A book that examines the Sino-Japanese relationship through the life of Chiang Kai-Shek (蔣介石) was counted among the winners of an academic award presented earlier this week by Academia Sinica.
Written by Academia Sinica research fellow Huang Tzu-chin (黃自進), Chiang Kai-Shek and Japan: An Epitome of Modern Sino-Japanese History (蔣介石與日本：一部近代中日關係史的縮影) was one of the five winners of the third Academia Sinica Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
The book focuses on the interactions between Chiang, Japan and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Academia Sinica said.
It includes firsthand accounts from Japanese government and military members that reveal Chiang’s blueprint for China as leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and his strategy for combating the CCP and Japan, the institute said.
Researching Chiang was a big challenge, Huang said, adding that it was the open environment at Academia Sinica that made his work possible.
A total of 39 publications were submitted this year for the award.
The other winners were Transwriting: Translated Literature and Late-Ming Era Jesuits (譯述：明末耶穌會翻譯文學論) by Li Sher-shiueh (李奭學); History and Political Theories of Western Republicanism (西方共和主義思想史論) by Carl K.Y. Shaw (蕭高彥); A Study of Qian Qianyi’s Forty-six Miscellaneous Poems to Dispel Cold on My Sickbed by Lawrence Yim (嚴志雄); and Binding Force under Indeterminate Conditions: An Institutional Analysis of the Function of Indeterminate Legal Concepts in Environmental and Telecommunications Law (不確定情境下的拘束：環境法與電信法領域中不確定法律概念功能之制度性分析) by Hwang Shu-perng (黃舒芃).
The winning writers each received a certificate and a cash prize of NT$600,000.
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