Grant Recipients, 2016-2017
Recipients in the Domestic Region
| (in order of date application received) | Unit: NT$ |
A. Research Grants
1. Shu-Wei Hsieh
Center for the Study of Chinese Religions, National Chengchi University, with Wai-Lun Tam of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
“A Proposal on a Collaborative International Research Project on the Study of Historical and Contemporary Local Taoism”
Grant amount: NT$3,200,000
Grant period: 3 years
2. Shih-chang Hsin
NTHU Chinese Language Center, National Tsing Hua University, with Cornelius Kubler of Williams College (USA), et al.
“US-Taiwan Exchanges in Teaching of Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language via Personal Experiences from the 1950s to the 1990s”
Grant amount: NT$2,600,000
Grant period: 3 years
3. Shu-Kai Hsieh
Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, with Benjamin K. Tsou of City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), et al.
“An Investigation into the 20 Year Long Cross-Straits Lexical Developments of Taiwan, Mainland China and Hong Kong and their Concomitant Underlying Cultural Changes and Causation: Based on the Big Database, LIVAC, a Pan-Chinese Synchronous Corpus”
Grant amount: NT$2,500,000
Grant period: 3 years
4. Jia-Fei Hong
Department of Applied Chinese Language and Culture, National Taiwan Normal University, with Chu-Ren Huang of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong), et al.
“From Synaesthesia to Cross-cultural Representation of Cognition: A Lexical Semantic Study of Translated Buddhist Texts”
Grant amount: NT$2,000,000
Grant period: 2 years
B. Conference and Seminar Grants
1. Wei-Ping Lin
Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University, with Robert Paul Weller of Boston University (USA)
“Chinese Religions in City Space and Cyberspace”
Grant amount: NT$500,000
Grant period: 6 months
2. Szue-chin Philip Hsu
Taiwan Association of International Relations, with Gunther Hellmann of Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany)
“The Fifth Global International Studies Conference”
Grant amount: NT$500,000
Grant period: 6 months
3. Titus Chen
Sun Yat-sen Research Center for Social Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, with Lowell Dittmer of University of California, Berkeley (USA), et al.
“China’s Normative Politics and Public Governance under Xi Jinping”
Grant amount: NT$500,000
Grant period: 6 months
4. Chung-Min Tsai
Department of Political Science, National Chengchi University, with Lowell Dittmer, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
“China’s Political Economy under Xi Jinping”
Grant amount: NT$600,000
Grant period: 6 months
C. Publication Subsidies
1. Cheng-Tian Kuo
Department of Political Science, National Chengchi University, with Jan Peter Wissink of Amsterdam University Press (The Netherlands)
“Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies”
Grant amount: NT$400,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Hung Yueh Lan
Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University, with Mishio Saito of University of Tokyo Press (Japan)
“Ogyu Sorai in Literary Chinese Sphere: Medicine, Military Science and Literature”
Grant amount: NT$310,000
Grant period: 1 year
Recipients in the American Region
| (in order of date application received) | Unit: US$ |
A. Research Grants
1. Shin-yi Chao
University of Rochester
“Religion and Social Capital: Local Elites and Civil Society in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$22,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Josephine Chiu-Duke
University of British Columbia (Canada)
“Ying-shih Yu and His Portrait of the Chinese Intellectual Tradition”
Grant amount: US$24,000
Grant period: 2 years
3. Sida Liu
University of Toronto (Canada)
“Ecologies of Globalization: Lawyers and Economic Integration in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China”
Grant amount: US$20,834
Grant period: 2 years
4. Pei-Fen Li
Nova Southeastern University
“Systemic Interventions of Project MIND (Math Is Not Difficult) and Solution Focused Brief Therapy for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Their Families: A Pilot Study”
Grant amount: US$14,969
Grant period: 1 year
5. Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy
Universite Laval (Canada)
“Broadcasting Tibetanness: The Making of Tibetan Radio and Television in the People’s Republic of China”
Grant amount: US$22,358
Grant period: 1 year
6. Jiayan Zhang
Kennesaw State University
“Dike and Society in Rural China: The Jianghan Plain, 1788-1998”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 2 years
7. Pei-te Lien
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Understanding the Sources and Consequences of Racial Attitudes and Opinions of Immigrant Chinese Americans”
Grant amount: US$12,000
Grant period: 2 years
8. Grace S. Fong
McGill University (Canada)
“The Filiality of Daughters in Imperial China: A Genealogical Study”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 2 years
9. Shin Fukuda
University of Hawai‘i, Manoa
“An Investigation of the Argument and Topic Marking Systems in Formosan Language: A Case Study on Manifestations of Different Typological Features in Languages in East Asia”
