Grant Recipients in the American Region, 2009-2010
Recipients in the American Region
(in order of application received)
Unit: US$
A. Research Grants
1. Huai-yin Li
University of Texas at Austin
¡§Jiang Tingfu and the Historiography of Modern China¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 2 years
2. Michael Paschal
Association for Asian Studies
¡§CIAC Small Grants Program¡¨
Grant amount: US$50,000
Grant period: 3 years
3. Ching-kwan Lee
University of California at Los Angeles
¡§The ¡¥Labor Question¡¦ of Chinese Investments in Africa¡¨
Grant amount: US$26,400
Grant period: 2 years
4. Josephine Chiu-Duke
University of British Columbia
¡§The Discourse of Democracy and Nationalism in Taiwan - A Study in Intellectual History¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 2 years
5. Chun-juan Nancy Wei
University of Bridgeport
¡§Rationality, Misperception and Political Contexts: Cross-Taiwan-Strait Relationships as a Nested Game¡¨
Grant amount: US$9,000
Grant period: 2 years
6. Kin-yan Szeto
Appalachian State University
¡§A Study of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan and Lin Hwai-min¡¦s Choreography in the World¡¦s Dancescape¡¨
Grant amount: US$9,900
Grant period: 4 months
7. Jean DeBernardi
University of Alberta
¡§Tea Culture and Commerce in Contemporary China¡¨
Grant amount: US$26,960
Grant period: 2 years
8. Xiao-rong Han
Butler University
¡§Exiled to the Ancestral Land: Refugees from Vietnam in China¡¨
Grant amount: US$14,500
Grant period: 6 months
B. Conferences/Seminars/Workshops
1. Pamela J. Stewart
University of Pittsburgh
¡§Minority Groups and State Authorities: Case Studies from Taiwan and the PRC¡¨
Grant amount: US$11,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Dorothy C. Wong
University of Virginia
¡§¡¥Cultural Crossings: China and Beyond in the Medieval Period¡¦ Conference and ¡¥Digital Projects in Asian Art and Humanities¡¦ Workshop¡¨
Grant amount: US$16,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. C.-T. James Huang
Harvard University
¡§18th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics in Conjunction with the 22nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics¡¨
Grant amount: US$21,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Roderick B. Campbell
Brown University
¡§The Location of Chinese Archaeological Theory¡¨
Grant amount: US$13,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Eric Fong
University of Toronto
¡§Immigration in Multi-ethnic Contexts: An International Comparison¡¨
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Christopher G. Rea
University of British Columbia
¡§Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang: A Centennial Perspective¡¨
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Richard Scaglion
University of Pittsburgh
¡§China and East Asia: Humanities, Social Science, and Public Policy. Developing Contacts between Nanjing University Institute for Advanced Studies (NJIAS) and the University of Pittsburgh¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Michael Nylan
University of California at Berkeley
¡§Chang¡¦an 26 BC: Exploring the Ancient Chinese Capital of ¡¥Perpetual Peace¡¦¡¨
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Ann Waltner
University of Minnesota
¡§¡¥Borderlands in Eurasia and the Americas: Comparisons and Interactions,¡¦ August 2010 Workshop at the University of Minnesota¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
C. Subsidies for Publication
1. Christine Mortlock
Columbia University Press
¡§Sacred Economics¡¨ by Michael J. Walsh
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Lorri Hagman
University of Washington Press
¡§Writing and Literacy in Early China: Papers from the Columbia Early China Seminar¡¨ edited by Li Feng and David Prager Branner
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. T. David Brent
University of Chicago Press
¡§The Poetics of Repetition: Comparing English and Chinese Lyrical Poetry¡¨ by Cecile Sun
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. William M. Hammell
Harvard University Asia Center
¡§Picturing Heaven in Early China¡¨ by Lillian Lan-ying Tseng
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Clara Platter
Princeton University Press
¡§Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking¡¨ by Michael Keevak
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Nina Stritzler-Levine
Bard Graduate Center
¡§Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Ming and Qing Dynasties¡¨ edited by Béatrice Quette
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Stephen A. Cohn
Duke University Press
¡§Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century¡¨ by Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Alan G. Thomas
University of Chicago Press
¡§The Religious Question in Modern China, 1898 to 2008¡¨ by Vincent Goossaert and David Palmer
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Lorri Hagman
University of Washington Press
¡§Signs of Displacement: Representations of Cultural Space in Taipei City¡¨ by Joseph R. Allen
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year 8 months
D. Scholar Grants
1. Ming-cheng Lo
University of California at Davis
¡§Storytelling, Rational Deliberations, and Other Discourses: Beyond the Gridlock of Identity Debates in Taiwan?¡¨
