The winners are:

Carla Figueira (2020) “Indigenous Peoples as Non-State Diplomatic Actors in the Public/Cultural Diplomacy of Taiwan. A Case Study of Dispossessions: Performative Encounter(s) of Taiwanese Indigenous Contemporary Art”, International Journal of Taiwan Studies 3(1): https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/3/1/article-p62_62.xml

Scott Simon (2020) “Yearning for Recognition: Indigenous Formosans and the Limits of Indigeneity”, International Journal of Taiwan Studies 3(2): https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/3/2/article-p191_191.xml

Dr Carla Figueira is a lecturer, researcher and consultant in cultural policy and practice and international cultural relations. She is currently a Visiting Research and Knowledge Exchange Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, and a Leadership Fellow at the Sesimbra Social Learning Lab, Portugal.

Professor Scott Simon (Ph.D., Anthropology, McGill) is Professor at the University of Ottawa. He did postdoctoral research at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica. He has dedicated his career to fieldwork in Taiwan, including over three years in Indigenous communities. He has written four books and numerous articles about Taiwan.

Many congratulations to Carla and Scott. We will make the two award-winning articles open access in due course. 

Yours sincerely,

Ming-yeh Rawnsley

Editor-in-Chief

Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley, SOAS, University of London, UK

Executive Board

Lung-chih Chang, National Museum of Taiwan History, Taiwan

Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA

Táňa Dluhošová, Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia

Dafydd Fell, SOAS, University of London, UK

Hsin-huang Michael Hsiao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Gunter Schubert, Tübingen University, Germany

Book Review Editor

Gary D. Rawnsley, University of Lincoln, UK

Assistant Editor

John Robert Wood, Aberystwyth University, Wales

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