Grant Recipients, 2008-2009

Recipients in the Domestic Region

A. Collaborative Research Grants

1. Chien-kuo Mi

Department of Philosophy, Soochow University, with Ernest Sosa of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (USA)
“Knowledge, Virtue, and Intuition: Virtue Epistemology and Chinese Philosophy”
Grant amount: NT$2,800,000
Grant period: 3 years

2. Maa-ling Chen

Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University, with Yvonne Marshall and Graeme Earl of University of Southampton (UK)
“Continuity and Change in a Southern Pai-wan Community: Archaeological, Ethno-Historic and Ethnographic Perspectives”
Grant amount: NT$3,100,000
Grant period: 3 years

3. Shu-min Huang

Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, with Yong-ming Zhou of University of Wisconsin at Madison (USA)
“Ethnographic Field Projects in Zang-Yi Corridor”
Grant amount: NT$2,300,000
Grant period: 2 years

B. Database Grants

1. Chao-jung Chen

Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, with Feng Li of Columbia University (USA) and Mao-rong Zhang of Shaanxi Normal University (China)
“A Project to Collect Data on Bronze Vessels Excavated from Dàijiāwān, in Bǎojī County, Shaǎnxī Province”
Grant amount: NT$2,300,000
Grant period: 2 years

2. Chiu-yu Tseng

Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, with Yoshinori Sagisaka of Waseda University (Japan), Helen Meng of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) and Tanya Viger of Ming Chuan University (Taiwan)
“TWNAESOP (TaiWaN Asian English Speech cOrpus Project)”
Grant amount: NT$2,100,000
Grant period: 3 years

C. Cooperative Conference & Seminar Grants

1. Shuenn-der Yu

Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, with An-ru Lee of Society for East Asian Anthropology (USA) and C. Julia Huang of National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)
“SEAA & TSAE Taipei 2009 International Conference”
Grant amount: NT$1,200,000
Grant period: 1 year

Recipients in the American Region

A. Research Grants

1. Su-i Hou

University of Georgia
“Developing an Integrated Health Promotion Model (iHP Model) to Promote eHealth Communication and Preventive Health Service Utilization among Middle-Aged Worksite Employees in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$15,960
Grant period: 2 years

2. You-tien Hsing

University of California at Berkeley
“Spatial Planning in the Post-Planned Economy: Chengdu and Xi'an Metropolitan Regions in Western China”
Grant amount: US$14,600
Grant period: 2 years

3. Jing-dong Yuan

Monterey Institute of International Studies
“The Taiwan Relations Act at 30: U.S.-Taiwan Security Ties and Cross-Strait Relations”
Grant amount: US$9,980
Grant period: 1 year

4. Andrea Bachner

Ohio State University
“Sinographic Writing in Contemporary Taiwanese Literature”
Grant amount: US$14,975
Grant period: 2 years

5. Hui-chin Hsu

University of Georgia
“Social Support for Mothers of Prematurely Born Infants in Taiwan: Effects of Adequacy, Needs Matching, and Stress Buffering on Parenting Efficacy”
Grant amount: US$19,000
Grant period: 1 year

6. William K. Gabrenya Jr.

Florida Institute of Technology
“Modernity and Child-Rearing Values: Longitudinal Effects of Family, Occupational Experience, and Zeitgest”
Grant amount: US$16,919
Grant period: 1.5 years

7. Elana Chipman

Ohio State University
“Global Environmental Discourse and Transforming Ritual Practice in East Asia”
Grant amount: US$9,904
Grant period: 1 year

8. Yan Sun

The City University of New York
“Religious Revival and Rebellion in Post-Mao Tibet: The Volatile Mix of Ethno-federalism, Religion and Development”
Grant amount: US$10,000
Grant period: 1 year

9. An-ru Lee

The City University of New York
“The Cultural Politics of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Systems in Taiwan: A Follow-up Study”
Grant amount: US$9,636
Grant period: 1 year

B. Conferences/Seminars/Workshops

1. Kathleen Lynch

Folger Shakespeare Library
“Contact and Exchange: China and the West, Circa the Ming and Early Qing Dynasties”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Garret Olberding

University of Oklahoma
“Addressing the Autocrat: The Drama of Early Chinese Court Discourse”
Grant amount: US$12,500
Grant period: 1 year

