Grant Recipients in the American Region, 2010-2011

 

 

Recipients in the American Region

(in order of application received)

Unit: US$

A. Research Grants

 

1. Xun Liu

Rutgers University

Daoist History, Clerical Activism, and Local Society in Nanyang, 1600-2010

Grant amount: US$36,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

2. Kwai Hang Ng

University of California at San Diego

Rule of Law from Below: Litigants in Housing Demolition Cases in China

Grant amount: US$22,600

Grant period: 1 year 3 months

 

3. Shin-Yi Chou

Lehigh University

Socioeconomic Causes and Consequences of Low Birth Weight in Taiwan

Grant amount: US$28,006

Grant period: 2 years

 

4. Yong Z. Volz

University of Missouri

Transplanting Modernity: Chinese Journalism and Western Influences, 1870s-1930s

Grant amount: US$16,706

Grant period: 1 year 7 months

 

5. Philip Silverman

California State University at Bakersfield

Bridging Generation: Family History and Lifestyle

Grant amount: US$10,040

Grant period: 1 month

 

6. Byeong-Uk Yi

University of Toronto at Mississauga

Studies of the Chinese Language and Ancient Chinese Logic

Grant amount: US$8,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. Hsiang Iris Chyi

University of Texas at Austin

News Across the Great Wall: Analyzing Taiwan, Asian, and Western News Media’s Web Strategies for Internet Users in China

Grant amount: US$34,955

Grant period: 2 years

 

8. Sonya Lee

University of Southern California

Between Culture and Nature: Cave Temples of Sichuan

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 5 months

 

9. Zai Liang

State University of New York at Albany

From Tidal Wave to Shortage: Understanding Recent Migration Dynamics in China

Grant amount: US$21,656

Grant period: 2 years

 

10. Scott Simon

University of Ottawa

Emissaries of the Ancestors: Ethno-ornithology of Taiwan’s Truku People

Grant amount: US$19,100

Grant period: 1 year

 

11. Weijie Song

Rutgers University

From Beijing to Taipei: Border-crossing Travel, Beijing Memory, and Taiwan Literature

Grant amount: US$24,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

12. Yuen Yuen Ang

Columbia University

Budgetary Politics in Local China: A Mixed Methods Approach

Grant amount: US$20,632

Grant period: 1year 6 months

 

B. Conference/Seminar/Workshop Grants

 

1. Minghui Hu

University of California at Santa Cruz

“The Construction of Modern Knowledge in China”

Grant amount: US$25,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Bruce Rusk

Cornell University

“The Maintenance of Knowledge: Cultures of Preservation in Early Modern Eurasia”

Grant amount: US$4,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Ann Waltner

University of Minnesota

Matteo Ricci: His Map and Music

Grant amount: US$25,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Hsin-Yang Wu

North American Taiwan Studies Association

The Seventeenth Annual Conference of the North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA 2011): The Trajectory of Taiwan in a Global Context

Grant amount: US$25,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. Clayton Dube

University of Southern California

ECFA at One: The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement’s First Year

Grant amount: US$25,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

C. Publication Subsidies

 

1. Anne Routon

Columbia University Press

Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Modernity and Popular Politics in Mid-Qing China, 1740-1839, by Ho-fung Hung

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. David W. Morrow

University of Chicago Press

The Journey to the West, vols. 1-4, Revised Edition”, translated by Anthony C. Yu

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

3. Emily Andrew

University of British Columbia Press

Educational Reform and Village Society in a Northeast China County, 1904-31, by Elizabeth VanderVen

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

4. Wen-hsin Yeh

University of California at Berkeley

Pure and Remote’ - A Lecture Series on Early Chinese Painting”, by James Cahill

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. Stephen A. Cohn

Duke University Press

Creativity and its Discontents: Critical Implications of China’s Intellectual Property Rights Offenses”, by Laikwan Pang

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Jennifer Crewe

Columbia University Press

Shi Zi: China’s First Syncretist”, translated and edited by Paul Fischer

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. Jennifer Crewe

Columbia University Press

Nineteen Lectures on Chinese Philosophy and Its Implications Mou Zongsan”, translated by Julie Lee Wei

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

8. William M. Hammell

Harvard University Asia Center

Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Medieval China”, by Shih-shan Susan Huang

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

9. Anne Routon

Columbia University Press

Rivers of Time: A Cultural History of China”, by Cho-yun Hsu, translated by Timothy D. Baker, Jr. and Michael S. Duke

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

D. Scholar Grants

 

(a) Scholar Grants

 

1. Sylvia Li-chun Lin

University of Notre Dame

Mediating the Past and the Present: Historical Documentary Films from Taiwan

Grant amount: US$21,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Amy McNair

University of Kansas

Catalogue of the Imperial Painting Collection in the Proclaiming Harmony Era: An Annotated Translation of Xuanhe Huapu 宣和畫譜

