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Grant Recipients, 2021-2022 (II)

May 23, 2022

Recipients in the Domestic Region                              

(in order of application received)        Unit: NT$

A. Research Grants

1. Chia-lin Lee

Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, with Kara D. Federmeier of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (USA)

“Competition and Integration in Taiwan Mandarin Homograph Resolution”

Grant amount : NT$1,720,000

Grant period : 2 years

 

2. Yun-ru Chen

Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan University, with Yukio Lippit of Harvard University (USA)

“Ming Painting Manuals and the East Asian Artistic Commons: Exploring Interactions in East Asian Visual Culture”

Grant amount : NT$1,300,000

Grant period : 3 years

 

3. Shih-chang Hsin

NTHU Chinese Language Center, National Tsing Hua University, with Axel Schneider of University of Göttingen (Germany) , et al.

“Exchange of Chinese Language Teaching and Its Impact between Europe and Taiwan from 1950 to the Beginning of the 21th Century -- A Qualitative Study Focusing on Scholars and Missionaries”

Grant amount : NT$1,980,000

Grant period : 3 years

 

B. Conference and Seminar Grants

1. Ching-fu Lin

Institute of Law for Science and Technology, National Tsing Hua University, with Matthew Erie of Oxford University (UK)

“Inter-Asian Law Workshop”

Grant amount : NT$700,000

Grant period : 6 months

 

 

Recipients in the American Region

(in order of application received)

Unit: US$

A. Research Grants

1. Timothy Rich

Western Kentucky University

“Public Trust in Taiwanese Political Institutions: A Multi-Method Analysis”

Grant amount : US$14,500

Grant period : 1 year

 

B. Scholar Grants

1. Richard Burdekin

Claremont McKenna College

“Quantifying China’s Monetary and Financial Reach Up through the Pandemic: The Experiences of Africa and the ASEAN Group”

Grant amount : US$18,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

2. Qiang Fu

University of British Columbia (Canada)

“Identity, Territorialization, and Discontinuity in Taiwan from the 1990s to the 2020s: An Augmented Temporal Analysis”

Grant amount : US$19,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

3. Robert Culp

Bard College

“Circuits of Meaning: Book Markets and Knowledge Production in Modern China, 1900-1965”

Grant amount : US$15,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

4. Lu Kou

Bard College

“War of Words: Courtly Exchange, Rhetoric, and Political Culture in Early Medieval China”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

5. Bettine Birge

University of Southern California

“Governing Polyethnic China: The Dilemmas of Identity, Gender, and Social Order in China under Mongol Rule (1260-1368)”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

6. Emily Wilcox

College of William and Mary

“Performing Solidarities: Third World Alliance as Choreographic Practice”

Grant amount : US$16,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

7. Wendy Leutert

Indiana University, Bloomington

“The International Origins of China’s ‘National’ Champions”

Grant amount : US$17,500

Grant period : 1 year

 

8. Meina Cai

University of Connecticut

“The Art of Negotiations: Legal Discrimination, Contention Pyramid, and Land Rights Development in China”

Grant amount : US$13,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

9. Manling Luo

Indiana University, Bloomington

“The Culture of Informal Storytelling: Narrative Epistemology and Information Networks in Medieval China”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

C. Conference and Seminar Grants

1. James Lin

University of Washington, Seattle

“4th World Congress of Taiwan Studies”

Grant amount : US$25,000

Grant period : 6 months

 

2. Yen-yu Lin

North American Taiwan Studies Association

“North American Taiwan Studies Association 2022 Conference -- Taiwan Studies in Application”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 6 months

 

3. Hsiao-wen Cheng

University of Pennsylvania

“Global Lives of Medicines: Materials, Markets, and Healing Practices across Asia”

Grant amount : US$15,000

Grant period : 6 months

 

D. Publication Subsidies

1. Christian Winting

Columbia University Press

Imagining India in Modern China: Literary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious, 1895-1962”, by Gal Gvili

Grant amount : US$5,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

2. David Armstrong

Cambria Press

Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction”, by Astrid Møller-Olsen

Grant amount : US$5,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

3. Beth Fuget

University of Washington Press

Material Contradictions in Mao’s China”, edited by Jennifer Altehenger and Denise Y. Ho

Grant amount : US$5,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

E. Special Project Grants

1. Uri Tadmor

Brill Publishers (USA)

Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies Publication Project”

Grant amount : US$40,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

F. Doctoral Fellowships

1. Handi Li

Emory University

“Transparency for Authoritarian Stability: Open Government Information and Contention with Institutions in China”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

2. Jinghong Zhang

University of California, Santa Cruz

“Down to the Roots: Teeth, Dentistry, and Oral Hygiene in Modern China, 1908-2021”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