Grant amount: US$11,440
Grant period: 2 years
10. Xia Zhang
Portland State University
“‘Parents Are Poison’: Filial Piety, New Media and Psychological Self-Help in China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 2 years
11. Kerry Ratigan
Amherst College
“Local Welfare Regimes and Perceptions of the State: A Survey of Popular Attitudes towards Social Policy in Urban China”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
B. Scholar Grants
1. Monica Yang
Adelphi University
“Buying to Catch up: Cross-border Mergers and Acquisition by Chinese Firms”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Ka Zeng
University of Arkansas
“Global Supply Chains and the Politics of Trade Liberalization: Evidence from the United States and China”
Grant amount: US$12,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Wendy Swartz
Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey
“Critical Readers: Literary Thought in Early Medieval China”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Ping Yao
California State University, Los Angeles
“Gendering Medieval Chinese Buddhism: Biography, Devotion, and Family”
Grant amount: US$17,500
Grant period: 1 year
5. Kathlene Baldanza
Pennsylvania State University
“Miasma, Medicine, and Empire between China and Vietnam”
Grant amount: US$16,875
Grant period: 1 year
6. Chunmei Du
Western Kentucky University
“From Liberators to Rapists: Anti-American Nationalism in Republican China”
Grant amount: US$17,500
Grant period: 1 year
7. Jonathan Hay
New York University
“Sardonic: The Art of Independent Opinion in Eighteenth-Century China”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Yang Zhang
American University
“Insurgent Dynamics: Muslim Rebellions during the Taiping Civil War in the Qing Empire”
Grant amount: US$24,391
Grant period: 1 year
9. Shuang Zhang
University of Colorado, Boulder
“Develop a Framework to Evaluate Energy and Environmental Regulations in China”
Grant amount: US$16,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Robin D. S. Yates
McGill University (Canada)
“Qianling County, 222-209 BCE: Local Government in Practice under the Qin”
Grant amount: US$16,875
Grant period: 1 year
11. Chien-jer Lin
Indiana University, Bloomington
“Hearing Phonetic Notations: How Pinyin/Zhuyin Influences the Perception of Mandarin Syllables”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Satoru Hashimoto
University of Maryland, College Park
“Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Literature”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
13. Pin-Hao Chen
Dartmouth College
“Towards a Computational Understanding of Social Status and Mianzi in Chinese and American Cultures”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
14. Xiaorong Li
University of California, Santa Barbara
“‘Fragrant and Dazzling’: Sensual Poetry, Decadence, and Modernism in China (17th-20th Centuries)”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
15. Eugenia Lean
Columbia University
“Manufacturing Matters: Chen Diexian (1879-1940), a Chinese Man-of-Letters in an Age of Industrial Capitalism”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
16. Wen-hsin Yeh
University of California, Berkeley
“Ships and Savages: The Rover and the Transformation of Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$17,500
Grant period: 1 year
17. Zhaohua Yang
Columbia University
“Devouring Impurities: Chinese Tantric Buddhism and the Flourishing of the Cult of Ucchusma in the Premodern Period”
Grant amount: US$22,000
Grant period: 1 year
C. Conference and Seminar Grants
1. Garret Olberding
University of Oklahoma
“Designing Space: The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China”
Grant amount: US$13,000
Grant period: 6 months
2. Edith Aldridge
University of Washington, Seattle
“Workshop on Comparative Formosan Linguistics”
Grant amount: US$10,307
Grant period: 6 months
3. Juan Wang
McGill University (Canada)
“The Internal Dynamics of the Political-Legal System in China”
Grant amount: US$18,086
Grant period: 6 months
4. Patricia Sieber
Ohio State University
“A Gateway to Chinese Theater: Reading Texts and Performance, 1100-1850”
Grant amount: US$16,000
Grant period: 6 months
5. Andrew F. Jones
University of California, Berkeley
“Shadow History: Archive and Intermediality in Chinese Cinema”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 6 months
6. Michael Fischer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Strategies, Trajectories, Visions: An International Workshop on East Asia and STS”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 6 months
D. Publication Subsidies
1. Melissa Pitts
University of British Columbia Press (Canada)
“Beyond the Amur: Frontier Encounters between China and Russia, 1850-1930”, by Victor Zatsepine
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Susan Barnett
Cornell University Press
“Shaken Authority: China’s Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake”, by Christian P. Sorace
Grant amount: US$4,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Jonathan Fiedler
Columbia University Press
“The Songs of Chu: An Ancient Anthology of Works by Qu Yuan and Others”, by Gopal Sukhu
