Grant Recipients in the American Region, 2013-2014
Recipients in the American Region
(in order of application received)
Unit: US$
1. Dennis V. Hickey
Missouri State University
“Taiwan and the Dispute in the South China Sea”
Grant amount: US$7,160
Grant period: 1 year
2. Jie Zhang
University of Kansas
“Experimental Investigations of Tone Sandhi in Three Hakka Dialects Spoken in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 2 years
3. Jennifer Hsu
University of Alberta
“Growing Up and Going Out: The Internationalization of Chinese NGOs as an Alternative Model of Development”
Grant amount: US$14,757
Grant period: 1 year
4. Pin Ng
Northern Arizona University
“Sustainability and Resilience to Disturbance and Change in Rural Taiwan Communities”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 2 years
5. Robert Cliver
Humboldt State University
“Surviving Socialism: Private Businesses and the Transition to Socialism in China”
Grant amount: US$6,778
Grant period: 1 year
6. Li-jen Kuo
Texas A&M University
“Reconceptualizing the Effect of Bilingual Experience on the Literacy Development of Dyslexic Children: A Study with Native-speakers and Learners of Chinese in Taiwan and in the U.S.”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 2 years
7. Chen-pang Yeang
University of Toronto
“Chao Yuen Ren and the Modern Soundscape of Republican China,
1912-1937”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 2 years
8. Jing Cai
University of Michigan
“Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance: Evidence from China”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 2 years
9. Yuen Yuen Ang
University of Michigan
“Wages, Auditing and Corruption: A Comparative Study of China, Taiwan and Singapore”
Grant amount: US$12,975
Grant period: 2 years
10. Min-ming Wen
California State University, Los Angeles
“Managerial Risk-taking Behaviors and Financing Costs of Taiwan’s Corporations Operated in Taiwan and in China”
Grant amount: US$9,960
Grant period: 1 year
B. Conference/Seminar/Workshop Grants
1. Andrew Jones
University of California, Berkeley
“Modern Chinese Style: Words and Worlds in Twentieth Century China”
Grant amount: US$10,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang
University of Texas, Austin
“The North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) 20th Anniversary Conference -- The Zeitgeists of Taiwan: Looking Back, Moving Forward”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Xiaofei Tian
Harvard University
“An International Conference on Classical Chinese Literature, 1000 BCE-900 CE”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 6 months
4. Peter Bol
Harvard University
“Conference on Middle Period China, 800-1400”
Grant amount: US$24,617
Grant period: 6 months
5. Vincent Wang
American Association for Chinese Studies
“Conference Grant and Journal Support for the American Association for Chinese Studies”
Grant amount: US$17,000
Grant period: 6 months
6. Robert Culp
Bard College
“Organized Knowledge and State Socialism, 1949-1978”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 6 months
7. Tamara Bentley
Colorado College
“Picturing Commerce: Visual Forms in Motion in and from the Asian Maritime Circuits, 1550-1800”
Grant amount: US$14,000
Grant period: 6 months
C. Publication Subsidies
1. Emily Andrew
University of British Columbia Press
“The Business of Culture: Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900-65”, edited by Christopher G. Rea and Nicolai Volland
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Susan Barnett
Cornell University Press
“The Neighborhood Consensus: Practices of Power in Urban China”, by Luigi Tomba
Grant amount: US$4,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Susan Barnett
Cornell University Press
“Insurgency Trap: Migrant Workers, Unions, and the State in China”, by Eli Friedman
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Anh Ly
University of California Press
“Fantasy Islands: Transnational Flows, Fears and Fantasies in an Age of Climate Crisis”, by Julie Sze
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Qin Higley
Brill
“An Intellectual History of China: Knowledge, Thought, and Belief through 1895”, by Zhaoguang Ge, translated by Michael S. Duke and Josephine Chiu-Duke
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Beth Fuget
University of Washington Press
“Educating the Chinese Individual: Life in a Rural Boarding School”, by Mette Halskov Hansen
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Beth Fuget
University of Washington Press
“Out of the Imperial Shadow: Chinese Vernacular Fiction as Political Discourse”, by Liangyan Ge
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Beth Fuget
University of Washington Press
“Heaven in Conflict: Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi”, by Anthony E. Clark
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Susan Barnett
Cornell University Press
“‘Getting By’: A Historical Ethnography of Class and State Formation in Malaysia”, by Donald M. Nonini
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
D. Scholar Grants
(a) Scholar Grants
1. Tze-lan Sang
Michigan State University
“Taiwan’s Women Documentary Filmmakers: Public Intellectuals and Innovative Artists”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Shih-shan Susan Huang
Rice University
“First Impressions: Chinese Religious Prints before Gutenberg, 850-1450”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Thomas Reilly
