Grant Recipients in the American Region, 2012-2013
Recipients in the American Region
(in order of application received)
Unit: US$
1. Hui-Chin Hsu
University of Georgia
"The Role of Social Support in Postpartum Adjustment of Mothers of Preterm Infants in Taiwan"
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Yuan-kang Wang
Western Michigan University
"Managing Hegemony: A Comparison of Qing China and the United States"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 2 years
3. Amy Adamczyk
City University of New York
"Public Opinion about Homosexuality: A Comparative Analysis of the Factors that Shape Tolerance in Taiwan and Confucian and Non-Confucian Nations"
Grant amount: US$18,344
Grant period: 1 year
4. Ada Sinacore
McGill University
"The Implementation of Gender Equity Education and Bullying Policies in Taiwan: The Influence on the School Community"
Grant amount: US$19,400
Grant period: 1 year
5. Susan Whiting
University of Washington
"Explaining Diverse Property Rights Regimes in China's Rural Land"
Grant amount: US$34,960
Grant period: 2 years
B. Conference/Seminar/Workshop Grants
1. Mary M. Dusenbury
Spencer Museum of Art
"Color in Ancient and Medieval East Asia International Research Symposium"
Grant amount: US$18,542
Grant period: 1 year
2. Jueji Shi
University of the West
"The Chinese Buddhist Canon in the Age of Printing: An East Asian Perspective"
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Weldon South Coblin
Li Fang-Kuei Society for Chinese Linguistics
"Li Fang-Kuei Society Young Scholars Symposium"
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Jennifer Hsu
University of Alberta
"NGO Governance and Management in China"
Grant amount: US$7,656
Grant period: 1 year
5. Brantly Womack
University of Virginia
"Taiwan Inclusive: Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges"
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Wai-yee Li
Harvard University
"Peripheral Visions in Chinese Literature"
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Carlos Rojas
Duke University
"Remapping a Discipline: Modern Chinese Literary Studies"
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
C. Publication Subsidies
1. Susan Barnett
Cornell University Press
"The Specter of 'the People': Urban Poverty in Northeast China", by Mun Young Cho
Grant amount: US$4,800
Grant period: 1 year
2. Emily Andrew
University of British Columbia Press
"Remembering the Samsui Women: Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China", by Kelvin E. Y. Low
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Emily Andrew
University of British Columbia Press
"Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Rural China: The Jianghan Plain, 1736-1949", by Jiayan Zhang
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Whitney Johnson
Columbia University Press
"Beyond Sinology: Alterity, Mediality, and the Sinograph", by Andrea Bachner
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Kathryn Schell
Columbia University Press
"Unearthing the Changes: Recently Discovered Manuscripts of the Yi Jing (I Ching) and Related Texts", by Edward L. Shaughnessy
Grant amount: US$3,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Emily Andrew
University of British Columbia Press
"The Pragmatic Dragon: Structural Imperatives and China's Boundary Settlements", by Eric Hyer
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Susan Barnett
Cornell University Press
"Territorializing Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Development", by Emily T. Yen
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
D. Scholar Grants
(a) Scholar Grants
1. Hur-li Lee
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
"Intellectual Activism of the Seven Epitomes"
Grant amount: US$27,120
Grant period: 1 year
2. Lillian Lan-ying Tseng
New York University
"The Agency of Steles: Antiquity and Visual Culture in Early Modern China"
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Michelle Wang
Georgetown University
"Multiplicity and its Resonance in the Buddhist Visual Culture of Medieval China"
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Jiang Wu
University of Arizona
"Leaving for the Rising Sun: Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan's (1592-1673) Journey to Japan and the Authenticity Crisis in Early Modern East Asia"
Grant amount: US$24,528
Grant period: 1 year
5. Christopher Nugent
Williams College
"It's All before Your Eyes: Organizing, Using, and Transmitting Literary Knowledge in Medieval China"
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
(b) Junior Scholar Grants
1. Benjamin Brose
University of Michigan
"Xuanzang's Skull: Buddhism, Nationalism, and Diplomacy in Modern Asia"
Grant amount: US$8,810
Grant period: 1 year
2. Chan Lu
Loyola Marymount University
"Development of Biliteracy Skills in Chinese and English"
Grant amount: US$14,937
Grant period: 1 year
3. Amanda Michaud
Indiana University, Bloomington
"Measuring the Effect of Housing Policy on Macroeconomic Outcomes in China"
Grant amount: US$13,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Delin Lai
University of Louisville
"Ritual Reconstruction and Ritual Architecture and Art in Republican China"
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Kah Wee Lee
Yale University
"Las Vegas in Asia: Casinos, Modernity and the Taming of Vice"
Grant amount: US$19,520
Grant period: 1 year
6. Edith Aldridge
University of Washington
"Fieldwork on Formosan Languages"
Grant amount: US$29,979
