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Grant Recipients, 2013-2014

Grant Recipients, 2013-2014


Recipients in the Domestic Region

A. Cooperative Research Grants

1. Lung-pao Tsai

Department of History, National Taipei University, with Chai-sung Lim of Seoul National University (Korea), et al.
“A New Approach to the Study of the Modern East Asian History: Unification of Perspectives from Political, Diplomatic, and Economic History”
Grant amount: NT$1,800,000
Grant period: 3 years

2. Tzu-chin Huang

Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, with Ryoichi Tobe of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Japan), et al.
“Steps Toward Reconciliation: A Reconsideration of the Second Sino-Japanese War”
Grant amount: NT$3,000,000
Grant period: 3 years

3. Hsin-ya Huang

Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Sun Yat-sen University, with Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin of Stanford University (USA), et al.
“Representing Chinese Railroad Workers in North America”
Grant amount: NT$3,200,000
Grant period: 3 years

4. Hsin-chun Lu

Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, with Anna Stirr of the University of Hawaii, Manoa (USA), et al.
“Music, Dance, and Cultural Revolution Beyond China’s Borders”
Grant amount: NT$2,500,000
Grant period: 3 years

B. Conference and Seminar Grants

1. Yu-Pin Lin

Department of Theatre Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts; with Yasushi Nagata of Osaka University (Japan)
“Retrospects and Prospects of Drama Studies in Taiwan: The International Conference in Honor of the Retirement of Prof. Chiu, Kun-liang”
Grant amount: NT$500,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Yu-chung Shen

Department of Political Science, Tunghai University, with Stan Hok-Wui Wong of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), et al.
“Conference on Asian and European Regional Integration”
Grant amount: NT$200,000
Grant period: 6 months

3. Samuel C. Y. Ku

Institute of China and Asia-Pacific Studies, National Sun Yat-sen University, with Ruth Lusterio-Rico of the University of the Philippines, Diliman (The Philippines)
“The 2014 International Conference on Asia-Pacific Studies”
Grant amount: NT$240,000
Grant period: 6 months

4. Kuang-tai Hsu

Center for General Education, National Tsing Hua University, with Luis Saraiva of the University of Lisbon (Portugal)
“History of Mathematical Sciences: Portugal and East Asia V”
Grant amount: NT$420,000
Grant period: 6 months

C. Publication Subsidies

1. Sean Hsiang-lin Lei

Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica; with Karen Darling of the University of Chicago Press (USA)
Neither Donkey Nor Horse: The Creation of Modern Chinese Medicine and the Struggle over China’s Modernity
Grant amount: NT$380,000
Grant period: 1 year

 

Recipients in the American Region

A. Research Grants

1. Dennis V. Hickey

Missouri State University
“Taiwan and the Dispute in the South China Sea”
Grant amount: US$7,160
Grant period: 1 year

2. Jie Zhang

University of Kansas
“Experimental Investigations of Tone Sandhi in Three Hakka Dialects Spoken in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 2 years

3. Jennifer Hsu

University of Alberta
“Growing Up and Going Out: The Internationalization of Chinese NGOs as an Alternative Model of Development”
Grant amount: US$14,757
Grant period: 1 year

4. Pin Ng

Northern Arizona University
“Sustainability and Resilience to Disturbance and Change in Rural Taiwan Communities”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 2 years

5. Robert Cliver

Humboldt State University
“Surviving Socialism: Private Businesses and the Transition to Socialism in China”
Grant amount: US$6,778
Grant period: 1 year

6. Li-jen Kuo

Texas A&M University
“Reconceptualizing the Effect of Bilingual Experience on the Literacy Development of Dyslexic Children: A Study with Native-speakers and Learners of Chinese in Taiwan and in the U.S.”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 2 years

7. Chen-pang Yeang

University of Toronto
“Chao Yuen Ren and the Modern Soundscape of Republican China, 1912-1937”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 2 years

8. Jing Cai

University of Michigan
“Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance: Evidence from China”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 2 years