Grant amount: US$35,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Yan Sun

Gettysburg College

Constructing Ancient China: Identity and Power in the Western Zhou

Grant amount: US$20,000

Grant period: 1year 1 month

 

4. Hui-Ching Chang

University of Illinois at Chicago

Naming China: Language, Politics, and Taiwanese Identity

Grant amount: US$24,000

Grant period: 10 months

 

5. Tong Soon Lee

Emory University

Cultural Hybridity, Multiculturalism and the Nation-state: Musical Practices of the Peranakan Chinese in Singapore

Grant amount: US$20,000

Grant period: 9 months

 

6. Bettine Birge

University of Southern California

Marriage, Law, and Social Order in the Age of Khubilai Khan: Together with an Annotated Translation of Marriage Cases from the Yuan Dianzhang (Statutes and Precedents of the Yuan Dynasty, 1322)

Grant amount: US$30,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. Chi-chiang Huang

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

The Buddhist Family Named Shi: The Elite Family’s Patronage of Buddhism in the Southern Song (a book-length monograph)

Grant amount: US$19,650

Grant period: 3 months

 

(b) Junior Scholar Grants

 

1. Elaine M. Liu

University of Houston

The Impact of Family Size on Risk Sharing among Migrant Workers in China

Grant amount: US$28,500

Grant period: 10 months

 

2. Lei-Shih Chen

Texas A&M University

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Intentions Regarding Advanced Reproductive Genetic Testing among Parents of Children with Disabilities in Taiwan

Grant amount: US$30,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. David Mozina

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Quelling the Divine: The Performance of a Talisman in Contemporary Daoist Thunder Ritual

Grant amount: US$22,500

Grant period: 1 year 1 month

 

E. Doctoral Fellowships

 

1. Ke Li

Indiana University at Bloomington

Seeking Divorce in the Countryside: Marital Grievances, Dispute Resolution, and Gender Inequalities in Contemporary China

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Ori Tavor

University of Pennsylvania

Bio-spiritual Practices and Ritual Theories in Early and Medieval China

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Junpeng Li

Columbia University

Hayek’s Disciples: Liberal Intellectuals in Post-Tiananmen China

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. William Nitzky

Arizona State University

Living Heritage: The Cultural Politics of Heritage Protection in China

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. Gregory Scott

Columbia University

Practices of Authenticity: Print Culture and the Modern Reconstruction of Buddhism in China

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Jiayao Han

University of Pittsburgh

Creating Visual Emblems for Eastern Zhou Militarized Frontier Societies (771-221 BCE)

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. Yi Kang

Yale University

Turning Crises into Chances: Disaster Politics in Authoritarian Regimes

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

8. Chia-Yi Seetoo

University of California at Berkeley

Kinaesthetic Inscriptions: Dancing/Writing the Global from Taiwan

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

9. Liping Wang

University of Chicago

Ethnicizing the Frontier: Chinese Imperial Crisis and the Transformation of the Inner Mongolian Frontier, 1890-1949

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

10. Li Jiang

Harvard University

Nominal Phrases and Language Variations

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

11. Hongyu Wu

University of Pittsburgh

Leading the Good Life: Biographical Narratives and Instructions for Buddhist Lay Women in the High Qing (1683-1839)

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

12. Aurelia Campbell

University of Pennsylvania

Emperors, Eunuchs, Craftsmen, and the Creation of the Gan-Qing Architectural Style in Early Ming China

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

13. Xiaoli Tian

University of Chicago

Relocating Science: Medical Mission and Western Medicine in 19th-Century China

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

14. Oiyan Liu

Cornell University

How Overseas Chinese Became Citizens of the Empires

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

15. Boliang Zhu

Columbia University

Domestic Political Institutions and the Sectoral Composition of Inward Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

16. Byung-Ho Lee

University of Michigan

China between Empire and Nation: A Study of Making and Clearing Ethnic Group Boundaries

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

17. Scott Gregory

Princeton University

The Uses of the Margins: A Social History of the Shuihu Zhuan

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

18. Yan Long

University of Michigan

Constructing Political Actorhood: The Emergence and Transformation of the AIDS Movement in China, 1989-2009

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

19. Christy Delair

Brown University

Crafting Indigenous Identity in Taiwan: The Role of Handicrafts in the Negotiation of Community

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

20. Jeffrey Rice

University of Pennsylvania

Northern Song Reflections on the Tang

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

21. Tong Blackburn

Indiana University at Bloomington

Transcultural Hybridity in the Operas of Chinese-born American Composers: Bright Sheng, Tan Dun, and Zhou Long

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

22. Liangyu Fu

University of Pittsburgh

Found in Translation: Western Science Books, Maps, and Music in China, 1860-1920

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

23. Meina Cai

University of Wisconsin at Madison

Political Origins of Property Rights: Public Finance, Land Property and Economic Growth in China

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

24. Charlotte Develyn

University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Sounding ‘Mongolian’: The Horse-head Fiddle in Inner Mongolia, China