Pepperdine University
“The YMCA, Chinese Protestants, and the Shanghai Urban Elite: From Social Reform to Social Revolution, 1922-1952”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. J Michael Farmer
University of Texas, Dallas
“South of Mount Hua”
Grant amount: US$10,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Susan McCarthy
Providence College
“Serving Society, Re-purposing the State: Faith-based Charity, Religious Innovation and Resistance in China”
Grant amount: US$24,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Robert Culp
Bard College
“Publishing Circles and the Production of Culture in Post-imperial China, 1900-1965”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Chih-chin Chou
University of Arizona
“The Social Network Characteristics and Type of Social Support for Persons with Mental Illness in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Sarah Queen
Connecticut College
“Exemplary Tales from Ancient China: Reimagining the Confucian Utopia of King Wen of Zhou”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Jiang-ping Chen
St. Cloud State University
“Mei Wending (1633-1721) and the Rise of Reasoning in 17th Century Chinese Mathematics”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
(b) Junior Scholar Grants
1. Ling Zhang
Boston College
“The River, the Plain, and the State: Making a Yellow River Delta, 1048-1128”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Tie Xiao
Indiana University, Bloomington
“In the Name of the Masses: Imagining Crowds in Modern China, 1900-1950”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Sukhee Lee
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
“Philosopher: Officials and the Limits of Governance in Middle Period China”
Grant amount: US$14,900
Grant period: 1 year
4. Michael Ing
Indiana University, Bloomington
“Vulnerabilities of the Self in Early Confucianism”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Shelly Chan
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Diaspora’s Homeland: A Transnational History of Modern China”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Gareth Price
Duke University
“Language, Society and the State: From Colonization to Globalization in Taiwan -- A Monograph to Appear in de Gruyter Mouton’s Language, Power and Social Process Series”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. John Osburg
University of Rochester
“Tibetan Buddhism and Spiritual Self-cultivation in the PRC”
Grant amount: US$29,997
Grant period: 1 year
8. Ling Chen
Stanford University
“Manipulating Globalization: Bureaucrats, Businesses, and Policy Implementation in Local China”
Grant amount: US$22,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Elaine Liu
University of Houston
“Property Right Reform and Agricultural Investment Decisions in China”
Grant amount: US$13,009
Grant period: 1 year
10. Xing Hang
Brandeis University
“Overseas Chinese State-building and Identity on the Southeast Asian Frontier”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Shuang Zhang
University of Colorado, Boulder
“Long-term Impact of Land Reform on Human Capital in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$12,000
Grant period: 1 year
E. Doctoral Fellowships
1. Yiqing Xu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Lobbying the State: Political Visits and Bank Loans during the Crisis”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Yifei Li
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Down to Earth: Bureaucracy, Populism, and Local Environmental Governance in China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Hiu Yu Cheung
Arizona State University
“Sequence of Power: Ritual Controversy over the Zhaomu Sequence in Imperial Ancestral Rites in Song China, 960-1279”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Rafal Stepien
Columbia University
“The Unity Between: Ways of Saying and Silence in Buddhism and Islam”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Cai Vera Zuo
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Welfare Distribution without Voters: The Local Political Economy of Welfare Reform in China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Elad Alyagon
University of California, Davis
“The Making and Unmaking of the Chinese Lower Class: Common Soldiers in the Song Military, 960-1279”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Yun Yao
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Sub-lexical Processing in Chinese Character Recognition: Psycholinguistic Evidence from L1 and L2 Settings”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Ling Han
University of California, San Diego
“Serve the People (Wei Renmin Fuwu): The Professionalization of Social Work in Urban China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Qiong Yang
The Ohio State University
“Mr. Science Goes Popular: Science as Imagined in Chinese Literature and Culture, 1903-1997”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Mujun Zhou
Brown University
“Cultural Formation of Civil Society after 1989: Emancipatory Potential and the Contest to Build Solidarity”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Wenxin Guo
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions from Emerging-market Nations: Evidence from Chinese Acquirers”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Fang Yu Hu
University of California, Santa Cruz
“Taiwanese Homes, Japanese Schools: Han Taiwanese Girls’ Primary Education under Japanese Rule, 1895-1945”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
