Recipients for the American Region 1999-2000

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Research Grants

Jianxiang Bi 
Carleton University
Uncertain Courses: Theater Missile Defense & Joint Taiwan Operations 
$13,000

Ning Chen 
California State University at Hayward 
The Concept of Fate in Traditional China 
$32,000

Julia Ching 
University of Toronto 
Contemporary Chinese Philosophy: Tang Chun-I and Mou Tsung-san 
$20,000

Richard L. Davis 
Brown University 
Ouyang Xiu¡¦s Historical Records of the Five Dynasties 
$28,300

Bruce L. Derwing 
University of Alberta
In Search of the Fundamental Phonological Units of Chinese: Testing Nonliterate Speakers of Taiwanese and Mandarin 
$40,000

Corinna-Barbara Francis 
University of Missouri at Columbia
Chinese-style Capitalism and the Embeddedness of Institutions 
$30,000

Kwok-Chiu Fung 
University of California at Santa Cruz 
Trade and Direct Investment Links between Taiwan and Mainland China 
$80,000

Katheryn Linduff 
University of Pittsburgh 
Regional Lifeways and Cultural Remains in the Northern Corridor: Chifeng International Collaborative Archaeological Research Project 
$100,000

Vai-Lam Mui 
University of Notre Dame 
The Political Economy of Social Purges 
$20,000

David S. Nivison 
Stanford University 
A New Study and Translation of the Zhushu Jinian 
$80,000

Daniel L. Overmyer 
University of British Columbia 
Temple Festivals in Rural North China: An Investigation of Religious Traditions in Selected Villages in Hebei Province and the Tianjin Area 
$39,500

Humberto Rodriguez-Pastor 
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos 
Integration and Influence of the Chinese Immigrants in Peruvian Towns, 1880-1940 
$47,200

Shui-Yan Tang 
University of Southern California 
Instituting Complex Environmental Governance Networks in New Democracies: The Case of Taiwan 
$29,989

Mi Chu Wiens 
Library of Congress 
A Research Guide to the Naxi Manuscripts in the Library of Congress 
$32,000

Fiona Yap 
University of Kansas 
How does the Government in Taiwan Achieve Economic Support?: Comparative Empirical Study of East Asian Newly Industrialized Countries Since 1960 
$19,992

Guangda Zhang 
Princeton University 
A Study of the Oasis City-States in Medieval Central Asia 
$70,000

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Conferences, Seminars, Workshops

Ju-Hsi Chou 
Cleveland Museum of Art 
In the Semblance of Sun and Moon: A Symposium on Chinese Mirrors 
$10,000

Bruce Dickson 
George Washington University 
Taiwan's Developments Under President Lee Teng-hui 
$20,000

C.T. James Huang 
University of California at Irvine
International Conference on Chinese Linguistics 
$10,000

Martin Kern 
Columbia University 
Text and Ritual in Early China 
$20,000

Yu-ning Li 
Society for the Study of the History of Chinese with an American Education 
¡§Chinese Contributions to America: An International Academic Conference¡¨
October 20-21, 2000 
$20,000

Christopher Lupke 
Bowdoin College 
Heaven¡¦s Will and Life¡¦s Lot: Fate and Determinism in Chinese Culture 
$24,945

Wayne Moyer 
Grinnell College 
Symposium on Democracy, Social Change, and Cross-Strait Relations on the Eve of Taiwan¡¦s Presidential Election 
$9,000

Shu-mei Shih 
University of California at Los Angeles 
The Fifth Annual Conference on the History and Culture of Taiwan: ¡§Remapping Taiwan: Histories and Cultures in the Context of Globalization¡¨ 
$20,500

Ching-I Tu 
Rutgers University 
Interpretation and Intellectual Change: An International Conference on the history of Chinese Hermeneutics 
$20,000

Liren Zheng 
Ohio University 
International Conference of Institutes and Libraries for Overseas Chinese Studies 
$12,000

Publication Subsidies

M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Douglas Merwin 
Chiang Kai-shek¡¦s Diary: An Interpretive Biography and History of China, 1922-1949 
$5,000

Oxford University Press 
Maribeth Payne 
Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern China by Helen Rees 
$5,000

Stanford University Press 
Muriel Bell 
Ellen Johnston Laing and Helen Hui-ling Liu, Up in Flames: The Ephemeral Art of Pasted-paper Sculpture in Taiwan 
$5,000

University of California Press 
Sheila Levine 
Norman J. Girardot, The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge and the Transformation of Missionary Tradition, Sinological Orientalism, and the Comparable Science of Religion in the Nineteenth Century 
$5,000

