Recipients for the American Region 1991-1992

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Institutional Enhancement Grants

Augustana College 
Don Erickson 
Enhancing the Study of Chinese Language and Literature 
$150,000

Colby University 
Lee Feigon 
Staff Expansion for Chinese Art Instruction 
$143,000

College of William and Mary 
Howard M. Fraser 
New Faculty in Chinese Language and Literature 
$147,750

Columbia University 
Ping-sheng Yen Chin 
Establishment of the Dr. Y.C. James Yen Archives in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University 
$5,000

National Humanities Center 
W. Robert Connor 
Chiang Ching-kuo Visiting Scholars at the National Humanities Center 
$49,500

North Carolina State University 
Jonathan Ocko 
Years Support for Lecturer in Chinese at North Carolina State University 
$117,743

Rice University 
Richard Smith 
Proposal for a three-year faculty position in Chinese Literature with an emphasis on Buddhism 
$122,610

Rutgers University 
Ching-I Tu 
Staff Expansion and Curricular Development in Chinese Studies 
$131,628

State University of New York at Albany 
Charles Hartman 
Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Language and Literature 
$95,966

State University of New York at Binghamton 
John Chaffee 
Expansions of Chinese Language Instruction for the Liberal Arts and Management 
$111,004

Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara
Fernando Torres de la Torre 
Programs in Chinese Studies 
$97,000

University of Alabama 
Ronald Robel 
Staff Expansion in Asian Studies-Humanities 
$130,000

University of British Columbia 
Pitman Potter 
Enhancement of Resources For Teaching the Law of Taiwan, Republic of China, at University of British Columbia Law Faculty 
$30,000

University of Colorado at Boulder 
Paul W. Kroll 
Faculty Enhancement for Chinese Program
$140,306

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 
Thomas R. H. Havens 
New Teaching Position in Traditional Chinese Literature 
$182,999

University of Montana 
Philip West 
The Enhancement of Teaching Resources In Chinese Studies And The Professional Exchange With The Republic of China 
$120,000

University of Notre Dame 
David Ladouceur 
Enhancing Chinese Studies at Notre Dame 
$134,991

University of Victoria 
Joseph Kess 
Seed Money to Establish a Position in Chinese Language and Linguistics 
$164,484


Research Grants

Bruce H.Billing 
History of Technology in Taiwan in the Early 1900's- Straw Rope/Bag and Sisal Industry 
$39,800

Jo-shui Chen 
University of British Columbia 
The Confucian Revival in Mid-T'ang China (750-850)) and the Origins of Neo-Confucianism 
$4,700

Yu-shih Chen 
University of Alberta 
Women as Object of Ideology: Old Spectacle and New Social Space 
$15,600

John F. Copper 
Rhodes College 
Political Development and the "Ethnic" Problem in the Republic of China 
$11,800

Antonio S. Cua 
Catholic University of America 
Tradition, Virtues and Principles: Toward a Confucian Theory 
$12,580

Rita S. and Bernard Gallin 
Michigan State University 
Development and Chang in Rural Taiwan: A Longitudinal Micro Study in Macro Perspective 
$62,800

John W. Garver 
Georgia Institute of Technology 
The United States-Republic of China Alliance, 1950-1978 
$28,932

T.H.Gindling 
University of Maryland at Baltimore County 
The Nine Year Compulsory Education Policy and the Development of Human Resources Taiwan; 1976-1989 
$23,000

Norman Giradot 
Lehigh University 
James Legge (1815-1897) and the Victorian Encounter with China 
$32,000

Melvin J. Hinich 
University of Texas at Austin 
A Spatial Analysis of Electoral Competion in Taiwan 
$5,1963

Jae-Dong Han 
University of Western Ontario 
Monetary History of Modern China I: The Postwar Era 
$17,498

Marilyn Levine 
Lewis Clark State University 
The Kuo Min Tang in Europe During the Twenties 
$31,748

Robert Lipsey 
National Bureau of Economic Research 
Changing Methods of Taiwan's Entry Into World Markets 
$67,000

Jonathan K. Ocko 
North Carolina State University 
Finding Common Ground: Mediation in Chinese Society 
$26,380

Frank Shulman 
"Doctoral Dissertations on China and on Inner Asia, 1976-1990: A Bobliography of Studies in Western Languages." Compiled and Edited by Frank Joseph Shulman, with contributions by P. Polansky & Anna Shulman 
$20,483

