Grant Recipients in the American Region, 2011-2012
Recipients in the American Region
(in order of application received)
Unit: US$
A. Research Grants
1. T. Y. Wang
Illinois State University
"People Who Don't Party: Partisanship and Democratic Consolidation in Taiwan"
Grant amount: US$21,000
Grant period: 1 year 6 months
2. Jin Huang
Saint Louis University
"Happiness and Economic Inequality in Urban China from the Perspective of Asset Poverty"
Grant amount: US$14,983
Grant period: 1 year
3. Ping-chun Hsiung
University of Toronto
"The Corrupting Influence of the State on the Production of Knowledge: Investigative Research in China's Great Leap Forward"
Grant amount: US$19,800
Grant period: 2 years
4. Terry Kleeman
University of Colorado, Boulder
"The Materiality of Chinese Religions: Ritual Implements in Taiwan"
Grant amount: US$19,980
Grant period: 11 months
5. Alison Marshall
Brandon University
"Mapping the Interconnected Spheres of Chinese Traditional and Modern Political, Religious and Cultural Lives and Identities through Overseas Mazu Temple Networks"
Grant amount: US$19,860
Grant period: 2 years
6. Man-bun Kwan
University of Cincinnati
"Indigenization of Chemical Fertilizer in Taiwan"
Grant amount: US$2,600
Grant period: 1 month
B. Conference/Seminar/Workshop Grants
1. Tian-long Jiao
Bishop Museum
"New Archaeological Investigations across the Taiwan Strait"
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Antje Richter
University of Colorado, Boulder
"Letters and Epistolary Culture in China"
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Peter Sturman
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Image and the Imaginary in 17th Century China, an Interdisciplinary Conference"
Grant amount: US$15,376
Grant period: 1 year
4. Peter C. Y. Chow
American Association for Chinese Studies
"Application for a Grant to the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for the American Association for Chinese Studies"
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
C. Publication Subsidies
1. William Hammell
Harvard University Press
"Facing the Monarch: Modes of Advice in the Early Chinese Court", edited by Garret P. Olberding
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Emily Andrew
University of British Columbia Press
"Medicine, Culture, and Modernity in China, 1860-1937", by Bridie Andrews
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Pamela Kelley
University of Hawaii Press
"The Qing Opening to the Ocean: Chinese Maritime Policies, 1684-1757", by Gang Zhao
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
D. Scholar Grants
(a) Scholar Grants
1. Anthony Clark
Whitworth University
"Friars, Fairies, and the War of Immortals: Rethinking Cultural Conflict in Late Imperial China"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 10 months
2. Nancy Steinhardt
University of Pennsylvania
"The Mosque in China"
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Pei-te Lien
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Understanding Political Socialization through Citizenship Education in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China"
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 3 months
4. Martin Huang
University of California, Irvine
"Husbands in Mourning: Bereavement, Memory, and Gender in Late Imperial China"
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Shin-yi Chao
Rutgers University, Camden
"The Revival of Communal Religion in Rural Northern China"
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Mae Ngai
Columbia University
"Yellow and Gold: The Chinese Mining Diaspora, 1848-1908"
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year 1 month
7. Rania Huntington
University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Poetic Records of the Xuanhua Chamber: Writing and Loss across Generations of the Yu Family"
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 5 months
8. Qin Gao
Fordham University
"Social Policy, Poverty, and Income Inequality in China: From 2002 to 2007"
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year 3 months
(b) Junior Scholar Grants
1. Yao Lu
Columbia University
"Vulnerability and Resilience: Health and Development of Migrant Children and Left Behind Children in China"
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Chien-hsin Tsai
University of Texas, Austin
"A Passage to China: Taiwan Writers, Postloyalist Writings, and Chinese Experience, 1895-1945"
Grant amount: US$22,500
Grant period: 9 months
3. Xinyu Dong
University of Chicago
"China at Play: Republican Film Comedies and Chinese Cinematic Modernity"
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Kwangmin Kim
University of Colorado, Boulder
"The Making of a Chinese Periphery -- History of Uyghuristan, 1400-1850"
Grant amount: US$24,696
Grant period: 10 months
5. Elaine Liu
University of Houston
"Non Cognitive Ability, Trust and Technology Adoption: Evidence from China"
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Chien-jer Lin
Indiana University
"Restrictiveness and Chinese Relative Clauses: Perspectives from Sentence Processing"
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 7 months
7. Shuang Chen
University of Iowa
"Social Formation under State Domination: State Categories and Wealth Stratification in Northeast China, 1815-1913"
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Frederik Green