Grant period: 1 year
7. Elaine Liu
University of Houston
"Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments"
Grant amount: US$13,354
Grant period: 1 year
8. Xiaobo Su
University of Oregon
"Enclaves of Development: Agribusiness and China's Opium Substitution Program in Laos and Myanmar"
Grant amount: US$12,550
Grant period: 1 year
E. Doctoral Fellowships
1. Ying Diao
University of Maryland, College Park
"Gospel Singing in the Valley: Investigation into Hymnody and Choral Singing of the Lisu on the China-Burma Border"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Tristan Brown
Columbia University
"The Western Muslim Settlement Corridor in the Making of Modern China, 1684-1928"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Stephanie Lin
Columbia University
"Dying to Be Reborn: The Buddhist Deathbed and Pure Land Faith in Republican China, 1912-1949"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Xiao Wu
Northwestern University
"Uses of the Chinese Internet: Everyday Media Practices and Political Subject-formation among China's Early Web Surfers"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Kaijun Chen
Columbia University
"Handicraft and Statecraft: Investigation of the Culture of Bondservants through the Imperial Porcelain Factory in High Qing Empire, 1680-1756"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Xiaofeng Kang
University of Hawaii, Manoa
"Political Ecology of Rubber Plantations among Akha People in Xishuangbanna, China"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Tadashi Ishikawa
University of Chicago
"Colonial Law and Entangled Households: 'Trafficking,' Adultery, Domestic Violence, and Division of Property in Colonial Taiwan, 1919-1945"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Wenjie Liao
University of Minnesota
"Remembering the Faces of Law: Legal Consciousness and Collective Memories in Transitional China"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Martin Tsang
Florida International University
"Con la Mocha al Cuello: The Emergence and Negotiation of Afro-Chinese Religion in Cuba"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Christopher Byrne
McGill University
"Poetics of Silence: Hongzhi Zhengjue 宏智正覺 (1091-1157) and the Practice of Poetry in Song Dynasty Chan Yulu 語錄 (Recorded Sayings)"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Haogen Yao
Columbia University
"The Determinants of Post-compulsory Education Decisions in Rural China: With an Analysis of a Grassroots NGO Intervention"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Xian Huang
Columbia University
"Political Economy of Health: Risk and Income Redistribution in China's Health Insurance"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
13. Yuting Li
University of Washington
"Political Determinants of Social Housing Assistance"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
14. Geng Tian
University of Chicago
"Reining Endemic Violence: Militarization in Northwestern China, 1800-1873"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
15. Shuang Wen
Georgetown University
"Mediated Imaginations: Chinese-Arab Cross-cultural Awareness at the Turn of the 20th Century"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
16. Natalie Koehle
Harvard University
"A Conceptual History of the Development of the Concept of Phlegm in Chinese Medicine from the Han to the Qing Periods"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
17. Yue Hou
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Participatory Autocracy? Private Entrepreneurs and Political Activism in China"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
18. Yongshin Kim
University of Hawaii, Manoa
"The Paths of the Chinese Automobile Industry Development in the Post-WTO Era: A Comparative Case Study of Beijing-Hyundai, Chery and Geely"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
19. Lyle Fearnley
University of California, Berkeley
"After the Livestock Revolution: Avian Influenza, Food Safety, and the Ethics of Veterinary Medicine at Poyang Lake, Jiangxi, China"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
20. Meng Li
University of Iowa
"Creating Continuity in Social Transformation: An Ethnographic Study of Chinese Migrant Workers' Spring Festival Family Reunions"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
21. Margarita Delgado
University of Pittsburgh
"Understanding the Funerary Buddha: Material Culture and Religious Change in Early Chinese Buddhism"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
22. Yi Claire Yang
University of California, Berkeley
"Mortuary Culture and the Transformation of Elite Society in Tang China, 618-907"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
23. Zhong Chen
Cornell University
"Animacy in Sentence Processing across Languages: An Information-Theoretic Prospective"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
24. Yingyao Wang
Yale University
"Expertise, Politics and Social Learning: A Sociological Study of Chinese Policy Elites in the Reform Era, 1978-2012"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
25. Yu Zhang
Stanford University
"To the Soil: The Cultural Imaginary of Chinese Rural Modernity, 1915-1965"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
26. Jing Li
State University of New York, Albany
"State and Economists: The Rise of a Profession in Contemporary China"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
27. Ke Ren
Johns Hopkins University
