Grant Recipients, 2006-2007

 

 

Recipients in the American Region  

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A. Research Grants

 

1. Feng Li

Columbia University

"Excavating Guicheng: Archaeological Study of a Bronze-age City in the Heartland of the Shandong Peninsula"

Grant amount: US$40,000

Grant period: 22 months

 

2. Charlene E. Makley

Reed College

"Dilemmas of Development among Tibetans in the PRC"

Grant amount: US$29,990

Grant period: 11 months

 

3. Zhou Yu

University of Utah

"Taiwan Immigrants in the United States: The Contradiction between Rising Taiwanese Identity and Economic Assimilation"

Grant amount: US$25,000

Grant period: 18 months

 

4. Leo K. Shin

University of British Columbia

"The Uses of a Song-dynasty Martyr"

Grant amount: US$17,325

Grant period: 2 years

 

5. Ning Zhu

University of California at Davis

"The Cost of Owning Employer Stocks: Lessons from Taiwan"

Grant amount: US$30,000

Grant period: 28 months

 

6. Pei-te Lien

University of Utah

"Homeland Democratization and Transnational Political Participation of the Overseas Taiwanese and Chinese in the United States"

Grant amount: US$13,000

Grant period: 19 months

 

7. Catherine L. Harris

Boston University

"Advantages and Disadvantages of Processing Simplified and Traditional Chinese Scripts"

Grant amount: US$19,500

Grant period: 15 months

 

B. Conference/Seminar/Workshop

 

1. Philip H. Brown

Colby College

"Conference on the Economic Implications of China's New Cooperative Medical System"

Grant amount: US$25,000

Grant period: 4 months

 

2. Ching Kwan Lee

University of Michigan

"The Challenge of Global China Studies in the 21st Century: Critique and Renewal in Theory, Method and Intellectual Traditions"

Grant amount: US$19,585

Grant period: 1 month

 

3. Michael Paschal

Association for Asian Studies, Inc.

"CIAC Small Grants Program"

Grant amount: US$45,000

Grant period: 3 years

 

4. Yuan Zhou

Universityof Chicago Library

"International Symposium on Sino-American Cultural Exchange and Library Development"

Grant amount: US$25,000

Grant period: 4 days

 

C. Subsidies for Publication

 

1. Jennifer Crewe

Columbia University Press

"Confucian Tradition and Global Education, by Wm. Theodore de Bary, with Contributions by Cheung Chan Fai and Kwan Tze-wan"

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 3 months

 

2. Chih-Yu Wu

University of Maryland

"Publication Subsidy for the Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies"

Grant amount: US$30,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Peter Kracht

University of Pittsburgh Press

"Social Change in Contemporary China: C. K. Yang and the Concept of Institutional Diffusion"

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 30 months

 

4. Sheila Leary

University of Wisconsin Press

"When "I" was Born, Women's Autobiography in Modern China, by Jing M. Wang"

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 17 months

 

5. Emily Andrew

University of British Columbia Press

"The Chinese State at the Borders, edited by Diana Lary"

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 22 months

 

6. Anne Routon

Columbia University Press

"When a Woman Becomes a Dynasty: The Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet, by Dr. Hildegard Diemberger"

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 month

 

7. Reed Malcolm

University of California Press

"A Dictionary of the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen"

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 month

 

8. Stephen A. Cohn

Duke University Press

"Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China, 1989-2001, by Xudong Zhang"

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 month

 

9. Stephen A. Cohn

Duke University Press

"The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West, by Larissa N. Heinrich"

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 month

 

10. Janet Francendese

Temple University Press

"The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and Africans Slaves in Cuba Book Project"

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 month

 

D. Travel Grants

 

1. Ignacio Lopez-Calvo

University of North Texas

"Strategies for the Integration of Chinese Cubans into Mainstream Society"

Grant amount: US$1,000

Grant period: 4 days

 

2. Hilde De Weerdt

University of Tennessee

"The Receding Limits of Political Discussion: The Commercial Publication of Border Affairs Policy"

Grant amount: US$1,000

Grant period: 5 days

 

3. Ronald Hsia

Pennsylvania State University

"Chinese Culture, Cultural Identities, Comparisons on Cultural Changes and Developments"

Grant amount: US$1,000

Grant period: 4 days

 

4. Yu Xie

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

"Chinese People's Beliefs about the Relationship between Economic Development and Social Inequality"

Grant amount: US$1,000

Grant period: 10 days

 

5. Gang Zhou

Louisiana State University

"Other than Other: A Case Study of Other Renaissances"

