GRANT RECIPIENTS, 2005-2006

 

RECIPIENTS IN THE AMERICAN REGION

 

A.    Research Grants

 

1.     T.Y. Wang

Illinois State University

“Political Tolerance in a Democracy under External Threats: A Survey of Public Opinion in Taiwan”

Grant amount:   $ 25,000.00

Grant period:    2 years

 

2.     Junhao Hong

State University of New York at Buffalo

“Web Media in Mainland China and Its Functions and Roles in Social Transformation and Democratization”

Grant amount:   $ 15,000.00

Grant period:    1 year

 

3.     Jie Zhang

The University of Kansas, Lawrence

“Testing the Role of Phonetic Naturalness in Taiwanese Tone Sandhi”

Grant amount:   $ 24,000.00

Grant period:    1 year

 

4.    Leo Y. Liu

Brandon University

“Taiwanese-Canadian Relations from 1970 to the Present: Implications, Prospects, and Hypotheses”

Grant amount:   $ 19,500.00

Grant period:    2 years

 

5.     Tong Soon Lee

Emory University

“Music and Multiculturalism in the Chinese Diaspora: Cantonese Opera in Britain”

Grant amount:   $ 15,000.00

Grant period:    7 months

 

6.     Daniel Benjamin Abramson

University of Washington

“Echoes of Diaspora: Huaqiao Influence on Housing Policy and the Development of a Globalized Domestic Architecture in Quanzhou, Fujian”

Grant amount:   $ 40,000.00

Grant period:    2 years

 

7.     Eric C.C. Chang

Michigan State University

“Electoral Realignment and Democratic Consolidation: Evidence from Taiwan”

Grant amount:   $ 14,912.00

Grant period:    1 year

 

8.  Zhichun Jing

University of British Columbia

“Landscape Archaeology of the Huan River Valley in Anyang , China”

Grant amount:   $ 39,940.00

Grant period:    2 years

 

9.     Shifen Gong

Bellarmine University

“Battle of Hengyang”

Grant amount:   $ 10,000.00

Grant period:    28 months

  

B.    Conference Grants

 

1.     Michael Knight

Asian Art Museum

"Scholarly Conference: The Elegant Gathering: Art, Politics and Collecting in China"

Grant amount:   $ 25,000.00

Grant period:    8 months

 

2.     Banning Garrett

        The Atlantic Council of the United States

        "Cross-Strait Strategic Reassurance"

Grant amount:   $ 25,000.00

Grant period:    2 days

 

3.     Richard Bush

Brookings Institution

"Consolidating Taiwan’s Democracy: Challenges, Opportunities, and Prospects"

Grant amount:   $ 25,000.00

Grant period:    8 months

 

4.     Vimalin Rujivacharakul

University of Delaware

Collecting "China"

Grant amount:   $ 9,780.00

Grant period:    3 days

 

5.     Zev Joseph Handel

University of Washington

"39th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages & Linguistics"

Grant amount:   $ 12,020.00

Grant period:    8 months

 

6.     Yi-Chun Tricia Lin

Southern Connecticut State University

A Plenary Panel on Taiwanese Women's Health in the 16th Annual Women's Studies Conference, "Women's Health: Colonized, Resisted, Reclaimed"

Grant amount:   $ 7,794.00

Grant period:    2 days

  

C.    Subsidies for Publication

 

1.     Jennifer Crewe

Columbia University Press

"Cinema and Nation: China on Screen, by Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar"

Grant amount:   $ 5,000.00

Grant period:    Spring 2006

 

2.     Patricia Crosby

University of Hawaii Press

"Beijing Opera Costumes: The Communication of Character and Culture through  the Costumes of Traditional Jingju, by Alexandra B. Bonds"

Grant amount:   $ 5,000.00

Grant period:    14 months

 

3.     Michael Knight

Asian Art Museum

"Scholarly Publication: The Elegant Gathering: The Yeh Family Collection"

Grant amount:   $ 5,000.00

Grant period:    8 months

 

4.     Stephen A. Cohn

Duke University Press

"Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan, by Pei-Chia Lan"

Grant amount:   $ 5,000.00

Grant period:    March 2006

 

