Recipients for the American Region 1998-1999

Institutional Enhancement Grants

University of Oklahoma 
Hugh Benson 
Faculty Position in Chinese Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma 
$149,950

Columbia University 
Richard Williams 
Course entitled "South China, Taiwan and Hong Kong: Cockpit of Change" 
$7,000

Research Grants

Xianming Chen 
University of Illinois at Chicago 
Shanghai and Kaohsuiung as Rising Chinese Global Cities: Characteristics, Conditions, and Consequences 
$70,000

Ko-lin Chin 
Rutgers University 
Organized Crime in Taiwan 
$29,351

Furjecn Denq 
Sam Houston State University 
Determinants of Recidivism for Drug Offenders in Taiwan 
$30,000

Larry Diamond 
Stanford University 
Consolidating Democracy in Taiwan 
$29,180

Patricia Ebrey 
University of Washington 
A Visual Sourcebook for Chinese Civilization 
$22,500

Eric Fong 
University of Toronto 
Chinese Ethnic Economy in Toronto: Its Economic and Social Impacts 
$45,000

Tse-chi Hsu 
University of Pittsburgh 
A Cross-cultural Investigation of Educational and Psychological Research Methods 
$64,999

Shihlung Huang 
University of North Dakota 
Punishment Versus Treatment for Convicted Drug Abusers: A Comparative Study of US and Taiwan Drug Enforcement Policies 
$25,000

Shu-min Huang 
University of Iowa 
The Development of Sustainable Agriculture in China 
$50,000

Leo Liu 
Brandon University 
The Transformation and Prospect of the Political Party System in the ROC 
$30,000

Edward Olsen 
Naval Postgraduate School 
The 1997-99 Economic Crises' Impact on U.S. Alliances in Northeast Asia: Implications for Taiwan's Security 
$9,000

Paul Taylor 
Smithsonian Institution 
Collections-Based Research and Field Studies for an Imperative Catalog of Indigenous Taiwanese Ethnographic Collections 
$45,000

Xueguang Zhang 
Duke University 
The Evolution of Contractual Relationships in Emerging Market--A Comparative Study of Taiwanese and Local Firms in Mainland China 
$80,000

Yang Zhong 
University of Tennessee 
Local Government and Politics in China 
$20,000

Conferences, Seminars, Workshops

George Chen 
Association of Chinese Social Scientists in North America 
Chiang Ching-kuo's Legacy: Taiwan's Political, Economic, and Social Reforms during the Chiang Ching-kuo Era
$25,000

Peter Chow 
American Association for Chinese Studies 
The Road of Chinese Studies toward the Century of Modernization 
$25,000

Yungdeh Chu 
Rochester Institute of Technology 
Sino-Japanese Relations during the Republican Era 
$25,000

William Kirby 
Harvard University 
Taiwan Studies Workshop 
$25,000

Keith Thompson 
Pennsylvania State University 
Music Teleconference: Preparing Music Teachers for the 21st Century: Method in Music Education 
$6,100

Publication Subsidies

M.E. Sharpe, Inc. 
Douglas Merwin 
Broadening the Horizons of Chinese History: Discoures, Syntheses, and Comparison by Ray Huang 
$5,000

Museum of Chinese in the Americas 
Fay Chew Matsuda 
Canton/New York: Cantonese Opera and Identity in New York's Chinatown 
$10,000

Ohio State University 
Kirk Denton 
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 
$10,000

Rutgers University 
Ching-I Tu 
Publication of the Proceedings of the Conference on the Hermeneutic Traditions in Chinese Culture 
$6,000

Stanford University Press 
Helen Tartar 
Ginger Cheng-chi Hsu, A Bushel of Pearls: Painting for Sale in 18th Century Yangchow 
$5,000

University of Hawaii Press
Patricia Crosby 
"The Chinese City in Space and Time: The Development of Urban Form in Suzhou" by Yinong Xu 
$5,000

