Grant Recipients in the European Region, 2009-2010

 

 

Recipients in the European Region

(in order of application received)

Unit: Euro

A. Institutional Enhancement Grants

 

1. Frank Kraushaar

University of Latvia (Latvia)

¡§Research Center for East Asian Studies at the National Library of Latvia (support during the formative stage)¡¨

http://asiares.lv/about

Grant amount: £á50,000

Grant period: 3 years

 

B. Research Grants

 

1. Ian Taylor

University of St. Andrews (UK)

¡§Chinese Special Economic Zones in Africa: Catalysts for Development?¡¨

Grant amount: £á17,000

Grant period: 3 years

 

2. Yik-chan Chin

University of Oxford (UK)

¡§Researching Law in Society in China: The Interplay between the Law and Media in Defamation Litigation (1992-2009)¡¨

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/hrlc/projects/projects2011.aspx
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/hrlc/projects/chinadefamationproject.aspx

Grant amount: £á60,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

3. Philip Clart

University of Leipzig (Germany)

¡§Text and Context: Redemptive Societies in the History of Religions of Modern and Contemporary China¡¨

Grant amount: £á60,000

Grant period: 3 years

 

4. Christian Henriot

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)

¡§¡¥Cities in Turmoil¡¦: Historical GIS and Urban Life in Four Chinese Cities in the Late Qing and Republican Period¡¨

http://www.virtualcities.fr

Grant amount: £á60,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

C. Conference & Seminar Grants

 

1. Richard King

University of Glasgow (UK)

¡§The Good Life and Conceptions of Life in Greek and Chinese Antiquity¡¨

Grant amount: £á15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Halvor Eifring

University of Oslo (Norway)

¡§Cultural Histories of Chinese Meditation¡¨

Grant amount: £á15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Melanie Trede

Heidelberg University (Germany)

¡§Living Legacies: The History of East Asian Art Reconsidered¡¨

http://iko.uni-hd.de/archiv/veranstaltungen/20100710-12_symp_livinglegacies.html

Grant amount: £á14,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Volker Scheid

University of Westminster (UK)

¡§The (After)Life of Traditional Knowledge: The Cultural Politics and Historical Epistemology of East Asian Medicine¡¨

Grant amount: £á20,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

D. Subsidies for Publication

 

1. Anne-Christine Trémon

École Normale Supérieure (France)

¡§Chinese in French Polynesia. Migration, Métissage, Diaspora.¡¨

Grant amount: £á5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Stéphane Gros

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)

¡§The Missing Share. Exchange and Power on Yunnan's Borderlands (China).¡¨

Grant amount: £á5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Henning Klöter

Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany)

¡§The Language of the Sangleys: A Chinese Vernacular in Missionary Sources of the Seventeenth Century¡¨

Grant amount: £á3,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Adele Schlombs

Museum of East Asian Art in Cologne (Germany)

¡§New Perspectives in the Study of East Asian Art History: A Festschrift for Lothar Ledderose¡¨

Grant amount: £á6,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. Patrice Fava

École française d¡¦Extrême-Orient (France)

¡§Aux portes du ciel, la statuaire taoïste du Hunan¡¨

Grant amount: £á10,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

E. Special Project Grants

 

1. Brunhild Staiger

European Association for Chinese Studies

¡§EACS Biannual Conference¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Brunhild Staiger

European Association for Chinese Studies

¡§EACS Young Scholar Award¡¨

Grant amount: £á3,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Brunhild Staiger

European Association for Chinese Studies

¡§EACS Library Travel Grants¡¨

Grant amount: £á30,000

Grant period: 3 years

 

F. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

 

1. Shih-chen Chao

University of Manchester (UK)

¡§Toward an ¡¥Imagined Community¡¦: Internet Fiction, Fandom, and the Flowing Identity in the Chinese Online Literary Sphere¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Jui-yin Chao

University of Manchester (UK)

¡§Translational Footnotes and the Positioning of Unfamiliar Literature: Translations of Angela Carter¡¦s Fiction in Taiwan¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Wei-chung Cheng

Leiden University (The Netherlands)

¡§Merchant Prince and King¡¦s Merchant: The Origin of Overseas Chinese Trans-National Entrepreneurial Network around East and South China Sea (1636-1683)¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Pei-chien Wu

SOAS, University of London (UK)

¡§The Freedom of Marginality: Negotiating Chinese Muslim Identity in Malaysia¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. I-chieh Fang

LSE, University of London (UK)

¡§Autonomy, Guanxi and Identity: Learning Exchange while Growing Up in a Special Economic Zone¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Shao-yu Huang