9. Yuen Yuen Ang

University of Michigan
“Wages, Auditing and Corruption: A Comparative Study of China, Taiwan and Singapore”
Grant amount: US$12,975
Grant period: 2 years

10. Min-ming Wen

California State University, Los Angeles
“Managerial Risk-taking Behaviors and Financing Costs of Taiwan’s Corporations Operated in Taiwan and in China”
Grant amount: US$9,960
Grant period: 1 year

B. Conference/Seminar/Workshop Grants

1. Andrew Jones

University of California, Berkeley
“Modern Chinese Style: Words and Worlds in Twentieth Century China”
Grant amount: US$10,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang

University of Texas, Austin
“The North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) 20th Anniversary Conference -- The Zeitgeists of Taiwan: Looking Back, Moving Forward”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Xiaofei Tian

Harvard University
“An International Conference on Classical Chinese Literature, 1000 BCE-900 CE”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 6 months

4. Peter Bol

Harvard University
“Conference on Middle Period China, 800-1400”
Grant amount: US$24,617
Grant period: 6 months

5. Vincent Wang

American Association for Chinese Studies
“Conference Grant and Journal Support for the American Association for Chinese Studies”
Grant amount: US$17,000
Grant period: 6 months

6. Robert Culp

Bard College
“Organized Knowledge and State Socialism, 1949-1978”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 6 months

7. Tamara Bentley

Colorado College
“Picturing Commerce: Visual Forms in Motion in and from the Asian Maritime Circuits, 1550-1800”
Grant amount: US$14,000
Grant period: 6 months

C. Publication Subsidies

1. Emily Andrew

University of British Columbia Press
The Business of Culture: Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900-65”, edited by Christopher G. Rea and Nicolai Volland
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Susan Barnett

Cornell University Press
The Neighborhood Consensus: Practices of Power in Urban China”, by Luigi Tomba
Grant amount: US$4,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Susan Barnett

Cornell University Press
Insurgency Trap: Migrant Workers, Unions, and the State in China”, by Eli Friedman
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. Anh Ly

University of California Press
Fantasy Islands: Transnational Flows, Fears and Fantasies in an Age of Climate Crisis”, by Julie Sze
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

5. Qin Higley

Brill
An Intellectual History of China: Knowledge, Thought, and Belief through 1895”, by Zhaoguang Ge, translated by Michael S. Duke and Josephine Chiu-Duke
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

6. Beth Fuget

University of Washington Press
Educating the Chinese Individual: Life in a Rural Boarding School”, by Mette Halskov Hansen
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

7. Beth Fuget

University of Washington Press
Out of the Imperial Shadow: Chinese Vernacular Fiction as Political Discourse”, by Liangyan Ge
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

8. Beth Fuget

University of Washington Press
Heaven in Conflict: Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi”, by Anthony E. Clark
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

9. Susan Barnett

Cornell University Press
‘Getting By’: A Historical Ethnography of Class and State Formation in Malaysia”, by Donald M. Nonini
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

D. Scholar Grants

(a) Scholar Grants

1. Tze-lan Sang

Michigan State University
“Taiwan’s Women Documentary Filmmakers: Public Intellectuals and Innovative Artists”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Shih-shan Susan Huang

Rice University
“First Impressions: Chinese Religious Prints before Gutenberg, 850-1450”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Thomas Reilly

Pepperdine University
“The YMCA, Chinese Protestants, and the Shanghai Urban Elite: From Social Reform to Social Revolution, 1922-1952”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. J Michael Farmer

University of Texas, Dallas
“South of Mount Hua”
Grant amount: US$10,000
Grant period: 1 year

5. Susan McCarthy

Providence College
“Serving Society, Re-purposing the State: Faith-based Charity, Religious Innovation and Resistance in China”
Grant amount: US$24,000
Grant period: 1 year

6. Robert Culp

Bard College
“Publishing Circles and the Production of Culture in Post-imperial China, 1900-1965”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year

7. Chih-chin Chou

University of Arizona
“The Social Network Characteristics and Type of Social Support for Persons with Mental Illness in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