Grant amount: US$17,158
Grant period: 1.5 years
2. Ling-hon Lam
Vanderbilt University
¡§From Exteriority to Theatricality: Exploring the Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern Chinese Drama and Fiction¡¨
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 14 months
3. Ralph A. Thaxton
Brandeis University
¡§Contention and Rule in Contemporary Rural China: Power, Memory, and Resistance under Reform¡¨
Grant amount: US$35,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Tso-yu Calvin Lin
University of California at Berkeley
¡§From the Lessons of Subprime Mortgage Crisis in the U.S. to the Exploration of Default Factors of Residential Mortgages, the Risk Management of Mortgage Securitization, and Prevention of Potential Financial Crisis in Taiwan¡¨
Grant amount: US$10,000
Grant period: 1 year
E. Junior Scholar Grants
1. Micah S. Muscolino
Georgetown University
¡§War and the Environment on the North China Plain, 1937-1945¡¨
Grant amount: US$12,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Bao-rong Guo
University of Missouri at St. Louis
¡§Microfinance Participation and Household Assets: An Analysis of Survey Data from Hutubi, China¡¨
Grant amount: US$8,242
Grant period: 1 year
3. Ming-wei Song
Wellesley College
¡§Writing Young China: Youth, Nation and the Chinese Bildungsroman, 1900-1959¡¨
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Elizabeth Kindall
University of St. Thomas
¡§Viewing the Southwest in Seventeenth-Century China¡¨
Grant amount: US$12,600
Grant period: 1 year
5. Victor Shih
Northwestern University
¡§Constructing Elite Political Stability: A Comparative Investigation of China and the Soviet Union¡¨
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Kuang-yi Wen
Fox Chase Cancer Center
¡§Needs and Experience of Patients with Breast Cancer in Taiwan: The Development and User Testing of a Narrative Psychosocial Intervention¡¨
Grant amount: US$21,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Elaine Liu
University of Houston
¡§Impact of International Marriage Migration: Evidence from Taiwan¡¨
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 5 months
8. Mark R. E. Meulenbeld
University of Wisconsin at Madison
¡§Rethinking the Novel: The Theology, Narratives, and Rituals of Ming Dynasty Exorcists¡¨
Grant amount: US$22,500
Grant period: 9 months
9. Yudru Tsomu
Lawrence University
¡§Migration, Settlements and Community Formation: Han Chinese Immigrants in Eastern Tibet¡¨
Grant amount: US$20,675
Grant period: 1 year
10. Alexei Ditter
Reed College
¡§Genre and the Transformation of Writing in the Tang Dynasty¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
F. Special Project Grants
1. Pauline Yu
American Council of Learned Societies
¡§CCK-ACLS Project for a Series of Scholarly Meetings, Conferences and Publications on ¡¥The Comparative and Cross-Cultural Study of China¡¦¡¨
Grant amount: US$447,630
Grant period: 3 years
G. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Szu-ching Chang
University of California at Riverside
¡§Dancing with/as/in Nostalgia: Nationality, Gender and Bodily Memory in Taiwanese ¡¥Traditional¡¦ Dance¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. I-fen Huang
Brown University
¡§Gu Family Embroidery in Late Imperial and Modern China: From Women's Needlework to Culture Legacy¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Mei-yu Hsieh
Stanford University
¡§Viewing the Han Empire from the Edge - 2nd Century BCE to 2nd Century CE¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Hong-hong Tinn
Cornell University
¡§Tinkering with Computers, Constructing a Developing Country: The History of Digital Computing in Taiwan, 1945-1985¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Yu-tsuen Hsu
University of Alberta
¡§Transnational Network and Cultural Identity in a Chinese Diaspora Society in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Yu-ying Hu
Indiana University at Bloomington
¡§Performing Sexuality Transnationally: Debating the Mainstream Visibility of Female Non-Normative Gender Identity and Lesbian Culture in Taiwan¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Hsiang-ning Wang
Indiana University at Bloomington
¡§Identity on the Move: An Exploration of Taiwanese Adolescent Cross-Strait Transmigration, Education, and Identification¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Hsin-chao Wu
Harvard University
¡§Remaking Local Tradition: Exploring the Social Mechanism of Cultural Transmission through Comparing Three Villages in Fujian Province, China (1970s-2009)¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Yen-ting Chen
Harvard University
¡§Strategic Provider Behavior under Global Budget System: An Analysis of Collective Action Problem¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Cheng-yun Chang
Kansas State University
¡§Chinese Righteous War Tradition and China's Use of Force¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Tse-hsin Chen
Michigan State University
¡§How Do Electoral Systems Affect Representation?¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Hsiao-chi Hsu
University of Washington
¡§Why Does a Democracy Prefer Confrontation? Taiwan¡¦s Foreign Policy toward China since 1988¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