5.     Emily Andrew

UBC Press

"Power Struggles, State Building, and Imagined Sovereignty: Tibet in Nationalist China's Frontier Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49, by Hsiao-ting Lin"

Grant amount:   $ 5,000.00

Grant period:    2 years

 

6.     Wendy. Lochner

Columbia University Press

"Mystique of Transmission: On Early Chan History and Its Context, by Wendi L. Adamek"

Grant amount:   $ 5,000.00

Grant period:    spring 2007

  

7.     Stephen A. Cohn

Duke University Press

"Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History, edited by David Der-wei Wang and Carlos Rojas"

Grant amount:   $ 5,000.00

Grant period:    October 2006

 

8.     Emily Andrew

UBC Press

"Shaping the Modern Nation-State: Teachers' Schools and the Construction of Culture, Politics, and Gender in China, 1897-1937, by Xiaoping Cong"

Grant amount:   $ 6,000.00

Grant period:    April 2007

  

D.    Travel Grants

 

1.     Pingchao Zhu

University of Idaho

"Wartime Power Politics between the Nationalist Government and the Guangxi Warlords, 1931-45"

Grant amount:   $ 1,000.00

Grant period:    5 days

 

2.     Alexander C.Y. Huang

The Pennsylvania State University

To give a plenary lecture titled "A Chinese' Response to a Global Text: Wu Hsing-kuo and His Lear"; To Present a paper on "The Chinese' Ethics of Appropriation";  To Chair a seminar on "Brave Old Worlds: Shakespeare Production and Reception in East Asia"; At the VIII. World Shakespeare Congress, Organized by the International Shakespeare Association to be held 16-21 July 2006 in Brisbane, Australia.

Grant amount:   $ 1,000.00

Grant period:    1 month

 

3.     Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu

San Diego State University

"Initiating Repair and Beyond: A Conversation Analysis of Two Repeat-Formatted Repair Initiations in Mandarin Conversation"

Grant amount:   $ 1,000.00

Grant period:    8 days

 

4.     Zhongwei Shen

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

"Attending International Conferences at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan in May 2006"

Grant amount:   $ 1,000.00

Grant period:    9 days

 

E.     Visiting Fellowships

 

1.     Doris T. Chang

Wichita State University

"Recreating Women's Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan"

Grant amount:   $ 2,596.00

Grant period:    22 days

  

F.     CCK Scholar Grants (GS2)

 

1.     Martin Kern

Princeton University

“Performance, Poetry, and Cultural Memory in Early China”

Grant amount:   $ 30,000.00

Grant period:    10 months

 

2.     Dingxin Zhao

University of Chicago

“Spring and Autumn and Warring States (770-221 BCE) Warfare and Patterns of Chinese History”

Grant amount:   $ 30,000.00

Grant period:    1 year

 

3.     Chang-Tai Hsieh

University of California, Berkeley

“Sources and Barriers of Productivity Growth in China”

Grant amount:   $ 30,000.00

Grant period:    1 year

 

4.     Jiang-Ping Jeff Chen

St. Cloud State University

“Evolution of Astronomic Trigonometry in China, 1570-1880”

Grant amount:   $ 27,930.00

Grant period:    1 year

 

5.     John R. Shepherd

University of Virginia

“The Chinese Demographic Regime in Taiwan, 1870-1945”

Grant amount:   $ 40,000.00

Grant period:    10 months

  

G.    CCK Junior Scholar Grants (GS3)

 

1.     Sara L. Friedman

Indiana University

“Citizenship as Official and Everyday Practice: Chinese Marital Immigrants in Taiwan”

Grant amount:   $ 30,000.00

Grant period:    11 months

 

2.     Siyen Fei

University of Pennsylvania

“Negotiating Urban Space: The Making and Remaking of the Southern Metropolis in Sixteenth - and Seventeenth - Century China”

Grant amount:   $ 30,000.00

Grant period:    1 year

 

3.     Shin-Yi Chou

Lehigh University

“The Structure of Hospital Market and Consumer Welfare in Taiwan”

Grant amount:   $ 22,000.00

Grant period:    1 year

 

4.     Minghui Hu

University of California, Santa Cruz

“Rebuilding the Ancient Cosmopolis: The Life and Thought of Dai Zhen”

