RECIPIENTS IN THE AMERICAN REGION 2003-2004

Research Grants

Prasenjit Duara 
The University of Chicago
The French Jesuits and Eighteenth-century China 
$15,000 over  1 year

James Dwyer

University of Pittsburgh
SARS and Ethics: an Evaluation of Professional Duty in Taiwan 
$6,500 over 1 month

Dennis Hickey

Southwest Missouri State University
The Making of Taiwan's Foreign Policy in the Post- Martial Law Era 
$10,000 over 1 year

Gerald McBeath

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Biodiversity Conservation in Taiwan and China 
$35,000 over 1 year

Peggy Miller

The University of Illinois
Socialization and Self-Construction Through Everyday Storytelling: A Comparison of Taiwanese and European-American Children 
$31,973 over 1 year

Philip Paolino

University of North Texas
Semi-Presidentialism and Voters' Views of Divided Government in Taiwan 
$13,603 over 1 year

Willard Peterson

Princeton University
Compilation of Volumes 5A, 5B, and 9B of the Cambridge History of China Series 
$50,000 over 2 years

William T. Rowe
Association for Asian Studies, Inc.
CIAC Small Grants Program
$42,000 over 3 years

Ya-Chen Shih
The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Use of Economic Evaluation to Guide Health Care Resource Allocation in Taiwan 
$41,110 over 2 years

  Jay Taylor
Harvard University
Chiang Kai-Shek and China's Dream of a Great Nation Restored 
$20,400 over 1 year

Mi Chu Wiens

Library of Congress
China Studies and Chinese Rare Materials in the Library of Congress 
$40,000 over 1 year



Conference, Seminars and Workshops

Cornell University, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
An-Yi Pan
Contemporary Taiwanese Art in the Era of Contention
$25,000.00

Duke University
Ralph Litzinger
The Question of Asia in the New Global Order
$12,510

Harvard University

Linguistic Society of America
Summer Institute of Chinese Linguistics
C.T. James Huang
$25,000.00

McGill University
Grace S. Fong
Of Trauma, Agency and Texts: Discourses on Disorder in Sixteenth - and Seventeenth - Century China, An Interdisciplinary Conference 
$10,310

Stanford University
Haun Saussy
Shakespeare in Asia: An International Conference
$25,000.00

The University of British Columbia
Zhichun Jing
Social, Cultural, and Historical Dynamics of Early Chinese Civilization in Archaeological, Paleographical, Philological, and Historical Perspectives
$24,500.00

University of California, Santa Barbara
Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai
Tang Xianzu and the Peony Pavilion
$25,000

University of Minnesota
Edward Farmer
Imperial Identity: Construction and Extension of Cultural Community in the Early Modern World
$15,000

University of Pittsburgh
Bell Yung
A Planning Workshop on Interdisciplinary Studies of Chinese Music 
$6,897


Publication Subsidies

Columbia University Press
Jennifer Crewe
"Written on Water" by Eileen Chang, translated by Andrew Jones
$5,000

Columbia University Press
Jennifer Crewe
"Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law" by Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang
$5,000.00

Columbia University Press
Jennifer Crewe
"Literary Relations: Essays on Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" by Patrick Hanan
$5,000.00

Duke University Press
Stephen Cohn
"Chineseness Across Borders" by Andrea Louie
$3,100

Duke University Press
Stephen Cohn
"Envisioning Taiwan" by June Yip
$6,000

Indiana University
Denis Sinor
"Lien Heng (1878 - 1936): Taiwan's Search for Identity and Tradition" by Professor Shu-hui Wu
$5,000.00

University of Hawaii Press
Patricia Crosby
"The Magnitude of Ming: Command, Allotment and Fate in Chinese Culture" edited by Christopher Lupke 
$5,000

University of Pittsburgh
Bell Yung
Contemporary Chinese Societies: Continuity and Change, Second Edition
$5,000



Travel Grants


Zu-Yang Chen
The State University of New York at Binghamton
Paper Presentation at the Third International Symposium on the Poetry of the Tang and Song Dynasties in Xian, China
$906

Josephine Chiu-Duke
University of British Columbia 
"Tang Wives' Predicament and Prospects"
$1,000

Mercedes Dujunco
New York University 
"The Traffic in Chaozhou Xianshi Culture: The China- Hong Kong- Thailand" Connection
$1,000