Travel Grants

Elizabeth Childs-Johnson 
New York University 
American Collections and Studies of Newlithic and Early Historic Period Chinese Jade 
$ 1000

Peter Chow 
City University of New York 
A Comparative Analysis of Social Security System in Taiwan and the USA 
$ 1000

Richard Chu 
Rochester Institute of Technology 
Presenting a Paper, "Forced Chinese Labors under Japanese Occupation," at the Venice Int'l Conference on the Rold of the Republican Period in 20th Century China 
$ 1000

William Gabrenya 
Florida Institute of Technology
Travel to Asian Association of Social Psychology Conference 
$1000

Jacob Korg 
International Pound Association and Beijing Foreign Studies University 
Paper to be read at 18th International Ezra Pound Conference: Chinese Ritual in the Cantos 
$ 1000

Walter Ostrom 
Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute 
Jindezhen Ceramics Institute Conference 
$ 1000

Justin Tan 
California State University at San Marcos 
Are Managers and Entrepreneurs Different: A Comparative Study in China's Transition Economy 
$1000

Wen-hui Tsai 
Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne 
American Social Security System and Its Suitability to the Third World Nations 
$1000

Senior Scholar Grants

Peter Bol 
Harvard Unversity 
Neo-Confucianism and Chinese History, 1100-1600 
$40,000

Julia Ching 
University of Toronto
The Relevance of Chinese Thought 
$30,000

Alison Conner 
University of Hawaii 
Soochow Law School (1915-52) and Modern Chinese Legal Profession 
$35,000

Chihwa Kao 
Syracuse University 
Learning-By-Others Doing and International R&D Spillovers for the Asian NIEs: If we know what an economic miracle is, we may be able to make one 
$34,999

Yu-sheng Lin 
University of Wisconsin at Madison 
Chinese Ideas of Political Order from the Neolithic Age to 221 B.C.E. 
$29,324

Thomas Rawski 
University of Pittsburgh 
Foundations of Chinese Economic Growth 
$40,000

Jeffrey Riegel 
University of California at Berkeley 
The Confucian Texts Excavated at Kuo-tien 
$39,980

Philip Williams 
University of California at Riverside 
The Affective Side of Increasingly Economically Driven Chinese Prison Camp Life--An Interdisciplinary Study 
$9,984


Dissertation Fellowships

Joseph Bosco 
Georgetown University 
Taiwan's Present and Future Status and China's Use of Force Under International Law and the United States Policy of Strategic Ambiguity 
$20,000

Faye Kleeman 
University of Colorado at Boulder 
Identity, Textuality and Colonialism: Taiwanese Literature under the Japanese Occupation (1895-1945) 
$30,000

Cheng Li 
Hamilton College 
Chinese Technocrats: Their Special Origins, Ideological Attributes, and Political Behavior 
$15,000

Gang Lin 
Association of Chinese Political Studies 
The Prospect of China's Democratization 
$20,000

Katheryn Lowry 
University of California at Santa Barbara 
The Use of Print in 16th and 17th-Century China: A Study of Forms and Readerships 
$26,319

Peter Nickerson 
Duke University 
Popular Religion and Modernity in Contemporary Taiwan 
$30,000

Wei Shang 
Columbia University 
Ritual and the Crisis of the Confucian World: An Interpretation of the Unofficial History of the Scholars 
$15,000

Paula Varsano 
Smith College 
Wanderings: Locating the Subject in Traditional Chinese Poetry 
$26,500

CCK Fellowships Administered by the Canadian Association for Asian Studies

Alison Baily 
University of British Columbia
Postdoctoral Fellowship
Wild Justice: A Cultural Study of Revenge in Pre-modern Chinese Literature and Historical Texts 
$22,000

Frank Muyard 
University of Montreal 
Dissertation Fellowship
Modernity, Postmodernity and Modern China: A Comparative and Critical Study of Cultural Modernity in China 
$7,067

