The James B. Palais Book Prize has been awarded annually since 2010 by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS).
Pioneer Korean studies scholar James Palais is commemorated in the name of this prize.
[2] AAS is a scholarly, non-political, non-profit professional association which includes all persons interested in Asia.
The association was founded in 1941 as publisher of the Far Eastern Quarterly (now the Journal of Asian Studies).
[3] The Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) of the AAS oversees the James Palais Book Prize.