Grant Recipients, 2019-2020 (II)

Recipients in the Domestic Region

A. Research Grants

 1. Paul Jen-kuei Li

Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, with Asako Shiohara of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan)
“Study of Formosan Languages Materials by Shigeru Tsuchida”
Grant amount：NT$ 1,700,000
Grant period：2 years

2. Hao-chung Li

Department of Economics, National Chengchi University, with Ping Wang of Washington University in St. Louis (USA)
“Heterogeneous College Major Choices among Taiwanese Students”
Grant amount：NT$600,000
Grant period：2 years

3. Chen-tao Shih

Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University, with Kazufumi Tanemura of Keio University (Japan)
“Using ‘Implication’ as a Method -- A Comparison of Attitudes on Following and Discarding of ‘Preface of Mao Poems’ in Book of Songs”
Grant amount：NT$1,600,000
Grant period：3 years

 4. Yufen Chang

Department of Sociology, National Taipei University, with Vu Duong Luan of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (Vietnam)
“Civilization Envy in East Asian Cultural Sphere: The Invention, Deification, and Canonization of Vietnam’s ‘Palace Graduates of the Two Kingdoms,’ 17th-20th Centuries”
Grant amount：NT$644,800
Grant period：2 years

5. Shuenn-der Yu

Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, with Peter d’Abbs of Menzies School of Health Research (Australia), and with Jinghong Zhang of Southern University of Science and Technology (China)
“What is Chadao, or ‘The Way of Tea’, in Contemporary China and Beyond?”
Grant amount：NT$2,000,000
Grant period：3 years

Recipients in the American Region

A. Research Grants

1. Howard Chiang 

University of California, Davis
“Dai Bingham, The First Chinese Psychoanalyst”
Grant amount：US$25,000
Grant period：2 years

2. Calvin Hui

College of William and Mary
“The People’s Republic of Copycats: ‘Shanzhai’ Cultures in Globalized China”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

3. Carol Shiue 

University of Colorado, Boulder
“Social Mobility, Living Standards, and the Opium War in Late Imperial China”
Grant amount：US$30,000
Grant period：2 years

4. Nina Kelsey

George Washington University
“Drivers of City-Level Climate Policy in Taiwan”
Grant amount：US$13,900
Grant period：1 year

5. Yue Qian 

University of British Columbia (Canada)
“Transnational Mobility and Migration Policies: A Comparative Case Study on the Flow of Overseas Chinese Graduate Students in the United States and Canada after Graduation”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：2 years

6. Hanzhang Liu 

Pitzer College
“Empowered as Women? Understanding Female Politicians in Contemporary China”
Grant amount：US$18,000
Grant period：2 years

7. Ruoyun Bai 

University of Toronto (Canada)
“The #MeToo Movement in Chinese Societies”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：2 years

B. Scholar Grants

1. Erica Brindley 

Pennsylvania State University
“The Later Mohists and the Mass Production of Technical Knowledge in Early China”
Grant amount：US$30,000
Grant period：1 year

 2. Austin Wang 

University of Nevada, Las Vegas
“Collective Action, Simultaneity, and Nation-Building”
Grant amount：US$7,100
Grant period：1 year

 3. Lijun Song

Vanderbilt University
“Does Who You Know Protect or Hurt? A Test of Social Capital Theory versus Social Cost Theory in Taiwan”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 4. Elaine Liu 

University of Houston
“Beggar-Thy-Women: Domestic Responses to Foreign Bride Competition, the Case of Taiwan”
Grant amount：US$18,000
Grant period：1 year

 5. Christopher Rea 

University of British Columbia (Canada)
“China on the Make: Stories of Chinese Deception”
Grant amount：US$25,000
Grant period：1 year

 6. Angela Xiao Wu

New York University
“Cybernetics of Public Culture: From a Socialist Media System to Online Data Analytics”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 7. Li-jen Kuo 

Texas A&M University
“Reconceptualizing Early Writing Development in Chinese in a Digital Age: An Integrative and Technology-Enhanced Approach”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 8. Zhiying Ma

University of Chicago
“Intimate Institutions: Psychiatry, Family, and the Rise of Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 9. Delin Lai

University of Louisville
“Searching for the Evidences of National Products Movement in Architecture”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

10. Sara Newland

Smith College
“Local Government Responsiveness in Taiwan”
Grant amount：US$28,000
Grant period：1 year

 11. Rivi Handler-Spitz

Macalester College
“Contentious Conversations: Masters, Disciples, and the Culture of Yulu Literature in Late Ming China”
Grant amount：US$30,000
Grant period：1 year