Macalester College
"Trans-Cultural Chinese Romanticism: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and Nostalgia in Literature and Film of 20th Century China"
Grant amount: US$9,800
Grant period: 1 year
E. Special Project Grants
1. Robert Snow
CIAC, Association for Asian Studies
"CCKF-CIAC Research Grants Program and CCKF Graduate Student Paper Awards"
Grant amount: US$114,000
Grant period: 3 years
F. Doctoral Fellowships
1. Luman Wang
University of Southern California
"Money and Trade, Hinterland and Coast, Empire and Nation-state: Shanxi Piaohao (remittance firms), 1820s-1930s"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Xiaojun Li
Stanford University
"The Political Economy of China's Trade Policies"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Ai Wang
Washington State University
"River, City and People: The Hai River and the Construction of 20th Century Tianjin, 1897-1949"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Yue Zhang
University of Toronto
"Historical Memory and Nostalgia in Poetry -- "Poems on History" (Yongshi Shi 詠史詩) from the Selections of Refined Literature (Wen Xuan 文選)"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Leah Larson-Rabin
University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Under Threat of Protest: How Environmental Challenges Shape Citizen Action in Rural China"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Wanxia Zhao
Indiana University
"The Developing Purposes of Low-income College Students in China's Elite Universities: Recourse, Constraint and Disposition"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Ling Han
University of California, San Diego
"Helping People Help Themselves: The Professionalization of Social Work in Urban China"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Cuilan Liu
Harvard University
"The Role of Music in Buddhism: A Study on the Interpretations of Sacred Buddhist Texts in China and Tibet"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Philip Thai
Stanford University
"Smuggling, State-building, and Political Economy in Coastal China, 1900-1960"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Soonyi Lee
New York University
"The Transnational Formation of Socialism in Early 20th Century East Asia: Zhang Junmai's and Zhang Dongsun's Ethical Philosophy"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Max Woodworth
University of California, Berkeley
"Frontier Boomtown Urbanism: Natural Resources and Built Environments in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Michelle Wang
University of California, Berkeley
"Characters of Design: Writing and Materiality in Early China"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
13. Gregory Patterson
Columbia University
"Elegies for Empire: The Poetics of Memory in Du Fu's Late Work, 766-768"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
14. Ying Hu
Stanford University
"Justice on the Steppe: Legal Institutions and Practice in Qing Mongolia"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
15. Ting Zhang
Johns Hopkins University
"Printing and Legal Culture in Late Imperial China"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
16. Brian Tsui
Columbia University
"China's Forgotten Revolution: Radical Conservatism in Action, 1927-1949"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
17. Margaret Tillman
University of California, Berkeley
"The Structure of Society: Early Childhood Education in China, 1903-1957"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
18. Kwok Wai Hui
University of Chicago
"Revolution, Modernity and 'Traditional' Culture: Opera Films in Socialist Shanghai and Colonial Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
19. Phonshia Nie
Northwestern University
"'The Spirit of Progress': Chinese Americans, Race, and the Limits of Jim Crow"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
20. Matthew West
Columbia University
"Intellectual Property and the Knowledge Economy's Global Division of Labor: Producing Green-technology between Taiwan and China"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
21. Xiaohong Xu
Yale University
"Building the People's Republic of Virtue: Ethical Activism and Social Discipline in Revolutionary China"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
22. Minlei Ye
Princeton University
"Amateurs of Kunqu Opera: Taste, Nation, and Cultural Space in Republican China, 1900-1950"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
23. Casey Miller
Brandeis University
"Grassroots Gay and Lesbian Organizations, HIV/AIDS, and the Construction of Civil Society in Mainland China"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
24. Jia Ching Chen
University of California, Berkeley
"Greening Space, Economy and Society in Rural China: Environmental Governance and Socio-spatial Transformation in the Yixing City Region"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
25. Phillip Bloom
Harvard University
"Beyond the Buddha: Early Icons of the Water-land Ritual and the Transformation of the Visual Culture of Song-dynasty (960-1279) Religion"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
26. Kerry Ratigan
University of Wisconsin, Madison
"China's Local 'Welfare States': Reform and Variation in Rural Healthcare Provision"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
