Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/12/28
By: Yu Hsiao-han and Shih Hsiu-chuan 

Taipei, Dec. 28 (CNA) The recipients of the Third Yu Ying-shih Humanistic Research Award on Thursday expressed appreciation for the recognition conferred on them and said the prize money would help alleviate the shortage of funds for research in their field.

One of three recipients of the Monographic Book Prize was Lin Hsin-yi (林欣宜), an assistant professor of history at National Taiwan Normal University, whose project is to study the history of Taiwan in the period 1985 as documented by foreign nationals in the country.

Lin said she hoped her work would add to the understanding of history from a new angle.
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