Grant Recipients in the American Region, 2008-2009

 

 

Recipients in the American Region

(in order of application received)

Unit: US$

A. Research Grants

1. Su-i Hou

University of Georgia

¡§Developing an Integrated Health Promotion Model (iHP Model) to Promote eHealth Communication and Preventive Health Service Utilization among Middle-Aged Worksite Employees in Taiwan¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,960

Grant period: 2 years

 

2. You-tien Hsing

University of California at Berkeley

¡§Spatial Planning in the Post-Planned Economy: Chengdu and Xi'an Metropolitan Regions in Western China¡¨

Grant amount: US$14,600

Grant period: 2 years

 

3. Jing-dong Yuan

Monterey Institute of International Studies

¡§The Taiwan Relations Act at 30: U.S.-Taiwan Security Ties and Cross-Strait Relations¡¨

Grant amount: US$9,980

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Andrea Bachner

Ohio State University

¡§Sinographic Writing in Contemporary Taiwanese Literature¡¨

Grant amount: US$14,975

Grant period: 2 years

 

5. Hui-chin Hsu

University of Georgia

¡§Social Support for Mothers of Prematurely Born Infants in Taiwan: Effects of Adequacy, Needs Matching, and Stress Buffering on Parenting Efficacy¡¨

Grant amount: US$19,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. William K. Gabrenya Jr.

Florida Institute of Technology

¡§Modernity and Child-Rearing Values: Longitudinal Effects of Family, Occupational Experience, and Zeitgest¡¨

Grant amount: US$16,919

Grant period: 1.5 years

 

7. Elana Chipman

Ohio State University

¡§Global Environmental Discourse and Transforming Ritual Practice in East Asia¡¨

Grant amount: US$9,904

Grant period: 1 year

 

8. Yan Sun

The City University of New York

¡§Religious Revival and Rebellion in Post-Mao Tibet: The Volatile Mix of Ethno-federalism, Religion and Development¡¨

Grant amount: US$10,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

9. An-ru Lee

The City University of New York

¡§The Cultural Politics of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Systems in Taiwan: A Follow-up Study¡¨

Grant amount: US$9,636

Grant period: 1 year

 

B. Conferences/Seminars/Workshops

 

1. Kathleen Lynch

Folger Shakespeare Library

¡§Contact and Exchange: China and the West, Circa the Ming and Early Qing Dynasties¡¨

Grant amount: US$18,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Garret Olberding

University of Oklahoma

¡§Addressing the Autocrat: The Drama of Early Chinese Court Discourse¡¨

Grant amount: US$12,500

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Joseph Wong

University of Toronto

¡§Backward toward Revolution: A Festschrift to Celebrate the Scholarship of Professor Edward Friedman¡¨

Grant amount: US$17,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. John Chaffee

Binghamton University - State University of New York

¡§Eurasian Impacts on Yuan China¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. Eddy U

University of California at Davis

¡§Intellectuals, Professions, and Knowledge Production in Twentieth-Century China¡¨

Grant amount: US$16,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Siddharth Chandra

University of Pittsburgh

¡§China and East Asia: Humanities, Social Sciences, and Public Policy¡¨

Grant amount: US$18,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

C. Subsidies for Publication

 

1. Christine Mortlock

Columbia University Press

¡§Zongmi on Chan¡¨ by Jeffrey Lyle Broughton

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Anne Routon

Columbia University Press

¡§Leprosy in China: A History¡¨ by Angela Ki Che Leung

Grant amount: US$3,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Jennifer Crewe

Columbia University Press

¡§Comparative Journeys: Essays on Literature and Religion East and West¡¨ by Anthony C. Yu

Grant amount: US$3,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Jennifer Crewe

Columbia University Press

¡§The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China by Liu An, King of Huainan¡¨ translated and edited by John S. Major, Sarah A. Queen, Andrew Meyer, and Harold D. Roth

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. Randy Schmidt

University of British Columbia Press

¡§The New Silk Road Diplomacy: The Making of China's Central Asian Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era¡¨ by Hasan H. Karrar

Grant amount: US$3,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Jennifer Crewe

Columbia University Press

¡§Chinese Shakespeares: Fiction, Theatre, Cinema¡¨ by Alexander C. Y. Huang

Grant amount: US$3,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. Stephen A. Cohn

Duke University Press

¡§Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Post-Socialist China¡¨ by Robin Visser

Grant amount: US$3,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

8. Lorri Hagman

University of Washington Press

¡§Mobility and Cultural Authority in Contemporary China¡¨ by Pal Nyiri

Grant amount: US$4,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

9. Lorri Hagman

University of Washington Press

¡§Not for a Scholar¡¦s Study: A Cultural Biography of ¡¥The Night Banquet of Han Xizai¡¦¡¨ by De-nin Deana Lee

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

10. Maki Parsons

M.E. Sharpe, Inc.

