'Australian Studies Book Prizes are awarded biennially at the national conference of the Chinese Australian Studies Association. Three prizes are available:
–for the best work of original scholarship published in Chinese on an Australian topic in the previous two years;
–for the best work of original scholarship published in English on an Australian topic in the previous two years;
–for the best translation into Chinese of a work of scholarship about Australia or an Australian literary work published in the previous two years.
'The prizes are awarded to recognise and encourage the efforts of researchers, writers and translators working in the field of Australian Studies in China. They are only open to scholars and translators based in China. The judges reserve the right not to award a prize in any particular category or to vary the awards depending on the works submitted.
For an original work of scholarship
for a work of translation