University of Hawai'I Press 
Frank Stewart 
Song of the Snow Lion, Edited by Frank Stewart, with Tsering Shakya, Herbert Batt, and Janet Upton 
$5,000

Travel Grants


Anna Calluori Holcombe 
Kansas State University 
The Influence of Chinese Ceramics on my work, slide Lecture 
$1,000

Phylis Lan Lin To 
University of Indianapolis 
Attend IUCISD European Conference Travel Grant in Cracow, Poland, 
23-26 September 1999 
$1,000

Yung-mei Tsai 
Texas Tech University 
Elderly Life in Contemporary Japan with a Comparative Reference to Taiwan 
$1,000

Tomothy C. Wong 
Arizona State University 
Chinese Fiction Through Western Lenses: Some Unresolved Issues 
$1,000

Scholar Grants

Peter Chow 
City University of New York 
Globalization of Production Network, International Competitiveness and Taiwan¡¦s Role in Asia-Pacific Region 
$40,000

Prasenjit Duara 
University of Chicago 
Manchukuo and the Frontiers of the East Asian Modern 
$40,000

Gail Hershatter 
University of California at Santa Cruz 
The Gender of Memory: Rural Chinese Women and the 1950s 
$40,000

Willard Peterson 
Princeton University 
Advancement of Learning in Early Ching 
$40,000

Stephen Teiser 
Princeton University 
The Wheel of Rebirth in Chinese Buddhism 
$40,000

Dissertation Fellowships

Maria Chee 
University of California at Riverside 
The Impact of Transnational Family on Middle Class Women and Marital Relationship: Taiwanese Americans in Southern California 
$15,000

Christy Chiang- Hom 
University of Michigan 
The Psychological and social effects of ¡§Parachuting¡¨ ¡V the Chinese Practice of Sending Children to Study Overseas Unaccompanied 
$15,000

Jennifer Eishman 
Princeton University 
Lay Buddhist Networks and Late Ming Dynasty Buddhist Culture 
$15,000

P. Kerim Friedman 
Temple University 
The Value of English in Taiwan: An Ethnographic Study of Educational Ideology and Linguistic Markets in Taiwanese Junior High Schools 
$15,000

Larissa Heinrich 
University of California at Berkeley 
Medicine in Art and Literature and the Development of a National Metaphor in China, 1771-1913 
$15,000

Jason Kindopp 
George Washington University 
Religion and Civil Society: Christianity and Buddhism in Post-Mao China 
$15,000

Winston Kyan 
University of Chicago 
Repaying Kindness: Buddhism, Filial Piety and Image Making in Medieval China 
$15,000

Tracy G. Miller 
University of Pennsylvania 
Constructing Religion: The Architecture of the Chin Shrines 
$15,000

Gil Raz 
Indiana University 
The Five Talismans of the Numinous Treasure and the Formation of Early Daoism 
$15,000

Victor Shih 
Harvard University 
The Politics of Excessive Lending to State-Owned Enterprises in China 
$15,000

Wendy Swartz 
University of California at Los Angeles 
The Literary Reputation of Tao Yuanming 
$15,000

Jodi Weistein 
Yale University 
State and Society in Qing China¡¦s Southwest Internal Frontiers, 1723-1850 
$14,500

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Jue Chen 
University of Minnesota 
The Early Tang Dynasty Chuanqi Fiction: An Interdisciplinary Study 
$30,000

Constance Cook 
Lehigh University 
A Zhou Nation: The Construction of Identity in Ancient China 
$30,000

Chang-Tai Hsieh 
Princeton University 
Schooling and Labor Market Impact of the 1968 9-Year Compulsory Education Program in Taiwan 
$29,993

Ying Hu 
University of California at Irvine 
¡§Would That I Were Marco Polo¡¨: Chinese Women Writers on the Road, 1890-1911 
$30,000

Shi-Zhe Huang 
Haverford College 
Quantification and Predication in English, Chinese, and Thai 
$29,997

He Li 
Merrimack College 
Chinese Think Tanks and Their Role in Chinese Foreign Policy 
$21,000

Jianmei Liu 
University of Maryland at College Park 
Engaging with Revolution and Love 
$15,000

Denny Roy 
Naval Postgraduate School 
Taiwan¡¦s Struggle for Security: The Interaction Between State, National, and Individual Interests 
$6,400

