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Grant Recipients,  2022-2023

Grant Recipients, 2022-2023

Recipients in the Domestic Region                        Unit: NT$

(in order of date application received)

A. Research Grants

1. Harry Yi-jui Wu

Cross College Elite Program, National Cheng Kung University, with Hsin-yen Lai of University of St Andrews (UK)

“Revisiting Medical Humanitarianism between Taiwan and Saudi Arabia: Health Diplomacy and International Relations towards the End of Cold War”

Grant amount : NT$2,120,000

Grant period : 2 years

2. Yi-ting Wang

Department of Political Science, National Cheng Kung University, with Howard Liu of University of South Carolina (USA)

“Informants, Intelligence Selection, and State Repression”

Grant amount : NT$2,080,000

Grant period : 3 years

B. Publication Subsidies

1. Ying-fen Wang

Graduate Institute of Musicology, National Taiwan University, with Laurie Matheson of University of Illinois Press (USA)

“The Formations of Phonographic Modernity in East and Southeast Asia: Exploring the Gramophone Industry and Music Genres”
Grant amount : NT$300,000
Grant period : 1 year

 

 

Recipients in the American Region                       Unit: US$

(in order of date application received)

A. Research Grants

1. John Upton

Temple University

“Indigenous Rights in the Balance: Contemporary Bunun Hunting and Human-Animal-Land Relations”

Grant amount : US$7,981

Grant period : 1 year

2. Eiren Shea

Grinnell College

“Adornment and Identity in Middle Period China”

Grant amount : US$15,000

Grant period : 1 year

3. Shaowen Luo

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

“The Network of Local Officials in Qing China: Did Nepotism Contribute to the Decline of the Empire?”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 2 years

4. Kerry Ratigan

Amherst College

“The Politics of China’s Economic Engagement with Latin America”

Grant amount : US$12,200

Grant period : 1 year

B. Scholar Grants

1. Wenqing Kang

Cleveland State University

“Life in Silence: Male Same-Sex Relations in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-Present”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

2. Michael Gibbs Hill

College of William and Mary

“Worlds Apart: Histories of Cultural Exchange Between China and the Arab World, 1850-Present”

Grant amount : US$15,000

Grant period : 1 year

3. Wen-shing Chou

City University of New York

“Shaping Time: Art of Rebirth in Qing Buddhist China and Inner Asia”

Grant amount : US$15,000

Grant period : 1 year

4. Ming-cheng Lo

University of California, Davis

“Pandemic and Processes of Civil Repair: Understanding Taiwan’s Democracy through Its COVID Experience”

Grant amount : US$30,000

Grant period : 1 year

5. Meng Li

Loyola Marymount University

“Family of Origin: How an American Idea Became a Chinese Social Ill”

Grant amount : US$15,000

Grant period : 1 year

6. Yi Ding

DePaul University

“Observances, Feasts, Scripts: The Evolution of Zhai in Chinese Buddhism from the Second to the Tenth Century”

Grant amount : US$21,000

Grant period : 1 year

7. Elaine Liu

University of Houston

“The Effect of Foreign Language Exposure: Case of Economic Decision Making”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

8. Alexei Ditter

Reed College

“Collaborative Memory in 7th-10th Century China”

Grant amount : US$15,000

Grant period : 1 year

9. Yajun Mo

Boston College

“From Shanghai to Shangri-La: Zhuang Xueben and China’s Ethnographic Frontier”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

10. Meredith Schweig

Emory University

“Enter the Butterfly: Voicing Teresa Teng in Post-Cold War Taiwan”

Grant amount : US$15,000

Grant period : 1 year

11. Seung-youn Oh

Bryn Mawr College

“Turning China Fever into China Fear? China’s Economic Statecraft and Weaponized Economic Interdependence”

Grant amount : US$32,000

Grant period : 1 year

C. Conference and Seminar Grants

1. Peter Bol

Harvard University
“Tools of the Trade: The Way Forward”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 6 months

2. Patricia Sieber

The Ohio State University
“In Search of the Sayable: Traditional Chinese Plays, Translation, and Stage Performance”
Grant amount : US$12,000
Grant period : 6 months

3. Shuang Shen

Pennsylvania State University
“Oceans and Empires: Sinophone Crossroads in Global Space and Time”
Grant amount : US$13,000
Grant period : 6 months

4. Yun-chien Chang

Cornell University

“Empirical Legal Studies in the Sinophone Region”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 6 months

5. Chee-hann Wu

University of California, Irvine

“North American Taiwan Studies Association 28th Conference -- ‘Resistance and Resilience: Repositioning Taiwan’”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 6 months

6. Trenton Wilson

Princeton University

“Local Communities in Early China Workshop”