Adrian Hsia

McGill University
Cheng Ming or Global Perspectivism
$1,000

Rongsong Jih
U. S. National Center, MS951
The Peiyang Squadron's Approaching Formation in the Battle of Yalu, 17 September 1894
$1,000

Mathew Stefon 

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
"Lonesome Travelers: Dwight Goddard, Jack Kerouac, and an American Dharma" for presentation at Beat Meets East: An International, Interdisciplinary Conference on the Age of Spontaneity
$1,000

Bohsiu Wu 
California State University, Sacramento
Cyber-crime in a Burgeoning Democracy
$1,000

Xiao-huang Yin
Occidental College
"A Different Sensibility: Chinese-Language Literature in America" delivered at the Conference "National Boundaries and Cultural Configurations" in Singapore, June 23-25, 2004
$1,000



Scholar Grants

Zong-qi Cai
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Chinese Literary Thought: Terms, Concepts, and Philosophical Foundations 
$36,000 over 1 year

Chi-Chiang Huang
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Pilgrims, Lay Buddhists, and Buddhist Identity in the Jiang-Zhe Region during the Yuan Dynasty 
$28,680 over 5 months

Helen Rees
University of California, Los Angeles
Resurgence of the Musical Literati: Dongjing Associations of Southwest China 
$35,000 over 1 year


Junior Scholar Grants

Chiache (Eric) Chang
Michigan State University
Electoral Origins of Political Corruption in Taiwan 
$13,464 over 1 year

Alexander Des Forges

University of Massachusetts - Boston
Living Up to One's Words: Prose Style, Social Practice, and the Category of the "Literary" in Nineteenth-century China 
$19,700 over 7 months

Feng Li

Columbia University
The Origin and Early Development of Bureaucracy in China: The Western Zhou Government (1045-771 B.C.) 
$30,000 over 1 year

Brett Sheehan

University of Wisconsin-Madison
"A Chinese Capitalist in Peace, War, and Revolution : Song Feiqing and the Dongya Corporation" 
$30,000 over 1 year

O. Fiona Yap
The University of Kansas
Bargaining with the Military: Lessons from South Korea and Taiwan 
$11,706 over 1 year


Visiting Fellowship

University of Massachusetts - Boston
Alexander Des Forges

Living up to One's Words: Prose Style, Social Practice, and the Category of the Literary in Nineteenth-century China
$7,300 over 4 months

Jane Geaney
University of Richmond
Conceptions of Writing in Early China: An Analysis of Metaphors in Warring States Texts 
$10,000 over  3 months



Dissertation Fellowships for PhD Students

Nathan Batto
University of California, San Diego
Getting out of the Way: Individual and Collective Action in the Taiwanese Legislature 
$15,000 over 1 year

Anna Bernstein

University of Chicago
Urban Planning, Public-Building, and Neighborhood Life in Taipei 
$15,000 over 1 year

Clayton Brown

University of Pittsburgh
Making the Majority: Defining Han Identity in Chinese Ethnology and Archaeology 
$15,000 over 7 months

Yun-Chiahn Chen

University of Chicago
From "Returning to the Past" to Antiquarianism: Song Discourse on Antiquity 
$15,000 over  1 year

Carolyn FitzGerald

University of Michigan
Routes Through Exile and Memory: The War of Resistance and Displacement in Chinese Literature and Film, 1937-1949 
$14,690 over 1 year

Noelle Giuffrida

The University of Kansas
Representing Zhenwu (the Perfected Warrior) in Late Imperial China 
$15,000 over 1 year

Conal Ho

University of California, Santa Cruz
Migrancy of Liminality: Negotiating National and Cultural Belonging Among Chinese Expatriates of Ghana 
$15,000 over 16 months

Julia Kaufman

New York University
Connections Between School Authority and Student Performance in China: An Investigation of Middle Schools in Shanghai 
$15,000 over 1 year

Wei-Cheng Lin

University of Chicago
Building a Buddhist Sacred Mountain: Monastic Architecture in Mt. Wutai during the Tang Dynasty (618-907) 
$15,000 over 1 year

Sara Elaine Neswald

McGill University
Discerning Diversities in Gendered Practice and Rhetoric in Late Qing Female Inner Alchemy Tracts: A Study of the Nudan Hebian 
$14,920 over 1 year

Elizabeth McGuire

University of California, Berkeley
Children of the Revolution: Chinese Students in Soviet Russia, 1920-1970 
$4,600 over  3 months

