Grant Recipients (II), 2025-2026
May 18, 2026Recipients in the American Region Unit: US$
(in order of date application received)
A. Research Grants
1. Wayne C.F. Yeung
University of Denver
“Locating the Cantophone Extraterritorially: Hong Kong Sinophone Literature in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$10,000
Grant period: 2 years
2. Chang Xu
Rice University
“Medicine on the March: Healthcare for the Eighteenth-Century Qing Military”
Grant amount: US$29,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Xiaojun Li
University of British Columbia (Canada)
“Crossing the Great Firewall: Platform Ecosystems and Chinese Diaspora Views of Home and Host”
Grant amount: US$14,000
Grant period: 2 years
4. Chen-pang Yeang
University of Toronto (Canada)
“Digital Hardware Platforms and the Transformation of Electronic Industries in Taiwan and China: A Socio-Technical History, 2000–2020”
Grant amount: US$27,600
Grant period: 2 years
5. Ning Leng
Georgetown University
“Understanding Chinese Students in the West: Changing Political Values and Geopolitical Views?”
Grant amount: US$24,000
Grant period: 2 years
6. Tina Lu
Yale University
“Pagination Practices in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Imprints and What They Tell Us”
Grant amount: US$12,000
Grant period: 1 year
B. Scholar Grants
1. Kenneth Holloway
Florida Atlantic University
“Pathways to the Divine: Miraculous Metamorphosis in Buddhist and Confucian Traditions”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Ya-wen Lei
Harvard University
“Geopolitical Transplants: States, Firms, and Labor in the Chip War”
Grant amount: US$35,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Wendy Swartz
Rutgers University
“Daring to Create: Theories of Literary Creativity in Early Medieval China (200–600)”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Kevin Buckelew
Northwestern University
“Karma, Commerce, and Conscience: Layman Pang and Moral Responsibility in Vernacular Chinese Buddhism”
Grant amount: US$23,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Nicholas Williams
Arizona State University
“Reopening the Odes: Hermeneutics and Poetics of the Shijing”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Herbert Chang
Dartmouth College
“Wired for Polarization: How Disinformation and Platform Migration Reshape Taiwan’s Digital Democracy”
Grant amount: US$35,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Shin-yi Chao
University of Rochester
“Daoist Immortal, Vernacular Goddess: The Making of Wei Huacun (251–334) Worship in Local Religion”
Grant amount: US$35,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Ling Chen
Johns Hopkins University
“How Dual Capitalism Saved China’s Economy”
Grant amount: US$28,000
Grant period: 1 year
C. Publication Subsidies
1. Brian Lander
Brown University
“China’s Environmental History: A Reader”, edited by Brian Lander and Peter Lavelle
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Ying-chao Kao
Virginia Commonwealth University
“Fear of Queer Taiwan: Anti-LGBTQ Movements Between Taiwan and the U.S. Religious Right”, by Ying-chao Kao
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. David Armstrong
Cambria Press
“A Counter Literary History of Taiwan in the New Millennium”, edited by Carlos Rojas, Pei-yin Lin, and Wen-chi Li
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. David Armstrong
Cambria Press
“Refuge, Resilience, and Reinvention: A Memoir of Identity, Belonging, and Becoming”, by Kang-i Sun Chang
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
D. Doctoral Fellowships
1. Zhongxian Xiao
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Fueling Self-Reliance: Petroleum and Techno-Politics of Energy in Twentieth-Century China (1910s–1980s)”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Wei Wu
University of California, San Diego
“Under the White Sun: The Modern Prints Society (MPS) in Nationalist Territory, 1934–1945”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Anke Wang
Cornell University
“State, Nature, and the Making of a Maritime Borderland in the Gulf of Tonkin, 1880–1950”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Chengyu Fu
Harvard University
“Fiscal Centralization, Tax Extraction, and Anti-Corruption Enforcement: Evidence from China’s Tax Reforms”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Daniel Chai
University of California, Los Angeles
“Building a Global Talent Hub: Recruiting and Cultivating International Student-Workers for Taiwan’s Industries”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Guangquan Shen
Indiana University, Bloomington
“Dealing with Marriage Pressure: Continuity and Change in Marriage in Contemporary Urban China”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Tianyu Cheng
Syracuse University
“The Gambler’s Code: Gambling, Law and Violence in Eighteenth-Century China”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Junyi Han
Yale University
“Borders of Conflicts: Sino-Vietnamese Estrangement and Diffusion of Violence in Cold War Yunnan, 1964–1993”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Hongyi Yu
Columbia University