3. Chuncheng Liu

University of California, San Diego

“A Tale of Two Credits: Contested Algorithms of Trust of Chinese Social Credit Systems”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

4. Huiqiao Yao

University of Arizona

“Popularizing the Sage: Wang Yangming and Vernacular Confucian Hagiographies in Late Imperial China”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

5. Eliana Ritts

New York University

“Broadcasting Indigenous Futures: Contested Sovereignties at Taiwan Indigenous Television”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

6. Tony Zirui Yang

Washington University in St. Louis

“Normalization: Explaining Public Support for Government Censorship in China”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

7. Shasha Liu

University of Toronto (Canada)

“Mediating Dunhuang with Images in the 1940s-1990s”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

8. Yuanqiu Jiang

Rutgers University, New Brunswick

“Reading the Voices in New Songs from a Jade Terrace

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

9. Ming Fang

University of Maryland, College Park

“The College Expansion and the Marriage Market of China”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

10. Jiying Jiang

University of California, San Diego

“‘Relevant Department’?: Ambiguous Delegations, Executive Factions and Lawmaking in China”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

11. Yuan Gao

Georgetown University

“China’s Great West: Environment and Economy in Late Qing and Early Republican Xinjiang, 1877-1927”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

12. Christine Welch

University of Wisconsin, Madison

“Touring a Floating World: Travel to the Immortal Isles in Pre-Modern East Asian Literature”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

13. Shu Chang

University of California, Santa Cruz

“The Life and Death of the Socialist Factory: Spatial Politics and Factory Life in China, 1958 to the Present”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

14. Xiaoshan Yin

University of Maryland, College Park

“Tradition under (Re)construction: The Guqin in Contemporary China”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

15. Ke Nie

University of California, San Diego

“Steer the Sound: Organizing, Regulating, and Practicing Musical Creativity in China”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

16. Shiqi Lin

University of California, Irvine

“Documentation as Relay: Transmedia Storytelling in Contemporary China”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

17. Jiangnan Li

Arizona State University

“Imperial Power and the Three Teachings in Song China (960-1279): A History of Discourses”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

18. Ruochen Bo

University of Toronto (Canada)

“Edward Yang and Aesthetic Education”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

19. Melody Shum

Northwestern University

“The Vietnamese Revolutionary Underground in South China: Native Place, Legal Imperialism, and Spaces of Insurrection (c.1880-1940)”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

20. Man Xu

University of Toronto (Canada)

“In the Space of Exception: Global Brokerage by Hui Muslims and the Governance of Transnational Trade in Yiwu”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

21. Xuan Jin

University of California, Berkeley

“An Alternative Path to Modernity? A Genealogy of the Geist of China’s Reform Era”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

G. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

1. Yu-cheng Shih

Brown University

“Fluid State: Environmental Changes and Littoral Communities on Lake Tai, 1850-1949”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

2. Zhe-chen Guo

University of Texas, Austin

“The Effect of English Clear Speech Production on Speech Segmentation: A Study with Mandarin and English Listeners”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

3. Wen-yao Lee

University of Kansas, Lawrence

“Anthropological Constructions of Ethnicity and Kinship in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands: Dialogues and Frictions between Anglophone and Sinophone Ethnographies”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

 

Recipients in the European Region

(in order of application received)

       Unit: €

A. Research Grants

1. Yu-lin Hsu

University of Strathclyde (UK)

“The Analysis of Adopting Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures”

Grant amount : €32,000

Grant period : 2 years

 

2. Benoit Favre

Aix-Marseille Université (France)

“China’s Great Brain Gain: A Data-rich History of American-educated Chinese (1850-1950)”

Grant amount : €72,000

Grant period : 3 years

 

B. Database Grants

1. Ralph Weber

University of Basel (Switzerland)
“Mapping New Confucian Networks (1911-2021)”

Grant amount : €84,000

Grant period : 3 years

 

C. Conference and Seminar Grants

1. Sandrine Marchand

University of Artois (France)

“Singularities in Taiwanese Literature”

Grant amount : €16,000

Grant period : 6 months

 

D. Publication Subsidies

1. Lucy Rhymer

Cambridge University Press (UK)
Structures of Governance in Song Dynasty China, 960-1279 CE”, by Charles Hartman

Grant amount : €2,900
Grant period : 1 year

 

2. Nicoletta Celli

European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (Slovenia)
Centering Periphery: New Perspectives on Collecting East Asia”, edited by Nicoletta Celli

Grant amount : €3,200
Grant period : 1 year

 

3. Isabelle Cheng

University of Portsmouth (UK)

