After several months of hard work by our judges, the International Journal of Taiwan Studies (IJTS) has the greatest pleasure to announce the winners of the 2023-24 IJTS Research Article Competition (https://eats-taiwan.eu/international-journal-of-taiwan-studies/ijts-research-article-competition-2023-2024/) as follows:

• Wen-chi Li, “Why Do We Need Taiwan Studies in the Twentieth-First Century?” – winner of the Arts & Humanities category
• Gina Song Lopez, “Going Weigen: Animals, Climate, and the New Vegan Movement in Taiwan” – winner of the Social Sciences category

Many congratulations to Dr. Li and Ms. Song Lopez for winning the competition. They will each receive a monetary award of £300 and a certificate. Moreover, the winning articles will be published in the IJTS after appropriate revision.

Meanwhile, the organisers would also like to thank all the scholars who entered the 2023-24 IJTS Research Article Competition. We have read some of the most innovative and fascinating studies in the field and shall arrange publication of several of these valuable works following peer review in due course.   

About the winners:

Wen-chi Li received his PhD in Sinology from the University of Zurich. As an editor, he has co-edited Under the Same Roof: A Poetry Anthology for LGBTQ (Dark Eyes, 2019) and Taiwanese Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2023). As a vigorous translator, he introduces works from Taiwan in anthologies published by Columbia University Press, Washington University Press, Cambria, and Seagull Books. His translation won him the first prize in the 2018 John Dryden Translation Competition. He is also the co-founder of the “World Literature from Taiwan” series in Balestier Press.

Gina Song Lopez is a PhD candidate at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University in Sweden. Her project examines the development and expansion of veganism and plant-based food advocacy in Taiwan and China. Her research interests pertain to civil society, foodways and technologies, and multispecies justice. She is particularly interested in the intersection of these aspects under sustainability transformations.