Academia Sinica has established the Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences to encourage scholars to publish monographs, conduct in-depth research on academic topics, and make important contributions academically. The awardees each received a certificate and a prize of NT$600,000.
The five recipients of the 2nd Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences and their winning books are (in alphabetical order):
Dr. Chang, Yun-chien
Associate Research Fellow, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica
Private Property and Takings Compensation: Theoretical Framework and Empirical Analysis
Dr. Keevak, Michael
Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University
Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking
Dr. Li, Shang-jen
Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
A Physician to Empire: Patrick Manson and the Founding of British Tropical Medicine
Dr. Lu, Miaw-fen
Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
Ruling All under Heaven with Filial Piety: The Xiaojing in Late Imperial China
Dr. Zhang, Ning Niina
Distinguished Professor, Institute of Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University
Coordination in Syntax
