Grant Recipients in the American Region, 2007-2008
Recipients in the American Region
(in order of application received)
Unit: US$
A. Research Grants
1. Dennis Hickey
Missouri State University
¡§Peace or Poison: The Changing Nature of China¡¦s Policy toward Taiwan¡¨
Grant amount: US$8,000
Grant period: 2 years
2. Winston T. Lin
State University of NewYork at Buffalo
¡§The Economic Values of Information and Communications Technology and their Contributions to the Economic Development and Growth of Taiwan¡¨
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 2 years
3. Su-hua Wang
University of California at Santa Cruz
¡§The Impact of Social Change on the Socialization Environments of Chinese Babies: An Ethnographic Study¡¨
Grant amount: US$19,841
Grant period: 2 years
4. Feng Li
Columbia University
¡§Excavating Guicheng: Archaeological Study of a Bronze-age City in the Heartland of the Shandong Peninsula (Continuation)¡¨
Grant amount: US$40,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Dennis Tao Yang
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
¡§Globalization and Rising Wages in Mainland China¡¨
Grant amount: US$17,000
Grant period: 2 years
6. Monte Bullard
Monterey Institute of International Studies
¡§Getting Down to Business -- Ties Required China-Taiwan Business Relations and its Effect on Future Cross-strait Political/Military Relations¡¨
Grant amount: US$8,000
Grant period: 1.5 years
7. M. Taylor Fravel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
¡§The Sources of China¡¦s Military Doctrine, 1975-2005¡¨
Grant amount: US$8,000
Grant period: 2 years
8. Anru Lee
City University of New York
¡§Subways as a Global-Local Nexus: The Cultural Politics of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Systems in Taiwan¡¨
Grant amount: US$14,988
Grant period: 1 month
B. Conference/Seminar/Workshop Grants
1. Jack Chen
University of California at Los Angeles
"Anecdote, Gossip, and Occasion in Traditional China"
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Wu Xu
University of Utah
"The U.S. and China: Parallel Challenges in Health Care"
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Zhijia Shen
University of Washington
"Providing Library Collections and Services for Chinese Studies in the Digital Environment: Summer Institute on Chinese Studies Librarianship"
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
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4. Ronald Coase
University of Chicago
¡§2008 Chicago Conference on China¡¦s Economic Transformation¡¨
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Gerald McBeath
The American Association for Chinese Studies
¡§Fifty Years of China Studies in the United States, Changes in the Field, China and Taiwan, and Sino-American Relations¡¨
Grant amount: US$13,547
Grant period: 1 year
6. Cheng-yi Huang
University of Washington
¡§¡¥Translating the Political, Re-envisioning the Social: What¡¦s the Next Turn for Taiwan?¡¦ --The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the North American Taiwan Studies Association¡¨
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
1. Jennifer Crewe
Columbia University Press
"How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology", edited by Zong-qi Cai
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Stephen A. Cohn
Duke University Press
"New Masters, New Servants: Development, Migration, and Women Workers in China", by Hairong Yan
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Micah Kleit
Temple University Press
"Chinese Connections: Critical Perspectives on Film, Identity and Diaspora"
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Lorri Hagman
University of Washington Press
"Women Playing Men: Yue Opera in Twentieth-Century Shanghai", by Jin Jiang
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1.5 years
5. Lorri Hagman
University of Washington Press
"Epics for Women: Narrative Ballads in the Women¡¦s Script from Jiangyong", translated by Wilt L. Idema
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1.5 years
6. Lorri Hagman
University of Washington Press
Stories to Awaken the World", compiled and edited by Feng Menglong (1574-1646), translated and annotated by Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang, with a Foreword by Robert E. Hegel
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 20 months
7. Reed Malcolm
University of California Press
"The Art of Doing Good: Moral Mandates and Strategic Choices in Late Ming Charity"
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 29 months
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8. Jennifer Crewe
Columbia University Press
¡§A History of Pain: Literary and Cinematic Mappings of Violence in Modern China¡¨, by Michael Berry
Grant amount: US$7,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Mark Spencer
Springer Science+Business Media
¡§Granting the Seasons: The Chinese Astronomical Reform of 1280, with a Study of its Many Dimensions and an Annotated Translation of its Records¡¨, by Nathan Sivin
Grant amount: US$7,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Marlie Wasserman
Rutgers University Press
¡§Cosmopolitan Public: English-language Periodicals in Semi-colonial Shanghai¡¨, by Shuang Shen
Grant amount: US$7,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Stephen A. Cohn
Duke University Press
¡§Other-Worldly: Making Chinese Medicine through Encounters¡¨, by Mei Zhan