3. Joseph Wong

University of Toronto
“Backward toward Revolution: A Festschrift to Celebrate the Scholarship of Professor Edward Friedman”
Grant amount: US$17,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. John Chaffee

Binghamton University - State University of New York
“Eurasian Impacts on Yuan China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

5. Eddy U

University of California at Davis
“Intellectuals, Professions, and Knowledge Production in Twentieth-Century China”
Grant amount: US$16,000
Grant period: 1 year

6. Siddharth Chandra

University of Pittsburgh
“China and East Asia: Humanities, Social Sciences, and Public Policy”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year

C. Subsidies for Publication

1. Christine Mortlock

Columbia University Press
“Zongmi on Chan” by Jeffrey Lyle Broughton
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Anne Routon

Columbia University Press
“Leprosy in China: A History” by Angela Ki Che Leung
Grant amount: US$3,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Jennifer Crewe

Columbia University Press
“Comparative Journeys: Essays on Literature and Religion East and West” by Anthony C. Yu
Grant amount: US$3,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. Jennifer Crewe

Columbia University Press
“The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China by Liu An, King of Huainan” translated and edited by John S. Major, Sarah A. Queen, Andrew Meyer, and Harold D. Roth
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

5. Randy Schmidt

University of British Columbia Press
“The New Silk Road Diplomacy: The Making of China's Central Asian Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era” by Hasan H. Karrar
Grant amount: US$3,000
Grant period: 1 year

6. Jennifer Crewe

Columbia University Press
“Chinese Shakespeares: Fiction, Theatre, Cinema” by Alexander C. Y. Huang
Grant amount: US$3,000
Grant period: 1 year

7. Stephen A. Cohn

Duke University Press
“Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Post-Socialist China” by Robin Visser
Grant amount: US$3,000
Grant period: 1 year

8. Lorri Hagman

University of Washington Press
“Mobility and Cultural Authority in Contemporary China” by Pal Nyiri
Grant amount: US$4,000
Grant period: 1 year

9. Lorri Hagman

University of Washington Press
“Not for a Scholar’s Study: A Cultural Biography of ‘The Night Banquet of Han Xizai’” by De-nin Deana Lee
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

10. Maki Parsons

M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
“Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West” by Shih-shan Henry Tsai
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

11. Jonathan Wilson

Association for Asian Studies, Inc.
“Books and Their Collectors: East Asian Libraries in North America, 1868-2008” by Peter Zhou
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

12. Stephen A. Cohn

Duke University Press
“Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia” edited by Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-chin Chang
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

13. Emily Andrew

University of British Columbia Press
“New Perspectives on China’s Great Leap Forward and Famine” edited by Kimberley Ens Manning and Felix Wemheuer
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

14. Thomas J. Bellows

University of Texas at San Antonio
“American Journal of Chinese Studies” (Special 50^th Anniversary Issue)
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

D. Travel Grants

1. Cotten Seiler

Dickinson College
“Chinese Automobility and Fantasies of Liberalization”
Grant amount: US$1,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Ming-hui Hu

University of California at Santa Cruz
“Dai Zhen (1724-1777) and Spherical Trigonometry in the Qing Court”
Grant amount: US$1,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Fu-hua Zhai

New York University
“Child Care Arrangement in the Context of the One-Child Policy in China: Do Child Gender and Siblings Matter?”
Grant amount: US$1,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. Jane Kelley Rodeheffer

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
“Confessions of St. Augustine and the Confucian Tradition”
Grant amount: US$1,000
Grant period: 1 year

5. J. Scott Lee

The ACTC Liberal Arts Institute
“What Are Core Texts in General Liberal Education?”
Grant amount: US$1,000
Grant period: 1 year

6. Alejandra Irigoin

The College of New Jersey
“New World’s Asia Trade through the Pacific in the Early Modern Period: The China Trade Before, Besides and Beyond the Great European Companies”
Grant amount: US$1,000
Grant period: 1 year

7. Tom Suchan

Eastern Michigan University
“An Iconographic Study of the Ox-Mounted and Seal-Bearing Bodhisattva Types of Southeastern Sichuan”
Grant amount: US$1,000
Grant period: 1 year

E. Distinguished Scholar Grants

1. Stephen F. Teiser

Princeton University
“Liturgical Manuscripts from Dunhuang and Medieval Chinese Ritual”
Grant amount: US$40,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Sarah Allan