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Beth Fuget
University of Washington Press
“Ling Mengchu, Slapping the Table in Amazement: A Ming Dynasty Story Collection”, translated by Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Beth Fuget
University of Washington Press
“Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection”, translated and annotated by Robert E. Hegel
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Beth Fuget
University of Washington Press
“Reporting for China: How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World”, by Pal Nyiri
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Beth Fuget
University of Washington Press
“Shanghai Sacred: The Religious Fabric of a Chinese Global City”, by Benoit Vermander, Liz Hingley, and Liang Zhang
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Robert Graham
Harvard University
“Open-Air Painting and Chinese Ways of Seeing ”, by Yi Gu
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
E. Doctoral Fellowships
1. Shaonan Liu
Michigan State University
“‘The Chinese Are Coming’: A History of Chinese Migrants in Nigeria”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Ketian Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Calculating Bully: Explaining Chinese Coercion”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Ryan Holroyd
Pennsylvania State University
“The Global Trade in Chinese Luxury Goods from the Opening of the Oceans to the Canton System, 1670-1760”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Darren Byler
University of Washington, Seattle
“The Art of Life in Chinese Central Asia: Precariousness, Art and Minority Politics and the City”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Jonghyuk Lee
University of California, San Diego
“Incentivized Inequality: Career Prospects and Investment Allocation in China”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Linh Vu
University of California, Berkeley
“The Sovereignty of the War Dead: Martyrs, Memorials, and the Making of Modern China, 1912-1949”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Cary Wu
University of British Columbia (Canada)
“The Cultural Origins of Trust: Evidence from Two Chinese Societies”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Fangyi Cheng
University of Pennsylvania
“‘Barbarians’ in the Central Plain: A Comparative Perspective on the Transition of the Inner Asian People in China during Sixteen Kingdoms Period and Northern Dynasties”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Oi Ying Irene Pang
Brown University
“Becoming Citizens: Construction Workers in Beijing and Delhi”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Luyang Zhou
McGill University (Canada)
“Agency and Communist Revolution: Comparing the Bolshevik and CCP Leading Elites”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Peng Peng
Princeton University
“The Lost-wax Casting Technology in Bronze Age China”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Clark Alejandrino
Georgetown University
“Geographies of Climate: Coastal Guangdong as a Geography of Typhoons in Chinese History”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
13. Yue Du
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Cost-Free Urbanization? -- The Mass Peasant Relocation Programs and China's Urbanization”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
14. Alexander Kais
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“The Zongli Yamen in the Qing Empire: Legal Pluralism, Ethnicity, and Factionalism”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
15. Dong Yan
University of California, Los Angeles
“Sinews of Paper: Public Debt and Chinese Political Economy, 1870-1937”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
16. Jeffrey Weng
University of California, Berkeley
“With One Voice: Unifying the Nation through Language Reform in Early Twentieth-Century China”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
17. Koji Hirata
Stanford University
“Steel Metropolis: Industrial Manchuria and the Making of Chinese Socialism”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
18. Yanshuo Zhang
Stanford University
“Beyond Minority: Ethnicity, Myth, and the Invention of Qiang Identity in China”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
19. Noga Ganany
Columbia University
“Hagiographic Narratives: Reading and Reverence in Late-Ming China”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
20. Lei Lin
Harvard University
“The Limits of Empire: The Gurkha War and Qing China’s Trans-Himalayan Borderlands, 1788-1793”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
21. Shuxin Hong
Washington University in St. Louis
“Cultivating the Connoisseur of Vision: Text, Illustration, and Literati Identity in the Ming-Qing Transition”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
22. Nhung Bui
Princeton University
“Domestic Insecurity and Nationalist Propaganda in the People’s Republic of China”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
23. Evi Sutrisno
University of Washington, Seattle
“Imagining China Religiously: The Invention, Resilience and Revival of Indonesian Confucianism (1897-2010)”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
