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"