Cecile Sun 
University of Pittsburgh 
The Lyrical Scene: Chinese Perspective on Poetry Comparing Chinese and Anglo-American Poetry 
$13,870

Pang-Hsin Ting 
University of California at Berkeley 
The Phonology of the Oracle Bone Inscriptions 
$18,350

David Der-wei Wang 
Columbia University 
Chinese Literary Modernization: 1851-1937 
$50,229

E. Leong Way 
University of California at San Francisco 
Science and Civilization in China-Pharmacy and Pharmacology 
$80,000

Thomas Wilson 
Hamilton College 
Canonizing (ts'ung) the Sages in the Confucian Temple (K'ung Miao) and Neo-Comfucian Construction of the Confucian Tradition of the Tao (Tao t'ung) 
$11,000

Shawn Wong 
University of Washington 
Chinese Immigration And Naturalization Service Records Data Base Project for Seattle, Washington 
$48,726

David Y.H. Wu 
East-West Center 
Chinese Childhood Socialization:Comparative Study of Chinese Cultural Indentity in Asia and in the United States 
$58,000

S.S.G. Wu 
Texas A&M University 
China's Security Decision-Making: To Use or Not to use Force in the Domestic and International Arenas 
$29,998

Anne Yue-Hashimoto 
University of Washington 
Lexical Diffusion in Chinese Grammar 
$50,000


Conferences, Seminars, Workshops

Claudia Brown 
Phoenix Art Museum 
International Symposium: Painting at the close of China's Empire, 1796-1911 
$10,000

Samuel Chang-ling Chu 
Ohio State University 
The Continuing Relevance of Traditional Chinese Institutions and Values in the Context of Modern China: From Yuan Dynasty to the Republican Period (13th to 20th Centuries) 
$12,862

Michael LaFargue 
University of Massachusetts at Boston 
Two Seminars, Comparing Pre-Han Confucian and Taoist Classics to Several New Testaments Writings, and to Several Platonic Dialogues, Respectively 
$5,000

Charles Le Blanc 
University de Montreal 
Joint European-American Committee for Cooperation in East Asian Studies: Civil Society in Modern Asia 
$20,000

Paul Liu 
University of Washington 
The Conference on Environmental Law and Management 
$20,000

Hsiao-peng Lu 
University of California at Los Angeles 
Second Conference of the American Association of Chinese Comparative Literature "Rethinking Critical Theory and Chinese Literary Studies" 
$9,900

Peter Sturman 
University of California at Santa Barbara 
"Interpreting the Mountain in Medieval China" - An Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara 
$11,062

Paul Michael Taylor 
National Museum of Natural History 
"Hell Scrolls" of Taiwan: Proposed Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition with Public Programs 
$24,000

Ellen Widmer 
Yale University 
Women and Literature in Ming-Qing China 
$20,000

Publication Subsidies

Princeton University Press 
Margaret Case 
Publication of Wai-yee Li, Enchantment and disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature
$5,500

Princeton University Press 
Margaret Case 
Publication of Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults in Southeast China By Kenneth Dean 
$5,500

Wellesley College
Edward Gulick 
Publication subsidy for the book-length manuscript --"Glimpses into pre-Maoist China: a photo-memoir of the 1930's 
$1,4970


Dissertation Fellowships


Yuan-ling Chao 
University of California at Los Angeles 
Medicine and the Transmission of Knowledge in Late Imperial China: Physicians from Suzhou 
$20,000

Lucille Chia 
Columbia University 
Commercial Printers of the Yianyang Area (Fujian), Song-Ming 
$20,000

Sarah E. Fraser 
University of California at Berkeley 
The Artist's Practice in Tang Dynasty China and How New Stylistic and Technical Trends Found in Dunhuang Sketchbooks Reflect Culture 
$20,000

Kristine M. Harris 
Columbia University 
Children of Troubled Times: Nation, Gender and the Emergent Film Culture of Modern China:1925-1937 
$15,000

Christopher M. Isett 
University of California at Los Angeles 
Agricultural History of Manchuria and South China: A Comparative Study of Cropping Systems 
$20,000

Teri J. Silvio 
University of Chicago 
Televised Folk Opera, Spectatorship, and Gender Identity in Taiwanese Culture 
$16,000