University of Edinburgh (UK)

¡§Microspaces of the Network City: Multi-Scaling the Taipei Post-Metropolis¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. Cheng-wei Liu

University of Cambridge (UK)

¡§How the Counterfactual Thinking Process of Chance Successes and Luck Influence Causal Judgment and Decision-Making: A Cross-Cultural Study¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

8. Chun-wei Lin

Loughborough University (UK)

¡§Public Service Broadcasting in a Transitional Society - Lessons from the Taiwanese Experience¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

¡´Wait List

(a) Humanities

 

1. Yi-jui Wu (#1 in the Humanities Category)

University of Oxford (UK)

¡§Transforming Psychological Trauma in Post-War Taiwan¡¨

 

2. Chih-i Lai (#3 in the Humanities Category)

UCL, University of London (UK)

¡§Crafting Taiwan through Design¡¨

 

3. Chia-chi Lin (#4 in the Humanities Category)

Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands)

¡§Female-Headed Household in Eurasis Society¡¨

 

(b) Social Sciences

 

1. Li-wen Shih (#3 in the Social Sciences Category)

Lancaster University (UK)

¡§Enacting Pleasure and Anxiety in Prenatal Screening and Testing¡¨

 

2. Jo-ying Lee (#6 in the Social Sciences Category)

University of Siena (Italy)

¡§Political Culture and Democratic Support in East Asia and South Europe¡¨

 

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

 

(a) Fellowships for Ph.D. Dissertations

 

1. Diana Fu

University of Oxford (UK)

¡§Caught by the State, Market, and Donor: The Political Transformation of Labour Organizations in The People¡¦s Republic of China¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Sylvie Beaud

Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (France)

¡§Fossils on Parade. Nuo Opera and the Making of Local Identity among the Yangzong People (Yunnan)¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Jin Cao

Universität Tübingen (Germany)

¡§Copper Mining and Minting in Sichuan 1700-1900: Effects on Regional Economy and Society¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Georges Favraud

Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (France)

¡§A Rural Community and its Taoist Masters, in the Construction of Chinese Modernity (Liling, Hunan)¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. Aurore Dumont

École Pratique des Hautes Études (France)

¡§The Tungus of China: A Comparative Study of Domestic Economy and ¡¥Folklorized¡¦ Shamanic Rituals¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Kristin Meier

Leiden University (The Netherlands)

¡§Tosu: A Tibeto-Burman Language of Southwestern Sichuan, China¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. John Givens

University of Oxford (UK)

¡§Suing Dragons: How and Why are Lawyers Suing the Chinese Government?¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

8. Michael Stanley-Baker

UCL, University of London (UK)

¡§Daoists as Doctors - The Role of Medicine in Six Dynasties Shangqing Daoism¡¨

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

¡´Wait List

 

1. Yun-ysi Siew

University of Cambridge (UK)

¡§Biological Change, Health, and Labour Pattern in the Holocene China¡¨

 

2. Florence Lévy

University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

¡§Gender Influence on Migratory Projects and Trajectories of Migrants from Northern China in Paris¡¨

 

(b) Fellowships for Postdoctoral Research

 

1. Albert Galvany

University of Cambridge (UK)

¡§Thinking from Exclusion: Monsters and Exceptional Beings in the Zhuangzi¡¨

Grant amount: £á34,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

2. Gábor Kósa

Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary)

¡§Interpretation of New Chinese Manichaean Discoveries¡¨

Grant amount: £á34,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

3. Beatriz Puente-Ballesteros

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

¡§Jesuit Medicine at the Kangxi Court and Beyond: The Appropriation of Foreign Medical Knowledge in Qing China¡¨

Grant amount: £á34,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

4. Lara Maconi

Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (France)

¡§Quid of the Ancient Buddhist Kingdom of Muli? Traditions and Modernities, Plurality and Identity Issues in Muli Modern Cultural Production: A Study in Agency and Representation¡¨

Grant amount: £á18,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

¡´Wait List

 

1. Yun-chung Li

University of Oxford (UK)

¡§Buddhist External Learning in the Northern Song China: A Case Study of Qisong¡¦s Secular Works¡¨

 

Recipients in the East European Region

 

A. Library Acquisitions

 

1. Loreta Poškaitė

Vilnius University (Lithuania)

¡§Library Acquisition for the Library of Centre of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University¡¨

Grant amount: £á3,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

B. Visiting Professorships

 

1. Raoul David Findeisen

Comenius University (Slovakia)

¡§Zhang Ailing under the Perspective of Modern Chinese Literature¡¨

Grant amount: £á3,400

Grant period: 1 year