C. Conference and Seminar Grants

1. Jia-chen Fu 

Emory University
“Chinese Foodways in the Modern World (19th c. - Present): Reexamining Culinary Continuity and Change”
Grant amount：US$15,000
Grant period：6 months

 2. Suyoung Son

Cornell University
“The Sensorium of the Early Modern Chinese Text”
Grant amount：US$8,000
Grant period：6 months

D. Publication Subsidies

1. Roger Haydon

Cornell University Press
“Gateway Imperialism: Colonial Taiwan and Japanese Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945”, by Seiji Shirane
Grant amount：US$5,000
Grant period：1 year

 2. Elaine Maisner

University of North Carolina Press
“China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire: Centering Islam in World War II”, by Kelly A. Hammond
Grant amount：US$4,000
Grant period：1 year

 3. Robert Graham

Harvard University
“Chiang Kai-shek’s Politics of Shame and Humiliation: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity”, by Grace C. Huang
Grant amount：US$5,000
Grant period：1 year

 4. Christian Winting

Columbia University Press
“The Musha Incident: A Reader”, edited by Michael Berry
Grant amount：US$5,000
Grant period：1 year

 5. Christian Winting

Columbia University Press
“Zhou History Unearthed: The Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography”, by Yuri Pines
Grant amount：US$5,000
Grant period：1 year

 6. Christian Winting

Columbia University Press
“Confucianism and Sacred Space: Eight Studies on Confucius Temples”, by Chin-shing Huang, translated by Jonathan Chin and Chin-shing Huang
Grant amount：US$5,000
Grant period：1 year

 7. Mark Thompson

University of Toronto Press (Canada)
“The Web of Meaning: The Internet as Symbolic Space in Changing Chinese Society”, by Elaine Yuan
Grant amount：US$5,000
Grant period：1 year

E. Doctoral Fellowships

1. Zibin Huang 

University of Rochester
“Children’s Peer Effect, Migration Restrictions and Welfare Losses in China”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 2. Ye Wang

New York University
“Two Quantitative Studies on Hong Kong’s Democratic Movement”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 3. Haoyue Li

State University of New York, Albany
“Crisis, Legitimation and Contention: Chinese Environmental Health and Safety Crises in Global Public Spheres”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 4. Justin Canfil 

Columbia University
“Governing the (Un)commons: Great Power Contestation Over the International Law for Emerging Technologies”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 5. Maddalena Poli 

University of Pennsylvania
“Theories of Human Nature (xing 性) in Early China and their Implications”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 6. Joseph Lovell

University of California, Santa Barbara
“The Maoist Soundscape: Sonic Politics in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1976”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 7. Gavin Healy

Columbia University
“The Political and Cultural Economy of Sightseeing: Foreign Tourism in the People’s Republic of China (1949-1978)”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 8. Ruijie Peng

University of Texas, Austin
“Fighting to Build Family Resources: Women Remaining in Place in Rural-to-Urban Migration”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 9. Fangdai Chen 

Harvard University
“The Untimely Avant-Garde: Literature and Politics in 20th-Century Sinophone and Anglo-European Transculturations”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 10. Yanwen Wu 

University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Tonal Prosody in Recent-style Verse of the Early and High Tang”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 11. Dongming Wu 

Columbia University
“The Metal Economy and the Making of the Southern Borderland under the Zhou Dynasty (1045-256 BCE)”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 12. Rong Kong 

University of California, Irvine
“Confucius across the Taiwan Strait, 1966-1980”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 13. Mario De Grandis

The Ohio State University
“Ethnic Frames: Positioning Hui Literature Within and Beyond China”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 14. Jinhui Wu 

University of Arizona
“The Transformation of Buddhist Cosmology in Early Modern China -- A Study of Establishment of the Dharma-Field with Illustrations (Fajie anli tu)”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 15. Yi Ci Lo 

University of California, Irvine
“Measuring Up to Modernity: Metrological Reform in Republican China”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 16. Xiaoyu Xia 

University of California, Berkeley
“Infrastructure of Feeling: Imperial Networks, Typographic Modernity, and Literary Sensibility in China and East Asia (1900-1937) ”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 17. Linda Huang

The Ohio State University
“Re-imagining Post-socialist Corporeality: Technology, Body, and Nation in Post-Mao Chinese Art”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 18. Andy Scott Chang

University of California, Berkeley
“Manufacturing ‘Foreign-Exchange Heroes’: The Gender Politics of International Migration”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 19. Lantian Li 

Northwestern University
“Captured between Market and Bureaucratic Rules: State, Health Politics, and the Pharmaceutical Industry in China”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 20. Jun Fang