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

25. Olivier Henripin

Northwestern University

Where is China? Cross-Strait Relations and the Strategic Social Construction of the Chinese National Homeland after 1949

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

F. Postdoctoral Fellowships administered by the Canadian Asian Studies Association

 

1. Olga Alexeeva

University of Québec at Montréal

Energy and Environmental Issues in Chinese Geopolitics: A Case Study of Mekong River Conflict

Grant amount: US$18,774

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Alanna Krolikowski

University of Toronto

China-U.S. Cooperation and Competition in Civil Air and Space

Grant amount: US$8,866

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Craig Smith

University of British Columbia

Asianism at the Margins of the Japanese Empire

Grant amount: US$8,866

Grant period: 1 year

 

G. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

 

1. Chia-Ying Shih

University of Washington

Acerbic Exhortation: Modern Chinese Satirical Fiction in the Wartime (1937-1945) Chongqing

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Hsin-Chieh Li

University of California at Irvine

Subject as a Question: An Interpretive Reading of Winds and the Moon風月報, a Popular Magazine in Colonial Taiwan, 1937-1944

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Yin Wang

University of California at San Diego

Cold War Transformations: Transpacific America and Cultural Pursuits from Taiwan

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Yu-An Lu

Stony Brook University

The Role of Alternation in Phonological Relationships

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. Chia-Fen Chang

New York University

Grotowski’s Illegitimate Child: Art as Vehicle Theatre in Taiwan

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Po-wei Weng

Wesleyan University

Music, Technology, and Mediated Modernity: Soundscape of Pili Budaixi in Taiwan

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. Chunghao Kuo

New York University

“Food-related Technology, Culinary Knowledge, and Regional Gastronomy in Early Modern China (from the mid-Ming Era to the Early 18th Century)”

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

8. Yi-Hsiang Chang

Columbia University

“Negotiated Legal Modernity: Chinese Judges in the Period of Legal Reform, 1907-1937”

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

9. Ying-Chen Peng

University of California at Los Angeles

“This Imperial Body: The Cultural Enterprise of Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908)”

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

10. Wei-Ti Chen

University of Chicago

“Geo-social Mobility and Jurisdictional Obstacles for Taiwanese Doctors under Japanese Colonialism”

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

11. Fei-Hsien Wang

University of Chicago

“Translating/Translated Profit: The Curious Journey of ‘Copyright’ in China (1868-1937)”

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

12. Lin-Yi Tseng

City University of New York

“Travelers under Japanese Imperialism: The Commercial Activities, Social Networks, and Modernity of Taiwanese Sekimin in the Zhaoshan Area (1895-1945)”

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

13. Ching-Chih Lin

University of California at Berkeley

“Take Me to the Water: Environmental Transformation and Religious Adaptation among Boat-dwellers in Modern Shandong and Jiangsu”

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

14. Kuei-Chen Lin

University of California at Los Angeles

“Social Complexity and Inter/Regional Interactions, Exemplified by the Sichuan Basin, China of the Bronze Age”

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

15. Kuan-Hung Chen

University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

“Knowledge and Conduct: Reexamining the Epistemic and Ethical Stances of Xunzi”

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

16. Ya-Wen Lei

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

“Consolidation of China’s Counterpublic Spheres in Cyberspace: The Simultaneous Process of Constructing Online Counterpublic Spheres, Legality, and Citizen Identity”

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

17. Yu-Ju Chien

University of Minnesota

“Constructing Knowledge and Policies on Avian Influenza: How are Global Disease Policies and the Discourse on ‘the Other’ Manufactured?”

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

18. Li-Chung Cheng

University of Chicago

“The Co-construction of Profession and Politics: The Formation of Engineering Mind-set and the Neglect of Environmental-health Risk Governance in Taiwanese Administrative Regime of Environmental Protection, 1980-2010”

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

19. Wen-Jiun Wang

University of Pittsburgh

“The Formation of Inter-Organizational Networks in Extreme Events: A Comparative Study of the 1999 ChiChi Earthquake and the 2009 Typhoon Morakot”

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

20. Ling-Fei Lin

Cornell University

“The Island of Normal Engineering: How Taiwanese Contract Manufacturers Matter in the History of Laptop Production, 1980-2005”

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

21. Wei-Ting Wu

City University of New York

“Expanding Political Space: Domestic Violence, Women’s Groups and the State in China”

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

22. Kuen-Da Lin

University of Wisconsin at Madison

“Separation Anxiety: Explaining China’s Neighborhood Policies”

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

●Wait List

(a) Humanities

 

1. Hui-Ling Yang (#1 in the Humanities Category)

Arizona State University

“Grammaticalization in Hakka, Mandarin and Southern Min: The Interaction of Negatives with Interrogatives, Modality and Aspect”

 

(b) Social Sciences

 

1. Hsiao-Ting Huang (#1 in the Social Sciences Category)

McGill University

“Tracing the Sporting Body across the Strait: A Comparative Study on Girls’ Physical Education in Taiwan and China”