Dartmouth College
“Written on Bamboo: Advocating Abdication in Warring States Bamboo-slip Manuscripts”
Grant amount: US$50,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Richard C.K. Burdekin

Claremont McKenna College
“Chinese Financial Market Interdependence: Crisis and Opportunity”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

F. Scholar Grants

1. Zhi-ru Ng

Pomona College
“Visualizing the Contemporary Buddha: Art, Charity, and Religious Authority in Contemporary Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$35,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Kai-wing Chow

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Religion, Commerce, and Law: Public Culture in Qing China”
Grant amount: US$40,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Michael Barton

Arizona State University
“The Chinese Rock Art Recording and Exchange Project”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 2 years

G. Junior Scholar Grants

1. Sheng-qing Wu

Wesleyan University
“The Buddhist Byron and the Chinese Sonneteers: Translation, Poetic Forms, and Cultural Adaptations in Modern China (1910s-1940s)”
Grant amount: US$14,280
Grant period: 1 year

2. Ying-ju Chen

University of California at Berkeley
“Global Outsourcing, Certification, and Manufacturing in China and Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$23,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Hsiao-ting Lin

Hoover Institution
“A Journey to the West: The Nationalists and Modern China's Ethnopolitics, 1911-53”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. Karen Thornber

Harvard University
“Multiple Symbioses and Environmental Crises: Shaping the Human and Nonhuman in East Asian Literatures”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

5. Xiao-jue Wang

University of Pennsylvania
“Crossing 1949: The Making of Chinese Literary Multitude in Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

6. Chien-juh Gu

Western Michigan University
“Gendered Transition and Gendered Struggles in the Process of Settlement: A Case Study of Taiwanese Immigrant Women”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year

7. Shao-wen Bardzell

Indiana University at Bloomington
“Material Culture, Mundane Technologies, and Domesticity: Towards a Culturally Situated, Experience-Focused Domestic Technology Design in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year

8. Eng-kiong Tan

Stony Brook University - State University of New York
“Translatable Identity: Articulations of Chineseness in Narratives of the Nanyang Diaspora”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

9. Chiu-fang Chou

University of Minnesota
“Application of a New International Integrated Health Interview Series to Assess Healthy Immigrant Effect”
Grant amount: US$19,587
Grant period: 1 year

10. Xiao-long Wu

Hanover College
“Negotiating Identities, Power, and Survival in China: The Mysterious State of Zhongshan (5th-3rd century BCE) and its Artifacts”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year

H. Doctoral Fellowships

1. Mark Pitner

University of Washington
“The Body of Knowledge: Embodying Place and Reflecting Body in Han China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. James Wicks

University of California at San Diego
“The Antecedents of Taiwan New Cinema: The State of Taiwan Film in the 1960s and 1970s”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Tao Wang

Georgetown University
“Isolating the Enemy - Sino-American Relations, 1953-55”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. Hong-gang Tan

Syracuse University
“Dancing in Chains: Policy Influence of Chinese NGOs”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

5. En-ze Han

George Washington University
“External Kin, Ethnic Identity, and Pursuance of More Autonomy: The Politics of Ethnic Mobilization in the People’s Republic of China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

6. Kathlene Baldanza

University of Pennsylvania
“Government Policy and Literary Production in the Sino-Viet Relationship, 1527-1792”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

7. Julia Orell

University of Chicago
“Picturing the Yangzi River: Particular Landscapes in Song and Yuan China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

8. Mark P. Dallas

University of California at Berkeley
“Markets Unmoored: The Re-Creation of Economic Order along China’s Production Chain”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

9. Marriah Star

City University of New York
“Transnationalizing Interest Group Politics: The Taiwan Independence Movement, Congress, and U.S. Foreign Policy”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

10. Kathleen Poling

University of California at Berkeley
“Managing Criminal Bodies: Capital Punishment and the Assize System in Late Imperial China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

11. Jason Oliver Chang

University of California at Berkeley
“Outsider Crossings in the Chinese Diaspora: Race, Class, and Nation in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1902-1952”
Grant amount: US$6,680
Grant period: 1 year

12. Brian Su-jen Chung

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
“Performing ‘Chinese’ and ‘Chinatown’: Chinese Im/migrants and the Cultural Politics of Chinese and U.S. Neoliberalism in Cupertino, California”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

