?mc_cid=84c2bf914f&mc_eid=5d8be13c18
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​Postgraduate Prizes

2025 NZASIA Conference Postgraduate Prizes​
We are pleased to sponsor two postgraduate prizes for the best student papers at the next conference. Additionally, we are also offering the Tarling-NZASIA prize for the best conference paper on Southeast Asia. The prizes aim to recognize outstanding student achievement in research on Asia and award students who display a high level of scholarship in their work. More information is available here. Click here for the entry form in Word.

2023 Winners

• First Prize: Linda Chu (Academic Sinica/National Taiwan Normal University)
  
• Second Prize: Chun Cheng (Victoria University of Wellington)
• Honourable Mention: Yan Yan (Northeast Normal University, Jilin, China)
  

2021 Winners

• First Prize: Nguyen Khac Giang (Victoria University of Wellington) and
  
• Second Prize: Janaye Kirtikar (Victoria University of Wellington)
  

2021 Southeast Asia Postgraduate Prize Winner

• Pinsuda Wonganan (University of Canterbury)

2019 Winners

• First Prize: Meera Muralidharan (Victoria University of Wellington)
  
• Second Prize: Bolin Hu (University of Auckland)
  

2017 Winners

• First Prize: Shan Windscript (University of Melbourne)
  
• Second Prize: Zahida Rehman (Victoria University of Wellington)
  

2015 Winners

• First Prize: Habiba Sultana (Queensland University of Technology)
  
• Second Prize: Ambalika Guha (Victoria University of Wellington)
  

2019 Winners - Meera Muralidharan and Bolin Hu

Workshop/Symposium grant
The New Zealand Asian Studies Society (NZASIA) is offering a grant of up to $5,000 to support a small workshop or symposium hosted by any New Zealand tertiary institution. The aim is to initiate research conversations among New Zealand-based scholars on Asia-related topics, build networks and disseminate research on Asia. Applications that encourage networking among our research community will be given priority. We are now inviting applications for the NZASIA workshop/symposium grant. Take note that the grant is only available to current full members of NZASIA. The workshop/symposium convener/s should plan to hold the workshop/symposium by February 2023.
Applications should include the following;

• title and proposed date of workshop/symposium
• proposal (around 500 words) highlighting the workshop/symposium theme, objectives and publication plans. We encourage organizers to consider the New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies as a possible publication outlet, either as individual papers or as a special issue.
• your cv, names and contact information of proposed presenters
• preliminary programme
• budget

Deadline: 15 August 2022, 5:00 pm
Send your application and query to [email protected].
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​Domestic travel grant

NZASIA Domestic Travel Grant 2018
2018 recipients

• ​Associate Professor Stephen Epstein (Victoria University of Wellington) and Associate Professor Paola Voci (University of Otago)

​Scholarships

The Rewi Alley Scholarship in Chinese Studies was established by the Rewi Alley National Committee to mark the occasion of Rewi Alley’s 80th birthday, and in recognition of his humanitarian and literary work in China over more than 50 years.

1. Purpose The purpose of the Scholarship is to encourage study and research on China, preferably at a New Zealand university.
2. Eligibility To be eligible for consideration, candidates must:
      a) be enrolled/enrolling at a New Zealand university;
      b) be intending to study any aspect of life in China; and
      c) be a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident.

For further information, please see: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/scholarships/s/rewialley-scholarship-in-chinese-studies