David Sena

University of Chicago
Reproducing Society: Kinship and Social Organization in Western Zhou China 
$15,000 over 1 year

Phillip Stalley

George Washington University
Foreign Firms and the Implementation of Environmental Regulation in China 
$14,060 over 1 year

Karen Thornber

Harvard University
Early Twentieth Century Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Interactions with Japanese Literature 
$15,000 over 1 year

Joseph Wicentowski
Harvard University
Hygiene and Power in Modern Taiwan: The Colonial and Nationalist Periods, 1895-1955 
$15,000 over  1 year



CCK Fellowships administrated by the Canadian Association for Asian Studies

Diana Arghurescu
University of Montreal
Postdoctoral Fellowship
Nouvelle Traduction et Interpretation du Classique Confuceen Daxue: La Confucianisme-Pensee 
Ethique et Politique
$16,020 over 1 year

Jennifer Shya-wen Lee
University of Calgary
Dissertation Fellowship
Acceptance and Resistance: An International Comparison of High School Student's Understanding and Experience of Citizenship
$7,280 over 1 year

Xiaorong Li

McGill University 
Dissertation Fellowship
Rewriting the Inner Chambers: The Boudoir in Ming-Qing Women's Poetry
$7,280.00 over 1 year

Su-mei Ooi
University of Toronto
Dissertation Fellowship
The International Dimensions of Democratization: A Comparative Study of Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore
$7,280 over 1 year



R.O.C. Student PhD Dissertation Fellowships
(grant amount $15,000 for one year)

Sylvia Hui-Hsuan Chao
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 
Musicking under the Rising Sun: Music Culture of Taiwan in Early Japanese Colonization, 1895-1905 

Chiung-chi Chen 

University of California, Los Angeles
From the Sublime to the Obscene-Performativity of Popular Religion in Taiwan

Wei-chi Chen 

New York University
Colonialism, Cultural Production and Modernity: Toward a Cultural History of Taiwan in the Japanese Colonial Period, 1895-1945

Yea-Jyh Chen

Case Western Reserve University
The Influence of Physiological Factors, Psychological Factors , and Social Support on Hospital Readmission in Discharged Patients with Chronic Obstractive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Taiwan

Hsi-Heng Cheng

University of Miami
A Conception of Real Kinds Derived from Peirce and Quine

Chi-chen Chiang 
The University of Chicago
Redefining Citizenship: Taiwanese Immigrants in Urban America

Wen-Tsong Chiou 

University of Virginia
Deciphering Human Genomics: Identity Formation, Law and Public Bioethics Debate

Po-Han Fong

University of Rochester
Essays on Personnel Compensation and Firm Organization: Theory and Evidence in Taiwan and in the United States

Li-Li Hsieh

Duke University
The Politics of Affect: Anger and Melancholy in the Works of Eileen Chang, Virginia Woolf, and Marguerite Duras

Alexander C.Y. Huang
Stanford University
Shakespeare on the Chinese Stages, 1902-2002: Intercultural Performance and Translation

Horng-Ji Lai

University of Idaho
Evaluation of WWW On-line Courseware Usability and Tools

Carol Chih-Chieh Lin 

Duke University
Reconstruct the Taiwanese Rape Laws - By Feminist Theories and Comparative Perspectives

Hwa-Jen Liu 

University of California at Berkeley
LABOR OR ENVIRONMENT? The Configurations of Social Movements in Two Newly Industrializing Countries, Taiwan and South Korea 1971- 2000

Tzu-kai Liu

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Text, Power and Personhood: Engaging Minority Identities in Post- Socialist China

Shiau-Chi Shen

Columbia University
Democracy and State Identity: Exploring Dual Identities in Taiwan

Chung-yu Shih 

Northwestern University
The Book on Jacob's Ladder: The Bible and Christian Conversion Among the Jinghpo

Yen-Ling Tsai
University of California, Santa Cruz
Intimacies of Power: Negotiating "Chineseness" in Reformasi Indonesia

Joseph Tao-yi Wang
University of California, Los Angeles
Is Last Minute Bidding Bad?

Chu-Chu Wu
Syracuse University
Taiwanese Mothers' Beliefs About and Support for Preschoolers' Emergent Literacy



Taiwan Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University

Chin-Shou Wang
Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, entitled "Democratization and the Breakdown of Clientelism in Taiwan, 1987-2001."