8. Sarah Queen

Connecticut College
“Exemplary Tales from Ancient China: Reimagining the Confucian Utopia of King Wen of Zhou”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year

9. Jiang-ping Chen

St. Cloud State University
“Mei Wending (1633-1721) and the Rise of Reasoning in 17th Century Chinese Mathematics”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year

(b) Junior Scholar Grants

1. Ling Zhang

Boston College
“The River, the Plain, and the State: Making a Yellow River Delta, 1048-1128”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Tie Xiao

Indiana University, Bloomington
“In the Name of the Masses: Imagining Crowds in Modern China, 1900-1950”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Sukhee Lee

Rutgers University, New Brunswick
“Philosopher: Officials and the Limits of Governance in Middle Period China”
Grant amount: US$14,900
Grant period: 1 year

4. Michael Ing

Indiana University, Bloomington
“Vulnerabilities of the Self in Early Confucianism”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year

5. Shelly Chan

University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Diaspora’s Homeland: A Transnational History of Modern China”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year

6. Gareth Price

Duke University
“Language, Society and the State: From Colonization to Globalization in Taiwan -- A Monograph to Appear in de Gruyter Mouton’s Language, Power and Social Process Series”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

7. John Osburg

University of Rochester
“Tibetan Buddhism and Spiritual Self-cultivation in the PRC”
Grant amount: US$29,997
Grant period: 1 year

8. Ling Chen

Stanford University
“Manipulating Globalization: Bureaucrats, Businesses, and Policy Implementation in Local China”
Grant amount: US$22,000
Grant period: 1 year

9. Elaine Liu

University of Houston
“Property Right Reform and Agricultural Investment Decisions in China”
Grant amount: US$13,009
Grant period: 1 year

10. Xing Hang

Brandeis University
“Overseas Chinese State-building and Identity on the Southeast Asian Frontier”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year

11. Shuang Zhang

University of Colorado, Boulder
“Long-term Impact of Land Reform on Human Capital in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$12,000
Grant period: 1 year

E. Doctoral Fellowships

1. Yiqing Xu

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Lobbying the State: Political Visits and Bank Loans during the Crisis”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Yifei Li

University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Down to Earth: Bureaucracy, Populism, and Local Environmental Governance in China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Hiu Yu Cheung

Arizona State University
“Sequence of Power: Ritual Controversy over the Zhaomu Sequence in Imperial Ancestral Rites in Song China, 960-1279”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. Rafal Stepien

Columbia University
“The Unity Between: Ways of Saying and Silence in Buddhism and Islam”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

5. Cai Vera Zuo

University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Welfare Distribution without Voters: The Local Political Economy of Welfare Reform in China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

6. Elad Alyagon

University of California, Davis
“The Making and Unmaking of the Chinese Lower Class: Common Soldiers in the Song Military, 960-1279”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

7. Yun Yao

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Sub-lexical Processing in Chinese Character Recognition: Psycholinguistic Evidence from L1 and L2 Settings”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

8. Ling Han

University of California, San Diego
“Serve the People (Wei Renmin Fuwu): The Professionalization of Social Work in Urban China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

9. Qiong Yang

The Ohio State University
“Mr. Science Goes Popular: Science as Imagined in Chinese Literature and Culture, 1903-1997”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

10. Mujun Zhou

Brown University
“Cultural Formation of Civil Society after 1989: Emancipatory Potential and the Contest to Build Solidarity”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

11. Wenxin Guo

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions from Emerging-market Nations: Evidence from Chinese Acquirers”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

12. Fang Yu Hu

University of California, Santa Cruz
“Taiwanese Homes, Japanese Schools: Han Taiwanese Girls’ Primary Education under Japanese Rule, 1895-1945”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

13. Priscilla Tse

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Queering the Body: Musical Gendering of Cross-dressing Performance in Cantonese Opera, and Cultural, Sexual, and Identity Politics in Contemporary Hong Kong”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

