Grant Recipients in the American Region, 2014-2015
Recipients in the American Region
(in order of application received)
Unit: US$
A. Research Grants
1. Xun Cao
Pennsylvania State University
“China Addresses Climate Change: A Political and Economic Analysis”
Grant amount: US$27,548
Grant period: 1 year
2. Chu-sheng Tai
Texas Southern University
“On the Risk Exposure and the Cost of Capital of International Banking Industry: Evidence from 2008 Subprime Crisis”
Grant amount: US$11,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Zai Liang
State University of New York, Albany
“The Adaptation Process of African Merchants in Guangzhou: The Roles of Church/Mosque and Foreigner Service Centers”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 2 years
4. Sue-mei Wu
Carnegie Mellon University
“Weathering the Storm: Hand Puppet Theater (布袋戲) and Taiwanese Opera (歌仔戲) amid Social Change in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$20,700
Grant period: 2 years
5. Lijun Song
Vanderbilt University
“Institutional Contingency of Network Embeddedness of Class Identification: Network Members’ Occupational Status and Subjective Social Class in Three Societies”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 2 years
6. Barbara Voss
Stanford University
“Reconstructing the Daily Lives of Chinese Railroad Workers”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 2 years
7. Timothy Rich
Western Kentucky University
“Strategic Voting in Taiwan: A Multi-method Approach”
Grant amount: US$10,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Bo Zhang
Ball State University
“Chinese Influences on the Designed Landscapes in U.S., 1860-1930”
Grant amount: US$16,950
Grant period: 1 year
9. Benjamin Read
University of California, Santa Cruz
“Democratic Deepening in the State’s Urban Roots: Generational Change among Taiwan’s Neighborhood Leaders”
Grant amount: US$29,400
Grant period: 2 years
B. Conference/Seminar/Workshop Grants
1. Lowell Dittmer
University of California, Berkeley
“The Narrowing Taiwan Strait and its Political, Economic, Social and Strategic Implications”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 6 months
2. Michael Szonyi
Harvard University
“Contributor’s Workshop for a Companion to Chinese History”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 6 months
3. Xiaoqiao Ling
Arizona State University
“To Remember, Re-member, and Disremember: Instrumentality of Traditional Chinese Texts”
Grant amount: US$20,004
Grant period: 6 months
4. Feng-en Tu
North American Taiwan Studies Association
“Motions and the Motionless: (Dis/Re-)connecting Taiwan to the World”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 6 months
5. Taisu Zhang
Duke University
“Workshop on Modern Chinese Legal History: An Introduction to New Archival Materials”
Grant amount: US$24,800
Grant period: 6 months
6. Morgan Pitelka
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Who Decides in China’s Rapid Urbanization? An Interdisciplinary Inquiry to the New Chinese City”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 6 months
7. Vincent Wang
American Association for Chinese Studies
“Application for Renewal of a Grant by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation to the American Association for Chinese Studies”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 6 months
8. Jason McGrath
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
“New Angles on Chinese Film History”
Grant amount: US$24,862
Grant period: 6 months
C. Publication Subsidies
1. Jonathan Fiedler
Columbia University Press
“The Lyrical in Epic Time”, by David Der-wei Wang
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Jonathan Fiedler
Columbia University Press
“Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn”, translated by Sarah Queen and John Major
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Anh Ly
University of California, Berkeley
“Republican Lens: Image, Text, and Experience in the Early Chinese Women’s Commercial Press”, by Joan Judge
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Beth Fuget
University of Washington Press
“Urbanization in Early and Medieval China: Gazetteers for the City of Suzhou”, by Olivia Milburn
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Robert Graham
Harvard University
“Young China: National Rejuvenation and the Bildungsroman, 1900-1959”, by Mingwei Song
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Robert Graham
Harvard University
“Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949”, by Zhao Ma
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Robert Graham
Harvard University
“Radical Inequalities: China’s Revolutionary Welfare State in Comparative Perspective”, by Nara Dillon
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Beth Fuget
University of Washington Press
“Sima Qian and the Letter to Ren An”, by Stephen Durrant, Hans van Ess, Wai-yee Li, and Michael Nylan
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Beth Fuget
University of Washington Press
“From Archaism to Antiquarianism: Antiquity in Song Culture”, by Yun-chiahn Sena
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
D. Scholar Grants
(a) Scholar Grants
1. Shaowen Bardzell
Indiana University, Bloomington
“Civic Making: Promoting IT Innovation, Cultural Industry, and Democratic Governance in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Jin Feng
Grinnell College
“Food Nostalgia in the Lower Yangzi Delta”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Zev Joseph Handel
University of Washington
“Chinese Characters and the Origin of Writing in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam: A Linguistic-comparative Study”
Grant amount: US$24,568
