Grant Recipients (II), 2024-2025
May 22, 2025Recipients in the American Region Unit: US$
(in order of date application received)
A. Research Grants
1. Huaiyu Chen
Arizona State University
“Locality and Hybridity in the Chinese Religious Manuscripts in the Hsu Collection”
Grant amount : US$14,920
Grant period : 2 years
2. Shu-shan Lee
Hampton University
“A Re-examination of the Relationship between Confucianism and Democracy in Chinese Societies: The Perspective of Robert Dahl’s Guardianship”
Grant amount : US$15,470
Grant period : 2 years
3. Jing Cai
University of Maryland, College Park
“Enhancing Decision-Making: The Impact of Information Provision on Worker Task Assignment”
Grant amount : US$29,756
Grant period : 1 year
4. Vance Schaefer
University of Mississippi
“Enhancing the Communicative Repertoire of L2 Mandarin Learners in Taiwan: Teaching/Learning Taiwanese Hokkien and Mandarin Speech Styles”
Grant amount : US$25,000
Grant period : 2 years
5. Suzanne Scoggins
Clark University
“Policing Public Relations: Lessons from Law Enforcement and the Military”
Grant amount : US$14,000
Grant period : 1 year
B. Scholar Grants
1. Frances Yaping Wang
Colgate University
“Buying Influence: Analyzing Chinese Outsourced Foreign Propaganda in Asia”
Grant amount : US$26,000
Grant period : 1 year
2. Christopher Rea
University of British Columbia (Canada)
“In Melon Time: Cultivating the Associative Imagination”
Grant amount : US$25,000
Grant period : 1 year
3. Jason Protass
Brown University
“Heart of the River: A Buddhist History of the Yangtze River and Coastal Fujian”
Grant amount : US$17,000
Grant period : 1 year
4. Shaohua Guo
Carleton College
“Streaming China in Times of Precarity: Webcasts, Short Videos, and Creative Industry”
Grant amount : US$25,000
Grant period : 1 year
5. Dominic Toscano
Oberlin College
“Research and Writing for the Monograph ‘Inside the Tang: Contemporary Anthologies from the Golden Age of Chinese Poetryʼ”
Grant amount : US$25,000
Grant period : 1 year
6. Jennifer Dorothy Lee
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
“Diasporic Longing: Stories of Music and Migration from the Family of Yo-Yo Ma”
Grant amount : US$26,000
Grant period : 1 year
7. Heangjin Park
Loyola Marymount University
“Diasporic Visions of Korean-Chinese Kimchi”
Grant amount : US$23,000
Grant period : 1 year
8. Yu-wei Yang
George Washington University
“Health as a Bridge: Amplifying Taiwanʼs Global Voice Through Medical Diplomacy”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
9. Wan-zi Lu
State University of New York, Stony Brook
“The Many Hands of the Healthcare State: The Politics of Valuing Taboo Exchange in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan”
Grant amount : US$23,000
Grant period : 1 year
10. Andrew Liu
Villanova University
“The Big Tiger: The Pearl River Delta, Socialist China, and the Capitalist Asia-Pacific, 1949–1997”
Grant amount : US$27,500
Grant period : 1 year
11. Cheng-hua Wang
Princeton University
“Topographical Landscape Painting at the Qianlong Court (1736–1795): Spatial Performativity, Imperial Territoriality, and Sino-European Interactions”
Grant amount : US$27,500
Grant period : 1 year
C. Publication Subsidies
1. Gerui Wang
Stanford University
“Sustaining Landscapes: Governance and Ecology in Chinese Visual Culture, 960–1368 CE”, by Gerui Wang
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
2. Beth Fuget
University of Washington Press
“Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China”, by Micah Muscolino
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
D. Doctoral Fellowships
1. Qin Huang
Northwestern University
“Patchwork Capitalism: Institutional Change and Economic Development in Subnational China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
2. Ziwen Zu
University of California, San Diego
“Legitimizing Autocracy: How Do the Chinese Communist Party Coopt and Mobilize Lawyers for Authoritarian Rule”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
3. Ye Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Political Control in the Workplace: How Autocrats Use Private Firms to Control Citizens”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
4. Yingzhe Zhu
Northwestern University
“‘Goodʼ Doctors Online All the Time? How Online Medical Platforms Transform Healthcare Delivery in China and the US”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
5. Xingming Wang
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
“Coal Attachment: Cultures of Fossil Fuels in Modern China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
6. Gregory Sattler
University of California, Los Angeles
“Chinese Merchants, Officials, and Diaspora Communities in the History of Maritime Asia, from the Eighth to Thirteenth Century CE”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
7. Mindi Zhang
University of California, Los Angeles
“Managing Civilization: Scholarly Information, Transnational Ties, and the Making of Chinese Research Libraries, ca. 1900–1950”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
8. Aijie Shi
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Experimenting with Aquatic Productivity: The Life History of Fisheries Science in Cold War China (1946–1960)”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
9. Yujie Chen
The Ohio State University