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Emily Andrew
University of British Columbia Press
¡§Art and the Artist in Cultural Revolution China¡¨, Edited by Richard King
Grant amount: US$7,000
Grant period: 1 year
1. Gang Guo
University of Mississippi
¡§Local Political Business Cycles in China¡¨
Grant amount: US$3,333
Grant period: 1 month
1. Chang-tai Hsieh
University of California at Berkeley
¡§Does China Invest and Trade Too Much?¡¨
Grant amount: US$34,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Haiming Liu
California Polytechnic State University
¡§Chinese Herbal Medicine in the United States: Ethnicity and Cultural Migration¡¨
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Stephen Bokenkamp
Arizona State University
¡§The Social Matrices of Early Lingbao Ritual¡¨
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 6 months
4. Jiang-ping Jeff Chen
St. Cloud State University
¡§How Did Figures Figure in Astronomical and Mathematical Reasoning in Late Imperial China?¡¨
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 years
5. Paul Manfredi
Pacific Lutheran University
¡§Visuality and Modernist Poetry in Chinese¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1.5 months
6. Joseph A. Adler
Kenyon College
¡§Reconstructing the Confucian Dao: Zhu Xi¡¦s Appropriation of Zhou Dunyi¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,153
Grant period: 1 year
7. Ignacio Lopez-Calvo
University of North Texas
¡§The Dragon and the Condor: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Chinese Diaspora in Peru¡¨
Grant amount: US$10,000
Grant period: 1 year
1. Janet Chen
Princeton University
¡§Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1951¡¨
Grant amount: US$10,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Jiang Wu
University of Arizona
¡§Buddha¡¦s Words in Print: The Formation of the Jiaxing Buddhist Canon in Late Imperial China¡¨
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Yu-wei Tony Yang
George Mason University
¡§Ethical, Legal, and Policy Challenges in DNA Biobanking: Constructing Pivotal Infrastructure for Taiwan¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Huaiyu Chen
University of the West
¡§The Rise of Buddhist Ordination Platforms in Medieval China¡¨
Grant amount: US$28,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Gang Zhao
University of Akron
¡§Reshaping the Asian Trade Network: The Construction and Execution of the Chinese Open Trade Policy in 1684-1840¡¨
Grant amount: US$16,660
Grant period: 40 days
6. Tina Phillips Johnson
Saint Vincent College
¡§Building the Nation through Women¡¦s Health: Modern Midwifery in Early Twentieth-century China¡¨
Grant amount: US$12,500
Grant period: 5 months
7. Julie Y. Chu
Wellesley College
¡§In and Out of China: Customs Inspection and Shipping Culture at the Port of Fuzhou¡¨
Grant amount: US$24,300
Grant period: 1 year
8. Shih-shan Susan Huang
Rice University
¡§The Making of Daoist and Buddhist Visual Cultures in Song China, 960-1279¡¨
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Victoria Tin-bor Hui
University of Notre Dame
¡§China¡¦s Rise in Comparative-historical Perspective: Rethinking Unification and War¡¨
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Yuan-kang Wang
Northern Illinois University
¡§China and Asia¡¦s Regional Order: Hierarchy and the Balance of Power¡¨
Grant amount: US$19,980
Grant period: 1.5 years
11. Li-jen Kuo
Northern Illinois University
¡§Reconceptualizing the Effect of Early Bilingualism on Language Processing: A Study of the Morphological and Syntactic Development among Chinese-English Bilinguals¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 2 years
12. Zhichun Jing
University of British Columbia
¡§Archaeological Landscapes of Early Bronze Age China¡¨
Grant amount: US$19,936
Grant period: 1 year
13. Janet Hui-wen Hsiao
University of California at San Diego
¡§How Do Hemispheric Asymmetries Influence Learning to Read Chinese Characters?¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
14. Yu Wang
Duke University
¡§Naturalizing Ethnicity, Culturalizing Landscape: The Politics of World Heritage in China¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 9 months
15. Wendy Swartz
Columbia University
¡§Poetry and Philosophy: Allusion and Citation in Six Dynasties (222-589 C.E.) China¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 6 months
G. Doctoral Fellowships
1. Brian Brereton
Cornell University
¡§Contemporary Conceptions of the Chinese Afterlife: Fantasies of Frustration, Imaginations of Autonomy, and Collective Concerns¡¨
Grant amount: US$14,450
Grant period: 1 year
2. Josh Gordon
Yale University
¡§Ideologies of Chinese Language in the Burma-China Borderlands¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Wooyeal Paik
University of California at Los Angeles
¡§Why Not Mass-opposition Movements in Post-totalitarian China?: Political Participation, Patronage Politics, and State-Society Relations¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Cheng-chwee Kuik
Johns Hopkins University
¡§Coping with Power Asymmetry: Regime Legitimation, China¡¦s Behavior, and the Variations in ASEAN States Hedging Strategies towards a Rising Power, 1990-2005¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Stephen H. Whiteman
Stanford University
