Grant Recipients, 2007-2008

Recipients in the Domestic Region

A. Collaborative Research Grants

1. Jen-kuei Li

Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, with Shigeru Tsuchida, Christian Daniels, and Yuko Mio of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan), and Peter Knecht of Nanzan University (Japan)
“Language Materials of the Extinct Formosan Languages”
Grant amount: NT$1,600,000
Grant period: 2 years

2. Kuang-ti Li and Cheng-hwa Tsang

Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, with Keith Dobney of Durham University (UK), and Yu-ten Ju and Yan-nian Jiang of National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
“Out of Taiwan? Testing Austronesian Homeland Models and Dispersal Routes through Morphometric and Genetic Signatures of Domestic Pigs”
Grant amount: NT$3,200,000
Grant period: 2 years

3. Chuan-ying Yen and Sheng-chih Lin

Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, with Hsueh-man Shen of the University of Edinburgh (UK), and Jing-jie Li of Tsinghua University (China), Yu-hua Lei of Chengdu Museum (China), and Jian-ping Wang of Huangzesi Museum (China)
“Evolution of Tang Dynasty Buddhist Imagery in Sichuan”
Grant amount: NT$3,200,000
Grant period: 3 years

4. Tzu-chin Huang

Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, with Tatsuo Yamada of the Open University of Japan (Japan), and Nobuo Takahashi of Keio University (Japan)
“Friend or Foe? Chiang Kai-shek’s Networks of Power and their Operation”
Grant amount: NT$2,800,000
Grant period: 3 years

5. Ming-ke Wang

Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, with Sarah Fraser of Northwestern University (USA), Wenbin Peng of the University of British Columbia (Canada), and Xiuyu Wang of Washington State University (USA)
“Sacred Mountain and Scenic Mountain: Ethnicity, Culture, Society and Modern Changes in the Kham Area”
Grant amount: NT$3,000,000
Grant period: 3 years

6. Cheng-shu Kao

Department of Sociology, Tunghai University, with Siu-lun Wong of the University of Hong Kong (HK), Shi-ding Liu of Peking University (China), and Gary Hamilton of University of Washington (USA)
“Beyond ‘East Asia’: The Restructuring of ‘North Asian’ Societies and Economies -- A Study of Global Demand and Taiwanese Manufacturing”
Grant amount: NT$2,000,000
Grant period: 2 years

B. Database Grant

1. Tien-shang Huang

School of Medicine, National Taiwan University, with Jun Shozawa of Gunma University (Japan)
“Dr. Huo-yao Wei and the Development of Public Health and Medicine in Taiwan”
Grant amount: NT$2,800,000
Grant period: 3 years

C. Cooperative Conference & Seminar Grants

1. Ku-ming Chang

Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, with Benjamin Elman of Princeton University (USA)
"The Global History of Philology: History and Philology in Different Scholarly and Cultural Traditions - Celebrating the 80^th Anniversary of the Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica"
Grant amount: NT$1,080,000
Grant period: 1 year

D. Cooperative Subsidies for Publication Grants

1. Meei-yau Wei

Department of English Language and Literature, Soochow University, with Lexington Books (USA)
"Language Choice and Identity Politics in Taiwan's Ideological Cauldron"
Grant amount: NT$340,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Kuan-hsing Chen

College of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, with Beng Huat Chua of National University of Singapore (Singapore)
"Inter-Asia Cultural Studies"
Grant amount: NT$750,000
Grant period: 1 year

E. Special Project Grants

1. Center for Chinese Studies

Publication of "Chinese Studies" and "Newsletter for Research in Chinese Studies"
Grant amount: NT$4,000,000
Grant period: 2 years

Recipients in the American Region

A. Research Grants

1. Dennis Hickey

Missouri State University
“Peace or Poison: The Changing Nature of China’s Policy toward Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$8,000
Grant period: 2 years

2. Winston T. Lin

State University of NewYork at Buffalo
“The Economic Values of Information and Communications Technology and their Contributions to the Economic Development and Growth of Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 2 years

3. Su-hua Wang

University of California at Santa Cruz
“The Impact of Social Change on the Socialization Environments of Chinese Babies: An Ethnographic Study”
Grant amount: US$19,841
Grant period: 2 years

