Grant Recipients in the European Region, 2012-2013

 

 

Recipients in the European Region

(in order of application received)

Unit: Euro

A. Lecture Series Grants

 

1. Melinda Pap

Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary)

"New Research Trends in the Study of the Chinese Past"

Grant amount: £á22,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

B. Research Grants

 

1. Ming-Sung Kuo

University of Warwick (UK)

"The Rise and Fall of Juristocracy in Taiwan: Lessons from the Role of the Taiwan Constitutional Court in Managing the Jurisdictional Conflict between the Political Departments, 1948-2012"

Grant amount: £á26,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

2. Marc Andre Matten

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany)

"Science, Modernity and Political Behavior in Contemporary China (1949-1978)"

Grant amount: £á66,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

3. María Cruz Berrocal

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain)

"Taiwan in the 17th Century: Archaeology of Early Colonialism and the Beginnings of Globalization"

Grant amount: £á85,000

Grant period: 3 years

 

4. Weishan Huang

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Germany)

"Deterritorialization and Localization: Taiwanese Capital-Linked Migrants and Transnational Religious Networks in Shanghai"

Grant amount: £á24,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

5. Wlodzimierz Cieciura

University of Warsaw (Poland)

"Chinese Muslims and Islam on Two Sides of the Strait. A Comparative History of Modern Religious, Cultural and Ethnic Identity of Sinophone Muslims in Mainland China and on Taiwan"

Grant amount: £á27,000

Grant period: 3 years

 

C. Conference and Seminar Grants

 

1. Bernhard Fuehrer

SOAS, University of London (UK)

"Sinologists as Translators in the 17-19th Centuries: Archives and Context"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Albert Galvany

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)

"War of Ideas, Ideas of War: The Role of Military Thought in Early China"

Grant amount: £á9,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Ruru Li

University of Leeds (UK)

"Performing China on the Global Stage: People, Society and Culture"

Grant amount: £á15,000

Grant period: 1 year

http://www.stagingchina.leeds.ac.uk/

 

4. Lisa Indraccolo

University of Zurich (Switzerland)

"Masters of Disguise? Conceptions and Misconceptions of 'Rhetoric' in Chinese Antiquity"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. Ann Heirman

Ghent University (Belgium)

"Network and Identity: Exchange Relations between China and the World"

Grant amount: £á7,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Evelyn Goh

Royal Holloway, University of London (UK)

"Rising China's Influence in Developing Asia"

Grant amount: £á15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. Axel Schneider

Göttingen University (Germany)

"Questioning Modernity: Critical Engagement with Western Knowledge in Late Imperial and Republican China"

Grant amount: £á13,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

8. Françoise Bottéro

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)

"EACL-8 The 8th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics"

Grant amount: £á2,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

9. Rudolf Wagner

Heidelberg University (Germany)

"Leisure and Social Change: The Dynamics of the Transcultural Flow of Concepts, Institutions, and Practices of Leisure across Asia"

Grant amount: £á15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

10. Richard Little

University of Bristol (UK)

"The Chinese School of International Relations and its Critics"

Grant amount: £á20,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

D. Publication Subsidies

 

1. José Luis Ponce

Edicions Bellaterra (Spain)

"El licenciado número uno Zhang Xie: La primera obra de teatro chino del siglo XV (¡m±i¨óª¬¤¸¡n)", translated and edited by Regina Llamas

Grant amount: £á7,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

E. Special Project Grants

 

1. Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley

European Association of Taiwan Studies (Germany)

"European Association of Taiwan Studies -- Application for Continued Funding from the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (2014¡V2016)"

Grant amount: £á35,700

Grant period: 3 years

 

F. Fellowships for Ph.D. Dissertations

 

1. Sheng-Chi Shu

University of Cambridge (UK)

"Tango with a Giant: Reuters and Shifting Power Relationships in Nationalist China's Field of News Communications, 1931-1945"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Yiming Shen

SOAS, University of London (UK)

"Chinese Islamic Text Studies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Case Study of Two Chinese Translations of Jami's Persian Sufi Proses"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Yu Tao

University of Oxford (UK)

"Enemies of the State or Friends of the 'Harmonious Society'? Religious Groups and Collective Protests in Contemporary Rural China"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Giulia Zoccatelli

SOAS, University of London (UK)

"Globalizing Empowerment: An Ethnography of AIDS and Civil Society in Contemporary Post-Socialist China"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. Alice Bianchi

Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (France)

"Beggars and Street Characters in Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) Dynasties Painting"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Valentina Punzi

L'Orientale University of Naples (Italy)

"The Three Brothers of Amye Drakar: Sacralized Landscape and Local Identities in Southeast Amdo"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. Philip Entwistle

University of Oxford (UK)

"The Dragon and the Lamb: Christianity, Nationalism and the State in China"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

8. Gideon Elazar

Haifa University (Israel)

"Reborn in the Chinese Borderland: Missionaries, Ethnicity and State Control in Globalized Yunnan: A Summary"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

9. Emmanuel Caron

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)

"Alternative Forms of Housing in Beijing: Room and Bed Renting in Villages in the City, Underground Housing, Shared Apartments and Dilapidated Neighborhoods"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

10. Lik Hang (Lincoln) Tsui

University of Oxford (UK)

"The Social and Cultural Uses of Letters in Song China (960-1279): A Study in Classical Chinese Epistolary Culture"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

¡´Wait List

 

1. Pauline Sebillaud

École Pratique des Hautes Études (France)

"Settlement Spatial Organization in Central Plains China during the Period of Transition from Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (c. 2500-1050 B.C.)"

