Grant Recipients in the European Region, 2008-2009

 

 

Recipients in the European Region

(in order of application received)

Unit: Euro

A. Research Grants

 

1. Florian C. Reiter

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany)

¡§The Corpus of Taoist Rituals (Tao-fa hui-yüan) and its Significance for Taoist Practices in Taiwan Today¡¨

Grant amount: £á6,500

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Isabelle Thireau

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)

¡§Lianmin Village/Zhang Letian Electronic Database (1949-1999)¡¨

Grant amount: £á80,000

Grant period: 3 years

 

B. Conference & Seminar Grants

 

1. Michela Bussotti

Ecole Française d¡¦Extrême-Orient (France)

¡§Non-Commercial Books in Imperial China¡¨

Grant amount: £á8,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Jeremy E. Taylor

University of Sheffield (UK)

¡§Re-Assessing Chiang Kai-shek: An International Dialogue¡¨

Grant amount: £á7,500

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Laurent Sagart

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)

¡§11-ICAL (Eleventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics)¡¨

Grant amount: £á8,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Carine Defoort

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

¡§The Many Faces of Mozi: A Synchronic and Diachronic Study of Mohist Thought¡¨

Grant amount: £á8,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. Irina Popova

Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)

¡§Dunhuang Studies: Prospects and Problems for the Coming Second Century of Research¡¨

Grant amount: £á15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Pierre-Yves Manguin

École Française d'Extrême-Orient (France)

¡§Of Ships and Men: International Conference on New Comparative Approaches in Asian Maritime History and Archaeology¡¨

Grant amount: £á6,300

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. Pei-yin Lin

University of Cambridge (UK)

¡§Encounters and Transformations: Cultural Transmission and Knowledge Production in a Cross-literary and Historical Perspective 1850-1960¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

8. Christoph Anderl

University of Oslo (Norway)

¡§Early Chán Manuscripts among the Dūnhuáng Findings¡¨

Grant amount: £á6,300

Grant period: 1 year

 

C. Subsidies for Publication

 

1. Andrea Riemenschnitter

Deborah Madsen

University of Zurich (Switzerland)

¡§Diasporic Histories: Archives of Chinese Transnationalism¡¨

Grant amount: £á4,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Vibeke Børdahl

Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (Denmark)

¡§Essays on the Interplay of Oral and Written Traditions in Chinese Popular Literature¡¨

Grant amount: £á4,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Catherine Despeux

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)

¡§Medicine, Religion and Society in Mediaeval China - Manuscripts of Dunhuang and Turfan and Healing Practices¡¨

Grant amount: £á6,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Györgyi Fajcsák

Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts, Budapest (Hungary)

¡§White Gold, Mohammedan Blue and Peach Blossom - Chinese Ceramic Collection of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts, Budapest, Vol. II¡¨

Grant amount: £á9,000

Grant period: 1.5 years

 

5. Mikael Mattlin

University of Helsinki (Finland)

¡§Politicized Society: The Long Shadow of Taiwan¡¦s One-Party Legacy¡¨

Grant amount: £á6,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

D. Senior Scholar Grants

 

1. Joseph P. McDermott

University of Cambridge (UK)

¡§Book Collections: From Family to Nation in Jiangnan, 1550-1920¡¨

Grant amount: £á28,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

E. Special Project Grants

 

1. Robert Ash

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (UK)

Further Development of ¡§The European Association of Taiwan Studies¡¨

Grant amount: £á13,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

F. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

 

1. Yin-ru Lu

University of Birmingham (UK)

¡§Representations of Anne Boleyn in Victorian England¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Shu-chen Chang

Lancaster University (UK)

¡§Simplification of Literary Texts and its Consequences on Meaning, Effect, and Comprehension¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Meng-tze Chu

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)

¡§The Musical Experiences of Contemporary Metallers under Extreme Metal Globalization¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Shih-lung Lo

Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle (France)

¡§China in the Nineteenth-Century French Theatre¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. Chao-jung Ching

École Pratique des Hautes Études (France)

