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

 

C. Subsidies for Publication

 

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

 

D. Visiting Fellowship

 

1. Gang Guo

University of Mississippi

¡§Local Political Business Cycles in China¡¨

Grant amount: US$3,333

Grant period: 1 month

 

E. CCK Scholar Grants

 

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

 

F. CCK Junior Scholar Grants

 

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