“Relational Embodiment: Tizhi, Dance, and the Plurality of Chineseness, 1950s–Present”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
10. Helena Chen-Abair
University of Florida
“From Paper to Bronze and Back Again: The Forging of Ancient Chinese Bronzes, 1840–1940”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
11. Lingnan He
University of Chicago
“Courting Foreign Investment: Persuasion through Impartial Court Decisions”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
12. Pamela Tsui
University of Toronto (Canada)
“Monetary Boundary Work: Transnational Economic Relationality in Hong Kong and Canada”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
13. Ye Lin
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Tenkō: Anti-Communist Revolution and Socialist End in China and Japan”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
14. Yaming You
Duke University
“The Syringe Body: A Biography of Injection in Modern China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
15. Ki Chow
Washington University in St. Louis
“Manning the Unmanned Machines: Labor Narratives, Automation, and Neoliberal Ethics in Late Twentieth-Century Hong Kong and South China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
16. Zhaodi Chen
Indiana University, Bloomington
“From Shadows to Spotlight: The Dynamics of Attention to Violence Against Women Incidents in the Chinese Online Public Sphere”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
17. Jaehyuk Lee
The Ohio State University
“Memory, Text, and Power: The Three Kingdoms in the Court Politics of Premodern China and Korea”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
18. Lillian Ngan
University of Southern California
“Beyond Pacification: Vietnam’s Circulation in Trans-Asian Sinophone Cultural Imaginaries”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
19. Liying Xu
Arizona State University
“Defining ‘Daoist Scriptureʼ: Through the Lens of Transmission Narratives in Early Medieval China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
20. Fei Yuan
University of California, Irvine
“From Planned to Planning: An Ethnography on How Elderly in Urban China Use Financial and Legal Tools for Late-Life Arrangement”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
21. Boyao Zhang
University of Toronto (Canada)
“Accounting for Revolution: Numeracy, Bureaucracy, and the Reckoning of Chinese Communism, 1900–1996”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
22. Andrew Hardy
University of California, Berkeley
“Imperial Encounters in the Han Borderlands: Space, Culture, and Power”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
23. Yuzhe Li
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“The Ambivalent Hand: Craftspeople, Culture Workers, and the Shifting Calculus of Skill in Early Socialist China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
24. Jane Jia-yin Wang
State University of New York, Albany
“Insular Cosmopolitans: How Chinese Women Choose Transnational Academic Knowledge Production Sites”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
25. Katharin Tai
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“The Paper Ghost in the High-Tech Machine: How Bureaucracies Shape, Limit and Enable High-Tech Governance”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
26. Fenghua Chen
University of California, San Diego
“From Baby Steps to Market Steps: The Rise of Scientific Motherhood and Postpartum Care in China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
27. Kai Sum Wong
University of Arizona
“Contestation of Orthodoxy: The Kong Lineageʼs Scholarship and Classical Studies During the Han and Wei-Jin Periods”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
28. Yuanyuan Duan
Cornell University
“Sacralizing Body, Sacralizing Kingship: Esoteric Rituals and Buddhist Sovereignty in Dali, 863–1424 CE”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
29. Tashi Namgyal
Pennsylvania State University
“The Thirteenth Dalai Lama and Trajectory of Sino-Tibetan Relations (1876–1933) ”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
E. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Gang Huang
Washington University in St. Louis
“Literary Hauntology: Writing Death, Specters, and Trauma in Post-2010 Hong Kong and Taiwan Literature of Protest”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
2. Hu Hsu
University of California, Berkeley
“Transnational Invention of Neo-Confucian “Tradition”: Manufacturing Wang Yangming in Modern East Asia”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
3. Yuan-yuan Hsu
University of Southern California
“A Comparative Study of the Development of Defense Industries in Taiwan and South Korea: Government-Business Interactions and State Capacity”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
4. Yucheng Wong
University of Rochester
“How did China Grow Alongside Trade with the US? Evidence from the Lifting of the Trade Embargo in the 1970s”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
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A. Research Grants
1. Julie Yu-wen Chen
University of Helsinki (Finland)
“Central Asian Academic Knowledge Production about China and Its Politics”
Grant amount : €14,000
Grant period : 2 years
2. Federica Ferlanti
Cardiff University (UK)