14. Ming Yang

University of Hawaii
“‘New Aesthetics’ and Revitalization of Kunqu Theatre in the People’s Republic of China, 2001-2012”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

15. Jessica Chen

Stanford University
“The Social World of Muslims in 19th Century China: Biographical Literature and Local Historical Imagination”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

16. Wenwen Shi

Wayne State University
“Transformative Effects of the Internet on Chinese Peasants’ Political Orientation -- A Field Experiment”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

17. Macabe Keliher

Harvard University
“The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China, 1631-1690”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

18. Einor Keinan-Segev

Harvard University
“Water Stages: Aquatic Theaters and Other Floating Pleasures”
Grant amount: US$8,750
Grant period: 1 year

F. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

1. Fang-yu Li

Washington University in St. Louis
“Writers in Crisis: Moral Agency and Intellectual Identity in Contemporary Novels from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Chuan-an Hu

McGill University
“The Colonial Landscape of Ancient Sichuan and the Making of Metropolitan-local Identities in Early Imperial China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Shing-ting Lin

Columbia University
“The Female Hand: The Making of Professional Women’s Medicine in Modern China, 1880-1940”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. Hsiao-chun Wu

University of California, Los Angeles
“Ascending the Great Hall of Elegance: Emerging Modern Scholarship of Peking Opera in Early 20th Century China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

5. Chen-cheng Wang

University of California, Irvine
“The Politics of Local Statecraft in Nationalist China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

6. Hsin-fang Wu

Pennsylvania State University
“The Transmission of Memory in the Jesuit Mission in Shanghai: Printing Culture, Rituals, and Exhibitions, 1842-1949”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

7. I-hsuan Chen

University of California, Berkeley
“The Diachronic Development Underlying the Synchronic Variation of Minimizers in Mandarin Chinese”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

8. Yaling Hsiao

University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Language Universality or Language Specificity? Mandarin Relative Clauses’ Contribution to Theories of Human Sentence Processing”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

9. Ka-yi Ho

University of California, Los Angeles
“Art Productions of the Late Ming Court during the Wanli Era, 1573-1620”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

10. I-wen Chang

University of California, Los Angeles
“Flirting with Global Citizenship: The Body Politics of National, Gender, and Class Identity in Taiwanese Salsa Practice”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

11. Beth Tsai

Stony Brook University
“Transnational Images in a Global Frame: Film Festivals and Taiwan Cinema through the Lens of Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

12. I-yi Hsieh

New York University
“Marketing Nostalgia: Beijing Folklore Arts at the Age of Heritage Construction”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

13. Yu-chien Huang

University of Virginia
“‘The War at the End of the World’: Controversy, Hierarchy, and Matriliny in Yap (Wa’ab), Federated States of Micronesia”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

14. Hsiao-ling Su

University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Counterfeit Goods, the State, and Intellectual Property Rights: An Ethnography of Legal Consciousness in Post-socialist China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

15. Yu-Kang Fan

University of Southern California
“Sandwiched between Two Worlds: Taiwanese Experiences of Transnational Caregiving”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

16. Tzu-Yin Tseng

University of Houston
“The Effect of Maternal Stress on the Incidence of Miscarriages, Stillbirths and Long-term Health Outcomes”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

17. Chia-yin Wei

University of South Carolina, Columbia
“The Media Effect on Economic Voting: A Cross-national Analysis and a Comparative Case Study of Taiwan and Mexico”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

18. Ming-chieh Kuo

University of California, San Diego
“Delegation and Credibility: The Politics of Governing Food Safety in China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

19. Hsin-hsin Pan

Michigan State University
“The Politics of Decentralization under Dictatorship”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

20. Chien-chih Lin

University of Chicago
“Judicialization of Politics in New Democracies”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

21. Mong-hwa Chin

Duke University
“A Psychological Perspective on the Decision-making Process of Trial Judges in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

●Wait List

1. Chia-ying Chu

University of Kansas
“The Interplay between Language and Cognition in Acquisition of Demonstratives”

 

