Recipients for the American Region 2001-2002

Research Grants

Terry Bodenhorn
University of Illinois/Springfield  
Water Pollution, Public Health, and Societal Response along the Danshui River Ecosystem, 1960-2000 
$36,749


Kenneth Dean
McGill University  
Minnan Epigraphy and a Handbook on Chinese Stone Inscriptions 
$50,000

Wen Lang Li
Ohio State University  
The Making of A Legislator: Ecological Analysis of Taiwan's Elections, 1986-2001 
$28,800

Steven Goldstein
Smith College  
Changing Times: Taiwan in the Twentieth Century 
$17,598

Todd Sandel 
University of Oklahoma 
Mother Tongue Preservation: Exploring Language, Identity, and Cultural Consciousness in Taiwan and the United States 
$50,000

Tze-lan Sang
University of Oregon  
Alternative Modernity: Urban Popular Fiction in Republican China, 1912-1949 
$25,000

Wangping Shao
Harvard University  
Yi-Xia Interaction and the Formation of Chinese Identity 
$40,000

Q. Edward Wang
Rowan University  
Politics, Science, and Identity: Main Trends in Taiwan's Historical Writing, 1949 to the present 
$39,858

Zili Yang 
Pennsylvania State University 
Environmental Legacies of Rapid Economic Growth: A Comparative Study of the Environmental Kuznets Curve Phenomena in Mainland China and Taiwan
$78,984

Conference, Seminar and Workshop Grants

Association for Asian Studies 
Jean C. Oi 
Conferences in China and Inner Asian Studies 
$20,000

Harvard University  
William Kirby
Taiwan Studies Workshop 
$25,000

Princeton University  
Yang Lu
New Perspectives on the Tang: An International Conference 
$25,000

University of Pittsburgh
Thomas Rawski 
The Transition that Worked: Origins, Mechanism, and Consequences of China's Long Boom 
$25,000

University of Washington 
Ann YUE-Hashimoto 
Historical Aspects of the Chinese Language: An International Symposium Commemorating the Centennial Birthday of the Late Professor Li Fang-Kuei $25,000

Yale University
Kan-I Sun Chang 
"Poetic Thought and Hermeneutics in Traditional China: A Cross - Cultural Perspective" 
$25,000

Publication Subsidies

Stanford University Press 
Muriel Bell 
Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou, by Tobie Meyer Fong
$5,000

State University of New York Press 
Priscilla Ross 
Intellectuals at a Crossroads: The Changing Politics of China's Knowledge Workers, by Zhidong Hao 
$5,000

University of Chicago Press
Alan Thomas 
The Taoist Canon: A Historical Guide to Taoist Literature in the Daozang of the Ming Dynasty 
$7,500

University of Chicago Press 
Douglas Mitchell 
The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in "Modern Chinese Literature and Culture," by Tze-lan D. Sang 
$5,115

University of Maryland, School of Law 
David Bogen 
Implementation of Taiwan Relations Act: An Examination after Twenty Years Edited by Hungdah Chiu 
$6,000

Travel Grants

Richard Yungdeh Chu 
Rochester Institute of Technology 
Paper at the International Conference on "Modernization and Social Change in China, 1842-Present" 
$1,000

Fellowships for Scholars

Tun-jen Cheng
College of William and Mary  
Information Technology and Authoritarianism in China 
$15,308

Karl Gerth 
University of South Carolina 
Nationalizing Consumer Culture: Products and Patriotism in Modern China 
$24,000

Mark Halperin
Ohio State University  
Out of the Cloister: Buddhism in the Lay Imagination of the Song Dynasty 
$25,000

Hui-shu Lee
University of California at Los Angeles  
Behind the Screen and Beyond: Chinese Imperial Women's Patronage and Practice of Art in the Song Dynasty (960-1279) 
$25,000

Anru Lee
California State University/Sacramento  
In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity: Labor and Gender Politics in Taiwan's Economic Restructuring 
$24,248

Cheng Li
Hamilton College  
Techno-Nationalism vs. Techno-Globalism: Choicesfor China's Fourth Generation Leaders 
$35,000

Jee Loo Liu
SUNY/Geneseo  
An Analytic Introduction to Chinese Philosophy 
$24,500

Wen-hui Tsai 
Indiana-Purdue University/Fort Wayne 
Nationalism and Social Movements in Taiwan Under the Japanese Rule: The Case of Farmer's Protest Movement in the 1920s and 1930s 
$33,000

Lynn White
Princeton University  
Economic Booms and Local Powers: Taiwan (1963-73), Shanghai Delta (1971-86), Thailand (1986-96) and The Philippines 
$40,000

Ellen Widmer
Wesleyan University  
Gentlewomen (quixiu) and the Novel in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century China 
$45,000

Dissertation Fellowships

Natasha Heller
Harvard University 
"Illusory Abiding: The Buddhist Imagination of Zhongfeng Mingben (1263-1323)" 
$15,000

Drew Hopkins 
Columbia University 
Economic Culture of Paper Production in Western Fujian 
$15,000

Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu
University of Pennsylvania  
Mimesis of Warfare and Musical Rituals in Early Chinese Pictorial Eulogies and Mortuary Accoutrements 
$15,000

Pieter Keulemans
University of Chicago  Telling Tales of the Chiang-hu: The Nineteenth-Century Text and Context of Urban Spectacle 
$15,000

