The Awards Ceremony for the 14th Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences was held on December 1 at 1F Lecture Hall of the Environmental Changes Research Building, Academia Sinica. This year, covering topics such as Chinese literature, linguistics, English literature, history, and political science. 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:

Ko, Chia-Cian Professor (Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University) Monograph:《海國詩路：東亞航道與南洋風土》，2024，臺北市：國立臺灣大學出版中心。 [ About the author / About the book ]

Chen, Chun-Mei Professor (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chung Hsing University) Monograph: Mixed Emotions and Indigenous Language Maintenance in Post-Disaster Reconstruction Communities, 2024, Lanham, USA: Lexington Books. [ About the author / About the book ]

Chen, Yin-I Chair Professor (Department of English, National Chengchi University) Monograph: The New Woman and Technologies of Speed in Fin-de-Siecle Literature, 2024, New York, USA: Oxford University Press. [ About the author / About the book ]

Huang, Kuan-Chung Adjunct Research Fellows (Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica) Monograph:《居鄉懷國：南宋鄉居士人劉宰的家國理念與實踐》，2023，臺北市：三民書局股份有限公司。 [ About the author / About the book ]

Batto, Nathan F. Associate Research Fellow (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) Monograph: Making Punches Count: The Individual Logic of Legislative Brawls, 2024, New York, USA: Oxford University Press. [ About the author / About the book ]