I. Postdoctoral Fellowships administered by the Canadian Asian Studies Association

1. Chin-yen Anne Wu

University of Toronto
“Cartographies of Homes: Single Taiwanese Women Searching for a Sense of Belonging”
Grant amount: US$18,010
Grant period: 1 year

J. Doctoral Fellowships administered by the Canadian Asian Studies Association

1. David Luesink

University of British Columbia
“Networks of Translation: The Standardization of China Medical Terminology”
Grant amount: US$8,185
Grant period: 1 year

2. Sarah Eaton

University of Toronto
“The Politics of Staying in the Market: Mapping China Commanding Heights Industrial Policies”
Grant amount: US$8,185
Grant period: 1 year

K. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

1. Ming-te Wang

Harvard University
“Adolescents’ Perceptions of School Climate, Achievement Motivations, and Engagement in Middle School”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Yen-wen Cheng

University of Pennsylvania
“Tradition and Transformation: Cataloging Chinese Arts in the Imperial Era and Early Republic Period”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Shin-rou Lin

University of Washington
“To What Extent is the Use of Compulsory Hospitalization for Controlling Tuberculosis Justifiable in Curtailing Individuals' Constitutional Right to Liberty in Taiwan, 2006-2008?”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. Tzu-hui Celina Hung

Stony Brook University - State University of New York
“Creolizing Diaspora: Interracial Chinese Connections, Melancholia, and the Fiction of History”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

5. Mei-yu Hsieh

Stanford University
“Viewing the Han Empire From the Edge, Second Century B.C.E.-Second Century C.E.”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

6. Chung-an Chen

University of Georgia
“Another Look at ‘Does Sector Matter’: A Study of Workers’ Motivational Attitudes from Perspectives of Public-Nonprofit Sector Affiliation, Moderation, and Switching”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

7. Shu-fan Wen

Temple University
“Chinese Medical Research Professionals in the Western Suburban Metropolitan Philadelphia Area and Their Return Migration to China: Transnational Citizenships in the Era of Globalization”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

8. Yi-chan Tsai

Ohio State University
“Two Sector Model with Working Capital Channel”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

9. Chih-yun Chiang

University of Denver
“Theorizing Ambivalence in Ang Lee's Transnational Films: The Discourse of Chinese Identity Between the Local and the Global”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

10. Ken Chih-yan Sun

Brandeis University
“Managing the Emotional Experiences of ‘Growing Old’ in the Transnational Field: A Case of Aging Ethnic Chinese Americans from Taiwan and their Counterparts in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

Recipients in the European Region

A. Research Grants

1. Florian C. Reiter

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany)
“The Corpus of Taoist Rituals (Tao-fa hui-yüan) and its Significance for Taoist Practices in Taiwan Today”
Grant amount: €6,500
Grant period: 1 year

2. Isabelle Thireau

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)
“Lianmin Village/Zhang Letian Electronic Database (1949-1999)”
Grant amount: €80,000
Grant period: 3 years

B. Conference & Seminar Grants

1. Michela Bussotti

Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient (France)
“Non-Commercial Books in Imperial China”
Grant amount: €8,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Jeremy E. Taylor

University of Sheffield (UK)
“Re-Assessing Chiang Kai-shek: An International Dialogue”
Grant amount: €7,500
Grant period: 1 year

3. Laurent Sagart

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)
“11-ICAL (Eleventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics)”
Grant amount: €8,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. Carine Defoort

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
“The Many Faces of Mozi: A Synchronic and Diachronic Study of Mohist Thought”
Grant amount: €8,000
Grant period: 1 year

5. Irina Popova

Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
“Dunhuang Studies: Prospects and Problems for the Coming Second Century of Research”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year

6. Pierre-Yves Manguin

École Française d'Extrême-Orient (France)
“Of Ships and Men: International Conference on New Comparative Approaches in Asian Maritime History and Archaeology”
Grant amount: €6,300
Grant period: 1 year

7. Pei-yin Lin

University of Cambridge (UK)
“Encounters and Transformations: Cultural Transmission and Knowledge Production in a Cross-literary and Historical Perspective 1850-1960”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

8. Christoph Anderl

University of Oslo (Norway)
“Early Chán Manuscripts among the Dūnhuáng Findings”
Grant amount: €6,300
Grant period: 1 year