Grant amount: US$1,000

Grant period: 1 month

 

6. Dmitry Shlapentokh

Indiana University

"China and Russia: Ambivalent Relationship"

Grant amount: US$1,000

Grant period: 8 days

 

E. Visiting Fellowship

 

1. Pingchao Zhu

University of Idaho

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

Grant amount: US$3,970

Grant period: 21 days

 

F. CCK Distinguish Fellow (GS1)

 

1. Benjamin A. Elman

Princeton University

"Reconsidering Sino-Japanese Cultural History, 1600-1800"

Grant amount: US$50,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

G. CCK Scholar Grants (GS2)

 

1. Sarah C. M. Paine

U. S. Naval War College

"Japanese-Chinese-Soviet Rivalry in East Asia (1931-1949): The Forgotten Chinese Theater of World War II"

Grant amount: US$20,000

Grant period: 1 year

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2. Xiaofei Tian

Harvard University

"Visualization in Classical Chinese Literature"

Grant amount: US$20,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Susan K. McCarthy

Providence College

"Mao, Metta, and Muhammad: Faith-based Organizations in Contemporary China"

Grant amount: US$29,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Qin Shao

The College of New Jersey

"Demolition: Housing Reform and Conflict in Urban China, 1980-2005"

Grant amount: US$40,000

Grant period: 9 months

 

5. Robin D. S. Yates

McGill University

"Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China: Translation and Study of the Zhangjiashan Legal Texts"

Grant amount: US$39,938

Grant period: 4 months

 

6. Zhongdang Pan

University of Wisconsin at Madison

"Enacting the Family-Nation on a Global Stage: An Analysis of CCTV's Spring Festival Gala"

Grant amount: US$14,997

Grant period: 10 months

 

H. CCK Junior Scholar Grants (GS3)         

 

1. Richard G. Wang

University of Florida

"Creating Artifacts: The Ming Erotic Novella in Cultural Practice"

Grant amount: US$20,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Bonnie Adrian

University of Denver

"Intimate Buddhism: Applying Dharma to the Problems of Modern Family Life in Taiwan"

Grant amount: US$30,000

Grant period: 9 months

 

3. Jiayan Zhang

Kennesaw State University

"Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Rural China: The Jianghan Plain, 1736-1949"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Qin Gao

Fordham University

"Reforming the Chinese Social Benefit System: Transitions, Impacts, and Policy Implications"

Grant amount: US$25,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. Hajime Nakatani

McGill University

"Calligraphy as Social Discipline in Early Medieval China"

Grant amount: US$20,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Chi-wei Huang

St. John's University

"Worldwide Corporate Governance Convergence and its Challenge¡ÐBusiness Ethics in China, Taiwan and the U.S."

Grant amount: US$30,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. Carlos Rojas

University of Florida

"Diagnosing the Nation through Contemporary Taiwan Literature and Film"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 10 months

 

8. Xu Wu

Arizona State University

"Chinese Cyber Nationalism and its Political Implications: Reflections from Activists, Scholars, and Policy Makers in China"

Grant amount: US$18,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

9. Elizabeth Morrison

Middlebury College

"Religious Authority Family-style: The Master-Disciple Pattern in Chinese Buddhism"

Grant amount: US$30,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

I. Dissertation Fellowships for Ph.D. Students

 

1. Suzy Wang

University of Chicago

"The Appropriation of Thanatology by the Imperial Japanese Army in Occupied China, 1932-1945"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. James Reilly

George Washington University

"The Role of Public Opinion in China's Japan Policy: 1998-2006"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Erin Elizabeth Williams

University of British Columbia

"Explaining Variations in State-Minority Relations in China: Intermediate Processes, Proxy Arenas, and External Factors"

Grant amount: US$14,000

Grant period: 16 months

 

4. Michelle C. Wang

Harvard University

"Mandalas and the Transformation of Space during the Late Tang Dynasty"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 9 months

 

5. Wah-Chiu Lai

Kent State University

"Chinese Seed Transplanted in Different Soils: Chaozhou Chinese Music in Los Angeles (USA) and Bangkok (Thailand)"

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Ellen Chang Huang

University of California at San Diego

"China's China: Jingdezhen Porcelain and the Production of Culture in the Nineteenth Century"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 14 months

 

7. Pattie Hsu

University of California at Berkeley

"Performing Cultural-political Identity through Taiwanese Opera"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 11 months

 

