Grant Recipients in the American Region, 2010-2011
Recipients in the American Region
(in order of application received)
Unit: US$
1. Xun Liu
Rutgers University
“Daoist History, Clerical Activism, and Local Society in Nanyang, 1600-2010”
Grant amount: US$36,000
Grant period: 2 years
2. Kwai Hang Ng
University of California at San Diego
“Rule of Law from Below: Litigants in Housing Demolition Cases in China”
Grant amount: US$22,600
Grant period: 1 year 3 months
3. Shin-Yi Chou
Lehigh University
“Socioeconomic Causes and Consequences of Low Birth Weight in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$28,006
Grant period: 2 years
4. Yong Z. Volz
University of Missouri
“Transplanting Modernity: Chinese Journalism and Western Influences, 1870s-1930s”
Grant amount: US$16,706
Grant period: 1 year 7 months
5. Philip Silverman
California State University at Bakersfield
“Bridging Generation: Family History and Lifestyle”
Grant amount: US$10,040
Grant period: 1 month
6. Byeong-Uk Yi
University of Toronto at Mississauga
“Studies of the Chinese Language and Ancient Chinese Logic”
Grant amount: US$8,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Hsiang Iris Chyi
University of Texas at Austin
“News Across the Great Wall: Analyzing Taiwan, Asian, and Western News Media’s Web Strategies for Internet Users in China”
Grant amount: US$34,955
Grant period: 2 years
8. Sonya Lee
University of Southern California
“Between Culture and Nature: Cave Temples of Sichuan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 5 months
9. Zai Liang
State University of New York at Albany
“From Tidal Wave to Shortage: Understanding Recent Migration Dynamics in China”
Grant amount: US$21,656
Grant period: 2 years
10. Scott Simon
University of Ottawa
“Emissaries of the Ancestors: Ethno-ornithology of Taiwan’s Truku People”
Grant amount: US$19,100
Grant period: 1 year
11. Weijie Song
Rutgers University
“From Beijing to Taipei: Border-crossing Travel, Beijing Memory, and Taiwan Literature”
Grant amount: US$24,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Yuen Yuen Ang
Columbia University
“Budgetary Politics in Local China: A Mixed Methods Approach”
Grant amount: US$20,632
Grant period: 1year 6 months
1. Minghui Hu
University of California at Santa Cruz
“The Construction of Modern Knowledge in China”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Bruce Rusk
Cornell University
“The Maintenance of Knowledge: Cultures of Preservation in Early Modern Eurasia”
Grant amount: US$4,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Ann Waltner
University of Minnesota
“Matteo Ricci: His Map and Music”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Hsin-Yang Wu
North American Taiwan Studies Association
“The Seventeenth Annual Conference of the North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA 2011): The Trajectory of Taiwan in a Global Context”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Clayton Dube
University of Southern California
“ECFA at One: The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement’s First Year”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
C. Publication Subsidies
1. Anne Routon
Columbia University Press
“Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Modernity and Popular Politics in Mid-Qing China, 1740-1839”, by Ho-fung Hung
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. David W. Morrow
University of Chicago Press
“The Journey to the West, vols. 1-4, Revised Edition”, translated by Anthony C. Yu
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 2 years
3. Emily Andrew
University of British Columbia Press
“Educational Reform and Village Society in a Northeast China County, 1904-31”, by Elizabeth VanderVen
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 2 years
4. Wen-hsin Yeh
University of California at Berkeley
“‘Pure and Remote’ - A Lecture Series on Early Chinese Painting”, by James Cahill
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Stephen A. Cohn
Duke University Press
“Creativity and its Discontents: Critical Implications of China’s Intellectual Property Rights Offenses”, by Laikwan Pang
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Jennifer Crewe
Columbia University Press
“Shi Zi: China’s First Syncretist”, translated and edited by Paul Fischer
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Jennifer Crewe
Columbia University Press
“Nineteen Lectures on Chinese Philosophy and Its Implications Mou Zongsan”, translated by Julie Lee Wei
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. William M. Hammell
Harvard University Asia Center
“Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Medieval China”, by Shih-shan Susan Huang
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Anne Routon
Columbia University Press
“Rivers of Time: A Cultural History of China”, by Cho-yun Hsu, translated by Timothy D. Baker, Jr. and Michael S. Duke
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
D. Scholar Grants
(a) Scholar Grants
1. Sylvia Li-chun Lin
University of Notre Dame
“Mediating the Past and the Present: Historical Documentary Films from Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$21,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Amy McNair
University of Kansas
“Catalogue of the Imperial Painting Collection in the Proclaiming Harmony Era: An Annotated Translation of Xuanhe Huapu 宣和畫譜”
Grant amount: US$35,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Yan Sun
Gettysburg College
“Constructing Ancient China: Identity and Power in the Western Zhou”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1year 1 month
4. Hui-Ching Chang
University of Illinois at Chicago
“Naming China: Language, Politics, and Taiwanese Identity”