Recipients in the European Region

A. Institutional Enhancement Grants

1. Pierre Marsone

French Asiatic Society (France)
“Modernization and Enhancement of the Sinological Resources of the Société Asiatique (French Asiatic Society, 亞洲學會)”
Grant amount: €50,000
Grant period: 3 years

B. Lecture Series Grants

1. Shirley Ye

University of Birmingham (UK)
“Global China: New Approaches”
Grant amount: €18,000
Grant period: 1 year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvWJFsMcjHM#t=539

2. Astrid Lipinsky

University of Vienna (Austria)
“Taiwan’s Civil Movement(s): History, Culture and Legacy Program within the Vienna Taiwan Lecture Series”
Grant amount: €6,000
Grant period: 1 year

C. Research Grants

1. Christian Henriot

University of Lyon (France)
“Cadastres, Land Management and Urban Change in Shanghai: Spatial and Temporal Visualization of Heterogeneous Series”
Grant amount: €75,000
Grant period: 3 years

2. Ming-chin Monique Chu

University of Oxford (UK)
“China’s Sovereignty Challenges: Cases of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Tibet”
Grant amount: €20,000
Grant period: 2 years

3. Chun-Yi Lee

University of Nottingham (UK)
“Chinese Investment in Taiwan: Challenge or Opportunity for Taiwan’s Industrial Development?”
Grant amount: €45,000
Grant period: 2 years

D. Conference and Seminar Grants

1. Enrico Fardella

Torino World Affairs Institute (Italy)
“Stormy Waters, Bright Horizons? China and Europe’s Changing Roles in the West Asia/Northern Africa Region”
Grant amount: €10,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Tian Yuan Tan

SOAS, University of London (UK)
“Brave New Theatres: 1616 in China and England”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
http://www.soas.ac.uk/china-institute/events/brave-new-theatres/05jun2014-brave-new-theatres-1616-in-china-and-england.html

3. Jonathan Silk

Leiden University (The Netherlands)
“Chinese Buddhism and the Scholarship of Erik Zürcher: A Conference”
Grant amount: €10,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. François Gipouloux

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
“The 2nd International Conference: ‘Origins of Globalisation and the Great Divergence: Trading Networks and the Trajectory of Economic Institutions -- Europe-Asia, 1500-2000’”
Grant amount: €20,000
Grant period: 6 months

5. Rafael Suter

University of Zurich (Switzerland)
“The Gongsunlongzi and Other Neglected Texts -- Aligning Philosophical and Philological Perspectives”
Grant amount: €18,000
Grant period: 6 months

E. Publication Subsidies

1. Roland Altenburger

University of Würzburg (Germany)
Yangzhou -- A Place in Literature: The Local in Chinese Cultural History”, edited by Roland Altenburger, Margaret B. Wan, and Vibeke Børdahl
Grant amount: €5,303
Grant period: 1 year

2. Xing Zhang

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Germany)
The Chinese Community in Calcutta: Preservation and Change”, by Xing Zhang
Grant amount: €6,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Shih-Lung Lo

Université Paris Diderot - Paris VII (France)
La Chine sur la scène française du XIXe siècle (《十九世紀法國戲劇舞臺上的中國》)”
Grant amount: €5,200
Grant period: 1 year

4. Brigitte Baptandier

Laboratoire d’Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative, LESC-UMR 7186 (France)
Ethnographier l’universel. L’exposition Shanghai 2010: ‘Better City, Better Life’”, edited by Brigitte Baptandier and Sophie Houdart
Grant amount: €5,000
Grant period: 1 year

F. Doctoral Fellowships

1. Qiaosheng Dong

University of Cambridge (UK)
“Sex, Knowledge and Society: Comparative Studies of Ancient Greek and Chinese Embryological Thought”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Fleur Chabaille

Lumière Université Lyon 2 (France)
“The French Concession of Tianjin and its Thwarted Plan of Expansion: From the Background of the Laoxikai Incident to the Retrocession (1902-1946): Essay on Connected History of an Enclosed and Disputed Space”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Nicholas Loubere