“Interpersonal Propaganda: The Work of Grassroots Propagandists and the Art of Oral Propaganda Work in Wartime and Socialist China, 1937–1965”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. William Julian
Harvard University
“Inscribing the New Frontier: Media and Utopia in Modern Xinjiang”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Eric Lee
Cornell University
“Accidental Status: A Social History of Elite-Making through the Protection Privilege in North China, 900 C.E. to 1127 C.E.”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Jun Zhou
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Selling Live: Digitalization and the Reorganization of Service Work in China”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
13. Boxi Liu
Bard Graduate Center
“From Kherlen River to Yanjing: Gift-giving and Cultural Diversity in the Kitan-Liao Empire”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
14. Samuel Hellmann
Columbia University
“International Form / Socialist Content: Revolution and Renewal in the Chinese Built Environment”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
15. Jingya Guo
Cornell University
“Between Variations and Regularity: The Making of Myriad Menstrual Bodies and the Politics of Medical Knowledge in Late Imperial China”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
16. Dandan Xu
Brown University
“Tracing the Master in Words and Images: Illustrated Biographies of Wang Yangming (1472–1529) in Late Ming China”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
17. Jingyi Guo
Pennsylvania State University
“Homemakers of the Datafied State: Women’s Labor in Data-Driven Governance in China”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
18. Yue Lin
University of California, Berkeley
“Championing Economic National Security in a De-Globalized Era”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
19. Qing Guan
Northwestern University
“Leadership Succession and Authoritarian Durability: A Comparison of the People’s Republic of China and the Former Soviet Union”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
20. Hairong Huang
University of Toronto (Canada)
“Swine Revolution: Technology, Ecology, and the Remaking of Pigs in Maoist China”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
21. Yuyuan Liu
Columbia University
“The Work of Images: Photography and Visual Culture Across the Twentieth-Century Tibetan Plateau”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
22. Jiahe Mei
University of California, Berkeley
“Beyond Common Sense: Perceptual Disabilities and Chinese Literary Modernity”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
23. Yong Kang Alex Chow
University of California, Berkeley
“Feeling Freedom: Affective Politics, Monetary Order, and Hong Kong’s Modernity (1950s–2019)”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
24. Wenxian Zhang
University of Southern California
“Borderland as Spectacle: The Politics of Tourism and Transmedia Extraction in Contemporary Southwest China”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
25. Jinyi Liu
New York University
“Breaking New Ground: Court Production of Marble in Qing Beijing (1644–1911)”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
26. Yumeng Zhang
Cornell University
“Beyond Elite Narratives: Reconstructing Local Ritual and Religious Registers in Medieval North China”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
27. Yimeng Yang
Northeastern University
“Waste Power: Infrastructural Fixes and State Techno-Capitalism of Globalizing China”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
28. Alison Sile Chen-Zhao
University of California, San Diego
“Digital Panopticon: How Mass Surveillance Reshapes China”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
E. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Li-ting Chang
University of California, Santa Barbara
“‘Dear Darlingʼ: The Love Letter as a New Cultural Sensation in Early Twentieth-Century China”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Chien-cho Chan
University of British Columbia (Canada)
“Good to Feel Bad: Negative Emotions and Intellectual Transformation in Early Modern China”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Yi-xiang Sun
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
“Beyond the Chip: Comparative Study of Semiconductor Talent Ecosystems in Taiwan and the United States”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Chen-wei Yu
Northwestern University
“A Computational Approach to Understanding the Meanings of Happiness Across Cultures”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Tsu-en Wang
Washington University in St. Louis
“Essays in Labor and Development Economics”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Ssu-chieh Fan
University of Texas, Austin
“Digital Cinephilia: Mapping the Online Film Culture of Post-Martial Law Taiwan (1990s–2010s)”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
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A. Research Grants
1. Tom Hoogervorst
Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (The Netherlands)
“Mazu, Hantu, and Kue in Makassar: Shared Heritage and Social Anxieties among the Chinese Diaspora in VOC and post-VOC Asia”
Grant amount: €90,000
Grant period: 2 years
B. Database Grants
1. Marc Bui