Grant amount: US$24,000
Grant period: 10 months
5. Tong Soon Lee
Emory University
“Cultural Hybridity, Multiculturalism and the Nation-state: Musical Practices of the Peranakan Chinese in Singapore”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 9 months
6. Bettine Birge
University of Southern California
“Marriage, Law, and Social Order in the Age of Khubilai Khan: Together with an Annotated Translation of Marriage Cases from the Yuan Dianzhang (Statutes and Precedents of the Yuan Dynasty, 1322)”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Chi-chiang Huang
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
“The Buddhist Family Named Shi: The Elite Family’s Patronage of Buddhism in the Southern Song (a book-length monograph)”
Grant amount: US$19,650
Grant period: 3 months
(b) Junior Scholar Grants
1. Elaine M. Liu
University of Houston
“The Impact of Family Size on Risk Sharing among Migrant Workers in China”
Grant amount: US$28,500
Grant period: 10 months
2. Lei-Shih Chen
Texas A&M University
“Knowledge, Attitudes, and Intentions Regarding Advanced Reproductive Genetic Testing among Parents of Children with Disabilities in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. David Mozina
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“Quelling the Divine: The Performance of a Talisman in Contemporary Daoist Thunder Ritual”
Grant amount: US$22,500
Grant period: 1 year 1 month
E. Doctoral Fellowships
1. Ke Li
Indiana University at Bloomington
“Seeking Divorce in the Countryside: Marital Grievances, Dispute Resolution, and Gender Inequalities in Contemporary China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Ori Tavor
University of Pennsylvania
“Bio-spiritual Practices and Ritual Theories in Early and Medieval China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Junpeng Li
Columbia University
“Hayek’s Disciples: Liberal Intellectuals in Post-Tiananmen China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. William Nitzky
Arizona State University
“Living Heritage: The Cultural Politics of Heritage Protection in China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Gregory Scott
Columbia University
“Practices of Authenticity: Print Culture and the Modern Reconstruction of Buddhism in China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Jiayao Han
University of Pittsburgh
“Creating Visual Emblems for Eastern Zhou Militarized Frontier Societies (771-221 BCE)”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Yi Kang
Yale University
“Turning Crises into Chances: Disaster Politics in Authoritarian Regimes”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Chia-Yi Seetoo
University of California at Berkeley
“Kinaesthetic Inscriptions: Dancing/Writing the Global from Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Liping Wang
University of Chicago
“Ethnicizing the Frontier: Chinese Imperial Crisis and the Transformation of the Inner Mongolian Frontier, 1890-1949”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Li Jiang
Harvard University
“Nominal Phrases and Language Variations”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Hongyu Wu
University of Pittsburgh
“Leading the Good Life: Biographical Narratives and Instructions for Buddhist Lay Women in the High Qing (1683-1839)”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Aurelia Campbell
University of Pennsylvania
“Emperors, Eunuchs, Craftsmen, and the Creation of the Gan-Qing Architectural Style in Early Ming China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
13. Xiaoli Tian
University of Chicago
“Relocating Science: Medical Mission and Western Medicine in 19th-Century China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
14. Oiyan Liu
Cornell University
“How Overseas Chinese Became Citizens of the Empires”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
15. Boliang Zhu
Columbia University
“Domestic Political Institutions and the Sectoral Composition of Inward Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
16. Byung-Ho Lee
University of Michigan
“China between Empire and Nation: A Study of Making and Clearing Ethnic Group Boundaries”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
17. Scott Gregory
Princeton University
“The Uses of the Margins: A Social History of the Shuihu Zhuan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
18. Yan Long
University of Michigan
“Constructing Political Actorhood: The Emergence and Transformation of the AIDS Movement in China, 1989-2009”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
19. Christy Delair
Brown University
“Crafting Indigenous Identity in Taiwan: The Role of Handicrafts in the Negotiation of Community”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
20. Jeffrey Rice
University of Pennsylvania
“Northern Song Reflections on the Tang”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
21. Tong Blackburn
Indiana University at Bloomington
“Transcultural Hybridity in the Operas of Chinese-born American Composers: Bright Sheng, Tan Dun, and Zhou Long”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
22. Liangyu Fu
University of Pittsburgh
“Found in Translation: Western Science Books, Maps, and Music in China, 1860-1920”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
23. Meina Cai
University of Wisconsin at Madison
“Political Origins of Property Rights: Public Finance, Land Property and Economic Growth in China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
24. Charlotte Develyn
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
“Sounding ‘Mongolian’: The Horse-head Fiddle in Inner Mongolia, China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
25. Olivier Henripin
Northwestern University