Grant amount:   $ 30,000.00

Grant period:    1 year

 

5.     Su-hua Wang

University of California, Santa Cruz

“Learning by infants in Taiwan and the United States: The role of Parental Beliefs and Practices”

Grant amount:   $ 30,000.00

Grant period:    1 year

 

6.     Michael Como

Columbia University

“Resonant Bodies: Medicine, Astronomy and the Heian Cultic Revolution”

Grant amount:   $ 30,000.00

Grant period:    1 year

  

H.    Dissertation Fellowships for PhD Students

 

1.     Marietta Fa

University of Virginia

“Rape Myths in American and Chinese Laws and Legal Systems - Does Tradition and Culture make the Difference?”

Grant amount:   $ 15,000.00

Grant period:    1 year

 

2.     Dan Wang

Harvard University

“The Politics of Fear: A Comparative Study of Political Terror in Mainland China and Taiwan in the 1950s”

Grant amount:   $ 15,000.00

Grant period:    1 year

  

3.     George Lawrence Israel

University of Illinois

“Civilizing the Southern Frontier in Ming China: The Intersection of Neo-Confucian Moral Philosophy, Ethnic Discourse, and Violence in the Campaigns of Wang Yangming”

Grant amount:   $ 15,000.00

Grant period:    1 year

 

4.     Kevin Paul Landdeck

University of California, Berkeley

“Under the Gun: Military Service and Society in Wartime Sichuan, 1938 – 1945”

Grant amount:   $ 14,340.00

Grant period:    1 year

 

5.     Jianhua Andrew Zhao

University of Pittsburgh

“Fashioning Change: The Political Economy of Clothing in Contemporary China”

Grant amount:   $ 15,000.00

Grant period:    1 year

 

6.     Chuen-Yueh (Wendy) Li

University of California, Los Angeles

“Global Sourcing in Innovation”

Grant amount:   $ 15,000.00

Grant period:    1 year

 

7.     Martin Fromm

Columbia University

“Retracing the Steps Across the Pass: Re-Conceptualizing Migration to Manchuria, 1900-1937”

Grant amount:   $ 15,000.00

Grant period:    1 year

 

8.     Michael Gibbs Hill

Columbia University

“Lin Shu, Inc.: Making a Modern Cultural Icon, 1895-1937”

Grant amount:   $ 15,000.00

Grant period:    9 months

 

9.     David Dahua Yang

Princeton University

“The Social Basis of the Third Wave: Rethinking Class Politics in the Making of the Democratic Stat e in East Asia”

Grant amount:   $ 15,000.00

Grant period:    10 months

 

10    Jeremy Brown

University of California, San Diego

“Chinese Socialist Inequality: Rural-Urban Difference in the Tianjin Region, 1949-1978”

Grant amount:   $ 15,000.00

Grant period:    1 year

 

11.   Michael A. Glosny

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Learning to be a Great Power: Domestic Debates in Rising Powers on the Meaning of Being a Great Power”

Grant amount:   $ 15,000.00

Grant period:    1 year

 

12.   Edna Tow

University of California, Berkeley

“Life under Fire: State and Society in Wartime Chongqing, 1937-1945”

Grant amount:   $ 15,000.00

Grant period:    1 year

 

13.   Lane J. Harris

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

“Communications Matrix: State, Labor, Nation, and Culture in the Chinese Postal Service, 1896-1949”

Grant amount:   $ 14,986.00

Grant period:    1 year

  

I.  CCK Fellowships Administrated by the Canadian Association for Asian Studies

 

1.     Wenshya Jennifer Lee

University of Calgary

"Chinese Canadian’s Political Participation in Canada : Sense of Self and Community"

Grant amount : $ 18,892.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

2.     Desmond Cheung

University of British Columbia

"The Social Use of Public Texts in Ming Dynasty Hangzhou"

Grant amount : $ 8,554.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

3.     Hua Li

University of British Columbia

"Coming of Age in a Time of Trouble"

Grant amount : $ 8,554.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

J.     R.O.C. Student Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships Application

 

1.     Hsiu-Wei Wu (胡修維)

Wayne State University

"Prospects for the Stanislavski System in the Performance of Traditional Chinese Opera, with Special Attention to the Contributions of Mei Lanfang"

