Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1983)
Sun Yat-Sen Academic Research Award (1991)
Academic Achievement Award of the Chinese Chemical Society in Taipei (1992)
The Ho Chin Tui Award (1996)
Scholar Award in Science, Ministry of Education (1996)
National Chair Professor, Ministry of Education (1997)
Outstanding Research Award and Award for Outstanding Principal Investigators, National Science Council, Taiwan
Academician, Academia Sinica, R.O.C. (1998)
TWAS Award in Chemistry (2002)
Elected Member of TWAS (2003)
French-Taiwan Sciences Prize (2008)
Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry, London, UK (2009)
International Award, Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (2011)
Foundation Lectureship Award, FACS (2011)
Presidential Science Prize, Taiwan (2013)
The Luigi Tartufari International Prize in Chemistry (2014)
Chemistry, Crystallography