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The 2025 IACS Dissertation Prize received 40 strong nominations this year. The quality and quantity of the dissertations have exceeded our expectation and made the selection a truly exciting and challenging task. After careful reading and intense discussion, our jury, Prof Fran Martin (jury chair), Prof Yiu Fai Chow, Prof Sharmani Patricia Gabriel, and Prof Madhuja Mukherjee, has come up with four short-listed dissertations (alphabetized by order of author surname).

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Affective Oceanscapes: Contextualising Oceanic Feeling in Chinese Cultural History
Dongyang Li

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Formulas of Chineseness: Tracing Daigou between Australia and China
Jessie Liu

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Brewing Transnational Solidarity: Transnational Youth Activist Networks in East Asia and the Rise of the Milk Tea Alliance
Tuwanont Phattharathanasut

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Between Lives: Livingness and Remnants of Rice Ontology in Northern Thailand
Sirithorn Siriwan

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We congratulate and celebrate these four authors for their excellent work. The winner of the Prize will be announced at the end of April this year.