Grant amount : US$15,000

Grant period : 6 months

D. Publication Subsidies

1. Kim Robinson

University of California Press Foundation

Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978-1985”, by Jennifer Dorothy Lee

Grant amount : US$5,000

Grant period : 1 year

2. Christian Winting

Columbia University Press

The Uyghur History of the World: A Translation of the Tarikh-i Hamidi”, translated by Eric Schluessel

Grant amount : US$5,000

Grant period : 1 year

3. Beth Fuget

University of Washington Press

Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts”, by Ruth Yun-ju Chen

Grant amount : US$5,000

Grant period : 1 year

4. Beth Fuget

University of Washington Press

Miscellany of the South Seas: A Chinese Scholar’s Chronicle of Shipwreck and Travel through 1830s Vietnam”, translated and introduced by Kathlene Baldanza and Lu Zhao

Grant amount : US$5,000

Grant period : 1 year

5. Christian Winting

Columbia University Press

Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in

China, Japan, and Korea”, by Satoru Hashimoto

Grant amount : US$5,000

Grant period : 1 year

6. Doris Sung

University of Alabama

Women of Chinese Modern Art: Gender and Reforming Traditions in National and Global Spheres, 1900s-1930s”, by Doris Sung

Grant amount : US$5,000

Grant period : 1 year

7. Christian Winting

Columbia University Press

Zombie Citizenship: Precarity and Cultural Practice in China”, by Margaret Hillenbrand

Grant amount : US$5,000

Grant period : 1 year

8. Beth Fuget

University of Washington Press

Taiwan: A People’s History”, by Niki J. P. Alsford

Grant amount : US$5,000

Grant period : 1 year

E. Doctoral Fellowships

1. Mian Chen

Northwestern University

“Reassembling the Ideological Apparatuses: Propagandists and the Making of the Chinese Communist Propaganda Complex (1921-1965)”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

2. Christopher Kim

Columbia University

“Institutional Change in the State of Qi and the Rise of Territorial States in Early China”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

3. Yuxing (Yolanda) Zhang

University of Toronto (Canada)

“Program Life: The Making of Data-driven Agroecological Worlds in China”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

4. Qi Song

Northwestern University

“Platforms as Market Organizers: Understanding the Emergence, Roles, and Impacts of the Platform Economy in Emerging-Market China”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

5. Shengqiao Lin

University of Texas, Austin

“Address Risk by Doing Good: Business Responses to Government Initiatives”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

6. Zekun Zhang

Yale University

“State and Slavery in the Tang Empire”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

7. Xiaotian Yin

Harvard University

“Collecting Embers: Buddhist Art in Central Tibet in the Age of Fragmentation, circa Tenth to Twelfth Century”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

8. Erxin Wang

The Ohio State University

“Dilemmas of Remembrance: Literati Theater and the Rhetoric of Memory, 1540s-1620s”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

9. Qinyou Hu

Rice University

“More Empathy, Fewer Bullies: Evidence from a Parental Involvement Program in China”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

10. Mengling Wang

The Ohio State University

“Looking Through a Digital Humanities Lens: The Formation of Literary Community and Remediation of Early Medieval Anthologies in China, 500-1700”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

11. Ning He

New York University

“The Bureaucratic Politics of Social Disaster”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

12. Shuo Liang

Arizona State University

“Mapping Morality: Lu Fu’s Maps and Writings”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

13. Xuesong Shao

University of California, Davis

“Feeling the Rural: Politics and Affect in Chinese Literature and Film from the Reform Era”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

14. Hyangseon Ahn

University of California, San Diego

“Contested Meaning of Money in Reparations for Victims of Historical Injustice: A Comparative Study between Taiwan 2.28 Incident and South Korea 4.3 Incident”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

F. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

1. Shih-han Wang

Columbia University

“Elite Formation on the ‘Periphery’ in the Bronze Age Lower Yangtze River Region (ca. 1300-300 BCE)”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

2. I-lin Liu

Indiana University, Bloomington

“Before the Wave: Art Film Culture in Taiwan, 1945-1982”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

3. Han-yun Tseng

Colorado State University

“Views of Aging: Their Measurement, Implications for Health Promotion, and Their Associations with Health and Well-Being in the Second Half of Life”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

4. Cheng-cheng Li

University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

“Re-imagining and Re-articulating Taiwan-Palau Relations through the Lens of Education”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

5. Yung-hsu Tsui

University of California, Los Angeles

“Measuring Non-Pecuniary Benefits of Entrepreneurial Firms in Taiwan”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

G. Special Project Grants

1. David Der-wei Wang

Harvard University
“The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies, USA”
Grant amount : US$240,000
Grant period : 3 years

 

 

Recipients in the European Region                      Unit: €

(in order of date application received)

A. Research Grants

1. Jeremy Taylor

University of Nottingham (UK)

