Grant Recipients, 2020-2021 (II)
May 24, 2021Recipients in the Domestic Region Unit: NT$
(in order of date application received)
A. Research Grants
1. Hsiang-ke Chao
Department of Economics, National Tsing Hua University, with Hsiao-ting Lin of Hoover Institution, Stanford University (USA)
“Postwar Taiwan Revisited: State Making, Leadership Perceptions, and Conundrum for Trans-Pacific Alliance”
Grant amount : NT$2,100,000
Grant period : 2 years
2. Shu-kai Hsieh
Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, with Harald Baayen of Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany)
“Computational Model on Lexical Semantic Changes in Chinese”
Grant amount : NT$2,400,000
Grant period : 3 years
B. Publication Subsidies
1. Shu-mei Huang
Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University, with Hyun Kyung Lee of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Republic of Korea), and with Edward Vickers of Kyushu University (Japan)
“Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific: Difficult Heritage and Cross-border Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism”, edited by Shu-mei Huang, Hyun Kyung Lee, and Edward Vickers
Grant amount : NT$160,000
Grant period : 1 year
Recipients in the American Region Unit: US$
(in order of date application received)
A. Research Grants
1. Chen-pang Yeang
University of Toronto (Canada)
“Innovation from Below: Technology Enthusiasm, Improvisational Entrepreneurship, and Technological Landscape in Information Technology, US, China, and Taiwan”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 2 years
2. Zai Liang
State University of New York, Albany
“Global Health Crisis and the Well-being of International Students in China”
Grant amount : US$27,000
Grant period : 2 years
3. Shun-yung Kevin Wang
University of South Florida
“Public Assessments of the Police in Taiwan: Examining Procedural Justice with a Mixed Methods Approach”
Grant amount : US$16,600
Grant period : 2 years
4. Ken Chih-yan Sun
Villanova University
“Transnational Family Caregiving during a Global Pandemic: Comparing Immigrants from Taiwan with Those from Mainland China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 2 years
5. Chang Tan
Pennsylvania State University
“Fantastic Frames: Studio Photography of the ‘Global Chinas’”
Grant amount : US$14,000
Grant period : 1 year
6. Chu-sheng Tai
Texas Southern University
“Financial Contagion, Real Economy, and Industry Cost of Capital”
Grant amount : US$15,000
Grant period : 1 year
B. Scholar Grants
1. Ling Zhang
Boston College
“Cold War Hydromania and an Ecological History of East China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
2. Xiaolin Duan
North Carolina State University
“An Object of Seduction: Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Trans-Pacific Trade, c.1500-c.1700”
Grant amount : US$15,781
Grant period : 1 year
3. Yuan-kang Wang
Western Michigan University
“The Chinese World Order in East Asian History: Power, War, and Change”
Grant amount : US$17,500
Grant period : 1 year
4. S. E. Kile
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“The Ends of the World: The Media of Worldmaking in Early Modern China (1592-1842)”
Grant amount : US$25,000
Grant period : 1 year
5. Michael Nylan
University of California, Berkeley
“The Politics of the Common Good, in Early China and Today”
Grant amount : US$25,000
Grant period : 1 year
6. Susan McCarthy
Providence College
“Religious Charity and Exemplary Citizenship in the PRC: Professing Loyalty, Expressing Faith”
Grant amount : US$12,000
Grant period : 1 year
7. Jiang Wu
University of Arizona
“Scripture and Modernity: The Ōbaku Buddhist Canon in East Asia and the West”
Grant amount : US$17,500
Grant period : 1 year
8. Karrie Koesel
University of Notre Dame
“Learning to Be Loyal: Political Education in Authoritarian Regimes”
Grant amount : US$17,500
Grant period : 1 year
9. Zhiguo Xie
The Ohio State University
“Expressivity of Spoken and Internet Chinese as a Global Language: A Multi-dimensional Inquiry and Its Crosslinguistic Implications”
Grant amount : US$25,000
Grant period : 1 year
10. Ya-wen Lei
Harvard University
“Upgrading the Nation: The Iron Cage of Techno-Developmentalism in China”
Grant amount : US$27,000
Grant period : 1 year
11. Brett Carter
University of Southern California
“The Politics of Anti-Government Protest in China”
Grant amount : US$17,500
Grant period : 1 year
12. Weijie Song
Rutgers University
“Navigating Chivalrous China: Martial Arts, Avant-Garde, Sinophone Cinema”
Grant amount : US$25,000
Grant period : 1 year
13. Gareth Fisher
Syracuse University
“Temples and Teahouses: The Relationship between Secularity and Buddhist Temple Construction in 2010s China”
Grant amount : US$17,500
Grant period : 1 year
14. Kuoray Mao
Colorado State University
“Environmental Social Control and Regulatory Pluralism: A Green Criminology Approach to the Generation and Transference of Hazardous Wastes in Taiwan”
Grant amount : US$27,000
Grant period : 1 year
C. Publication Subsidies
1. Beatrice Rehl
Cambridge University Press, New York
“The Aura of Confucius: Relic and Representation of the Sage at the Kongzhai Shrine in Shanghai”, by Julia K. Murray
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
2. Christian Winting
Columbia University Press
“The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China”, by Wai-yee Li
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
3. Christian Winting
Columbia University Press
“Internationalist Aesthetics: Imagining China in Early Soviet Culture”, by Edward Tyerman
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
4. Christian Winting
Columbia University Press
“Malaysian Crossings: Place, Language, and the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature”, by Cheow Thia Chan