¡§Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West¡¨ by Shih-shan Henry Tsai

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

11. Jonathan Wilson

Association for Asian Studies, Inc.

¡§Books and Their Collectors: East Asian Libraries in North America, 1868-2008¡¨ by Peter Zhou

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

12. Stephen A. Cohn

Duke University Press

¡§Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia¡¨ edited by Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-chin Chang

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

13. Emily Andrew

University of British Columbia Press

¡§New Perspectives on China¡¦s Great Leap Forward and Famine¡¨ edited by Kimberley Ens Manning and Felix Wemheuer

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

14. Thomas J. Bellows

University of Texas at San Antonio

¡§American Journal of Chinese Studies¡¨ (Special 50th Anniversary Issue)

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

D. Travel Grants

 

1. Cotten Seiler

Dickinson College

¡§Chinese Automobility and Fantasies of Liberalization¡¨

Grant amount: US$1,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Ming-hui Hu

University of California at Santa Cruz

¡§Dai Zhen (1724-1777) and Spherical Trigonometry in the Qing Court¡¨

Grant amount: US$1,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Fu-hua Zhai

New York University

¡§Child Care Arrangement in the Context of the One-Child Policy in China: Do Child Gender and Siblings Matter?¡¨

Grant amount: US$1,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Jane Kelley Rodeheffer

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

¡§Confessions of St. Augustine and the Confucian Tradition¡¨

Grant amount: US$1,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. J. Scott Lee

The ACTC Liberal Arts Institute

¡§What Are Core Texts in General Liberal Education?¡¨

Grant amount: US$1,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Alejandra Irigoin

The College of New Jersey

¡§New World¡¦s Asia Trade through the Pacific in the Early Modern Period: The China Trade Before, Besides and Beyond the Great European Companies¡¨

Grant amount: US$1,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. Tom Suchan

Eastern Michigan University

¡§An Iconographic Study of the Ox-Mounted and Seal-Bearing Bodhisattva Types of Southeastern Sichuan¡¨

Grant amount: US$1,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

E. Distinguished Scholar Grants

 

1. Stephen F. Teiser

Princeton University

¡§Liturgical Manuscripts from Dunhuang and Medieval Chinese Ritual¡¨

Grant amount: US$40,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Sarah Allan

Dartmouth College

¡§Written on Bamboo: Advocating Abdication in Warring States Bamboo-slip Manuscripts¡¨

Grant amount: US$50,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Richard C.K. Burdekin

Claremont McKenna College

¡§Chinese Financial Market Interdependence: Crisis and Opportunity¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

F. Scholar Grants

 

1. Zhi-ru Ng

Pomona College

¡§Visualizing the Contemporary Buddha: Art, Charity, and Religious Authority in Contemporary Taiwan¡¨

Grant amount: US$35,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Kai-wing Chow

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

¡§Religion, Commerce, and Law: Public Culture in Qing China¡¨

Grant amount: US$40,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Michael Barton

Arizona State University

¡§The Chinese Rock Art Recording and Exchange Project¡¨

Grant amount: US$25,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

G. Junior Scholar Grants

 

1. Sheng-qing Wu

Wesleyan University

¡§The Buddhist Byron and the Chinese Sonneteers: Translation, Poetic Forms, and Cultural Adaptations in Modern China (1910s-1940s)¡¨

Grant amount: US$14,280

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Ying-ju Chen

University of California at Berkeley

¡§Global Outsourcing, Certification, and Manufacturing in China and Taiwan¡¨

Grant amount: US$23,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Hsiao-ting Lin

Hoover Institution

¡§A Journey to the West: The Nationalists and Modern China's Ethnopolitics, 1911-53¡¨

Grant amount: US$20,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Karen Thornber

Harvard University

¡§Multiple Symbioses and Environmental Crises: Shaping the Human and Nonhuman in East Asian Literatures¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. Xiao-jue Wang

University of Pennsylvania

¡§Crossing 1949: The Making of Chinese Literary Multitude in Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Chien-juh Gu

Western Michigan University

¡§Gendered Transition and Gendered Struggles in the Process of Settlement: A Case Study of Taiwanese Immigrant Women¡¨

Grant amount: US$20,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. Shao-wen Bardzell

Indiana University at Bloomington

¡§Material Culture, Mundane Technologies, and Domesticity: Towards a Culturally Situated, Experience-Focused Domestic Technology Design in Taiwan¡¨

Grant amount: US$18,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

8. Eng-kiong Tan

Stony Brook University - State University of New York

¡§Translatable Identity: Articulations of Chineseness in Narratives of the Nanyang Diaspora¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

9. Chiu-fang Chou

University of Minnesota

¡§Application of a New International Integrated Health Interview Series to Assess Healthy Immigrant Effect¡¨

Grant amount: US$19,587

Grant period: 1 year

 