“Documenting Wartime Collaboration: Scholarly Geopolitics and Transnational Re-assessments of the Wang Jingwei Regime”

Grant amount : €66,600

Grant period : 3 years

B. Database Grants

1. Julia Weber

Dresden State Art Collections (Gemany)
“Dresden Porcelain Project: Data Processing”
Grant amount : €64,700

Grant period : 1 year

2. Christine Moll-Murata

Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Gemany)
“Broadening the Horizon for Taiwan Studies through Visualization: The Photography Database of the National Taipei University of Education”
Grant amount : €47,600

Grant period : 3 years

C. Conference and Seminar Grants

1. Rebekah Clements

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)

“Mastering of Materialities: Resources and Technology in Post-Imjin East Asia (1598-1650)”

Grant amount : €8,000

Grant period : 6 months

2. Julie Yu-wen Chen

University of Helsinki (Finland)

“The Rising Soft and Hard Power of China in Central Asia”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 6 months

D. Publication Subsidies

1. Vivian Constantinopoulos

Reaktion Books (UK)
The Art of the Chinese Picture-scroll: Image-Word-Medium”, by Shane McCausland
Grant amount : €6,000
Grant period : 1 year

E. Doctoral Fellowships

1. Kunsang Thokmay

University of Oxford (UK)

“Tibetans, Mongols, and Manchus: Factionalism and Shifting Power Dynamics in Early Eighteenth-Century Inner Asia”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

2. Pauline A. Duval

École Pratique des Hautes Études (France)

“The Neolithic Societies of North-Eastern China (IXth-IId Millenium BC): An Anthropological Interpretation of Their Material Cultures based on Ceramic Technology”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

3. Mariia Guleva

Charles University (Czech Republic)

“Expose and Extol: A History of Manhua Magazine between Domestic Policies and International Interactions, 1950-1960”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

4. Ke Huang

Université Paris Cité (France)

“Work Platforms and Redeployed Capitalism in China: Sociology of Actors in the Algorithmic System”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

5. Ao Huang

University of London (UK)

“Before and Beyond Homosexuality: Trans-femininity in Ming-Qing China”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

6. Yinglei Chen

University of Oxford (UK)

“Urban Process and Mobility of Urban Elites in Southwestern China”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

7. Ningsi Song

Aix-Marseille University (France)

“The Rules of the Game in Mao’s China: Re-writing the History of the Cultural Revolution by Cinema 1964-1979”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

8. Yu Zhang

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)

“The Ordinary Life of Mental Illness: Construction of Inequalities within and around a Psychiatric Hospital in a Small Town in China”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

9. Wai Tan Law

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
“Local Identity and Global Entanglements of Cantonese Literati during the Ming-Qing Transition (1644-1680s)”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

F. Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

1. Guillermo Ruiz-Stovel

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

“Chinese Shipping and Merchant Networks at the Edge of the Spanish Pacific: The Minnan-Manila Trade in the Eighteenth Century”

Grant amount : €21,000

Grant period : 1 year

2. Joachim Boittout

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)

“A History of Fear in China: A New Perspective on Chinese Modernity, 1898-1937”

Grant amount : €37,800

Grant period : 2 years

G. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

1. Po-hsun Chen

University of Manchester (UK)

“Negotiating Herbal Toxicity for Modern Imaginaries of Diasporic Chinese Countries: Controversies of Herbal Toxicities in Taiwan and Singapore after World War II”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

2. Minhui Tou

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany)

“Final Liberation: The Theory of Seeds and Perfumes between Vasubandhu and Sthiramati”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

H. Special Project Grants

1. Olga Lomová

Charles University (Czech Republic)
“Continuation of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation International Sinological Center at Charles University in Prague, 2023-2025”
Grant amount : €225,000
Grant period : 3 years

 

 

Recipients in the Asia-Pacific Region

(in order of date application received)

                              Unit: US$

A. Research Grants

1. Shih-wen Sue Chen

Deakin University (Australia)

“Science and Children’s Literature in Modern China”

Grant amount : US$60,000

Grant period : 3 years

2. Xiaoying Qi

Australian Catholic University (Australia)

“Small Business Entrepreneurs, Crisis and Resilience: A Study of Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan”

Grant amount : US$86,000
Grant period : 3 years

B. Publication Subsidies

1. Koji Hirata

Monash University (Australia)

Making Mao’s Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism”, by Koji Hirata

Grant amount : US$4,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

 

Recipients in Developing Regions                                  Unit: US$

(in order of date application received)

A. Research Grants

1. Sonika Gupta

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India)
“Protracted Conflict and Borderland Communities in Taiwan and India: Case Studies of Kinmen (Taiwan) and West Kameng (India)”
Grant amount : US$18,000
Grant period : 2 years