C. Subsidies for Publication

1. Andrea Riemenschnitter

Deborah Madsen
University of Zurich (Switzerland)
“Diasporic Histories: Archives of Chinese Transnationalism”
Grant amount: €4,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Vibeke Børdahl

Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (Denmark)
“Essays on the Interplay of Oral and Written Traditions in Chinese Popular Literature”
Grant amount: €4,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Catherine Despeux

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
“Medicine, Religion and Society in Mediaeval China - Manuscripts of Dunhuang and Turfan and Healing Practices”
Grant amount: €6,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. Györgyi Fajcsák

Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts, Budapest (Hungary)
“White Gold, Mohammedan Blue and Peach Blossom - Chinese Ceramic Collection of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts, Budapest, Vol. II”
Grant amount: €9,000
Grant period: 1.5 years

5. Mikael Mattlin

University of Helsinki (Finland)
“Politicized Society: The Long Shadow of Taiwan’s One-Party Legacy”
Grant amount: €6,000
Grant period: 1 year

D. Senior Scholar Grants

1. Joseph P. McDermott

University of Cambridge (UK)
“Book Collections: From Family to Nation in Jiangnan, 1550-1920”
Grant amount: €28,000
Grant period: 1 year

E. Special Project Grants

1. Robert Ash

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (UK)
Further Development of “The European Association of Taiwan Studies”
Grant amount: €13,000
Grant period: 2 years

F. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

1. Yin-ru Lu

University of Birmingham (UK)
“Representations of Anne Boleyn in Victorian England”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Shu-chen Chang

Lancaster University (UK)
“Simplification of Literary Texts and its Consequences on Meaning, Effect, and Comprehension”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Meng-tze Chu

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)
“The Musical Experiences of Contemporary Metallers under Extreme Metal Globalization”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. Shih-lung Lo

Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle (France)
“China in the Nineteenth-Century French Theatre”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

5. Chao-jung Ching

École Pratique des Hautes Études (France)
“Secular Documents in Tocharian: Buddhist Economy and Society in the Kucha Region, 6th - 9th CE.”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

6. Yu-chuan Wu

University College London, University of London (UK)
“The Origin of the Modern East Asian Concepts of the ‘Nerve’ and the ‘Psyche’: the History of Neurasthenia in Imperial Japan (1867-1945)”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

7. Hua-mei Chiu

University of Essex (UK)
“The Environmental Disputes over Industrial Hazards: A Case Study on the High-tech Industry in Taiwan”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

8. Yu-shan Liu

University of Edinburgh (UK)
“Education and Everyday Practices: Negotiating Being Bonpo in the Tibetan Community in Exile”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

9. Yung-ching Lo

Leiden University (The Netherlands)
“Accessing Indigenous Land Rights through Claims: One Hundred Years More of Encounters in Taroko Area, Eastern Formosa/Taiwan, 1895-2010”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

10. Pei-fei Chang

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
“China’s Renewable Energy Policy: Wind and Solar”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

11. Yi-wen Cheng

Leiden University (The Netherlands)
“The Political Logic of Local Protectionism in China: A Historical-Institutionalist Case Study of Monopoly Regulation in Yunnan Tobacco Industry”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

12. Chien-huei Wu

European University Institute (Italy)
“Trade Dispute Resolution among the Four WTO Memberships: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and Macau, China”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

13. Cho-wen Chu

University of Manchester (UK)
“The Influence of Mass Media on Socio-Cultural Changes under Globalization”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

G. Fellowships for Ph.D. Dissertations and Postdoctoral Research

(a) Fellowships for Ph.D. Dissertations

1. Marie-Paule Hille

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)
“Manage its Legacy of the Past in Contemporary China: The Present Modes of Presence or Absence of the Past - The Study of a Chinese Spoken Muslim Community (Hui), the Xidaotang (Gansu, Northwest China)”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Jonathan Sullivan

University of Nottingham (UK)
“Campaign Advertising and Democracy in Taiwan”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Julia Stone

Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
“Findelhaus Bethesda: A Study of a Protestant Foundling Hospital in China”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. Michaela Pejčochová

Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)
“Dong Qichang’s Theory of Painting and its Relationship to the Song Dynasty Texts on Painting”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

5. Ivo Bargalló Carné

University of Oxford (UK)
“Early Sino-European Relations: The Spanish Philippines and the Transformation of Southern Fujian in the Late Ming and Ming-Qing Transition”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

