【Administrative Affairs】The Awards Ceremony for the 9th Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences

• 2020-12-17
• 中心秘書

The Awards Ceremony for the 9th Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences was held on December 17 on the first floor of the Tsai Yuan-Pei Memorial Hall (Faculty Club), Academia Sinica. This year, five books were selected for the award: three in Mandarin and two in English, covering topics such as sociology, history, philosophy, Chinese literature, and linguistics. It was our great pleasure to recognize this year’s award winners, whose thought-provoking books explored a vast range of ideas and challenged preexisting theoretical frameworks.

The Scholarly Monograph Award was established to encourage monograph publication in the humanities and social sciences that allows scholars to share their findings with the public and enrich society. Honoring the finest examples of scholarship, the Award recognizes books that demonstrate outstanding research and ground-breaking insights. Through the years, award-winning books have received high recognition from scholars in Taiwan and abroad.

During the ceremony, each awardee was given a medal and a prize of NT$600,000, with all five awardees making brief presentations about their prize-winning books. The ceremony was hosted by Academia Sinica President James Liao.



The five awardees and their award-winning books are as follows:
Wu, Jieh-Min
Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica
Monograph: 《尋租中國：台商、廣東模式與全球資本主義》，2019，臺北：臺大出版中心
Li, Chien-Hui
Associate Professor, Department of History, National Cheng Kung University
Monograph: Mobilizing Traditions in the First Wave of the British Animal Defense Movement, 2019, London: Palgrave Macmillan
Lin, Yuan-Tse
Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy, National Chengchi University
Monograph: 《從赫德到米德—邁向溝通共同體的德國古典語言哲學思路》，2019，臺北：聯經出版社
Tsao, Shu-Chuan
Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University
Monograph: 《在勞績中安居―晚明園林文學與文化》，2019，臺北：國立臺灣大學人文社會高等研究院
Myers, James
Distinguished Professor, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University
Monograph: The Grammar of Chinese Characters: Productive Knowledge of Formal Patterns in an Orthographic System, 2019, Abingdon UK: Routledge



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