The 8th Academia Sinica Scholarly Monograph Award was announced today at the Faculty Club of Academia Sinica. Established in 2012, this award’s aspiration is to encourage scholars in the humanities and social sciences to conduct in-depth research and make important contributions to the fields. Each year, Academia Sinica recognizes a wide range of contributions to the discipline. Honoring the best, Academia Sinica presents awards for outstanding scholarship, ground-breaking insights, inspiration, and public understanding of the humanities and social science discipline. It is our great pleasure to present the 2020 award winners, who explore a vast range of ideas, challenge the preexisting frameworks, encourage readers to expand their thinking and learn more from the world around us.

During the ceremony, the four award winners presented their winning monographs. The ceremony was hosted by Vice President Dr. Chin-Shing Huang.

The award winners are listed below:

1. Dr. Ming-Sho Ho (Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University)
   Monograph: Challenging Beijing’s Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
2. Dr. May-Shine Lin (Distinguished professor, Department of History, National Chengchi University)
   Monograph: 《身體的身體：歐洲近代早期服飾觀念史》，台北：聯經出版社
3. Dr. Chen-Hsing Tasi (Professor, Department of English, Tamkang University)
   Monograph: 《生態危機與文學研究》，台北：書林出版有限公司
4. Dr. Pei-Chia Lan (Distinguished professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University)
   Monograph: Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US, Stanford, CA, USA: Stanford University Press