G. Postdoctoral Fellowships and Ph.D. dissertations administered by the Canadian Asian Studies Association
1. Dominic Meng-hsuan Yang
University of British Columbia
"The Great Mainland Exodus to Taiwan: Exile, Sojourn, Nostalgia, Return and Identity Formation"
Grant amount: US$18,234
Grant period: 1 year
2. Myles Hulme
Carleton University
"Negotiating Political Space : Situating Taiwan in the International Community"
Grant amount: US$9,117
Grant period: 1 year
3. Wanming Wang
McGill University
"Literary Communities and the Production of Women's Literary Culture in Late Imperial China"
Grant amount: US$9,117
Grant period: 1 year
H. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Ya-Chu Yang
Indiana University, Bloomington
"Love in Translation: Culture, Nation, and Identity Reconstructions in Contemporary Fiction and Film"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Chien-heng Wu
University of California, Los Angeles
"Re-made in Taiwan: Subjectivity, Community and the Politics of Affirmation"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Chia-Chieh Tseng
Rutgers University
"The Poetics of Transparency: Modernizing Cities and Glass Cultures in the Late 19th Century European Novels and the Late 20th Century Taiwanese/Chinese Films"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. 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
5. Yun-Ru Chen
Harvard University
"The Encounter between the Imperial Chinese and the Modern Japanese Law: The Transformation and Reconstruction of Law and Custom in Colonial Taiwan"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Mei-Yu Lin
University of the West
"Coming to Terms with Zhiyi's Mindfulness of Buddha: A Critical Reading of Zhiyi's Theory in Dynamic Mind"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Chen-Hsiu Kuo
University of California, Los Angeles
"Prosodic Boundaries and the Taiwanese Tone Sandhi Group"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Chen-chun E
University of Arizona
"Generative Syntax: Comparative Correlative Constructions in Mandarin Chinese and Other Languages"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Yu-Sheng Lin
Rutgers University
"Every Decision Matters: Dilemma-solving and the Life Course of Social Movements in Taiwan"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Kuo-Min Chiu
State University of New York, Buffalo
"Generation Compared: History Education Experiences, Collective Memory and Identity Formation of Taiwanese Generations in the United States"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Yu-Ling Huang
State University of New York, Binghamton
"When Bio-politics Met Hegemony: The International Network of Demographic Knowledge, Contraceptive Technology, and Population Policy between Postwar Taiwan and the United States"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Ju-fang Tseng
The Catholic University of America
"Christian Conversion in Taiwan: A Study of Presbyterian Converts from Traditional Chinese Religions"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
13. Chiaoyen Yang
University of Washington
"Cultural Resilience and Social Change: Challenges for Lijiang Naxi Old Town as a World Heritage Site"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
14. Ke-hsien Huang
Northwestern University
"The Encounter between Old Magicians and New Rich: The Rise and Transformation of Popular Christianity in the Reform Era of China"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
15. Shih-Hsiang Sung
University of Pittsburgh
"The Flowing Materiality of Crystal: A Global Commodity Chain of Fengshui Objects from Brazil, China to Taiwan"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
16. Meng-Hua Hsieh
University of Washington
"The Role of Long-term Orientation and Implicit Theories in Consumer Decision Making: A Cross-cultural Study in Taiwan and the United States"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
17. Hsuan-Ying Huang
Harvard University
"Psycho-boom: A Movement of Learning Psychotherapy in Urban China"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
18. Shu-Mei Huang
University of Washington
"Tenant's Right to the City: Contested Urban Citizenship in the Redeveloping City of Hong Kong in Post-handover Era"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
19. Chien-Ke Cheng
Illinois Institute of Technology
"Sustainable Urban Design within Contemporary Urban Policy: Comparative Study between Taipei and Chicago"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
20. Hsuan-Ting Chen
University of Texas, Austin
"The Active Issue Publics in the High-choice Media Environment: Issue-based Selective Exposure, Political Knowledge, and Attitude Extremity"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
●Wait List
(a) Social Sciences
1. Yen-Pin Su (#3 in the Social Sciences Category)
University of Pittsburgh
"Parties, Elections and Protests: Empirical Analyses and a Comparative Study on Taiwan and Peru"
2. Ning Hsieh (#4 in the Social Sciences Category)
University of Pennsylvania
"Social Networks, Social Support, and Mental Health: Three Comparative Studies of China and Other Societies"
3. Tzu-Te Wen (#6 in the Social Sciences Category)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Reformation of Screening Mechanism to Prosecutorial Charging Decision in the Republic of China (Taiwan): A Comparative and Law and Economic Study"