Xiaoshan Yang 
University of Notre Dame 
Metamorphosis of the Private Sphere: The Urban Garden in Tang-Song Poetry 
$30,000

CCK Fellowships Administered by the Canadian Association for Asian Studies

Shenwen Li 
University of Ottawa 
Postdoctoral Fellowship
From Tradition to Modernity: Chongqing in the Late Nineteenth Century 
$10,000

Alison Marshall 
York University
Dissertation Fellowship
Female Extatic Religious Functionaries in China and Contemporary Taiwan 
$11,600

Colin Robert 
University of British Columbia 
Dissertation Fellowship
Straw Sandals and Stout Hearts: The World of the Chinese Nationalist Soldier 1924-1949 
$10,000

Wen-shan Shih 
University of Toronto 
Dissertation Fellowship
Theatrical Interculturalism: Adaptations of Shakespeare in Taiwan¡¦s Modern and Traditional Theatre, 1980s-1990s 
$11,600

Walter Judd Grant

Daniel C. Lynch 
University of Southern California 
A Constructivist Approach to Explaining Democratization 
$15,000

R.O.C. PhD Dissertation Fellowships

Pei-Yu Chang 
Pennsylvania State University
Taiwanese Children¡¦s Play, Imagination, creativity, and Symbolic representations: Relations to kinds of kindergarten classroom structures and adults¡¦ attitudes 

$15,000


Kai-Yuan Chen 
City University of New York 
Solving Kripke-Wittgenstein¡¦s Rule-following Paradox 

$15,000


Yu-Jun Chen 
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 
Beliefs about Maternal Roles and Developmental Benefits in Two Parent-Infant Play Contexts: Leaning from Taiwanese Mothers of Children with Down Syndrome 

$15,000


Yu-Wen Fan 
New School for Social Research 
Stigmatizing Honored Citizens: Ethnicity, Gender, Class and State in Taiwan 

$15,000


Cheng-Hwa Fang 
Brown University 
Institutional Structures and Cultural Identities: Civil and Military Power in the Tang-Song Transition (A.D. 875-1063) 
$15,000

Huei-yu Judy Huang 
University of Maryland at College Park 
Cognitive and Motivational Processes of Text Comprehension: A Cross-Cultural Investigation 

$15,000


Michelle Tsung-yi Huang 
SUNY/Stony Brook 
Walking Admist Slums and Skyscrapers: The Politics of Walking and the Myth of Freedom in Asian Global Cities 
$15,000

Su-Ching Huang 
University of Rochester 
Boundaries Crossed and Reinscribed: (Im) Mobility in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures 
$15,000

Yu-chih Lai 
Yale University 
¡§Japanese Influence¡¨: Art, Choice and Identity in Shanghai, 1853-1895 
$15,000

Caleb Yi-Yu Liang 
Indiana University 
Understanding Objectivity 
$15,000

Pei-shan Liao 
Pennsylvania State University 
The Effects of Community Attachment and Quality of Life on Migration Intention: A Comparison of Taiwanese and Pennsylvania Rural Communities 
$15,000

Tin-chun Lin 
Pennsylvania State University 
Essays on Education Investment, Income Inequality and Economic Growth 
$15,000

Tzong-Hong Lin 
University of California at Irvine 
Light Verb Syntax and the Theory of Phrase Structure 
$15,000

Hui-wen Lu 
Princeton University 
Calligraphy of Stone Engravings in Northern Wei Luoyang: The Development of Regular Script from the Fifth to the Sixth Century 

$15,000


Hsiu-hua Shen 
University of Kansas 
Crossing the Taiwan Strait: The Politics of Identity Construction and the Global Economy in the Case of Taiwanese Entrepreneurs in China 

$15,000


Ruei-Suei Sun 
University of California at Los Angeles 
Globalization, Identity Politics and Place Formation: The Cost of Taipei, 1980-90s 
$15,000

Chia-Fu Sung 
Harvard University 
Situated Histories- the Transformation of Historical Culture in the Twelfth-Century China (1127-1200) 

$15,000


Danchi Tan 
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 
The Managerial Limit of International Expansion: Greenfield Entries vs. Acquisitions 

$15,000


Yuan-kang Wang 
University of Chicago
Denystifying Strategic Culture: Realism and China¡¦s Foreign Relations in History 
$15,000

Chin-Lung Yang 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
The Representation and Processing of Coreferential Comprehension in Chinese Discourse 

$15,000


Special Projects

Harvard University 
Peter Bol 
Continuation of the Yang Lien-sheng Memorial Lecture Series at Harvard University
$25,000

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