Grant amount : $15,000.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

2.     Yu-Ming Cheng (鄭玉明)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Influence of Face-to-face Mentoring and Electronic Mentoring on Novice Teachers' Classroom Practices in Urban Schools through an Alternative Certification Program"

Grant amount : $15,000.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

3.     Meng-Fen Michelle Hsieh (謝孟芬)

The Pennsylvania State University

"Predicting Faculty's Post-adoption Behaviors of Innovations: The Influence of Profitability and Compatibility Factors in Higher Education"

Grant amount : $15,000.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

4.     Chih-Kuei Lee (李智貴)

Johns Hopkins University

"Provider Participation, Patient Enrollment and Attrition in a National Diabetes Disease Management Program in Taiwan-Determinants and Policy Implication"

Grant amount : $15,000.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

5.     Chung-Min Tsai (蔡中民)

University of California at Berkeley

"Enlightening China: The Dynamics of China's Electricity Reform"

Grant amount : $15,000.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

6.     Cho-ying Li (李卓穎)

Harvard University

"Ecology, Politics, and Commercialization: Water Conservancy in Ming China"

Grant amount : $15,000.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

7.     Liancheng Chief (漆聯成)

State University of New York at Buffalo

"A Model of Incomplete and Complete Events in Mandarin Chinese"

Grant amount : $15,000.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

8.     Shu-Juo Chen (陳叔倬)

Stanford University

"How Han are Taiwanese? The Genetic Proportion of Plains Aborigine (Siraya) Ancestry Among Southern Taiwanese, and Implications for Taiwan Identity"

Grant amount : $15,000.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

9.     Jui-man Mandy Wu (吳瑞滿)

University of Pittsburgh

"Art and Identity: Tombs of Elite Foreigners in China During the Northern Zhou Period (557-581 CE)"

Grant amount : $15,000.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

10.   Ching Keng (  )

Harvard University

"A Misrepresented Indian Authority? ---A Re-evaluation of The Tathagatagarbha Thought of Paramartha (499-569 CE)"

Grant amount : $15,000.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

11.   Hsin-chun (Tasaw) Lu (呂心純)

University of California, Los Angeles

"Construction of the Musical-Self and Overweening Egoism Among Myanmar Classical Musicians in Modern Myanm and Its Diasporas"

Grant amount : $15,000.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

12.   Neng-Mo Tu (塗能謀)

University of California at Berkeley

"Challenges to Contemporary Patent and Antitrust Laws"

Grant amount : $15,000.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

13.   C. C. Alex Chang (張傳賢)

University of Iowa

"Politics of Defection: Re-investigating the Influence of Electoral Systems on Intra Party Relationships in Elections"

Grant amount : $15,000.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

14.   Tsui-o Tai (戴翠莪)

University of California, Irvine

"Poverty Gaps Among Age Groups: Taiwan's Case in An International Perspective"

Grant amount : $15,000.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

15.   Hsuan-chu Lin (林軒竹)

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

"The Structural Agency Problem Under Credit Risk"

Grant amount : $15,000.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

16.   Cheng-Yi Huang (黃丞儀)

University of Chicago

"State-Building, Renovation of Administrative Law and Democratic Consolidation - How to Entrench the Rule of Law in a Transitional Democracy"

Grant amount : $15,000.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

17.   Chia-Li Kao (高嘉勵)

Indiana University in Bloomington

"Ambiguity And Ambivalence Of Imperialism In Japanese And Taiwanese Literature, 1895-1945"

Grant amount : $15,000.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

18.   Chia-hsin Jimmy Hsu (許家馨)

The University of Chicago

"Consolidating Democracy by Libel? --- Taiwan's Laws of Defamation as Checking Mechanisms of the Public Sphere"

Grant amount : $15,000.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

19.   Chunchi Wang (王君琦)

University of Southern California

"Lesbianscape of Taiwan: A Media History of Taiwanese Lesbians"

Grant amount : $15,000.00

Grant period : 1 year

 

20.   Shin-Huei Wang (王馨徽)

University of Southern California

"Checking The Independence Of Two Stationary Fractionally Integrated Processes, With Application To Foreign Exchange Rate Studies"

Grant amount : $15,000.00

Grant period : 1 year