"Fin-de-siècle Diplomat: Chen Jitong (1852-1907) and Cosmopolitan Possibilities in the Late Qing World"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
28. Jiayin Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Smart Money in Dumb Money: The Gap between Private and Public Beliefs and the Housing Market in China"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
29. Christine Ho
Stanford University
"Drawing from Life: Sketching, Landscape, and the Formation of Socialist Realist Guohua"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
30. Adam Tyner
University of California, San Diego
"Voluntary Marginalization in Urban China: The Effects of Rural Policies on Migrants' Decision-making and Identities"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
F. Postdoctoral Fellowships and Ph.D. dissertations administered by the Canadian Asian Studies Association
1. Isabelle Cote
University of Toronto
"Unsettling Migrants? The Impact of Internal Migration on Ethnic Conflicts in China and Indonesia"
Grant amount: US$12,204
Grant period: 1 year
2. Pascale Massot
University of British Columbia
"China's Liberalizing Impact on Global Commodity Markets: The Cases of Uranium, Potash and Iron Ore"
Grant amount: US$12,204
Grant period: 1 year
3. Weiting Guo
University of British Columbia
"The Speed of Justice: Summary Execution and the Politics of Punishment in the Making of Modern Chinese Criminal Justice, 1830-1960"
Grant amount: US$12,204
Grant period: 1 year
G. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Chun-yu Lu
Washington University in St. Louis
"Make Love and War: Chinese Popular Romance in 'Greater East Asia', 1937-1945"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Chien-ting Lin
University of California, San Diego
"Fugitive Subjects of 'Mi-Yi': Politics of Life and Labor in Taiwan's Medical Modernity"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Hsuan-li Wang
Columbia University
"Displacement, Border Crossing and Indigenization: The Formation and Spread of Gushan Caodong Chan Buddhism in Late Ming and Early Qing"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Kuan-yen Liu
University of California, Santa Barbara
"The Cultural Translation of Darwinism in Late-Qing China: An Intersection between Biology and Chinese Philosophy"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Haowen Jiang
Rice University
"A Functional-Typological Study of Nominalization in Formosan Languages"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Chi-ming Louis Liu
Harvard University
"Null Operators and Empty Categories in Mandarin Chinese"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Hsin-yi Yeh
Rutgers University
"National Identities, Collective Memories, and Mnemonic Engineerings: The Analysis of the Production of a Chinese Nationality (1949-1987)"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Da-wei Hsu
University of Virginia
"Post-disaster Meaning-making and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Yun Tai
Emory University
"You Can't Always Get What You Want: Gatekeeping and Social Capital in the Live Music Scenes of Atlanta and Taipei"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Yi-tsui Tseng
University of Denver
"Decarbonizing the Dragon? Discourse, Power and Development in China's Global Politics of Climate Change, 1992-2012"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Yi-yi Chen
Washington University in St. Louis
"Political Rallies and Voting: Theory, Experimental Study, and Empirical Analysis on Taiwan"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Huan-kai Tseng
George Washington University
"Democratization and Central Bank Independence: A Comparative Analysis of Taiwan and Mexico"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
13. Yi-lin Lou
Indiana University, Bloomington
"Establishing a Lay Judge System under the Taiwanese Criminal Justice System and Exploring its Interactions with Capital Trial Proceedings"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
14. Ching-fu Lin
Harvard University
"Exploring the Optimal Institutional Design for Global Food Safety Governance: Lessons from the Regulatory Complex in China"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
15. Chia-ling Yang
University of California, Berkeley
"Radicalization of a Profession? The Law and Policy on International Medical Graduates from the Perspectives of Political Opportunities and Rights Mobilization among Physicians in Taiwan and the U.S."
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
16. Yi-jian Chen
University of Michigan
"Three Essays on the Labor Market Transitions in Taiwan"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
17. I-hsuan Chiu
State University of New York, Buffalo
"The Relationship between Leader-Member Exchange and Organizational Citizenship: Exploring the Mediating Effect of Supervisory Communication in Taiwan and the United States"
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
●Wait List
(a) Humanities
1. I-ling (Gloria) Chien (#1 in the Humanities Category)
University of Virginia
"The Role of Tokmé Zangpo's Mind-training Teaching in Taiwanese Tibetan Buddhism"
2. Hsiao-chun Wu (#2 in the Humanities Category)
University of California, Los Angeles
"Ascending the Great Hall of Elegance: Knowledge Production about Peking Opera in Early 20th Century China"
(b) Social Sciences
1. Chia-yin Wei (#3 in the Social Sciences Category)
University of South Carolina, Columbia
"The Media Effect on Economic Voting: A Cross-national Analysis"