Dear all,
We are delighted to share the results of the 2025 IJTS Open Access Awards. Once again, the winning articles showcase exceptional scholarship and original contributions to the field of Taiwan studies. Our warmest congratulations to the authors of the following publications:
Phyllis Yu-ting Huang (2021)
“The Returnee as an Outsider: Reunion and Division in Wang Quan’an’s Apart Together (團圓, tuan yuan)”
International Journal of Taiwan Studies 4(1)
https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/4/1/article-p143_143.xml
Leigh Jenco and Birgit Tremml-Werner (2021)
“Historiography of the Other: Global History and the Indigenous Pasts of Taiwan”
International Journal of Taiwan Studies 4(2)
https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/4/2/article-p218_218.xml
Authors’ Biographies (in alphabetical order)
Dr Phyllis Yu-ting Huang received her PhD in Chinese Studies from Monash University, where she is currently a research affiliate. She also serves as Vice President of the Australasian Taiwan Studies Association (ATSA). Her monograph Literary Representations of “Mainlanders” in Taiwan: Becoming Sinophone (Routledge, 2021) has been widely acclaimed, and she has published extensively in both English and Chinese on literary and media portrayals of cross-Strait relations and the identities of overseas Taiwanese communities.
Professor Leigh Jenco is Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Making the Political (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Changing Referents: Learning Across Space and Time in China and the West (Oxford University Press, 2015), as well as the newly released textbook Political Theory: A Global and Comparative Introduction (Sage, 2025). Her prolific scholarship appears in leading journals such as T’oung Pao, Historical Journal, The Journal of Asian Studies, and Perspectives on Politics. Together with Birgit Tremml-Werner, she participated in the Humanities in the European Research Area “Uses of the Past” programme (2016–2019). She is a former editor of the American Political Science Review and currently leads the £1.5 million British Academy–funded “Chinese Global Orders” programme.
Dr Birgit Tremml-Werner is Senior Lecturer in Global History at Stockholm University and Adjunct Professor at UP Diliman, Manila. She earned her PhD from the University of Vienna in 2012. Her first book, Spain, China and Japan in Manila (AUP, 2015), was published in Chinese translation by Acropolis Press in 2022 (馬尼拉的誕生：大航海時代西班牙、中國、日本的交會). Her second monograph, Negotiating Imperialism: Murakami Naojirō’s Archival Diplomacy, was published by Cambridge University Press in November 2025. Her research explores East and Southeast Asian history with a focus on early modern diplomacy, trade, and multilingual communication. She has held fellowships at the University of Tokyo, the University of Zürich, and Linnaeus University, and is a founding member of the Global Diplomacy Network as well as a co-developer of the digital research platform Global Archives Online.
Warmest congratulations to Phyllis, Leigh, and Birgit.
We look forward to making both award-winning articles open access in due course.