Grant Recipients, 2006-2007

 

 

Recipients in the European Region

 

A.     Lecture Series Grant

 

1. Barbara Mittler

    University of Heidelberg (Germany)

    "Taiwan Politics, History and Society: A Series of Lecture Series"

    Grant amount: £á21,000

    Grant period: 3 years

 

2. Imre Hamar

    University of Eötvös Loránd (Hungary)

    "Discovery and Documentation of Dunhuang Art: 100 Years of Sir Aurel Stein¡¦s Art and Photographic Collections in Britain, India and Hungary"

    Grant amount: £á7,040

    Grant period: 3 months

 

B. Research Grant 

 

1. Vincent Goossaert

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)

    "Temples, Urban Society, and Taoists: The Transformation of Modern Urban Chinese Religious Organizations"

    Grant amount: £á60,000

    Grant period: 3 years

    http://www.gsrl.cnrs.fr/taoist-and-temple/

 

2. Christopher Cullen

    The Needham Research Institute (UK)

    "Science and Civilisation in China: The Historical Development of Bronze Metallurgy in the Context of Chinese Culture"

    Grant amount: £á57,000

    Grant period: 3 years

 

3. Lothar Ledderose

    University of Heidelberg (Germany)

    "Visual Data Bank of Sutras Engraved on Rocks in Shandong Province"

    Grant amount: £á33,000

    Grant period: 2 years

    http://www.stonesutras.org/stonesutras/splash.html

 

C. Conference & Seminar Grant

 

1. Chloe Starr

    Oxford University (UK) 

    "Reading Christian Scriptures in China"

    Grant amount: £á7,000

    Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Anne Gerritsen

    Warwick University (UK)

    "Prosopography of Middle Period China: Using the Chinese Biographical Database"

    Grant amount: £á18,745

    Grant period: 1 year

 

3. A. H. B. Schneider

    Leiden University (The Netherlands)

    "The Writing of History in 20th Century China: Between Linear Time and the Reproduction of National Consciousness"

    Grant amount: £á5,000

    Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Susan Whitfield

    The British Library (UK)

   "The British Library International Dunhuang Project: Conservation Conference 2007"

   Grant amount: £á24,714

   Grant period: 1 year

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5. Bernard Comrie

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany)

    "Agent and Object Marking Alternation: The Case of Semantic Flip-Flop between Passive and Disposal Constructions in Sinitic Languages"

    Grant amount: £á10,800

    Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Jörn Rüsen

    Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities (Germany)

    "International Conference on Human Identity and Cultural Difference in a Cross-cultural Perspective: The Interaction between the Self and the Others"

    Grant amount: £á20,000

    Grant period: 1 year

 

7.Grant amount: £á33,000

   Sotheby¡¦s Institute of Art-London (UK)

   "Interchanges and Influences in Chinese Buddhist Sculpture"

   Grant amount: £á11,000

   Grant period: 1 year

 

D. Subsidies for Publication Grant

 

1. Lilla Russell-Smith

    University of London (UK)

    "Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology"

    Grant amount: £á9,470

    Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Lucie Olivová

    Palacký University (Czech Republic)

    "Lifestyle and Entertainment in Yangzhou"

    Grant amount: £á8,443

    Grant period: 1 year

 

E. CCK Fellowships

  

(A)  Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Gladys Chicharro Saito

    The French Centre for Research on Contemporary China in Hong Kong

    "From Brush to Keyboard: Digital Writing and New Graphical Practices of Chinese Youths"

    Grant amount: £á18,000

    Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Béatrice L¡¦haridon

Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (France)

"The Historical Thinking in the Fayan ªk¨¥ by Yang Xiong´­¶¯ and its Further Development until the Tang Dynasty"

Grant amount: £á13,800

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Luisa Elena Mengoni

University College London (UK)

"Identity and Body Ornamentation in the Funerary Practices of Southwest China (VIII cent. BC to III cent. AD)"

Grant amount: £á17,900

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Christopher Rosenmeier

University of Cambridge (UK)

"On the Margins of Modernism: Innovation and Imitation in Popular Chinese Fiction of the 1940s"

Grant amount: £á34,400

Grant period: 2 years

 