(b) Fellowships for Postdoctoral Research

1. Volker Olles

University of Leipzig (Germany)
“The Way of the Locust Tree Studio: The Liumen Movement and its Impact on Modern Daoism in Sichuan Province”
Grant amount: €35,000
Grant period: 2 years

2. Valeria Zanier

University of Leeds (UK)
“The Early Years of China’s Revived Porcelain Industry: Bourgeoise Families between Art and Business in Jingdezhen (1949-1956)”
Grant amount: €35,000
Grant period: 2 years

Recipients in the East European Region

A. Research Grants

1. Irina Popova

Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
“Study of Chinese Collection and Compiling of the Systematic Catalogue of the Chinese Manuscripts of St. Petersburg State University”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 2 years

2. Jana Rošker

University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
“The Role of International Centers of Islamic Learning in Constructing Chinese Muslim Identities: Hui Students in the Middle East”
Grant amount: €3,100
Grant period: 1 year

3. Irena Šumi

Institute for Ethnic Studies (Slovenia)
“Together Apart: Transnational Family in the Context of Chinese Emigration”
Grant amount: €3,650
Grant period: 1 year

B. Subsidies for Publication

1. Irina Popova

Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
“First Album of Iakinf Bichurin”, Collection of articles and facsimile edition of the album edited by V. S. Myasnikov and I. F. Popova
Grant amount: €3,850
Grant period: 1 year

Recipients in the Asia-Pacific Region

A. Research Grants

1. Mark Gamsa

Tel Aviv University (Israel)
“The Russian-Chinese Encounter in Harbin”
Grant amount: US$40,000
Grant period: 3 years

2. James Kai-sing Kung

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong)
“Public Finance and Land Conversion: An Empirical Study of Changing Fiscal Incentives on Local Governments’ Behavior in China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Sébastien Billioud

French Center for Research on Contemporary China (Hong Kong)
“The ‘Confucian Revival’ in Mainland China: Forms and Meanings of ‘Confucian Piety’ Today”
Grant amount: US$90,000
Grant period: 3 years

4. John Makeham

The Australian National University (Australia)
“Yogācāra Buddhism and Modern Chinese Thought”
Grant amount: US$68,000
Grant period: 3 years

5. Igor de Rachewiltz

The Australian National University (Australia)
“Introduction to Altaic Philology”
Grant amount: US$27,000
Grant period: 1 year

6. Chien-peng Chung

Lingnan University (Hong Kong)
“China’s Approaches to Institutionalizing Multilateral Political-Economic Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific”
Grant amount: US$10,000
Grant period: 1.5 years

7. Shirley Chan

Macquarie University (Australia)
“Translation and Interpretation of the Confucian Texts in the Excavated 4^th Century BCE Guodian Chu Bamboo Slips from China”
Grant amount: US$7,500
Grant period: 2 years

B. Conference & Seminar Grants

1. Van-duc Pham

Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (Vietnam)
“The International Conference on Vietnamese Confucianism and East Asian Culture”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Kwang-ok Kim

Seoul National University (Korea)
“Chinese and Northeast Asian Cuisine: Local, National, and Global Foodways”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Nae-young Lee

Korea University (Korea)
“Current Studies and Prospects on Contemporary Taiwan: History, Politics and Economy”
Grant amount: US$17,500
Grant period: 1 year

C. Subsidies for Publication

1. Stephen McDowall

Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)
“Traces of Hatchet & Chisel: Qian Qianyi’s (1582-1664) Reflections on Yellow Mountain”
Grant amount: US$3,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Michael Duckworth

Hong Kong University Press (Hong Kong)
“Surviving Nirvana: Death of the Buddha in Chinese Visual Culture” by Sonya Lee
Grant amount: US$6,000
Grant period: 1 year

D. Senior Scholar Grants

1. Yiu-ming Fung

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong)
“The Philosophy of Language and Logic in Ancient China”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year

E. Special Project Grants

1. Billy So

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Further Development of “CUHK-CCK Asia Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies”
Grant amount: US$120,000
Grant period: 1 year

F. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

1. Chen-chu Chen

Hiroshima University (Japan)
“Rites and Music Theories in the Early Edo Period of Japan - Exploring a New Perspective to Interpret East Asian Thoughts on Art”
Grant amount: US$12,000
Grant period: 1 year