In aim of providing financial support to young scholars to write monographic books or doctoral theses, the Tang Prize Foundation has commissioned the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, to implement the Yu Ying-Shih Prize for Humanities Research on an annual basis for the period between 2015 and 2020.  After careful review, the 2018 list of awardees have been determined and are listed as follows.  The award ceremony is scheduled at 10:00 a.m., December 28th, 2018, at the Institute of History and Philology.

  • Monographic Book Prize: Each awardee will receive a prize of NTD $360,000 and a souvenir
  1. Howard Hsueh-hao Chiang (Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Davis)∕Translators of the Soul: From the First Chinese Psychoanalyst to the Rise of Transcultural Psychiatry
  2. Hui-Lin Hsu (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)∕Landscape, Sentiment, and the State: The Travels of Lao Can and the 1889 Yellow River Flood in Shandong
  3. Yifei You (Assistant Professor, Department of History, National Chung Hsing University)∕Commandery-county Administration and Local Society in Early China
  • Doctoral Thesis Prize: Each awardee will receive a prize of NTD $240,000 and a souvenir
  1. Sheng-kai Hsu (PhD. Candidate, Department of History, National Taiwan Normal University)∕The Public Recreation and Modernization of Recreation during the Japanese Colonial Period in Taiwan
  2. Yi-chun Huang (PhD. Candidate, Department of History, National Taiwan University)∕The Official Selection and Promotion System in Western Han Dynasty
  3. Chung-wei Yang (PhD. Candidate, Department of East Asian Language and Cultures, Columbia University, New York)∕Fiction as Intermedia: Printing, Visual Technologies, and Formation of Modern Fiction in Early-Twentieth Century China