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The Awards Ceremony for the 12th Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences was held on December 11 on the first floor of the Tsai Yuan-Pei Memorial Hall (Faculty Club), Academia Sinica. This year, five books were selected for the award: two in Mandarin and three in English, covering topics such as anthropology, history, literature, and philosophy. 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 C. Liao.

The five awardees and their award-winning books are as follows (in alphabetical order): 

Guan, Kean-Fung 

Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Tsing Hua University

Monograph: 《穿梭黑暗大陸：晚清文人對於非洲探險文本的譯介與想像》，2022，臺北市：國立臺灣大學出版中心

Katz, Paul R.  

Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica  

Monograph: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Western Hunan during the Modern Era: The Dao among the Miao?, 2022, London and New York: Routledge.

Lin, Wei-Ping

Professor, Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University

Monograph: Island Fantasia: Imaging Subjects on the Military Frontline between China and Taiwan, 2021, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Teng, Norman Y. 

Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica  

Monograph:《公民哲學》，2022，臺北市：國立臺灣大學出版中心

Su, I-Wen 

Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Culture, National Chengchi University

Monograph: The Shīʿī Past in the Great Book of the Songs: A New Perspective on the Kitāb al-Aghānī by Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī and Shīʿī Islam in the Tenth Century, 2021, New Jersey: Gorgias Press.