Northwestern University
“China’s Hollywood: Global Collaboration and State Intervention in a Creative Industry”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 21. Michael Hicks 

Pennsylvania State University
“Blackness in Red China: How Africans and African Americans Shaped China’s Third World Politics, 1949-76”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 22. Qingfan Jiang 

Columbia University
“Toward a Global Enlightenment: Music, Missionaries, and the Construction of a Universal History in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China and Europe”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 23. Xiaobai Hu 

University of Pennsylvania
“Unruly Mountains: Transformative Encounters in the Chinese-Tibetan Corridor, 1368-1600”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 24. Zeren Li 

Duke University
“Institutionalized Rent-Seeking: Political Connections between Firms and Public Officials in Non-Democracies”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 25. Tan Zhao 

University of Washington, Seattle
“The ‘Invisible Reward’: Rent-Seeking and Cadre-Management in Rural China”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 26. Tongtong Zhang 

Stanford University
“Conditional Impact of Internet Participatory Institutions on the Authoritarian Rule in China”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 27. Jiling Duan

Indiana University, Bloomington
“Maneuvering Within and Without: Chinese Feminisms in Transnational Flows and State Domination, 1995-2020”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 28. Yucong Hao

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Acoustics of Emergency: Sound Culture, Sonorous Experience, and Historical Upheavals in Mid-Twentieth-Century China”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

F. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

1. Yi-ting Chang 

Pennsylvania State University
“Interdependence: Reconfiguring Taiwan in the Transpacific”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 2. Nai-yi Hsu

Indiana University, Bloomington
“Sagely Presence: Appearance and Morality in Early Confucian Thought”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 3. Yi-yang Cheng

University of California, Santa Barbara
“Transitive Constructions in Kanakanavu, an Endangered Austronesian Language of Taiwan”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 4. Yi-ling Lin

Washington University in St. Louis
“Paleo-Environmental Pollution and Bronze Production during the Shang Periods at Anyang, Henan, China”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 5. Shih-chan Dai

University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Why do Policy Frames Change? Rhetorical Construction and Contestation of Gay Rights in a Contested Regime”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

 6. Jiun-da Lin 

University of Maryland, College Park
“Between Global and Local Standards: The Adoption of Global Green Bond Standards in China”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year

Recipients in the European Region

A. Lecture Series Grants

1. Yves Sintomer

Université Paris 8 (France)
“Democracy, Nationalism and Populism: The Dilemma and Strategy of the ‘New Three People’s Principles’ in Contemporary Chinese Politics in 21st Century”
Grant amount：€15,000
Grant period：1 year

B. Research Grants

1. Asaf Goldschmidt

Tel Aviv University (Israel)
“Practical Reality -- The Clinical Encounter in Chinese Medicine, 1100-1350”
Grant amount：€60,000
Grant period：3 years

 2. Christopher Joby

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland)
“The Reception of the Bible in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan”
Grant amount：€18,000
Grant period：1 year

 3. Chi-Fang Chao 

University of Roehampton (UK)
“Vying over the Body: Spiritual Healing and Dance Practices of Christians in Contemporary Taiwan”
Grant amount：€40,000
Grant period：3 years

 4. Táňa Dluhošová

Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)<
“Persistence of Elite Families and Transformation of Prestige in Taiwan: A Diachronic Perspective”
Grant amount：€26,000
Grant period：2 years

C. Database Grants

1. Lothar Ledderose

Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Germany)
“Linking Buddhist Stone Sutras in China to CBETA (Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association)”
Grant amount：€45,000
Grant period：2 years

D. Conference and Seminar Grants

1. Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik

University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
“The 3rd Conference of European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology”
Grant amount：€9,000
Grant period：6 months

 2. Beatrice Zani 

Science Po Lyon (France)
“When Virtual and Physical Spaces Meet: The Mobility, Activism, Care and Entrepreneurship of Migrants, Developed Online and Offline”
Grant amount：€10,000
Grant period：6 months

E. Publication Subsidies

1. Tom Bonnington

Berghahn Books (UK)
“Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies”, edited by Jeanne L. Shea, Katrina Moore, and Hong Zhang
Grant amount：€4,000
Grant period：1 year

 2. Inge Klompmakers

Brill (The Netherlands)
“The Golden Key: Modern Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (1911-1949)”, by Amanda Wangwright
Grant amount：€5,000
Grant period：1 year

F. Doctoral Fellowships

1. Mariana Zegianini

SOAS, University of London (UK)
“The Global Portrait: Portraiture in China and Europe during the Long Seventeenth Century (ca. 1560-1660)”
Grant amount：€16,800
Grant period：1 year

