15th National Culture & Arts Award (2011)

The National Culture and Art Foundation’s National Award for Arts encourages outstanding artists with numerous achievements to their name, and seeking to comprehensively enhance the standard of cultural and art work in Taiwan. This award is used to recognize and encourage achievements in the fields of literature, fine art, music, drama, dance, architecture and cinema. It has already successfully developed an impressive reputation and is widely considered the highest honor currently available in the local arts and cultural circles. The 15th award recipients include Hsiao-ping Lee (Stage Director), Tso-chi Chang (Film Director), Ruo-xi Chen (Author), Ling Chuang (Photographer) and Dau-hsiong Tseng (Opera Artist).