Dorothy C. Wong 
Harvard University 
Public Religious Monuments: Chinese Buddhist Steles of the Northern and Southern Dynasties (386-581) 
$20,000

Lydia Miin-Ling Yu 
New York University
The Impact of the Soviet Experience on Chinese Students in the USSR, 1921-1935 
$20,000

Fang Zhu 
Columbia University
Civil-military Relations in Mao's China 
$16,000

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Robert F. Campany 
Indiana University 
Chinese Accounts of the Strange (zhi-guai) and Local Shrines and Temples in the Early Medieval Period 
$ 5000

Grace S. Fong 
McGill University 
Between Gender and Genre: The Flight of the Feminine in Premodern Chinese Poetry 
$24,000

Norman Girardot 
Lehigh University 
James Legge (1815-1897) and the Victorian Encounter with China 
$25,000

Thomas G. Rawski 
University of Pittsburgh 
Reform and Innovation in Chinese Industry 
$20,000

Gilbert F. Rozman 
Princeton University 
Regionalism and Realignment in Northeast Asia 
$20,000

Lyman P. Van Slyke 
Stanford University 
The Life and Death of Liang Chi (1859-1918) 
$20,000

Daniel B. Stevenson 
Butler University 
The Rites of the Four Samadhis in Chinese Tien-tai Buddhism 
$25,000

R.O.C. PhD Dissertation Fellowships

Mei-chih Laura Chang 
University of Hawaii 
The Representation and the Parametric Variations of Tones in Chinese Language: A Prosodic Theory of Tone 
$12,000

Chyi-mei Chen 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
An Equilibrium Model for Price Changes and Trading Volume: with Evidence of Taiwan Stock Market 
$12,000

Daniel Shiangyen Chen 
University of Virginia 
Transfer of U.S. Technolgy to other Countries: Law and National Security of U.S. Unilateral Export Controls and Cocom Multilateral Export Controls 
$12,000

Jingmei Chen 
University of California at Los Angeles 
The Dream World of the Yearning Maidens: A Reception Study of the Peony Pavilion among Women in the Late Imperial China 
$12,000

Mingder Chung 
New York University 
The Aesthetics and Politics of the Little Theatre Movement in Taiwan 
$12,000

Chen-ray Fang 
Johns Hopkins University 
Corporate Investment in the Newly Industrialized Countries: Evidence from Taiwanese Firms 
$12,000

Wen-Rwei Hsu 
Columbia University 
Autonomy and Integration 
$12,000

Jinlin L. Huang 
University of California at Los Angeles 
Symbol, Value, and Power: A Cultural Study of the May Fourth Discourse, 1915-1923 
$12,000

Anchi Lin 
Harvard University 
Expanding through Non-Economic Linkage: Social and Cultural Bases of Private Corporate Expansion in Taiwan 
$12,000

Liyu Lin 
Northwestern University 
The Rationality of Voting: A Case Study of Taiwan 
$12,000

The-chang Lin 
Northern Illinois University 
Communist China's Foreign Aid Policy: A Theoretical Analysis 
$12,000

Wen-cheng Lin 
Tufts University 
Political Integration and Democratization: the Case of Taiwan 
$12,000

Yu-chen Lin 
University of Minnesota 
The Poetics of Alterity in James Joyce's Ulysses 
$12,000

Ch'iu-ti Liu 
Yale University 
Passionate Enlightenment: Love and Knowledge in Ming and Qing Conversion Stories 
$12,000

Tai-Hwa Emily Lu 
University of Oregon 
Adaptive Behavior of the Mentally Retarded in Taiwan, ROC 
$12,000

Shuh-ren Mao 
University of Wisconsin at Madison 
Legal Aspect of Outbound Investment in Taiwan 
$12,000

Wen-Yeu Wang 
Stanford University 
Corporate Investment Company Versus Unitary Investment Fund: An Evaluation of Governance Structure and International Competitiveness 
$12,000

Agnes Chew-chung Wu 
University of Iowa 
A Cross-cultural, Cross-national Study of the Family Caregiver Burden of a Severly Mentally Ill Member 
$12,000

Cynthia Hsin-feng Wu 
Harvard University 
"If Triangles were CirclesˇK."- A Study of Counterfactuals in Chinese and in English
$12,000