¡§Secular Documents in Tocharian: Buddhist Economy and Society in the Kucha Region, 6th - 9th CE.¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Yu-chuan Wu

University College London, University of London (UK)

¡§The Origin of the Modern East Asian Concepts of the ¡¥Nerve¡¦ and the ¡¥Psyche¡¦: the History of Neurasthenia in Imperial Japan (1867-1945)¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. Hua-mei Chiu

University of Essex (UK)

¡§The Environmental Disputes over Industrial Hazards: A Case Study on the High-tech Industry in Taiwan¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

8. Yu-shan Liu

University of Edinburgh (UK)

¡§Education and Everyday Practices: Negotiating Being Bonpo in the Tibetan Community in Exile¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

9. Yung-ching Lo

Leiden University (The Netherlands)

¡§Accessing Indigenous Land Rights through Claims: One Hundred Years More of Encounters in Taroko Area, Eastern Formosa/Taiwan, 1895-2010¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

10. Pei-fei Chang

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

¡§China¡¦s Renewable Energy Policy: Wind and Solar¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

11. Yi-wen Cheng

Leiden University (The Netherlands)

¡§The Political Logic of Local Protectionism in China: A Historical-Institutionalist Case Study of Monopoly Regulation in Yunnan Tobacco Industry¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

12. Chien-huei Wu

European University Institute (Italy)

¡§Trade Dispute Resolution among the Four WTO Memberships: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and Macau, China¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

13. Cho-wen Chu

University of Manchester (UK)

¡§The Influence of Mass Media on Socio-Cultural Changes under Globalization¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

G. Fellowships for Ph.D. Dissertations and Postdoctoral Research

 

(a) Fellowships for Ph.D. Dissertations

1. Marie-Paule Hille

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)

¡§Manage its Legacy of the Past in Contemporary China: The Present Modes of Presence or Absence of the Past - The Study of a Chinese Spoken Muslim Community (Hui), the Xidaotang (Gansu, Northwest China)¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Jonathan Sullivan

University of Nottingham (UK)

¡§Campaign Advertising and Democracy in Taiwan¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Julia Stone

Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)

¡§Findelhaus Bethesda: A Study of a Protestant Foundling Hospital in China¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Michaela Pejčochová

Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)

¡§Dong Qichang¡¦s Theory of Painting and its Relationship to the Song Dynasty Texts on Painting¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. Ivo Bargalló Carné

University of Oxford (UK)

¡§Early Sino-European Relations: The Spanish Philippines and the Transformation of Southern Fujian in the Late Ming and Ming-Qing Transition¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

(b) Fellowships for Postdoctoral Research

1. Volker Olles

University of Leipzig (Germany)

¡§The Way of the Locust Tree Studio: The Liumen Movement and its Impact on Modern Daoism in Sichuan Province¡¨

Grant amount: £á35,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

2. Valeria Zanier

University of Leeds (UK)

¡§The Early Years of China¡¦s Revived Porcelain Industry: Bourgeoise Families between Art and Business in Jingdezhen (1949-1956)¡¨

Grant amount: £á35,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

Recipients in the East European Region

 

A. Research Grants

 

1. Irina Popova

Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)

¡§Study of Chinese Collection and Compiling of the Systematic Catalogue of the Chinese Manuscripts of St. Petersburg State University¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

2. Jana Rošker

University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

¡§The Role of International Centers of Islamic Learning in Constructing Chinese Muslim Identities: Hui Students in the Middle East¡¨

Grant amount: £á3,100

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Irena Šumi

Institute for Ethnic Studies (Slovenia)

¡§Together Apart: Transnational Family in the Context of Chinese Emigration¡¨

Grant amount: £á3,650

Grant period: 1 year

 

B. Subsidies for Publication

 

1. Irina Popova

Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)

¡§First Album of Iakinf Bichurin¡¨, Collection of articles and facsimile edition of the album edited by V. S. Myasnikov and I. F. Popova

Grant amount: £á3,850

Grant period: 1 year