“Transnational Movements and Cultural Networks: Arundel del Re’s Intellectual Life in Three Continents”
Grant amount : €72,000
Grant period : 3 years
3. Gábor Kósa
Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary)
“Confessional Texts in Chinese Manichaeism and Buddhism in the Light of New Discoveries”
Grant amount : €57,000
Grant period : 3 years
4. Ming-chin Chu
University of Southampton (UK)
“Economic Statecraft and Semiconductor Supply Chain Vulnerability in Taiwan, China, and the United States”
Grant amount : €78,000
Grant period : 3 years
B. Conference and Seminar Grants
1. Joshua Wright
University of Aberdeen (UK)
“SEAA10: The 10th Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology”
Grant amount : €13,000
Grant period : 6 months
2. Pan Junliang
Université Paris Cité (France)
“Globalization of Taiwan’s Religions ”
Grant amount : €5,470
Grant period : 6 months
3. Sebastian Eicher
Caʼ Foscari University of Venice (Italy)
“Chinese Assistants, Collaborators, and Cultural Intermediaries: Working with Westerners in Sino-Western Exchanges”
Grant amount : €9,000
Grant period : 6 months
4. Wolfgang Behr
University of Zürich (Switzerland)
“Literary Forms and Epistemic Goals in Early Chinese Philosophical Texts”
Grant amount : €9,500
Grant period : 6 months
5. Grzegorz Polak
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (Poland)
“Discursive and Non-Discursive Reasoning in Chinese Philosophy”
Grant amount : €7,000
Grant period : 6 months
C. Special Project Grants
1. Luiz Oosterbeek
Conseil International de la Philosophie et des Sciences Humaines (France)
“CIPSH International Academy on Chinese Cultures and Global Humanities (2025-2028)”
Grant amount : €120,000
Grant period : 3 years
D. Doctoral Fellowships
1. Alec Schellinx
University of Oxford (UK)
“Reading the Hanfeizi as a Concrete Poetic Site”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
2. Qijin Han
University of Tübingen (Germany)
“‘The Art of Fugueʼ: Translating the European Thermometer to China during the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722)”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
3. Gol Tengis
University of Cambridge (UK)
“Aesthetic Nationalism in the Body: A Study of the Inner Mongolian Dance in Socialist China”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
4. Ye Guo
Université Paris Cité (France)
“Translation of French Sociology Books in China Since the End of the 1970s: Restructuration of Publishing Space and Redefinition of Translation Ethics ”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
5. Sihao Mu
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (France)
“The Teaching and Practice of Lamrim Chenmo among Contemporary Chinese Buddhists: Building Religious Movements as Textual Communities”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
6. Ziwei Ye
University of Oxford (UK)
“Journey of Sound and Meaning: Information Organization, Reception and Transmission in Chinese Buddhist Glossaries”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
7. Zhuoya Zhang
École Pratique des Hautes Études (France)
“Ritual Music Mirrors the Hierarchy of Humans and Gods: Daoist Melodies in Tang Dynasty (618-907) Court Rituals”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
8. Hélène Trébuchet
University Paris Nanterre (France)
“Weaving the Living: Ramie Textile and the Revival of Female Knowledge and Agency in the Pangcah Society (Taiwan)”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
9. Peter Smith
University of Oxford (UK)
“Lin Xiyi: An Exploration into the Shift of the Analysis and Interpretation of the Zhuangzi”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
10. Maximilian Langefeld
University of Oxford (UK)
“Resistance by Existence? Queer Art and Visual Activism in Contemporary China”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
E. Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
1. Ke Huang
Université Paris Cité (France)
“Business of Saving Souls: Psychotherapy Platform Capitalism in China”
Grant amount : €42,000
Grant period : 2 years
2. Mark Andras Czeller
University of Manchester (UK)
“Identification, Evasion, and Imposture in Maoist China”
Grant amount : €42,000
Grant period : 2 years
F. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Ming-zong Chen
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)
“Managing Forestry Uncertainties: Production and Exchange of Forestry Goods in the Qingshui Valley, Guizhou Province (18th–Early 20th Century)”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
2. Yi-ting Chang
University of Oxford (UK)
“From Geo- to Astropolitics: How Taiwan Constructs Vertical Territory in the Global Satellite Network”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
Recipients in Developing Regions Unit: US$
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A. Mobility Grants
1. Ivana Buljan
University of Zagreb (Croatia)
“Presenting a Paper ‘What Heaven Begins, Man Completes: Selfhood, Work, and Cosmology in Western Han Thoughtʼ at the 5th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy (EACP); University of Iceland, Reykjavík, June 26-28, 2025”
Grant amount : US$1,500
Grant period : 6 months
2. Chor See Chan
Ahmedabad University (India)
“Everyday Food Practices of Migrants from Southern China to Hong Kong, Taipei and Kolkata from the 1950s to the Present”
Grant amount : US$800
Grant period : 6 months