Joseph Yit-Chong Wong 
University of Wisconsin at Madison 
Dissertation Fellowship
Democratization and Equity: Dual Transitions in Taiwan, 1986-1997 
$7,066

Kwok-Yiu Wong 
University of Toronto
Dissertation Fellowship
The Balance Wen and Tao: Literary/Political Discourse in Tang China 
$7,067

R.O.C. PhD Dissertation Fellowships

Jung-hsing Chang 
University of Hawaii at Manoa 
The Syntax of Event Structure in Chinese 
$15,000

Ku-ming Chang 
University of Chicago 
Bona Fide Observations: Science, Religion and German University, 1694-1705 
$15,000

Shu-ying Chen 
University of Iowa 
A Comparison of Iten Selection Rules Including Theoretical and Practical Considerations at the Early Stages of Computerized Adaptive Testing 
$15,000

Lin Chou 
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 
Sino-Chilean Relations and Chinese Immigration to Chile 
$15,000

Chi-nien Chung 
Stanford University 
Market, Culture and Institutions: The Formation and Transformation of Business Groups in Taiwan, 1960s-1990s 
$15,000

Yung-ming Hsu 
University of Michigan 
Linking the Elite to the Masses in Democratizing Taiwan: Identity Politics, Issue Evolution, and Party Realignment 
$15,000

Chiung-yu Huang 
SUNY at Stony Brook 
Application of a Dynamic Structural Model of Oligopolitics Competition with Learning Effects 
$15,000

Kwei-bo Huang 
University of Maryland at College Park 
Confidence and Security Building between ASEAN and the PRC after the Cold War 
$15,000

Shih-shan Susan Huang 
Yale University 
The Realms of Heaven, Earth, and Water: The Formation of Daoist Painting in the 12th and 13th Centuries 
$15,000

Pei-chia Lan 
Northwestern University 
Transnational Organization and Local Practice of Domestic Service: Migrant Domestic Workers and their Taiwanese Employers 
$15,000

Chao-chun Lin 
Northeastern University 
How to Enforce and Enact a Constitutional Bill of Rights in an Wast Asian Country 
$15,000

Wei-kuo Lin 
University of Wisconsin at Madison 
Discussions of Unification Versus Independence in Taiwan--From the perspective of Inoculation and Spiral of Silence Theories: A Study of Public Opinion in Democracy 
$15,000

Li-wei Liu 
Cornell University 
The Growth and Transformation of Small and Medium Enterprises in Taiwan: Direct and Indirect Contributions to Regional Development 
$15,000

Hsiu-hui Su 
Rutgers University 
Female-Female Feeding Competition and Inter-Matriline Feeding Competition in Formosan Macaques (Macaca Cyclopis) 
$15,000

Chih-hsiung Tu 
Arizona State University 
Redefining Social Presence: An Examination of Social Context, Interactivity, and Communication to Increase Interaction 
$15,000

Huei-hsin Wang 
University of Arizona 
Shih Chan Po-lo-mi Tzu-ti Fa-men and the Formation of Tien-tai Meditation 
$15,000

Shih-ying Wu 
University of Michigan 
Three Essays in Public Finance 
$15,000

Chien-chang Yang 
University of Chicago 
Music as Embodied Knowledge: Hugo Riemann's Theory of Musical Listening 
$15,000

Shih-ying Yang 
Yale University 
Wisdom: A Taiwanese Chinese Perspective 
$15,000

Feng-huang Ying 
University of Texas at Austin 
Reassessing Taiwan's Literature of the 1950s 
$15,000


Special Projects

Princeton University 
Willard Peterson 
Editing of V. 2,4,5B,9A,9B of the Cambridge History of China 
$90,000

University of Washington 
Ann YUE-Hashimoto 
Li Fang-kuei Memorial Volume Linguistic Change and the Chinese Dialects: A Collection of Papers Dedicated to the Memory of Late Prof. Li Fang-kuei
$5,000