Grant Recipients, 2006-2007

 

 

Recipients in the Asia-Pacific Region

 

A. Research Grants

 

1. Chi-cheung Choi

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

"Communities in the Boundaries: Comparative Studies on the History, Culture and Regional Networks of Overseas Chinese’s Hometowns in South China"

Grant amount: US$100,000

Grant period: 3 years

 

2. Eddy U

University of Sydney (Australia)

"The Making of Intellectuals: Politics and Identity in the People’s Republic of China"

Grant amount: US$55,000

Grant period: 3 years

 

3. Judith Cameron

The Australian National University (Australia)

"A Systematic Study of Taiwanese Prehistoric Spindle Whorls"

Grant amount: US$7,500

Grant period: 3 months

 

4. Deborah Cao

Griffith University (Australia)

"A Comparative Study of the Chinese Legal Language in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong"

Grant amount: US$21,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

5. Manying Ip

University of Auckland (New Zealand)

"Circulatory Transmigration: A New Paradigm Exploring Chinese Mobility"

Grant amount: US$80,000

Grant period: 3 years

 

6. Meir Shahar

Tel Aviv University (Israel)

"Martial Arts and Local Identity: The Fujian Traditions of the Southern Shaolin Monastery"

Grant amount: US$40,000

Grant period: 3 years

 

7. Kee-long So

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

"A GIS and Institutional Economic Study of the Cotton Textile Economy in the Songjiangfu (松江府) Region during the Eighteenth Century"

Grant amount: US$85,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

8. David Ip

University of Queensland (Australia)

"Middling Transnationalism and Simultaneity: Identities among Second Generation Taiwanese, Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese Immigrants"

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

9. Peter Bellwood

The Australian National University (Australia)

"The Role of Taiwan in the Creation of Southeast Asian Peoples and Cultures, 3500 BC to AD 500"

Grant amount: US$72,000

Grant period: 3 years

 

B. Conference & Seminar Grant

 

1. Peter Tze Ming Ng

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

"Religion and Social Integration in Chinese Societies: Exploring Sociological Approaches to the Study of Religion in the Chinese World"

Grant amount: US$21,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2.Kim-chong Chong

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong)

"Conference on Chinese Philosophy and Moral Psychology"

Grant amount: US$21,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. John Makeham

The Australian National University (Australia)

"The Formation and Development Academic Disciplines in Twentieth-Century China: 2007 Workshop"

Grant amount: US$21,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Chee-beng Tan

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

"Chinese Foodways in Multicultural Southeast Asia"

Grant amount: US$21,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

C. Senior Scholar Grant

 

1. Helen Dunstan

University of Sydney (Australia)

"State Finance and the Enigma of Decline in High Confucian China"

Grant amount: US$40,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

D. R.O.C. Student Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships

 

1. Shih-li Chen

University of Western Sydney (Australia)
    "Political Communication in Cyberspace: National Identity Construction on the Internet and the Democratic Process in Taiwan"

Grant amount: US$12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Shu-ling Yeh

The Australian National University (Australia)

"The Encompassing Kinship System of the Austronesian-Speaking Amis of Taiwan: Continuity and Change"

Grant amount: US$12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Bor-chyun Wu

University of Tokyo (Japan)

"A New Institutionalism Perspective on Political Factors Affecting Financial Liberalization in East Asian Developmental States (Taiwan, Japan and Korea)"
    Grant amount: US$12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Ya-ning Kao

University of Melbourne (Australia)

"Writing Southern Barbarians in History and Singing a Zhuang Hero in Ritual"

Grant amount: US$12,000

Grant period: 1 year