13. Priscilla Tse
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Queering the Body: Musical Gendering of Cross-dressing Performance in Cantonese Opera, and Cultural, Sexual, and Identity Politics in Contemporary Hong Kong”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
14. Ming Yang
University of Hawaii
“‘New Aesthetics’ and Revitalization of Kunqu Theatre in the People’s Republic of China, 2001-2012”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
15. Jessica Chen
Stanford University
“The Social World of Muslims in 19th Century China: Biographical Literature and Local Historical Imagination”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
16. Wenwen Shi
Wayne State University
“Transformative Effects of the Internet on Chinese Peasants’ Political Orientation -- A Field Experiment”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
17. Macabe Keliher
Harvard University
“The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China, 1631-1690”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
18. Einor Keinan-Segev
Harvard University
“Water Stages: Aquatic Theaters and Other Floating Pleasures”
Grant amount: US$8,750
Grant period: 1 year
F. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Fang-yu Li
Washington University in St. Louis
“Writers in Crisis: Moral Agency and Intellectual Identity in Contemporary Novels from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Chuan-an Hu
McGill University
“The Colonial Landscape of Ancient Sichuan and the Making of Metropolitan-local Identities in Early Imperial China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Shing-ting Lin
Columbia University
“The Female Hand: The Making of Professional Women’s Medicine in Modern China, 1880-1940”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Hsiao-chun Wu
University of California, Los Angeles
“Ascending the Great Hall of Elegance: Emerging Modern Scholarship of Peking Opera in Early 20th Century China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Chen-cheng Wang
University of California, Irvine
“The Politics of Local Statecraft in Nationalist China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Hsin-fang Wu
Pennsylvania State University
“The Transmission of Memory in the Jesuit Mission in Shanghai: Printing Culture, Rituals, and Exhibitions, 1842-1949”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. I-hsuan Chen
University of California, Berkeley
“The Diachronic Development Underlying the Synchronic Variation of Minimizers in Mandarin Chinese”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Yaling Hsiao
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Language Universality or Language Specificity? Mandarin Relative Clauses’ Contribution to Theories of Human Sentence Processing”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Ka-yi Ho
University of California, Los Angeles
“Art Productions of the Late Ming Court during the Wanli Era, 1573-1620”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. I-wen Chang
University of California, Los Angeles
“Flirting with Global Citizenship: The Body Politics of National, Gender, and Class Identity in Taiwanese Salsa Practice”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Beth Tsai
Stony Brook University
“Transnational Images in a Global Frame: Film Festivals and Taiwan Cinema through the Lens of Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. I-yi Hsieh
New York University
“Marketing Nostalgia: Beijing Folklore Arts at the Age of Heritage Construction”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
13. Yu-chien Huang
University of Virginia
“‘The War at the End of the World’: Controversy, Hierarchy, and Matriliny in Yap (Wa’ab), Federated States of Micronesia”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
14. Hsiao-ling Su
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Counterfeit Goods, the State, and Intellectual Property Rights: An Ethnography of Legal Consciousness in Post-socialist China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
15. Yu-Kang Fan
University of Southern California
“Sandwiched between Two Worlds: Taiwanese Experiences of Transnational Caregiving”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
16. Tzu-Yin Tseng
University of Houston
“The Effect of Maternal Stress on the Incidence of Miscarriages, Stillbirths and Long-term Health Outcomes”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
17. Chia-yin Wei
University of South Carolina, Columbia
“The Media Effect on Economic Voting: A Cross-national Analysis and a Comparative Case Study of Taiwan and Mexico”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
18. Ming-chieh Kuo
University of California, San Diego
“Delegation and Credibility: The Politics of Governing Food Safety in China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
19. Hsin-hsin Pan
Michigan State University
“The Politics of Decentralization under Dictatorship”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
20. Chien-chih Lin
University of Chicago
“Judicialization of Politics in New Democracies”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
21. Mong-hwa Chin
Duke University
“A Psychological Perspective on the Decision-making Process of Trial Judges in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
●Wait List
1. Chia-ying Chu
University of Kansas
“The Interplay between Language and Cognition in Acquisition of Demonstratives”