Grant Recipients in the American Region, 2008-2009
Recipients in the American Region
(in order of application received)
Unit: US$
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
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