Archéologie et Philologie d’Orient et d’Occident - CNRS PSL (France)
“The Global Dunhuang Database: A French-Taiwanese Initiative for the Digital Reunification, Restoration, Transcription, and Open-Access Structuring of the Scattered Dunhuang Heritage”
Grant amount: €102,000
Grant period: 3 years
C. Conference and Seminar Grants
1. Niklas Swanström
Institute for Security and Development Policy (Sweden)
“Development-Security Nexus in Semiconductors: Prospects for Europe–East Asian Collaboration in an Uncertain Era”
Grant amount: €23,000
Grant period: 6 months
2. William Blythe
University of Cambridge (UK)
“Sinitics and Sinologies: At the Crossroads of Dialect, Philology and Translation – An International Conference in Honour of Prof. Bernhard Fuehrer (Emeritus)”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 6 months
3. Tan-ying Chou
Bordeaux Montaigne University (France)
“Heritage of Literary Practices and Transmission of Scholarly Knowledge: Plural Memories and Crossed Perspectives between Chinese Studies and General and Comparative Literature”
Grant amount: €24,000
Grant period: 6 months
D. Doctoral Fellowships
1. Weijia Liu
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)
“The Paradox of Giving to Charity: A Local History of Charitable Works for Children in Qing Dynasty Ba County”
Grant amount: €23,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Soline Schweisguth
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)
“Social Classes, Economic Knowledge, and State-Building: The Making of a ʻSoviet State’ in the Chinese Soviet Republic (1931–1934)”
Grant amount: €23,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Ryan Sze Ming Choi
The University of Edinburgh (UK)
“Collaborationism in Wartime Hong Kong: The Cultural Production of Hanjian (Traitors) under Japanese Occupation, 1941–1945”
Grant amount: €23,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Yijun Xie
École Pratique des Hautes Études (France)
“From Power to Act: The Cult of the Ong Ya in Hokkien Society”
Grant amount: €23,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Tianyu Shi
University of Hamburg (Germany)
“Mechanisms of Shaping Public Memory through the Circulation of Funerary Texts in Middle-to-Late Imperial China”
Grant amount: €23,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Yuxi Pan
University of London (UK)
“Visualizing the Transcultural Networks of the Mongol Empire: Horses in Yuan and Ilkhanid Art”
Grant amount: €23,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Perigois Judicael
École Pratique des Hautes Études (France)
“King Cheng’s Cultural Memory in Early Chinese Sources”
Grant amount: €23,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Tianjie Yin
École Pratique des Hautes Études (France)
“The Divine Protector Puhua Tianzun and the Localization of His Worship in Qing-dynasty Sichuan (1644-1911)”
Grant amount: €23,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Penglei Su
Université Paris Cité (France)
“Manufacturing the ʻChinese Mine’ in Africa: Mining Capital, Labor Regimes, and Chinese Migration in the DRC”
Grant amount: €23,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Siyu Tang
University of Oxford (UK)
“Post-Industrial Utopia: Experiments of Home-Making in China’s Rust Belt”
Grant amount: €23,000
Grant period: 1 year
E. Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
1. Jean Corbi
Centre de Recherche sur les Civilisations de l’Asie Orientale (France)
“A Chinese History of Western Medicine: Networks of Technical Medical Education in Sichuan, 1920s–1950s”
Grant amount: €52,000
Grant period: 2 years
2. Eléonore Caro
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)
“The Production, Circulation and Transmission of Medical Knowledge in Early China: A Study of Excavated Medical Texts”
Grant amount: €26,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Theo Stapleton
University of Oxford (UK)
“Dharma and Difference in Dar es Salaam: The First Chinese Buddhist Mission in Tanzania”
Grant amount: €26,000
Grant period: 1 year
F. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Yu-yuan Chiu
Université Paris Nanterre (France)
“The Two Poles of Desire: A Comparative Study of the Paths to Spiritual Freedom in Bataille’s ‘Sovereignʼ and Zhuangzi’s ‘Sageʼ”
Grant amount: €23,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Chuan-han Cheng
University of Cambridge (UK)
“Shifting Global Trade and Financial Systems: How Tariff Barriers and Exchange Rate Regimes Affect Trade Balance and Consumer Welfare for Taiwan and China”
Grant amount: €23,000
Grant period: 1 year
Recipients in Developing Regions Unit: US$
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- Conference and Seminar Grants
1. Lisa Indraccolo
Tallinn University (Estonia)
“Memory and Trauma: Chinese, Sinophone, and Global Perspectives in Literature, Film, and Cultural Studies”
Grant amount: US$9,000
Grant period: 6 months
B. Mobility Grants
1. Alex Raymond
University of Balamand (Lebanon)
“Participation at the 17th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies with a Presentation ‘Early PRC Frontier Policy and Local Political Mobilization in Tibet: The Mimang Tsongdu Movement (1951–1952)ʼ”
Grant amount: US$1,500
Grant period: 6 months