4. Feng Li

Columbia University
“Excavating Guicheng: Archaeological Study of a Bronze-age City in the Heartland of the Shandong Peninsula (Continuation)”
Grant amount: US$40,000
Grant period: 1 year

5. Dennis Tao Yang

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
“Globalization and Rising Wages in Mainland China”
Grant amount: US$17,000
Grant period: 2 years

6. Monte Bullard

Monterey Institute of International Studies
“Getting Down to Business -- Ties Required China-Taiwan Business Relations and its Effect on Future Cross-strait Political/Military Relations”
Grant amount: US$8,000
Grant period: 1.5 years

7. M. Taylor Fravel

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“The Sources of China’s Military Doctrine, 1975-2005”
Grant amount: US$8,000
Grant period: 2 years

8. Anru Lee

City University of New York
“Subways as a Global-Local Nexus: The Cultural Politics of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Systems in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$14,988
Grant period: 1 month

B. Conference/Seminar/Workshop Grants

1. Jack Chen

University of California at Los Angeles
"Anecdote, Gossip, and Occasion in Traditional China"
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Wu Xu

University of Utah
"The U.S. and China: Parallel Challenges in Health Care"
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Zhijia Shen

University of Washington
"Providing Library Collections and Services for Chinese Studies in the Digital Environment: Summer Institute on Chinese Studies Librarianship"
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. Ronald Coase

University of Chicago
“2008 Chicago Conference on China’s Economic Transformation”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year

5. Gerald McBeath

The American Association for Chinese Studies
“Fifty Years of China Studies in the United States, Changes in the Field, China and Taiwan, and Sino-American Relations”
Grant amount: US$13,547
Grant period: 1 year

6. Cheng-yi Huang

University of Washington
“‘Translating the Political, Re-envisioning the Social: What’s the Next Turn for Taiwan?’ --The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the North American Taiwan Studies Association”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year

C. Subsidies for Publication

1. Jennifer Crewe

Columbia University Press
"How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology", edited by Zong-qi Cai
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Stephen A. Cohn

Duke University Press
"New Masters, New Servants: Development, Migration, and Women Workers in China", by Hairong Yan
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Micah Kleit

Temple University Press
"Chinese Connections: Critical Perspectives on Film, Identity and Diaspora"
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. Lorri Hagman

University of Washington Press
"Women Playing Men: Yue Opera in Twentieth-Century Shanghai", by Jin Jiang
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1.5 years

5. Lorri Hagman

University of Washington Press
"Epics for Women: Narrative Ballads in the Women’s Script from Jiangyong", translated by Wilt L. Idema
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1.5 years

6. Lorri Hagman

University of Washington Press
Stories to Awaken the World", compiled and edited by Feng Menglong (1574-1646), translated and annotated by Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang, with a Foreword by Robert E. Hegel
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 20 months

7. Reed Malcolm

University of California Press
"The Art of Doing Good: Moral Mandates and Strategic Choices in Late Ming Charity"
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 29 months

8. Jennifer Crewe

Columbia University Press
“A History of Pain: Literary and Cinematic Mappings of Violence in Modern China”, by Michael Berry
Grant amount: US$7,000
Grant period: 1 year

9. Mark Spencer

Springer Science+Business Media
“Granting the Seasons: The Chinese Astronomical Reform of 1280, with a Study of its Many Dimensions and an Annotated Translation of its Records”, by Nathan Sivin
Grant amount: US$7,000
Grant period: 1 year

10. Marlie Wasserman

Rutgers University Press
“Cosmopolitan Public: English-language Periodicals in Semi-colonial Shanghai”, by Shuang Shen
Grant amount: US$7,000
Grant period: 1 year

11. Stephen A. Cohn

Duke University Press
“Other-Worldly: Making Chinese Medicine through Encounters”, by Mei Zhan
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

12. Emily Andrew

University of British Columbia Press
“Art and the Artist in Cultural Revolution China”, Edited by Richard King
Grant amount: US$7,000
Grant period: 1 year

D. Visiting Fellowship

1. Gang Guo

University of Mississippi
“Local Political Business Cycles in China”
Grant amount: US$3,333
Grant period: 1 month

E. CCK Scholar Grants

1. Chang-tai Hsieh

University of California at Berkeley
“Does China Invest and Trade Too Much?”
Grant amount: US$34,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Haiming Liu

California Polytechnic State University
“Chinese Herbal Medicine in the United States: Ethnicity and Cultural Migration”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Stephen Bokenkamp