Grant period: 1 year
4. Eugenio Menegon
Boston University
“Amicitia Palatina: Court Networks and the Europeans in Imperial Beijing”
Grant amount: US$24,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Andrew F. Jones
University of California, Berkeley
“Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Transistor Era”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Aaron Stalnaker
Indiana University, Bloomington
“Mastery, Dependence, and the Ethics of Authority”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Angelina Chin
Pomona College
“Out of Bounds: Diasporic Consciousness of Chinese in Hong Kong after 1949”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Mark Meulenbeld
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“How Transcendence Structures Self: Ritual Ecology vs. Modernity in the Local Religion of Taiwan and China”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Shuang Shen
Pennsylvania State University
“From Hong Kong to the World: Cold War Literary Transnationalism in the Asia Pacific”
Grant amount: US$17,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Wei Zhao
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
“Institutional Transformations and Shifting Patterns of Social Inequality in Urban China”
Grant amount: US$25,631
Grant period: 1 year
11. Daniel Lynch
University of Southern California
“Tracing the Origins and Outlining the Implications of Taiwan’s Core Security Referent”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
(b) Junior Scholar Grants
1. Xiaojun Li
University of British Columbia (Canada)
“Access, Institutions and Policy Influence: The Political Economy of China’s Accession to the World Trade Organization”
Grant amount: US$16,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Pu Wang
Brandeis University
“Marx Enters the Temple of Confucius: Literary Representations of National Antiquity in Revolutionary China”
Grant amount: US$15,500
Grant period: 1 year
3. Vikesh Amin
Central Michigan University
“The Causal Effect of Education on Fertility: Evidence from Taiwanese Population Data”
Grant amount: US$11,618
Grant period: 1 year
4. Hsiang-hua Melanie Chang
Oakland University
“Demonstrative and Definite Noun Phrases in Child Mandarin and English”
Grant amount: US$17,500
Grant period: 1 year
5. Kristen Looney
Georgetown University
“The Politics of Rural Development in East Asia”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Xiaobo Lu
University of Texas, Austin
“Fiscal Capacity and Political Development: China and Beyond”
Grant amount: US$16,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Tzu-jung Lin
Ohio State University
“Buffering Against Peer Rejection through Collaborative Social Reasoning: A Study with Early Adolescents in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$29,998
Grant period: 1 year
8. Ling-yu Hung
Indiana University, Bloomington
“Making the Majiayao Culture Complex: Migration, Diffusion, and Trade in Late Neolithic Northwest China and Beyond”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
E. Special Project Grants
1. David Der-wei Wang
Harvard University
“The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies, USA”
Grant amount: US$420,000
Grant period: 3 years
2. Michael Paschal
Association for Asian Studies
“CCKF-CIAC Small Grants Program and CCKF Graduate Student Paper Awards”
Grant amount: US$129,000
Grant period: 3 years
3. Srinivas Aravamudan
Duke University
“Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes -- Annual Summer Institute (2016-2018): Chinese Studies and Global Humanities”
Grant amount: US$105,000
Grant period: 3 years
F. Doctoral Fellowships
1. Yang Zhang
University of Chicago
“Rebellion Ecology and Insurgent Formation: Qing China 1850-1873”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Kevin Buckelew
Columbia University
“Mountains, Forests, and Pastures: Buddhist Reclusion in China, 618-1368”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Yangyang Su
Princeton University
“A History of Muskets in Qing China, 1680-1860”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Cheng-pang Lee
University of Chicago
“Altruism in Action: The Rise of the Tzu-chi Movement and the Invention of Direct Social Service”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Jae Yeol Lee
McGill University (Canada)
“Liu Xiang and the Establishment of Textual Identity in the Late Western Han Period”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Ling Zhang
University of Chicago
“Sound Images, Acoustic Culture and Transmediality in 1920s-1940s Chinese Cinema”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Justina Hwang
Brown University
“Cold War Courtships: Authoritarian Anti-communism, Developmental Diplomacy, and Chinese Communities in Latin America and the Republic of China, 1960-1975”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Tin Yuet Ting
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Digital Media Activism for Democracy Movement in Hong Kong”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Dasa Mortensen
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Historical Amnesia in Shangri-la: The Contested Legacy of Tibetan Participation in the Chinese Cultural Revolution”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Meng Ren
University of Pittsburgh
“The Heroine Mulan on Chinese Operatic Stage during the Korean War: Chang Xiangyu and Henan Opera ‘Hua Mulan’”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Jonathan Henshaw
University of British Columbia (Canada)
“Serving the Occupation State: Republican Chinese Elites and the Challenge of Invasion, 1937-1945”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Sharon Sanderovitch