 

2. Regina Martinez Enjuto

LSE, University of London (UK)

"The Politics of Labor Rights Protection in Contemporary China: A Critical Analysis of How Labor Laws Frame Workers' Mobilization Strategies Hinged by Labor NGOs, Legal Aid and Public Interest Lawyers"

 

3. Gwendoline Debethune

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)

"The Role of Microcredit in the Emancipation of Women in the People's Republic of China: A Socio-Economic Issue with a Political Dimension?"

 

G. Fellowships for Postdoctoral Research

 

1. Oded Abt

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)

"Muslim Memories and Chinese Identity: Descendants of Muslims in Southeast China and Taiwan"

Grant amount: £á36,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

2. Michael Stanley-Baker

Leipzig University (Germany)

"Mapping the Religio-Medical Market in Early Medieval China"

Grant amount: £á36,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

3. Elisa Cencetti

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany)

"The Process of Power Legitimization: Local Powers and the Making of the State on the Tibetan Grasslands of Amdo-Qinghai (PRC)"

Grant amount: £á36,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

H. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

 

1. Hungju Hsu

University of Rouen (France)

"Towards the New Education? History and Context of the Development of Educational Reform in Taiwan"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Yunju Chen

University of Oxford (UK)

"Heating Drugs in Imperial China (960-1279): Knowledge Production in the Material World"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Fu-chen Chiang

École Pratique des Hautes Études (France)

"Models in Taoist Texts: Typology, Transmission and Usage -- In Studying of the Tradition Guangcheng yizhi"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Amy Fang-yen Hsieh

University of Cambridge (UK)

"Comparison of Relative Clause Acquisition by Second Language Learners of Chinese and Second Language Learners of English"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

5. Chih-wen Lan

Universität Bamberg (Germany)

"The Interaction of Heritage Conservation -- Surmounting Nations and Cultures -- Clash, Communications and Cooperation between Taiwan and Germany"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

6. Mu-chun Wu

University of Oxford (UK)

"The Spatial Construct of Social Relations: Social Transformation in Early Kau-Shi, Taiwan"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

7. Wen-ching Ting

University of Sussex (UK)

"Struggling in Between: Shan (Tai) Survival Migrants on the Thai-Burma Border"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

8. Wu-long Jhuang

University of Sheffield (UK)

"Contemporary Indigenous Hunting, Wildlife Conservation and Indigenous Development: An Institutional Analysis of the Truku People in Eastern Taiwan"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

9. Ren-jie Lin

Institute of Education, University of London (UK)

"Transnational Knowledge Dissemination and Recontextualisation: The Development of British Foundations of Educational Disciplines in Taiwan since 1968"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

10. Chung-yang Yeh

University of Southampton (UK)

"Pension Development in East Asia -- A Political-Economic Explanation"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

11. Chi-chung Wang

University of Edinburgh (UK)

"Knowledge Acquisition, Taste and Practice in the Rock Field: The Case of 'Schooled Rock' in Taiwan"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

12. Yuchi Lin

University of Hertfordshire (UK)

"I-Other Relationship in Moving: Dance Movement Psychotherapy as a Treatment for Women with Depression in Taiwan"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

13. Pei-Chun Wen

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

"A Shifting Landscape of the Water-Production Territory: Morphology of Production Landscapes and Settlements in the Chia-Nan Plain, Taiwan"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

14. Pin-Hsien Wu

University of Sussex (UK)

"The Formation of Environmental Movements in China and India -- Case Studies on Coal Mining"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

15. Chinchih Chen

LSE, University of London (UK)

"How Agglomeration Economies and Trade Costs Reshape Economic Integration: Evidence from Taiwan Firms' Foreign Direct Investment and Trade Patterns in East Asia"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

16. Yu-kei Tse

Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)

"The Consumption of Foreign TV via Online Sharing: The Case in Taiwan as an Example"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

¡´Wait List

(a) Humanities

 

1. De-jung Chen (#3 in the Humanities Category)

University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

"Mobilities in a Cosmopolitan World -- Couchsurfing Experiences in Taiwan and the Netherlands"

 

2. Shih-huang Hsu (#5 in the Humanities Category)

Royal Holloway, University of London (UK)

"Chinese Kunqu in Contemporary Times and Self-Orientalism: Inheritance and Reinvention of Traditional Art in an Economic Age"

 

(b) Social Sciences

 

1. Yu-Shan Chang (#1 in the Social Sciences Category)

University College London, University of London (UK)

"The Mechanisms and Rationale for Integrated Publicly Funded Legal Services: A Comparative Study of England and Wales, Australia and Taiwan"

 

2. Yi-Chang Lee (#2 in the Social Sciences Category)

Lancaster University (UK)

"Innovative Product Design Decision-making in SMEs"

 

3. Mu-yi Chou (#4 in the Social Sciences Category)

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany)

"Democratization or Authoritarian Consolidation after Economic Liberalization? Comparison of the Variation of State-Society Relationships between Taiwan and China from the Aspect of Public Governance"

 

 

 

 

Recipients in the East European Region 

(in order of date application received)

 Unit: Euro

A. Library Acquisitions

 

1. Anett Kozjek-Gulyás

Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Hungary)

"Library Acquisition of PPCU"

Grant amount: £á8,800

Grant period: 3 years

 

B. Research Grants

 

1. Frank Kraushaar

University of Latvia (Latvia)

"Restoring Ambiguity ÂkÁô. Critical Essays on a Poetic Paradigm in Selected Works of Li He (790-816), Lin Bu (967-1028) and Liu Yong (987-1053)"

Grant amount: £á19,900

Grant period: 2 years

 

2. Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky

Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary)

"The Reconstruction of a 17th Century Sino-Mongol Glossary"

Grant amount: £á12,000

Grant period: 1 year