“Where is China? Cross-Strait Relations and the Strategic Social Construction of the Chinese National Homeland after 1949”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
F. Postdoctoral Fellowships administered by the Canadian Asian Studies Association
1. Olga Alexeeva
University of Québec at Montréal
“Energy and Environmental Issues in Chinese Geopolitics: A Case Study of Mekong River Conflict”
Grant amount: US$18,774
Grant period: 1 year
2. Alanna Krolikowski
University of Toronto
“China-U.S. Cooperation and Competition in Civil Air and Space”
Grant amount: US$8,866
Grant period: 1 year
3. Craig Smith
University of British Columbia
“Asianism at the Margins of the Japanese Empire”
Grant amount: US$8,866
Grant period: 1 year
G. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Chia-Ying Shih
University of Washington
“Acerbic Exhortation: Modern Chinese Satirical Fiction in the Wartime (1937-1945) Chongqing”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Hsin-Chieh Li
University of California at Irvine
“Subject as a Question: An Interpretive Reading of Winds and the Moon風月報, a Popular Magazine in Colonial Taiwan, 1937-1944”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Yin Wang
University of California at San Diego
“Cold War Transformations: Transpacific America and Cultural Pursuits from Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Yu-An Lu
Stony Brook University
“The Role of Alternation in Phonological Relationships”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Chia-Fen Chang
New York University
“Grotowski’s Illegitimate Child: Art as Vehicle Theatre in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Po-wei Weng
Wesleyan University
“Music, Technology, and Mediated Modernity: Soundscape of Pili Budaixi in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Chunghao Kuo
New York University
“Food-related Technology, Culinary Knowledge, and Regional Gastronomy in Early Modern China (from the mid-Ming Era to the Early 18th Century)”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Yi-Hsiang Chang
Columbia University
“Negotiated Legal Modernity: Chinese Judges in the Period of Legal Reform, 1907-1937”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Ying-Chen Peng
University of California at Los Angeles
“This Imperial Body: The Cultural Enterprise of Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908)”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Wei-Ti Chen
University of Chicago
“Geo-social Mobility and Jurisdictional Obstacles for Taiwanese Doctors under Japanese Colonialism”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Fei-Hsien Wang
University of Chicago
“Translating/Translated Profit: The Curious Journey of ‘Copyright’ in China (1868-1937)”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Lin-Yi Tseng
City University of New York
“Travelers under Japanese Imperialism: The Commercial Activities, Social Networks, and Modernity of Taiwanese Sekimin in the Zhaoshan Area (1895-1945)”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
13. Ching-Chih Lin
University of California at Berkeley
“Take Me to the Water: Environmental Transformation and Religious Adaptation among Boat-dwellers in Modern Shandong and Jiangsu”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
14. Kuei-Chen Lin
University of California at Los Angeles
“Social Complexity and Inter/Regional Interactions, Exemplified by the Sichuan Basin, China of the Bronze Age”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
15. Kuan-Hung Chen
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
“Knowledge and Conduct: Reexamining the Epistemic and Ethical Stances of Xunzi”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
16. Ya-Wen Lei
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
“Consolidation of China’s Counterpublic Spheres in Cyberspace: The Simultaneous Process of Constructing Online Counterpublic Spheres, Legality, and Citizen Identity”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
17. Yu-Ju Chien
University of Minnesota
“Constructing Knowledge and Policies on Avian Influenza: How are Global Disease Policies and the Discourse on ‘the Other’ Manufactured?”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
18. Li-Chung Cheng
University of Chicago
“The Co-construction of Profession and Politics: The Formation of Engineering Mind-set and the Neglect of Environmental-health Risk Governance in Taiwanese Administrative Regime of Environmental Protection, 1980-2010”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
19. Wen-Jiun Wang
University of Pittsburgh
“The Formation of Inter-Organizational Networks in Extreme Events: A Comparative Study of the 1999 ChiChi Earthquake and the 2009 Typhoon Morakot”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
20. Ling-Fei Lin
Cornell University
“The Island of Normal Engineering: How Taiwanese Contract Manufacturers Matter in the History of Laptop Production, 1980-2005”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
21. Wei-Ting Wu
City University of New York
“Expanding Political Space: Domestic Violence, Women’s Groups and the State in China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
22. Kuen-Da Lin
University of Wisconsin at Madison
“Separation Anxiety: Explaining China’s Neighborhood Policies”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
●Wait List
(a) Humanities
1. Hui-Ling Yang (#1 in the Humanities Category)
Arizona State University
“Grammaticalization in Hakka, Mandarin and Southern Min: The Interaction of Negatives with Interrogatives, Modality and Aspect”
(b) Social Sciences
1. Hsiao-Ting Huang (#1 in the Social Sciences Category)
McGill University
“Tracing the Sporting Body across the Strait: A Comparative Study on Girls’ Physical Education in Taiwan and China”