Arizona State University
“The Social Matrices of Early Lingbao Ritual”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 6 months

4. Jiang-ping Jeff Chen

St. Cloud State University
“How Did Figures Figure in Astronomical and Mathematical Reasoning in Late Imperial China?”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 years

5. Paul Manfredi

Pacific Lutheran University
“Visuality and Modernist Poetry in Chinese”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1.5 months

6. Joseph A. Adler

Kenyon College
“Reconstructing the Confucian Dao: Zhu Xi’s Appropriation of Zhou Dunyi”
Grant amount: US$15,153
Grant period: 1 year

7. Ignacio Lopez-Calvo

University of North Texas
“The Dragon and the Condor: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Chinese Diaspora in Peru”
Grant amount: US$10,000
Grant period: 1 year

F. CCK Junior Scholar Grants

1. Janet Chen

Princeton University
“Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1951”
Grant amount: US$10,000
Grant period: 1 year

2. Jiang Wu

University of Arizona
“Buddha’s Words in Print: The Formation of the Jiaxing Buddhist Canon in Late Imperial China”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Yu-wei Tony Yang

George Mason University
“Ethical, Legal, and Policy Challenges in DNA Biobanking: Constructing Pivotal Infrastructure for Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. Huaiyu Chen

University of the West
“The Rise of Buddhist Ordination Platforms in Medieval China”
Grant amount: US$28,000
Grant period: 1 year

5. Gang Zhao

University of Akron
“Reshaping the Asian Trade Network: The Construction and Execution of the Chinese Open Trade Policy in 1684-1840”
Grant amount: US$16,660
Grant period: 40 days

6. Tina Phillips Johnson

Saint Vincent College
“Building the Nation through Women’s Health: Modern Midwifery in Early Twentieth-century China”
Grant amount: US$12,500
Grant period: 5 months

7. Julie Y. Chu

Wellesley College
“In and Out of China: Customs Inspection and Shipping Culture at the Port of Fuzhou”
Grant amount: US$24,300
Grant period: 1 year

8. Shih-shan Susan Huang

Rice University
“The Making of Daoist and Buddhist Visual Cultures in Song China, 960-1279”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year

9. Victoria Tin-bor Hui

University of Notre Dame
“China’s Rise in Comparative-historical Perspective: Rethinking Unification and War”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year

10. Yuan-kang Wang

Northern Illinois University
“China and Asia’s Regional Order: Hierarchy and the Balance of Power”
Grant amount: US$19,980
Grant period: 1.5 years

11. Li-jen Kuo

Northern Illinois University
“Reconceptualizing the Effect of Early Bilingualism on Language Processing: A Study of the Morphological and Syntactic Development among Chinese-English Bilinguals”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 2 years

12. Zhichun Jing

University of British Columbia
“Archaeological Landscapes of Early Bronze Age China”
Grant amount: US$19,936
Grant period: 1 year

13. Janet Hui-wen Hsiao

University of California at San Diego
“How Do Hemispheric Asymmetries Influence Learning to Read Chinese Characters?”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

14. Yu Wang

Duke University
“Naturalizing Ethnicity, Culturalizing Landscape: The Politics of World Heritage in China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 9 months

15. Wendy Swartz

Columbia University
“Poetry and Philosophy: Allusion and Citation in Six Dynasties (222-589 C.E.) China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 6 months

G. Doctoral Fellowships

1. Brian Brereton

Cornell University
“Contemporary Conceptions of the Chinese Afterlife: Fantasies of Frustration, Imaginations of Autonomy, and Collective Concerns”
Grant amount: US$14,450
Grant period: 1 year

2. Josh Gordon

Yale University
“Ideologies of Chinese Language in the Burma-China Borderlands”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

3. Wooyeal Paik

University of California at Los Angeles
“Why Not Mass-opposition Movements in Post-totalitarian China?: Political Participation, Patronage Politics, and State-Society Relations”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

4. Cheng-chwee Kuik

Johns Hopkins University
“Coping with Power Asymmetry: Regime Legitimation, China’s Behavior, and the Variations in ASEAN States Hedging Strategies towards a Rising Power, 1990-2005”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

5. Stephen H. Whiteman

Stanford University
“Creating the Kangxi Landscape: Gardens and the Mediation of Qing