Grant Recipients, 2006-2007
Recipients in the Asia-Pacific Region
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