Performing in Two Worlds: Intimacy, Entrepreneurship and Activism of East Asian Migrants Online and Offline”, edited by Isabelle Cheng and Beatrice Zani

Grant amount : €6,000
Grant period : 1 year

 

E. Doctoral Fellowships

1. Thomas Barrett

University of Oxford (UK)

“Friends in Far Places: Foreigners and the Making of the Chinese Diplomat, 1877-1928”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

 

2. Jun Feng

University of London (UK)

“Ritual Music in Contemporary China: Paizi Luo Shawm and Percussion Bands and Social Change in Hubei Province (China)”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

 

3. Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira

University of London (UK)

“The Science of the Spirit: Psychical Research, Healthcare and the Revival of the Occult in a Modernising China, 1900-1949”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

 

4. Tabitha Speelman

Leiden University (The Netherlands)

“Beyond Friends and Foes: Immigration Policy-Making in Contemporary China”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

 

5. Bingbing Shi

University of Cambridge (UK)

“History Remediated: Adaptations of War Literature on Contemporary Chinese Screen”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

 

6. Pak Ka Chan

University of Oxford (UK)

“Successively Receiving from Masters: The Developmental History of Classical Interpretations in Han Dynasty China (206 BC-220)”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

 

7. Lea Cantor

University of Oxford (UK)

“Parmenides and Zhuangzi on Formulating what Can (and Cannot) Be Known”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

 

8. Jean Corbi

Sciences Po (France)

“Physicians and the State in Late-Republican Sichuan, 1927-1949”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

 

9. Tina Berdajs

University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
“Issues of Dating and Provenance of the East Asian Ceramic Vessels in Slovene Museum Collections”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

 

10. Marta Pavone

Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (France)

“An Anthropological Survey of the Deterritorialization of Local Worship and the Market-Oriented Organization of a Religious Site: The Case of the Tudi Gong Worship of Hunglodei Temple, Taiwan”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

 

11. Feng Guo

The University of Edinburgh (UK)

“Reinventing the Frontier: The Northwest in Modern Chinese Mass Media (1931-1945)”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

 

12. Tao Hong

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)

“Histories of Tongzhi/Queer Activism in China: An Inquiry into the Making of Activists, Collectives and Publics”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

 

F. Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

1. Rols Johan

The Needham Research Institute (UK)

“Religious Prohibitions Related to Flora and Natural Sites from Late Antiquity to High Middle Ages”

Grant amount : €21,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

2. Massimiliano Canale

University of Naples “L’Orientale” (Italy)

“Elegance and Vulgarity, Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in the Eleventh-Century Song Lyric”

Grant amount : €21,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

3. Carmen Lepadat

Roma Tre University (Italy)

“Taiwan Mandarin Sentence-Final Pragmatic Markers: Types and Functions”

Grant amount : €21,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

G. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

1. Hsin-ko Yu

Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)

“Urban Regeneration in Taiwan: Property Ownership, Publicness and Participation in Spatial Planning”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

 

2. Tsao-ching Chan

University of Göttingen (Germany)

“Human Dignity in Confucianism and Its Current Development in Taiwan: An Analysis of the Legal Philosophical Concept and a Comparison with Its Formation in the European Development”

Grant amount : €16,800

Grant period : 1 year

 

 

Recipients in the Asia-Pacific Region

(in order of application received)

                               Unit: US$

A. Lecture Series Grants

1. Chia-rong Wu

University of Canterbury (New Zealand)

“Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century”

Grant amount : US$10,800

Grant period : 1 year

B. Research Grants

1. Heong Hong Por

Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia)

“Remaking Colonial Legacy Into National Heritage: Comparing Leprosarium Conservation Movement in Taiwan, South Korea and Malaysia”

Grant amount : US$30,000

Grant period : 1 year

 

2. Michel Dalissier

Kanazawa University (Japan)

“The Bergson Trace in Contemporary Chinese Philosophy Toward a Comparative Study with Japan”

Grant amount : US$40,800

Grant period : 3 years

 

3. Michael Haugh

University of Queensland (Australia)

“What is Offence? A Sociopragmatic Investigation of Online Public Shaming in Taiwan”

Grant amount : US$75,000

Grant period : 3 years

 

C. Publication Subsidies

1. John Delury

Yonsei University (Republic of Korea)

Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China”, by John Delury

Grant amount : US$3,500

Grant period : 1 year

 

D. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad

1. Hui-ping Lee

Tokyo University of the Arts (Japan)

“Revisiting Postwar Contemporary East Asian Music History: Chou Wen-chung’s Late Compositions in the Context of Global History of Music, Interculturality and Musical Representation”

Grant amount : US$20,000

Grant period : 1 year

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