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
5. Christian Winting
Columbia University Press
“Happiness and Money in Eleventh-Century China: What the Classic Texts Tell Us”, by Stephen Owen
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
6. David Armstrong
Cambria Press
“From Rural China to the Ivy League: Reminiscences of Transformations in Modern Chinese History”, by Yu Ying-shih, translated by Josephine Chiu-Duke and Michael S. Duke
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
7. David Armstrong
Cambria Press
“Individual Autonomy and Responsibility in Late Imperial China”, by Paolo Santangelo
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
8. Randy Schmidt
University of British Columbia Press (Canada)
“Meeting the Nation in the Field: Frontier Work and the Making of Modern China, 1919-1945 ”, by Andres Rodriguez
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
9. Beth Fuget
University of Washington Press
“Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China”, by Nicholas Menzies
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
10. Beth Fuget
University of Washington Press
“Spatial Dunhuang: Approaching the Mogao Caves”, by Wu Hung
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
D. Doctoral Fellowships
1. Xiaoxiao Shen
Princeton University
“I Want Propaganda”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
2. Sanghoon Kim
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Open to an Authoritarian Past?: Personality, Identity, and the Politics of Authoritarian Nostalgia”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
3. Ugyan Choedup
Pennsylvania State University
“Genealogy of Modern Tibetan Nationalism: Exile Tibetan’s Complicated Relationship with Taiwan (1950s-1970s)”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
4. Pinyan Zhu
University of Kansas, Lawrence
“Longmen under Emperor Wu Zhao 武曌 (r. 690-705 CE): A Visionary Experience of the Heavenly Cemetery, Statues, and Huayan Buddhism”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
5. Elise Huerta
Stanford University
“Haptic Horizons: On the Cultural Politics of Hands in Modern China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
6. Xin Yu
Washington University in St. Louis
“The Art of Mobilization: Genealogical Writing and Lineage Building in Rural Southern China, 1450-1644”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
7. Rujun Yang
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Generation, Geography, and Gender Ideology in China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
8. Shumeng Li
Cornell University
“From Farm to Table: Cultivating and Buying the Legitimacy of Organic Food in China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
9. Mengdie Zhao
Harvard University
“Shades of Justice: Imagining Law and Legal Culture in Late Imperial Chinese Literature”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
10. Jianqing Chen
University of California, Berkeley
“Touchscreen Media: The Touch and User-Spectators in Twenty-First Century China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
11. Xi Zhu
University of Washington, Seattle
“The Odes Before Anthologization: A Study of the Anhui University Bamboo Manuscripts Volume One”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
12. Kyuhyun Han
University of California, Santa Cruz
“Seeing the Forest Like a State: Forest Management, Wildlife Conservation, and Center-Periphery Relations in Northeast China, 1949-1988”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
13. Yifan Zheng
University of California, Berkeley
“Inventing ‘Commoners’: Status and Subjection in Early China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
14. Xiang Chi
University of Colorado, Boulder
“The Matthew Effect: Credit Misallocation and Disintermediation in China’s Local Public Finance”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
15. Shuo Yang
University of Pittsburgh
“Sounding Minority Religion: The Dialogic Soundscapes of the Gwer Sa La Festival of the Bai People in Yunnan, Southwest China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
16. Niping Yan
University of British Columbia (Canada)
“Constructing Chinese Knowledge: The Boxer Codex and Cultural Interaction between Sangleys and the Spanish in the Sixteenth Century ”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
17. Ke Coco Xu
Rutgers University
“Post-Socialist Modernization in 1980s Chinese Radio Drama”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
18. Do Dom Kim
University of Chicago
“Documenting Uncertainties: Legal Identity, Bureaucratic Promises, and Mobility in Southern China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
19. Henning von Mirbach
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Landscapes of Memory: Fa Ruozhen (1613-1696) and the Making of Conquest Identities in Early Qing China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
20. Fangjing Tu
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Epistemic Vigilance on Social Media: A Cross-national Comparative Approach to Understand and Enhance Factual Accuracy Judgment in China and the US”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
E. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Mu-chien Chen
The Ohio State University
“Translingual Practices as Negotiations of Identity: Chinese-Speaking Muslims’ Religious Texts in China’s Republican Era (1912-1949)”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
2. Yuan-heng Mao
Harvard University
“Connecting the Local Societies: Jiangxi Literati Networks from the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
3. Ruo-fan Liu
