The Awards Ceremony for the 10th Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences was held on December 9 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 history, art and English literature. 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 Vice-President Chin-Shing Huang.

　　The five awardees and their award-winning books are as follows:

Li, Hsiao-T'i Retired Research Fellow (Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica) Opera, Society and Politics in Modern China [ About the author / About the book ]

Wu, Lin-Chun Professor (Department of History, National Taiwan Normal University) 《美國人未竟的中國夢：企業、技術與關係網》 [ About the author / About the book ]

Hong, Li-Xing Associate Professor (Bachelor's Program in Educational Leadership and Technology Development, Fu Jen Catholic University) 《詠唱的祈禱──從歌本出版初探天主教聖樂在中國的早期發展》 [ About the author / About the book ]

Chen, Chung-Jen Professor (Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Taiwan University) Victorian Contagion: Risk and Social Control in the Victorian Literary Imagination [ About the author / About the book ]

Liao, Pei-Chen Associate Professor (Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Cheng Kung University) Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction: Transnational and Multidirectional Memory [ About the author / About the book ]