University of Leeds (UK)
“Rural Finance and Livelihoods in China: Ethnographies of Development”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. Andrea Enrico Pia

University of London (UK)
“Water Margins: Politics, Cooperation and Conflict in the Hydro-Management of Drought-prone Yunnan Province”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

5. Justine Walter

University of Leipzig (Germany)
Terrae motu and 地震: A Comparative Analysis of the Social Implications of Extraordinary Natural Phenomena on the Historical Societies in Ancient Europe and Early China on the Examples of the AD 62 Earthquake in Campania and the 70 BC Earthquake in Shandong”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

6. Julian Gruin

University of Oxford (UK)
“The Universality of Capital and Specificity of Politics: State, Market, and Party in China’s Banking Sector, 1978-2012”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

7. Joseph Ciaudo

Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (France)
“Questioning Sinodicity: An Inquiry into Zhang Junmai’s Cultural Discourse (1919-1937)”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

8. Gordon Barrett

University of Bristol (UK)
“Foreign Policy and Scientific Exchange: Scientists in China’s Cold War Foreign Relations, 1946-1979”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

9. Shanshan Lu

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)
“Grammatical Description on Caijia -- A Non-classified Endangered Language of Guizhou (China)”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

10. Marshall Craig

University of Oxford (UK)
“Envisioning China and her Neighbors in the Imjin War, 1592-1598”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

11. Nolwenn Salmon

Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (France)
“Journalists and Environmental Issues in China: Discourse, Role and Action”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

12. Malcolm McNeill

University of London (UK)
“Narrative Agency in 13-14th Century Chan Figure Painting: A Study of Hagiography-Iconography Text Image Relationships”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

●Wait List

1. Regina Enjuto-Martinez

University of London (UK)
“The Politics of Labor Rights in Contemporary China (PRC): A Critical Analysis of Labor Laws and Legal Aid NGOs Framing of Workers’ Mobilization Strategies”

2. Paul Gardères

École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France)
“Emplotment of the Novel, Dynastic Narrative, and Uses of Fiction in the Early Qing Literati Novel in Vernacular Language”

G. Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

1. Nicola Schneider

École Pratique des Hautes Études (France)
“Self-Representation and Stories Untold: The Life of a Contemporary Tibetan Female Saint (Tib. mkha’ ‘gro ma; Chin.空行女)”
Grant amount: €18,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Georges Favraud

CNRS/EHESS/University of Toulouse II - Mirail (France)
“Practicing the Mountain in China Today. Daoist Masters, Communities, and Networks around the Southern Marchmount (Hunan)”
Grant amount: €36,000
Grant period: 2 years

H. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

1. Chih-wen Kuo

Heidelberg University (Germany)
“The Reception and Application of Foreign History Knowledge in Late Qing and Early Republican China”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Xin-zhe Xie

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)
“Evidence and Proof: Forensic Knowledge between Theory and Practice in Late Imperial China”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Tzu-hsuan Sung

École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France)
“History of Beauty, Women and Cosmetics in China (1900-1949)”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. Ming-yu Lee

University of Glasgow (UK)
“Diary Film Study: Historical Review, Aesthetics, and Diary Film in the Digital Age”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

5. Shu-yi Lin

University of London (UK)
“Queer Kinship in the Critical Development of Chinese-language Women’s Cinemas: Intimacy, Identity Politics and Female Authority”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

6. Wei Yu

University of London (UK)
“Noise and Ruins: Taiwanese Avant-garde and Alternative Culture in the First Half of the 1990s”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

7. Hui-yuan Yeh

University of Cambridge (UK)
“Parasites in Ancient Populations from Taiwan and Neighbouring Regions: Evidence for Health, Migration and Diet”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

8. Hui Yu Kuo

University of Leeds (UK)
“A Narrative Study of Women Ageing with Childhood-onset Polio in Taiwan”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

9. Ling-yu Hsiao

University of Cambridge (UK)
“Fear, Shame and Stigma: The Making of State Enemies during the White Terror in Taiwan”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