¡§Creating the Kangxi Landscape: Gardens and the Mediation of Qing Imperial Identity at Bishu Shanzhuang¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Timothy O¡¦Neill
University of Washington
¡§Harbinger of Sequestered Intent, Language Theory and Hermeneutics in Traditional Chinese Discourse¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Michael A. Glosny
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
¡§Grand Strategies of Rising Powers: The Rise of China and Other Historical Cases¡¨
Grant amount: US$14,950
Grant period: 1 year
8. Miao Chunyu
State University of New York at Albany
¡§A Comparative Study of Chinese and Mexican Immigrants¡¦ Economic Incorporation in the United States¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Melissa J. Richardson
University of Hawaii at Manoa
¡§Daoist and Shamanistic Imagery in the Core Dramatic Texts on Yang Guifei¡¨
Grant amount: US$10,020
Grant period: 1 year
H. CCK Fellowships administered by the Canadian Association for Asian Studies
1. Erin Moorlag
Waterloo University
¡§Program Evaluation of Community Mental Health Initiatives: The Chinese Community as a Case Study of Collaborative Efforts towards Well-being¡¨
Grant amount: US$19,614
Grant period: 1 year
2. Hui-ling Lin
University of British Columbia
¡§Re-thinking Chinese-ness and Gender Identities through Transnational Chinese Women¡¦s Cinema¡¨
Grant amount: US$7,846
Grant period: 1 year
3. Mary-Ying Mary Ngai
University of British Columbia
¡§From Entertainment to Enlightenment: A Study on a Cross Cultural Religious Board Game with an Emphasis on the Table of Buddha Selection Designed by Ouyi Zhixu in the Late Ming Dynasty¡¨
Grant amount: US$7,846
Grant period: 1 year
4. Tim Sedo
University of British Columbia
¡§Disaster and Discretion in Mid-Ming Local Governance: Jim Fang¡¦s Magisterial Activism in Linzhang County¡¦s 1606 Gazetteer¡¨
Grant amount: US$7,846
Grant period: 1 year
5. Meng Hsuan Yang
University of British Columbia
¡§The Great Exodus: Chinese Mainland Refugees in Taiwan¡¨
Grant amount: US$7,846
Grant period: 1 year
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I. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Hung-yu Ru
University of Hawaii at Manoa
¡§Invisible People and Silent Killer Disease: A Historical Ethnographic Study of Hepatitis among the Truku in Eastern Taiwan¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Yi-chun Chen
Northwestern University
¡§Ambiguity in Dynamic Interactive Decisions - Foundation and Applications¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Chih-chien Chen
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
¡§What Can Revenue-optimizing Firms Do about their Deal-seeking Consumers? The Role of Price Patterns, Timing and Cancellation Policies in Travelers¡¦ Advanced Booking Decisions¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Ellie Hua Wang
Indiana University at Bloomington
¡§Character and Commitment: A Proper Picture of Moral Psychology¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Hui-tun Chuang
New School for Social Research
¡§The Fabrication of Authenticity of National Cuisine: Reflections of Food Consumption and National Identity in Globalization and Postcolonial Taiwan¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Chia-chen Chou
Cornell University
¡§Partial Reform of China¡¦s Labor Market: Collective Action in a Two-level Fragmented Bureaucratic Structure¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Ling-yu Hung
Washington University in St. Louis
¡§Ceramic Craft Specialization and the Development of Social Hierarchy in Late Neolithic Northwestern China (ca. 5300-4050 BP)¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Chi-ting Tsai
Cornell University
¡§American Presidential War Power in the Deliberative Moment -- A Traditional Legal and Empirical Integrated Research¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Dorinda Tsai-hsiu Liu
University of Hawaii at Manoa
¡§Complementation in Four Formosan Languages -- Amis, Atayal, Thao, and Tsou¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Chih-shian Liou
University of Texas at Austin
¡§Outsourcing Reform: The Political Logic behind Overseas Expansion of China¡¦s Central State-owned Enterprises¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Yu-fen Chang
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
¡§Constructing a Vietnamese Nation: Northern and Southern Perspectives Compared, 1920-1945¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Yung-lung Chen
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
¡§Asian American Educational Achievements: A Test of Relative Functionalism on East Asian American College Students¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
13. Chuan-ju Cheng
University of Washington
¡§ ¡¥Nations Within Nation¡¦? - Building Indigenous Self-government in Taiwan¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
14. Fei-ting (Mina) Chen
University of Texas at Austin
¡§Aristotle on Capacities for Change and Actuality¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
15. Shi-shu Peng
University of California at Berkeley
¡§A Theory of Organizational Form Based on the Similarity in Knowledge Capital¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
16. Yi-wen Tsai
Pennsylvania State University
¡§Impacts of Dialogic Reading on Promoting Language Acquisition of Preschoolers with Hearing Impairments in Taiwan¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year