8. Min Ye

Princeton University

"Beyond the Nation State: External Networks and Domestic Resistance to Foreign Direct Investment in China and India"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

9. Christopher G. Rea

Harvard University

"The Comic Vision of Modern China: Risible Discourse in the Republican Period, 1911-1946"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

10. Byungil Ahn

University of California at Los Angeles

"Modernization, Revolution, and Midwifery Reform in Twentieth-century China"

Grant amount: US$4,000

Grant period: 4 months

 

11. Ja Ian Chong

Princeton University

"States of Imposition: Great Power Competition and Sovereign State Formation in East Asia"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

12. John Osburg

University of Chicago

"Engendering Wealth: China's New Rich and the Rise of an Elite Masculinity"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

13. Ji Li

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

"Faith, Conversion, and Identity: Christianity in Northeast China"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

J. CCK Fellowships administered by the Canadian Association for Asian Studies

 

1. Jessica Tsui Yang Li

University of Toronto

"Re-crowning the Female Body: In-betweeness in Eileen Chang¡¦s Fiction and its Adaptations into Stage and Film"

Grant amount: US$17,054

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. John Barwick

University of Alberta

"Chinese Protestant Elites and the Quest for Modernity in Republican China"

Grant amount: US$7,752

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Margaret Wee-shiang Ng

McGill University

"Childbirth in Late Imperial China: Medical Texts and Social Realities"

Grant amount: US$7,752

Grant period: 1 year

 

K. R.O.C Students Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowships

 

1. Ke-zong Ma

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Fertility Rates, Use of Cesarean Delivery, and the Role of Information Gap: Evidence from Taiwan"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Hsiao-mei Hsieh

Northwestern University

"Across the Strait: History, Performance, and the Gezaixi in China and Taiwan"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Hui-chen Sabrina Hsiao

State University of New York at Buffalo

"Motion Events in Mandarin and English"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Cheng-fu Chen

University of Texas at Austin

"Tense Morphology in Rukai: Interpretation and Interactions"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. Ke-chin Hsia

University of Chicago

"The Scar of War: Kriegsopfer and Politics in Interwar Austria, ca. 1918-1938"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Hsun-hui Tseng

University of Washington

"Racialized Female Bodies and Geopolitics of Desire: An Intersection of Gender, Class and Race in the Transnational Marriage Market in Taiwan"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. Ching-ping Lin

Northwestern University

"Human Rights and Constitutional Review in Twenty-first Century China: A Study on How to Establish a Human Rights-oriented Constitutional Review System in the PRC"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

8. Kang-hung Chang

Michigan State University

"Three Essays on the Welfare of the Elderly in Taiwan"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

9. Han-hsing Lee

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

"Essay 1: The Constant Elasticity Variance Option Pricing Model: Review, Comparison, and Application; Essay 2: Alternative Structural Credit Risk Models: Theoretical Comparison and Empirical Investigation"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

10. Hsuan-hua Becky Huang

University of California at Los Angeles

"Beating the Odds of the Critical Period: The Impact of Input in Second Language Acquisition"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

11. Chia-ming Chen

University of Chicago

"Theorizing Peoples in View of Global Justice"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

12. Hsien-ta Lin

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

"Exploring the Role of Revealing Underlying Coherence of Curriculum Units in Supporting Unit Planning Tasks"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

13. Li-hsuan Cheng

Duke University

"Dismantling The J-Film? The Transformation of Japanese Corporate Regulatory System, 1985-2002"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

       

14. Han-pu Tung

Harvard University

"Uncovering a Missing Political Market: Bureaucratic Market Structure and Trade Policymaking in China"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

15. Hui-wen Chen

Harvard University

"In the Name of Justice: The Tangle of Transitional Justice and Nation-building in Taiwan's Democratization"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

16. Ji-kang Chen

University of Southern California

"The Influence of Students' Personal Traits, Family Factors, and School Dynamics on the Perpetration of Violence in Taiwanese Schools"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

17. Chihhua Chiang

University of California at Berkeley

"Social Organization of the Wan-san Site"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

18. Yen-ling Liu

Stanford University

"Monumentality, Myth, and the Symphonic Ideal in Liszt's Symphonic Works"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

19. Rou-lan Chen

University of California at Berkeley

"Changing National Identity in Taiwan - A Dynamic and Multilevel Analysis"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

20. Shih-szu Hsu

University of California at San Diego

"The Civil War in East-West Imaginations: Gender, Race, Nation, and Empire in the Works of Louisa May Alcott, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, and Pauline Hopkins"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year