10. Xiao-long Wu

Hanover College

¡§Negotiating Identities, Power, and Survival in China: The Mysterious State of Zhongshan (5th-3rd century BCE) and its Artifacts¡¨

Grant amount: US$20,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

H. Doctoral Fellowships

 

1. Mark Pitner

University of Washington

¡§The Body of Knowledge: Embodying Place and Reflecting Body in Han China¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. James Wicks

University of California at San Diego

¡§The Antecedents of Taiwan New Cinema: The State of Taiwan Film in the 1960s and 1970s¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Tao Wang

Georgetown University

¡§Isolating the Enemy - Sino-American Relations, 1953-55¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Hong-gang Tan

Syracuse University

¡§Dancing in Chains: Policy Influence of Chinese NGOs¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. En-ze Han

George Washington University

¡§External Kin, Ethnic Identity, and Pursuance of More Autonomy: The Politics of Ethnic Mobilization in the People¡¦s Republic of China¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Kathlene Baldanza

University of Pennsylvania

¡§Government Policy and Literary Production in the Sino-Viet Relationship, 1527-1792¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. Julia Orell

University of Chicago

¡§Picturing the Yangzi River: Particular Landscapes in Song and Yuan China¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

8. Mark P. Dallas

University of California at Berkeley

¡§Markets Unmoored: The Re-Creation of Economic Order along China¡¦s Production Chain¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

9. Marriah Star

City University of New York

¡§Transnationalizing Interest Group Politics: The Taiwan Independence Movement, Congress, and U.S. Foreign Policy¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

10. Kathleen Poling

University of California at Berkeley

¡§Managing Criminal Bodies: Capital Punishment and the Assize System in Late Imperial China¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

11. Jason Oliver Chang

University of California at Berkeley

¡§Outsider Crossings in the Chinese Diaspora: Race, Class, and Nation in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1902-1952¡¨

Grant amount: US$6,680

Grant period: 1 year

 

12. Brian Su-jen Chung

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

¡§Performing ¡¥Chinese¡¦ and ¡¥Chinatown¡¦: Chinese Im/migrants and the Cultural Politics of Chinese and U.S. Neoliberalism in Cupertino, California¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

I. Postdoctoral Fellowships administered by the Canadian Asian Studies Association

 

1. Chin-yen Anne Wu

University of Toronto

¡§Cartographies of Homes: Single Taiwanese Women Searching for a Sense of Belonging¡¨

Grant amount: US$18,010

Grant period: 1 year

 

J. Doctoral Fellowships administered by the Canadian Asian Studies Association

 

1. David Luesink

University of British Columbia

¡§Networks of Translation: The Standardization of China Medical Terminology¡¨

Grant amount: US$8,185

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Sarah Eaton

University of Toronto

¡§The Politics of Staying in the Market: Mapping China Commanding Heights Industrial Policies¡¨

Grant amount: US$8,185

Grant period: 1 year

 

K. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

 

1. Ming-te Wang

Harvard University

¡§Adolescents¡¦ Perceptions of School Climate, Achievement Motivations, and Engagement in Middle School¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Yen-wen Cheng

University of Pennsylvania

¡§Tradition and Transformation: Cataloging Chinese Arts in the Imperial Era and Early Republic Period¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Shin-rou Lin

University of Washington

¡§To What Extent is the Use of Compulsory Hospitalization for Controlling Tuberculosis Justifiable in Curtailing Individuals' Constitutional Right to Liberty in Taiwan, 2006-2008?¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Tzu-hui Celina Hung

Stony Brook University - State University of New York

¡§Creolizing Diaspora: Interracial Chinese Connections, Melancholia, and the Fiction of History¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. Mei-yu Hsieh

Stanford University

¡§Viewing the Han Empire From the Edge, Second Century B.C.E.-Second Century C.E.¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Chung-an Chen

University of Georgia

¡§Another Look at ¡¥Does Sector Matter¡¦: A Study of Workers¡¦ Motivational Attitudes from Perspectives of Public-Nonprofit Sector Affiliation, Moderation, and Switching¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. Shu-fan Wen

Temple University

¡§Chinese Medical Research Professionals in the Western Suburban Metropolitan Philadelphia Area and Their Return Migration to China: Transnational Citizenships in the Era of Globalization¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

8. Yi-chan Tsai

Ohio State University

¡§Two Sector Model with Working Capital Channel¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

9. Chih-yun Chiang

University of Denver

¡§Theorizing Ambivalence in Ang Lee's Transnational Films: The Discourse of Chinese Identity Between the Local and the Global¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

10. Ken Chih-yan Sun

Brandeis University

¡§Managing the Emotional Experiences of ¡¥Growing Old¡¦ in the Transnational Field: A Case of Aging Ethnic Chinese Americans from Taiwan and their Counterparts in Taiwan¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year