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“What Happened to the Level Playing Field? Social Inequality, Score Ladders, and College Choice in Taiwan’s Expanded Higher Education”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
Recipients in the European Region Unit: €
(in order of date application received)
A. Research Grants
1. Min-hsiu Liao
Heriot-Watt University (UK)
“Translating Taiwan: A Semiotic Reading of Polyglot Sites, Memories, and Social Inclusion”
Grant amount : €16,000
Grant period : 1 year
2. Maria Cruz Berrocal
University of Cantabria (Spain)
“Long-Term Archaeological Histories in Context: Heping Dao, Keelung, Taiwan”
Grant amount : €72,000
Grant period : 3 years
3. Yih-jye Hwang
Leiden University (The Netherlands)
“The Births of International Studies in China and Taiwan”
Grant amount : €52,260
Grant period : 3 years
4. Paola Calanca
École française d’Extrême-Orient (France)
“Navigation Practices in Asian Seas (16th to 19th Centuries)”
Grant amount : €84,000
Grant period : 3 years
B. Database Grants
1. Isabelle Cheng
University of Portsmouth (UK)
“Global Taiwan Studies Database: A Global Platform for Taiwan Studies”
Grant amount : €54,000
Grant period : 2 years
C. Publication Subsidies
1. Vivian Constantinopoulos
Reaktion Books (UK)
“Facing China: Portraits in Relation”, by Richard Vinograd
Grant amount : €9,000
Grant period : 1 year
2. Astrid Lipinsky
University of Vienna (Austria)
“The Many Faces of Taiwan’s Cultural Diplomacy: Marking the First Decade of VCTS”, edited by Astrid Lipinsky and Hsin-huang Michael Hsiao
Grant amount : €5,000
Grant period : 1 year
D. Doctoral Fellowships
1. Nelson Landry
University of Oxford (UK)
“Monastics, Miracles, and Canons: An Analysis of Daoxuan’s Ji shenzhou sanbao gantong lu 集神州三寶感通錄 (Collected Record of Miracles Relating to the Three Jewels in China)”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
2. Tsz Kit Chan
Leipzig University (Germany)
“Taxes and China’s Capitalist Transformation: The Changing Narrative on Lijin from Late Qing to the Republican Era (1875-1931)”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
3. Edward Schwarck
University of Oxford (UK)
“China’s Ministry of State Security: Centralisation and Oversight”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
4. Kelsey Granger
University of Cambridge (UK)
“Gifts from Afar: The Creation of an Imperial Lapdog in Tang-Song China”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
5. Laurent Van Cutsem
Ghent University (Belgium)
“Studies in the Textual History and Editorial Practices of the Zutang ji 祖堂集 and the Jingde chuandeng lu 景德傳燈錄”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
6. Flaminia Pischedda
University of Oxford (UK)
“New Perspectives on Early Chinese Divination: An Analytical Map for the Categorization of Shuzi Gua 數字卦 Palaeographical Material”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
7. Long Yang
University of Oxford (UK)
“The Dangers of Social Relations: Rural Cadres and the Socialist Education Movement in Mao’s China, 1962-1966”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
8. Flavia Xi Fang
University of Cambridge (UK)
“From the Borderlands: The Silk Road and the Sensory History of Tang China”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
9. Mathieu Beaudouin
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (France)
“A Grammar of Tangut”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
E. Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
1. Beatrice Zani
University of Portsmouth (UK)
“Making a Personal Silk Road: Chinese Migrants’ Mobility and E-Entrepreneurship Linking Yiwu, Taipei and Singapore”
Grant amount : €42,000
Grant period : 2 years
2. Rong Wu
University of Cambridge (UK)
“Confronting Revolution: Britain’s China Policy and the Global Dimension of the Chinese Nationalist Revolution, 1923-1928”
Grant amount : €42,000
Grant period : 2 years
3. Laura Pflug
Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany)
“Nuclear Entanglements between Taiwan, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the People’s Republic of China in the Cold War Era (1960-1989) -- Nuclear Exports between Nonproliferation and Technology Transfer”
Grant amount : €21,000
Grant period : 1 year
F. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Yao-cheng Chang
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
“Witnessing Ghosts and Spirits: The Epistemic Role of Sense Perception in Classical Chinese Thought”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
2. Yu-kai Liao
Durham University (UK)
“Crustacean Capitalism in the Amphibious Mekong Delta: Taiwanese Capital, Vietnamese Farmers, and Shrimp Aquaculture”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
3. Ru-yu Lin
University of Sussex (UK)
“Nature, Power, Migration and Climate Change in the Eastern Himalayas”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
Recipients in the Asia-Pacific Region Unit: US$
(in order of date application received)
A. Research Grants
1. Delia Lin
University of Melbourne (Australia)
“Ideology in Action: Educating Chinese Children in Law and Morality for the New Era”
Grant amount : US$45,000
Grant period : 2 years
2. Quentin Stevens
RMIT Univeristy (Australia)
“Chinatown: An International Comparative Atlas”
Grant amount : US$50,000
Grant period : 2 years
3. Nengye Liu
Macquarie University (Australia)
“The Rise of China and the Future of High Seas Governance”
Grant amount : US$24,000
Grant period : 2 years
4. Jonathan Benney
Monash University (Australia)
“Visual Propaganda in Mainland China”
Grant amount : US$30,000
Grant period : 2 years
B. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Sung-lun Tsai
Kyoto University (Japan)
“The Study of Post-disaster Reconstruction Model based on the Local Social and Socioeconomic Context”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