5. Elisa Sabattini

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

"The Art of Rulership in Former Han: The Political Ethics of the Xinshu by Jia Yi (200-168)"

Grant amount: £á32,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

(B)  Ph. D. Dissertation Fellowships

1. Daniela Campo

École Pratique des Hautes Études (France)

"Chan Master Xuyun (1840-1959): His Action and Role in Chinese Buddhism of the 20th Century"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Damien Chaussende

Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (France)

"The Simas and the Foundation of the Jin Dynasty (249-280)"

Grant amount: £á6,000

Grant period: 6 months

 

3. Annika Pissin

Leiden University (The Netherlands)

"Socializing Children in Medieval China"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Beatriz Puente Ballesteros

Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)

"Dialogue and Encounter: The French Jesuit Mission as Medical Interlocutor in Early and Mid-Qing China (1688-1773)"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. Andres Rodriguez

University of Oxford (UK)

"Nation-building and Frontier Studies during the Republican Period: China¡¦s Southwest Borderland Enterprise (1922-1949)"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Radovan Škultéty

The Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovakia)

"The Interliterary Process India-China on the Example of the Novel Journey to the West: The Case of Sun Wukong"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. Mark Strange

University of Oxford (UK)

"Sima Guang on the Nanbeichao: The Construction of Zizhi tongjian¡¦s Imperial Vision"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

8. Shzr Ee Tan

University of London (UK)

"Taiwan Aboriginal Song: Parallel Identities and Ecosystems"

Grant amount: £á6,000

Grant period: 6 months

 

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

 

1. Shun-liang Chao

University College London (UK)

"Aegri Somnia": The Grotesque in the Works of Crashaw, Baudelaire, and Magritte"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Kuang-hao Hou 

University of York (UK)

"Michael Mann in China: An Examination of the Universality of an Integrated Western Framework of Political Analysis for Chinese Politics in the Twentieth Century"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Nien-hsia Liu

University of Essex (UK)

"The Electoral Effects of Party Candidate Evaluations in Taiwan¡¦s Presidential Elections: 1996-2004"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Hsiao-hui Chen

University of Oxford (UK)

"Information and Communication Technological Transformation and its Impact on Labour Market¡ÐGender Gap, Risk and Choice in the European Knowledge-Based Economy"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. Ping Lin

University of Oxford (UK)

"Easy to Move, Hard to Settle Down¡ÐTaiwanese Immigrants of Dongguan and Shanghai in China"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Yi-chuang Lin

University of Durham (UK)

"Virginia Woolf's Aesthetic Presentation of Being in Time"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. Ya-chien Huang

University of Loughborough (UK)

"Dramatizing Identities: Unfolding Narratives of Globalization, Regionalization, and Localization in Contemporary Taiwanese Television Fictions"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

8. Hsiao-wen Lee

University of Westminster (UK)

"Popular Press, Public Sphere and Democracy in China"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

9. Ya-shyuan Jin

University of Edinburgh (UK)

"The Cognitive Processes of Simultaneous Interpreting"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

10. Wen-jane Yang

Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität Munchen (Germany)¡@

"Representation of Manjusri Riding on a Lion and Samantabhadra Riding on an Elephant in Pairs in the Dunhuang Cave Temple"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

11. Hui-ling Cheng

Universität Bielefeld (Germany)

"Inventing "Taiwaneseness"¡ÐMaking Taiwanese Opera "National Drama"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

12. Yuan-peng Huang

University of Lancaster (UK)

"Library Infography: Practices in Taiwan's National Central Library"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

13. Tsai-hsuan Ku

University of Cambridge (UK)

"To See or Not To See, That is a Question: A Social Analysis on Measuring Nano"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

14. Wen-hui Chen

University of Warwick (UK)

"Determinants of Cyberbanking Adopted by Corporate Customers on Behavioural Intention¡ÐAn Empirical Investigation of Taiwan¡¦s Cyberbanking"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

15. I-fan Ho

University of Wales, Aberystwyth (UK)

"The Truth of Irony: A Reconsideration of Henrik Ibsen¡¦s Work"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

16 Ming-chin Chu

University of Cambridge (UK)

"Globalization and Security: The Migration of the Taiwanese Semiconductor Industry to China and its Security Implications for the USA, Taiwan and China"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year