 2. Anna Sokolova

Ghent University (Belgium)
“State, Bureaucracy, and the Formation of Regional Vinaya Traditions in Tang Buddhism”
Grant amount：€16,800
Grant period：1 year

 3. Lisa Lindkvist Zhang 

Heidelberg University (Germany)
“Indian Philosophy Re-imagined in Late 19th/Early 20th Century China”
Grant amount：€16,800
Grant period：1 year

 4. Hélène Bloch

University Paris Nanterre (France)
“‘Nourishing Life’ (yangsheng 養生) in Mount Qingcheng: From a Local Daoist Temple of the Medicine King to the Market of Longevity (Sichuan, China)”
Grant amount：€16,800
Grant period：1 year

 5. Juliette Duléry

Université de Paris (France)
“‘Extending the Kingdom of God’: The Spread of Evangelical Protestantism in the Chinese World (Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China)”
Grant amount：€16,800
Grant period：1 year

 6. Zhenru Lin 

University of Cambridge (UK)
“National Heroes in the Shadows: The Historical Redress Movement for the Kuomintang Second World War Veterans in China”
Grant amount：€16,800
Grant period：1 year

 7. Fiorella Bourgeois

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)
“‘Hacking the State’: Reconfiguring Norms and Legitimation Processes -- A Case Study of a Hacker Network in Taiwan”
Grant amount：€16,800
Grant period：1 year

 8. Ruiyi Zhu

University of Cambridge (UK)
“Chinese Workers in the Mongolian Extractive Economy: Subjectivity, Relationality, and Transnational Zones ”
Grant amount：€16,800
Grant period：1 year

G. Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

1. Renyou Hou

Université Paris Nanterre (France)
“Surrogacy in Urban Contemporary China: Kinship, Gender and Homosexuality”
Grant amount：€42,000
Grant period：2 years

 2. Liisa Kohonen

University of Edinburgh (UK)
“Legal Consciousness and the Building of a ‘Rule of Law Society’ in Value-Plural Rural China: An Ethnographic Study”
Grant amount：€42,000
Grant period：2 years

 3. Justine Rochot

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)
“Pine Age Universities 松年大學: An Ethnographic Approach to Elderly Sociabilities and Life-long Learning Practices in Taiwan Presbyterian Churches”
Grant amount：€36,560
Grant period：2 years

H. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

1. Chien-hui Wang 

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (France)
“Reading from the Outside: Literality of Identity Studies and Poetics of Insularity in the Literature ‘of Taiwan’”
Grant amount：€16,800
Grant period：1 year

 2. Huei-lan Xiong 

Leiden University (The Netherlands)
“Nurturing Talent for Governance: The Imperial Library in Southern Song China (1127-1279)”
Grant amount：€16,800
Grant period：1 year

 3. Chih-en Chen 

SOAS, University of London (UK)
“Feminine Space and Playthings: The Origin, Development and Classification of Trompe L’oeil Porcelain in High Qing China”
Grant amount：€16,800
Grant period：1 year

 4. Ju-en Chien 

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany)
“The Mind and Mental Factors according to the Cheng Weishi Lun (成唯識論): An Approach to Buddhist Therapeutic Soteriology”
Grant amount：€16,800
Grant period：1 year

Recipients in the Asia-Pacific Region

A. Research Grants

1. Ai Boay Tan 

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (Malaysia)
“First Generation Buddhists in British Malaya: A Transnational History”
Grant amount：US$38,000
Grant period：2 years

 2. Jie Chen 

University of Western Australia (Australia)
“Taiwan and the Cause of Democratization in China: Intellectual Inspiration and Actual Support”
Grant amount：US$36,400
Grant period：2 years

 3. Rick Lintao Qi 

Monash University (Australia)
“Constructing a Socio-cultural History of Japanese Translations of the Classical Chinese Novel Jin Ping Mei”
Grant amount：US$16,000
Grant period：1 year

 4. Yee-man Joyce Nip 

University of Sydney (Australia)
“Propaganda in China’s Social Media News Targeting Taiwan and Hong Kong”
Grant amount：US$40,000
Grant period：2 years

B. Conference and Seminar Grants

1. Masashi Nara 

National Museum of Ethnology (Japan)
“Beyond Piety and Impiety: Ambiguous Practices of Sino-Muslims in Historical and Contemporary Asia”
Grant amount：US$15,000
Grant period：6 months

C. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

1. I-chang Kuo 

Australian National University (Australia)
“Social License: Ethnographic Study of Chinese and Papua New Guinean Mining Workers in Papua New Guinea”
Grant amount：US$20,000
Grant period：1 year