10. Yu-lin Hsu

University of Strathclyde (UK)
“A Stated Preference Approach to the Choice of Financial Reporting Regimes”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

11. Yi-Hsuan Lai

University of London (UK)
“Taiwan’s Asianized/Regionalized TV Dramas: Purposes, Productions and Narratives (2003-2012)”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

 

Recipients in the East European Region

A. Research Grants

1. Gábor Kósa

Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary)
“The New Chinese Manichaean Texts from Xiapu (Fujian) and the Manichaean Paintings Identified between 2008 and 2012”
Grant amount: €9,000
Grant period: 2 years

2. Oliver Weingarten

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
“Courage in Early Chinese Texts (c. 4th - 1st c. BCE)”
Grant amount: €17,000
Grant period: 3 years

B. Mobility Grants

1. Ivana Buljan

University of Zagreb (Croatia)
“Participating in the Society for the Study of Early China’s Second Annual Conference with a Presentation ‘Ruler’s Techniques of Maintaining Power in Chapter 20 of Chunqiu fanlu’, Philadelphia, March 2014”
Grant amount: €800
Grant period: 1 year

 

Recipients in the Asia-Pacific Region

A. Research Grants

1. Brian Tsui

Australian National University (Australia)
“Beyond Pan-Asianism: China-India Connections, 1911-1949”
Grant amount: US$85,000
Grant period: 3 years

2. Hsiao-chun Hung

Australian National University (Australia)
“Neolithic Transition in Island Southeast Asia: Food-Production by Austronesian Migrants on their Way from Taiwan to the Pacific”
Grant amount: US$35,000
Grant period: 2 years

3. Elsie Seckyee Ho

University of Auckland (New Zealand)
“Migration, Filial Piety and Transnational Aged Care: A Cross-national Study of Chinese Families Caring for Older Parents across Borders”
Grant amount: US$48,000
Grant period: 2 years

4. Tana Li

Australian National University (Australia)
“The Making of the Red River”
Grant amount: US$92,000
Grant period: 3 years

5. Dong Dong

Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong)
“Live to Contend: The Emergence and Development of the Health Rights Defense Movement in Contemporary China”
Grant amount: US$84,000
Grant period: 3 years

B. Conference and Seminar Grants

1. Mu-chou Poo

Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
“Old Society, New Faith: Religious Transformation in China and Rome (c. 2-7 CE)”
Grant amount: US$10,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Hsin-wen Lee

City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
“Reimaging Nation and Nationalism in Multicultural East Asia”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 6 months

3. John Fitzgerald

Swinburne University of Technology (Australia)
“International Workshop on Philanthropy and the Chinese Diaspora 1850-1949”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 6 months

4. Rosemary Roberts

University of Queensland (Australia)
“The Making and Remaking of China’s ‘Red Classics’: Politics, Aesthetics and Mass Culture in Literary Icons of Socialism and their Contemporary Remakes”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 6 months

C. Publication Subsidies

1. Christy Leung

Hong Kong University Press (Hong Kong)
Art Worlds: Artists, Images and Audiences in Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai”, by Roberta Wue
Grant amount: US$6,456
Grant period: 1 year

2. Jan Kiely

Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
“The Copy-editing of Modern Chinese Religion: 1850-Present: Value Systems in Transformation
Grant amount: US$6,000
Grant period: 1 year

D. Special Project Grants

1. Sook-Jong Lee

East Asia Institute (Korea)
“Fellows Program on Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia”
Grant amount: US$60,000
Grant period: 3 years

E. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

1.Yi-tsun Chen

Australian National University (Australia)
“Compelled “Wu Nai” Subjects, Guanxi, and Life Experiences of Seeking Recognition without Resistance: The Expansion of Humanitarian Mode of Global AIDS Discourse and its Impacts in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Yu-hsuan Lin

Hitotsubashi University (Japan)
Da-cheng Ritual in Tainan: Transcendentalism and Materiality in Han Chinese Folk Religion”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year