Grant Recipients in the Asia-Pacific Region, 2013-2014

 

 

Recipients in the Asia-Pacific Region

(in order of application received)

Unit: US$

A. Research Grants

 

1. Brian Tsui

Australian National University (Australia)

¡§Beyond Pan-Asianism: China-India Connections, 1911-1949¡¨

Grant amount: US$85,000

Grant period: 3 years

 

2. Hsiao-chun Hung

Australian National University (Australia)

¡§Neolithic Transition in Island Southeast Asia: Food-Production by Austronesian Migrants on their Way from Taiwan to the Pacific¡¨

Grant amount: US$35,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

3. Elsie Seckyee Ho

University of Auckland (New Zealand)

¡§Migration, Filial Piety and Transnational Aged Care: A Cross-national Study of Chinese Families Caring for Older Parents across Borders¡¨

Grant amount: US$48,000

Grant period: 2 years

 

4. Tana Li

Australian National University (Australia)

¡§The Making of the Red River¡¨

Grant amount: US$92,000

Grant period: 3 years

 

5. Dong Dong

Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong)

¡§Live to Contend: The Emergence and Development of the Health Rights Defense Movement in Contemporary China¡¨

Grant amount: US$84,000

Grant period: 3 years

 

B. Conference and Seminar Grants

 

1. Mu-chou Poo

Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

¡§Old Society, New Faith: Religious Transformation in China and Rome (c. 2-7 CE)¡¨

Grant amount: US$10,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Hsin-wen Lee

City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

¡§Reimaging Nation and Nationalism in Multicultural East Asia¡¨

Grant amount: US$18,000

Grant period: 6 months

 

3. John Fitzgerald

Swinburne University of Technology (Australia)

¡§International Workshop on Philanthropy and the Chinese Diaspora 1850-1949¡¨

Grant amount: US$20,000

Grant period: 6 months

 

4. Rosemary Roberts

University of Queensland (Australia)

¡§The Making and Remaking of China¡¦s ¡¥Red Classics¡¦: Politics, Aesthetics and Mass Culture in Literary Icons of Socialism and their Contemporary Remakes¡¨

Grant amount: US$20,000

Grant period: 6 months

 

C. Publication Subsidies

 

1. Christy Leung

Hong Kong University Press (Hong Kong)

¡§Art Worlds: Artists, Images and Audiences in Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai¡¨, by Roberta Wue

Grant amount: US$6,456

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Jan Kiely

Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

¡§The Copy-editing of Modern Chinese Religion: 1850-Present: Value Systems in Transformation¡¨

Grant amount: US$6,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

D. Special Project Grants

 

1. Sook-Jong Lee

East Asia Institute (Korea)

¡§Fellows Program on Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia¡¨

Grant amount: US$60,000

Grant period: 3 years

 

E. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

 

1.Yi-tsun Chen

Australian National University (Australia)

¡§Compelled ¡§Wu Nai¡¨ Subjects, Guanxi, and Life Experiences of Seeking Recognition without Resistance: The Expansion of Humanitarian Mode of Global AIDS Discourse and its Impacts in Taiwan¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Yu-hsuan Lin

Hitotsubashi University (Japan)

¡§Da-cheng Ritual in Tainan: Transcendentalism and Materiality in Han Chinese Folk Religion¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,000

Grant period: 1 year