24. Huan Li
Wesleyan University
“Tradition and Change: Qinshi and Their Music in Reform China”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
25. Ning Leng
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Selective Reversal of Privatization in China’s Public Service Sectors”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
26. Jue Lu
Washington University in St. Louis
“Beyond the May Fourth Self: Chinese Autobiographical Writings and Practices in Traditional Genres, 1900s-1930s”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
27. Fnu Kamaoji
University of Virginia
“The Death and Return of Female Revenants in Tibetan Region of China”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
28. Tusi Wen
Duke University
“Revolution, Democratization, and the Paradox of Authoritarian Control”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
29. Youyi Zhang
Cornell University
“Foreign Investment, Heterogeneous State-Owned Multinational Companies (SOMNCs), and Political Influence: Political and Strategic Implications of Chinese Outward Investment in Southeast Asia”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
30. Yang Wu
Arizona State University
“Transmission of Law and Expansion of Merits: A Comparison of Daoist Ordination Ritual and Chinese Esoteric Buddhist Consecration in the Mid-Late Tang and Five Dynasties (763-960)”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
F. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Yu-yun Hsieh
City University of New York
“Ang Lee’s America”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Yung-chang Tung
Harvard University
“Information, Mentality, and Social Interaction in the Song-Yuan Society”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Chieh-ju Wu
State University of New York, Binghamton
“Through the Lens of Snake Studies: The Making of Japanese Tropical Science and Colonialism in Taiwan, 1895-1945”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Yen-ling Chen
University of Hawai‘i, Manoa
“Proto-Ong-Be: Its Phonology and Lexicon”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. I-fan Wu
Cornell University
“Vitality and Power: Qigong, Religious Healing, and the Production of Chinese Identities in Malaysia”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Chia-hao Hsu
University of Texas, Austin
“Voicing Indigeneity: ‘Voice’ and Cultural Politics of Aboriginal Song and Singing in Contemporary Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Chao-yo Cheng
University of California, Los Angeles
“Autonomy in Autocracy: Explaining Ethnic Policies in Post-1949 China”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Chung-pei Pien
Texas A&M University
“Environmental Policy and the Emergence of the Incineration Industry: A Case Study of Beijing, China, 1992-2012”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Chia-chien Chang
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Domestic Inequality, Redistributive Conflict and Strategies of War Finance -- A Historical Institutional Analysis of China in the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
●Wait List
（a）Humanities
1. Lin-chin Tsai (#1 in the Humanities Category)
University of California, Los Angeles
“Relationing Taiwan: Settler Colonialism, Ethnicity, and Aesthetics”
2. Hua-hsuan Chu (#2 in the Humanities Category)
State University of New York, Binghamton
“Tropicalizing Taiwan: The Environmental Governmentality in the Japanese Colonial Food Regime, 1895-1945”
3. Wei-chi Wu (#3 in the Humanities Category)
University of California, Riverside
“Dancing within Taiwanese-ness: International Folk Dancing Communities in Taiwan and California”
（b）Social Sciences
1. Po-liang Chen (#3 in the Social Sciences Category)
University of Washington, Seattle
“Money in Taiwanese Politics -- A Historical Analysis of Taiwanese Campaign Finance Law”
Recipients in the European Region
| (in order of date application received) | Unit: Euro |
A. Research Grants
1. Barbara Meisterernst
Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany)
“Aspect and Modality in Pre-Tang Chinese”
Grant amount: €26,609
Grant period: 1 year
2. Ming-chin Chu
University of Southampton (UK)
“Problematic Sovereignty on China’s Periphery”
Grant amount: €46,000
Grant period: 2 years
3. Stefania Travagnin
University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
“Mapping Religious Diversity and Inclusive Practices in Modern Sichuan: A Spatial and Social Study of Communities and Networks”
Grant amount: €100,000
Grant period: 3 years
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B. Database Grants
1. Micah Muscolino
University of Oxford (UK)
“Loess Plateau Water and Soil Conservation Historical GIS”
Grant amount: €75,400
Grant period: 3 years
C. Conference and Seminar Grants
1. Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd
Needham Research Institute (UK)
“Science in the Forest, Science in the Past”
Grant amount: €3,587
Grant period: 6 months
2. Huba Bartos
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary)
“Sign Languages East and West: What Can East Asian and European Researchers Learn from Each Other?”