University of California, Berkeley
“Constructions of the Emperor’s Body: Concealment, Display, and Mobility in the Early Eastern Han”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
13.Qiaoyun Zhang
Tulane University
“Reconstruction in the Name of Qiang Culture: Complex Dynamics of the Earthquake Recovery of a Chinese Ethnic Minority in Southwest China”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
14. Jessica Chen
Stanford University
“Muhammad’s Legacy in China: Islamic Narrative and Self Understanding”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
15. Yao Wu
Stanford University
“The Invention of Tradition and Modernity: Media Contestation in the Hangzhou Art School in 20th Century China”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
16. Franziska Barbara Keller
New York University
“Networks of Power: A Social Network Analysis of the Central Committee of the People’s Republic of China”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
17. Zhiying Ma
University of Chicago
“Insanity, Intimacy and Institution: Governance and Care under the Mental Health Legal Reform in Contemporary China”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
18. Xi Chen
University of Toronto (Canada)
“The Question of the Animal in 20th Century Chinese Cultures”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
19. Hsinyi Tiffany Lee
Stanford University
“Shooting for the Nation: Pictorial Photography and Nationalism in China, 1919-1937”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
20. Meng Xue
George Mason University
“Chinese Culture and Modern Economic Development”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
21. Shuxuan Zhou
University of Washington
“Gendered Labor, Narrative and Resistance: Forestry Workers in Chinese Enterprise Restructuring, 1950s-2010s”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
22. James Lin
University of California, Berkeley
“Sowing Seeds and Knowledge: Development Discourses in the US, China, Taiwan, and the World, 1920-1975”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
G. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Hwa-Yen Huang
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden
“Crisis Events, In-Betweenness, and Epistemic Transformation: A Phenomenological Study of Autobiographical Accounts of the Chinese Cultural Revolution”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Hsin-Yi Lin
Columbia University
“Between the Suffering and the Sacred: Buddhist Discourses, Practices, and Imagery of Reproduction in Medieval China”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. I-In Chiang
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Imagined Nation and Imagined Womanhood in Shaw Brothers’ Musicals”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. I-Fan Wu
Cornell University
“Doing Qigong in Malaysia: Religious Healing and the Production of Chinese Identities”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Hsiu-Ping Lee
University of California, Los Angeles
“From Erlitou to Erligang: Settlement Patterns and Social Structures in the Central Plains of Ancient China”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Ellen Hsieh
University of California, Los Angeles
“The Power Relationships between the Spanish, the Chinese and the Indigenous People in Manila Area during the Early Spanish Colonial Period: A Historical Archaeology Viewpoint”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Szu Ying Ho
City University of New York
“Flexicurity and Its Discontents: The Effects of Flexicurity on Gender Equality”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Yao-Tai Li
University of California, San Diego
“The Boundary of ‘Pan-Chineseness’: The Formation and Declination of Overseas Chinese/Taiwanese Ethnic Identity in Australia”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Li-Chung Hu
University of Pennsylvania
“The Social Determinants and Labor Market Consequences of Health Inequality in China”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Yu-Cheng Lin
University of Texas, El Paso
”Unraveling the Mystery of the Chinese-English Bilingual Mind: Eye Movements Reveal the Phonological Grain Sizes in Spoken Word Recognition”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Jaw-Nian Huang
University of California, Riverside
“Economic Dependence, Market Intervention, and the Development of Taiwan's Press Freedom: A Historical Institutional Analysis”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Chien-yu Liu
Georgetown University
“International Response to Natural Disasters: Implications in Human Rights and Humanitarian Assistance”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
13. Wei-Fen Chen
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Fluid Social Class and Consumer Culture in Transitions -- Exploring the ‘New Poor’ in Taiwan and the U.S.”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
14. Tien-wen Lin
University of Texas, Austin
“Consuming Koreanness: Taiwan-South Korea Relationship in the Twenty-First Century through Media and Cultural Studies”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
15. Yu-Kuei Sun
University of Iowa
“Sporting Taiwan: Transnational Athletes in the Age of Neoliberal Imperialisms”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
●Wait List
1. Pei-Jean Chen
Cornell University
“The Transnational-Translational Modernity: Vernacular Movements and Sexual Discourses in Colonial Taiwan and Korea”
2. Ruping Tso
Rice University
“The Effect of Chinese Characters on Speech Production and Perception in Taiwan Mandarin”
3. Yun-chung Ting
Washington State University
“A Social Network Analysis of the Nuclear Industry in East Asia”