Stephen Platt
Yale University  
Awakening Hunan: The Local Roots of Chinese Nationalism, 1852-1922 
$15,000

Vinya Sysamouth
University of Wisconsin/Madison 
Dai People's Indigenous Knowledge of Communal Irrigation System: A Case Study of the Adjustment of the Tai Lue to Centralized Policies in Xishuangbanna
$15,000

Antonio C. Tavares
Princeton University  
Crystals from the Savage Forest: Political Economy in the Taiwan Camphor Industry, 1700-1945 
$15,000

Julius Tsai 
Stanford University 
Journeying to the Five Sacred Mountains: Imperial and Daoist Ritual in Medieval China 
$14,535

Curie Virag
Harvard University  
Knowledge Emotion and the Reconfigured Self in the Tang-Song Transition 
$15,000

Yi Wu
Columbia University  
Negotiating Land Ownership: Property Relations and Legal Change in Rural Southwestern China 
$15,000

Dissertation Fellowships for Citizens of Taiwan Studying in the United States

Pochan Chen 
University of California/Los Angeles 
The Developmental Changes of Salt Production and Administration in Eastern Sichuan Basin and its Interaction with Landscape from the Late Neolithic Period 
$15,000

Elyssa Yuehting Cheng 
SUNY/Buffalo 
Voices from the Margins-Working Class Mobility in Early Modern Drama 
$15,000

Mei-Hua Chien 
New York University 
The Relationships of Taiwanese Women with a History of Childhood Sexual Abuse to their Non-Offending Mothers 
$15,000

Chung-Pei Chuang 
Pennsylvania State University 
The Effect of Varied Types of Computer-Assisted Collaborative Learning and Prior Knowledge on Elementary Students Learning Achievements of Art Appreciation in Taiwan
$15,000

Si-yen Fei 
Stanford University 
Paying Taxes, Building Walls: "Citizens" at Work in Ming Nanjing 
$15,000

Chien-Juh Gu 
Michigan State University 
Gendered Transnational Struggles: Social Relations and Mental Health in a Taiwanese Immigrant Community 
$15,000

Chi-Wei Huang 
University of Pennsylvania 
The Transformation of Company Law within a Pluralistic Legal Order-Multinational Enterprises in the China Circle 
$15,000

Ying-Fen Huang
Simon Fraser University 
Canada Becoming Chinese Global City: The Politics of Aesthetics, Digitalization and Spectacularization 
$15,000

Yu-lin Lee
University of Georgia  
Writing Taiwan: A Study of Taiwan's Nativist Literature 
$15,000

Shuemm-Yow Liao
University of Denver  
The Tension between material and ideational factors in Balance of Power and democratic peace Theories; Realist and Constructivist Approaches to Theorizing about Security in East Asia 
$15,000

Yu-fen Liou 
Michigan State University 
On Chinese Temporal Clauses 
$15,000

Su-hua Wang 
University of Illinois/Urbana Champaign 
Principles of Knowledge Acquisition in Infancy 
$15,000

Cheng-Tai Wu
University of Wisconsin/Madison  
Three Essays on Microeconomic Theory 
$15,000

Rwei-Ren Wu 
University of Chicago 
The Formosan Ideology: Anti-Colonial Struggle and the Origin of Taiwanese National Identity (1895-1945) 
$15,000

Jr-ming Jimmy Yang 
University of Cincinnati 
A Market Stabilization Mechanism-Circuit Breaker: Theory and Evidence 
$15,000

Shou-chih Issac Yen 
Yale University 
Xu Wei (1521-1593) and the Rise of Zahua-Miscellaneous-Subject Painting 
$15,000

Visiting Fellowships

University of Tulsa
Thomas Buoye 
Ruler, State and Economy in Eighteenth-Century China: The Economic Role of the Qing Imperial Household Department 
$4,500

Special Projects

University of Michigan 
Martin Powers 
The Tang Junyi Lecture Series in Chinese Philosophy 
$19,898

Walter Judd Grant

University of New Mexico
Tze-Huey Chiou-Peng 
The Techniques of Ancient Yunnan Metalsmith and their Implications 
$16,860

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Huaiyin Li 
University of Missouri/Columbia 
Power and Conflict in North China Villages: Local Governance in Huailu County, Hebei Province, 1700-1950 
$20,000

Lillian Lan-ying Tseng 
University of Southern California 
Visual Representations of Heaven in Early China 
$25,000

CCK Fellowships Administered by the Canadian Association for Asian Studies

Youngchum Cai 
University of Toronto
Postdoctoral Fellowship
Fictions as Artifact: Metafictive Theories in Postmodern Chinese Narrative 
$14,036

Fabien Simonis 
Dissertation Fellowship
Princeton University 
Mad Acts and Mad Speech in Late Imperial Chinese Legal and Medical Practice 
$6,380　

Li-Ling Tsai 
University of British Columbia 
Dissertation Fellowship
Women in Physics in Taiwan: Identity, Discourse, Agency 
$6,380


Tuen Wai Mary Yeung 
University of British Columbia
Dissertation Fellowship
Women in Cantonese Opera and Huizhou Operas: A Comparative Study Concerning Their Religious Beliefs and Practice 
$6,380

Yimin Zhang 
McGill University  
Dissertation Fellowship
The Role of Literati in Military Activities of Late Imperial China 
$6,380