13. Tz-chun Cheng
University of California at Berkeley
¡§From Litigation Entrepreneurs to Social Entrepreneurs - Proposing a Public-Interest-Oriented Private Securities Enforcement Regime¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
¡´Wait List
(a) Humanities
1. Po-yi Hung (#2 in the Humanities Category)
University of Wisconsin at Madison
¡§Relational Landscapes of Tea: Markets, the State, and Ethnic Minorities in the Place-Making of Southwest China¡¨
(b) Social Sciences
1. Yi-hsiu Kung (#2 in the Social Sciences Category)
University of Delaware
¡§Building Energy Governance in Global Cities - A Case Study of Shanghai¡¦s Commercial Building Sector¡¨
2. Shih-yang Kao (#4 in the Social Sciences Category)
University of California at Berkeley
¡§Garbage and the City: Historical Geography of Beijing¡¦s Solid Waste Stream¡¨
3. Yi-chun Lin (#5 in the Social Sciences Category)
Rutgers University
¡§The Transformation of Taiwan into a Structural Competition-State Facing China¡¦s Integration into the Global Community¡¨
4. Ching-yu Chang (#7 in the Social Sciences Category)
University of Florida
¡§Doing Gender, Doing Gendered Emotion: A Feminist Ethnography of Taiwanese Female Flight Attendants¡¦ Work and Family Lives¡¨
H. Doctoral Fellowships
1. Joyman Lee
Yale University
¡§The Study of Economics in Republic of China: Ties with the State and with Japan, 1920-1935¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Kristy Shih
University of California at Riverside
¡§Challenging Cultural Essentialism: Gender, Solidarity, and Constructed Meanings among Mothers, Sons, and Daughters-in-law in Chinese and Chinese American Families¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Chiew-hui Ho
Stanford University
¡§Tales of the Diamond Sūtra: Buddhism on the Ground in Medieval China¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Ya Zuo
Princeton University
¡§Capricious Destiny: Shen Gua (1031-1095 C.E.) and His Age¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Cheng David Chang
University of California at San Diego
¡§Huijia (To Return Home): Conflicting Meetings of Home and Freedom in the ¡¥Voluntary Repatriation¡¦ of Chinese POWs in the Korean War¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Susan Andrews
Columbia University
¡§Replicating Replicas: The Conjured Temple Traditions of Mount Wutai¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Hsiao-pei Yen
Harvard University
¡§Discovering China: Science, Imperialism, and Nationalsim in Chinese Frontier¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Jennifer Fang
University of Delaware
¡§Beyond Chinatown: Negotiating Chinese American Identity in Suburban America¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Elaine Wong
University of Texas at San Antonio
¡§Visual Approaches in Poetry: A Dialogue with the Chinese Ideogram¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Misha Tadd
Boston University
¡§Heshang Gong¡¦s Commentary on the Daodejing: Body-State Correlation and the Transformation of Daoism¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Joshua Hill
Harvard University
¡§Elections and Chinese Political Culture, 1909-1953¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Xiao-bo Lu
Yale University
¡§The Political Origin and Consequences of Inequality of Opportunity¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
13. Jonathan Pettit
Indiana University at Bloomington
¡§Treading on Divinity: Saints and Temple Gardens in Medieval China¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
14. Timothy S. Rich
Indiana University at Bloomington
¡§Institutional Effects of Mixed Majoritarian Systems: A Multi-level Analysis of Asian Electoral Reforms¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
15. Joseph M. Segar
Stanford University
¡§The Grey City: Working the Fringes of China's New Urban Economy¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
16. Jia-yao Han
University of Pittsburgh
¡§Global Vision and Intension: Chinese Encounters with the Nomads in the Eastern Zhou China (771-221 BCE)¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
17. Ke Li
Indiana University at Bloomington
¡§Seeking Divorce in the Countryside: Marital Grievances, Dispute Resolutions, and Gender Inequalities in Contemporary China¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
18. Ming-ran Tan
University of Toronto
¡§Crisis and Hermeneutics: Wang Fuzhi¡¦s Interpretation of Confucian Classics in a time of Radical Change from Ming to Qing Dynasty¡¨
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
I. Postdoctoral Fellowships administered by the Canadian Asian Studies Association
1. Xin Huang
University of British Columbia
¡§The ¡¥Taming¡¦ of Maoist Women: Changing Representations of Gender in China in Personal Photo Albums¡¨
Grant amount: US$17,532
Grant period: 1 year
J. Doctoral Fellowships administered by the Canadian Asian Studies Association
1. Anna Belogurova
University of British Columbia
¡§Minzuguoji: Nationalist Internationalism among Chinese Revolutions in Malaya (1927-1942)¡¨
Grant amount: US$9,740
Grant period: 1 year
2. Fan Lin
McGill University
¡§Rethinking Historical Geography in Early Republican China through The Evolution of Chinese Geography¡¨
Grant amount: US$9,740
Grant period: 1 year