Grant Recipients, 2015-2016 (I)





Recipients in the American Region Unit: US$

(in order of date application received)

 

A. Conferences/Seminars/Workshops

 

1. Jiang Wu

University of Arizona

¡§The Formation of Regional Religious System in Greater China¡¨

Grant amount: US$24,862

Grant period: 6 months

 

2. Richard Vanness Simmons

Rutgers University, New Brunswick

¡§Workshop on the History of Colloquial Chinese -- Written and Spoken¡¨

Grant amount: US$20,000

Grant period: 6 months

 

3. Paul Manfredi

Pacific Lutheran University

¡§Ekphrastic Assimilations: Contemporary Chinese Literati in Global Context¡¨

Grant amount: US$25,000

Grant period: 6 months

 

B. Publication Subsidies

 

1. Emily Andrew

University of British Columbia Press

¡§The Great Northern Wilderness: Political Exile and Re-education in Mao¡¦s China¡¨, by Wang Ning

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Jenny Gavacs

Stanford University Press

¡§Scythe and the City: A Social History of Death in Shanghai¡¨, by Christian Henriot

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Beth Fuget

University of Washington Press

¡§The Social Lives of Inkstones: Craftsmen and Scholars in Early-Qing China¡¨,by Dorothy Ko

Grant amount: US$5,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

C. Special Project Grants

 

1. Seteney Shami

Social Science Research Council

¡§InterAsian Connections V: Seoul (2016)¡¨

Grant amount: US$25,000

Grant period: 1 year





Recipients in the European Region Unit: £á

(in order of date application received)

 

A. Conference and Seminar Grants

 

1. Cheng-tian Kuo

Leiden University (The Netherlands)

¡§New Religious Nationalism in Chinese Societies¡¨

Grant amount: £á18,000

Grant period: 6 months

 

B. Publication Subsidies

 

1. Petr Valo

Karolinum Press, Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)

¡§Crossing Between Tradition and Modernity: Essays in Commemoration of Milena Doleželová-Velingerová (1932-2012)¡¨, edited by Kirk Denton

Grant amount: £á4,600

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Vivian Constantinopoulos

Reaktion Books (UK)

¡§Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China¡¨, by Wu Hung

Grant amount: £á6,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

3. Gábor Kósa

Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary)

¡§China across the Centuries¡¨, edited by Gábor Kósa

Grant amount: £á6,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

C. Special Project Grants

 

1. Roger Greatrex 

European Association for Chinese Studies (Sweden)

¡§EACS 21st Biennial Conference and EACS Young Scholar Award¡¨

Grant amount: £á15,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

2. Hilde De Weerdt

Leiden University (The Netherlands)

¡§Chinese Digital Humanities (C-DH) Summer School¡¨

Grant amount: £á45,000

Grant period: 1 year





Recipients in the Asia-Pacific Region Unit: US$

(in order of date application received)

 

Conference and Seminar Grants

 

1. Yuk Wah Chan

City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

¡§Workshop on ¡¥Asian Migration and Diasporas: Mobility, Diversity and Development¡¦ -- Expert Meeting and Book Series Launch¡¨

Grant amount: US$22,000

Grant period: 6 months

 

2. Chengxin Pan

Deakin University (Australia)

¡§Theorising China¡¦s Rise in/beyond International Relations¡¨

Grant amount: US$15,080

Grant period: 6 months

 

3. James D. Frankel

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

¡§International Conference on Islamic Arts in Intercultural Perspective and Ethnographies of Islam in China¡¨

Grant amount: US$16,000

Grant period: 6 months





Recipients in the Developing Regions Unit: US$

(in order of date application received)

 

Research Grants

 

1. Wei-lun Lu

Masaryk University (Czech Republic)

¡§The Language of Death in Contemporary Taiwan: Evidence from Condolatory Idioms, Presidential Eulogies and the Self-introductions of Undertakers¡¨

Grant amount: US$24,000

Grant period: 3 years

 

2. Maja Veselič

University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

¡§Religious Organizations and Disaster Response in Contemporary Taiwan and China¡¨

Grant amount: US$24,000

Grant period: 3 years

 

3. Poh Chua Siah

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (Malaysia)

¡§Why do Students from Malaysia Chinese Independence Schools Choose to Continue their Tertiary Education in Taiwan?¡¨

Grant amount: US$10,000

Grant period: 1 year

 

4. Csaba István Moldicz

Budapest Business School, University of Applied Sciences (Hungary)

¡§Economic Relations between Taiwan and the European Union¡¨

Grant amount: US$9,000

Grant period: 1 year