Grant amount: €9,000
Grant period: 6 months
3. Ori Sela
Tel Aviv University (Israel)
“Rethinking Time in Modern China”
Grant amount: €20,000
Grant period: 6 months
4. Astrid H. M. Nordin
Lancaster University (UK)
“Futures of Global Relations: The Relational Turn in IR Meets Concepts from Chinese Tradition”
Grant amount: €16,000
Grant period: 6 months
5. Emma Reisz
Queen’s University Belfast (UK)
“New Lenses on China: Photography in Modern Chinese History and Historiography”
Grant amount: €4,874
Grant period: 6 months
6. Natasa Vampelj Suhadolnik
European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology(Slovenia)
“The 2nd Conference of European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology”
Grant amount: €10,000
Grant period: 6 months
7. Isabelle Cheng
University of Portsmouth (UK)
“Rethinking Transnationalism in the Global World: Contested State, Society, Border, and the People in between”
Grant amount: €20,775
Grant period: 6 months
D. Publication Subsidies
1. Alienor Bergeron
Edicions Bellaterra (Spain)
“Publication in Spanish of Xiao Hong’s Field of Life and Death and Other Tales”, translated by Manuel Pavon Belizon
Grant amount: €5,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Frederic Constant
Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense (France)
“Mongolian Law in the Sino-Manchu Imperial State”, by Frederic Constant
Grant amount: €5,239
Grant period: 1 year
3. Luis Saraiva
University of Lisbon (Portugal)
“Visual and Textual Representations in Exchanges between Europe and East Asia”, edited by Luis Saraiva and Catherine Jami
Grant amount: €5,000
Grant period: 1 year
E. Doctoral Fellowships
1. Yiyun Ding
University of York (UK)
“China’s First Female University President Yang Yinyu, and the Educational Reforms of Her Era, 1884-1938”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Aude Lucas
Universite de Paris VII - Denis Diderot (France)
“Subjectivity in Dream Accounts of Qing Fictional Literature”
Grant amoun : €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Hajnalka Elias
University of Cambridge (UK)
“Sichuan in the Eastern Han Dynasty (25 - 220 C.E.): A Study of Regional Identity in Material Culture and Textual Sources”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Yang Lei
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (France)
“Temple Bells and Soundscape in Peking: 1400-1911”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Miguel Angel Petrecca
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (France)
“Tradition, Chineseness, and the Use of Poetry in the Works of Third Generation Poets”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Franziska Pluemmer
University of Tuebingen (Germany)
“Rethinking Borders in the Context of Regionalization -- Chinese Border and Migration Practices”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Joern Peter Grundmann
The University of Edinburgh (UK)
“De 德 and the Symbolization of a Collective Politico-Religious Identity in Early Chinese Texts”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Yi Yang
University of Oxford (UK)
“Authoritarian Structuration, Bureaucratic Elites Formation in China and Regime Resilience”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Hannah Theaker
University of Oxford (UK)
“Muslims, Movement and the Military: Changing Governance of a Sino-Tibetan Frontier in 19th Century Gansu’”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Elisa Tamburo
University of London (UK)
“Moving House: The Re-making of Home among the Mainlander Diaspora in Taiwan ”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Bibiana Crippa
Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
“Between Tradition and Modernity: The Poetry of Jin He 金和 (1818-1885)”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Egas Bender de Moniz Bandeira
University of Heidelberg (Germany)
“Late Qing China and the Globalisation of Constitutionalism”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
13. Jiani He
University of Cambridge (UK)
“Empire, Nation and Language: The Linguistic Turn in Manchuria in Late Imperial China (1890-1911)”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
14. Manuel Sassmann
University of Heidelberg (Germany)
“The Dawn of Awakening: Argument and Exegesis in the Late Ming as Seen through the Work of the Buddhist Master Ouyi Zhixu 藕益智旭 (1599-1655)”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
●Wait List
1. Guanli Zhang (# 1)
University of Oxford (UK)
“Knowledge, Strategy, and Ideology: Environmental Mobilisation in Two ‘Cancer Villages’ of East China”
2. Xing Wang (# 2)
University of Oxford (UK)
“Fortune and the Body: The Anthropological Study of Chinese Physiognomy in Song and Ming”
3. Berangere Amblard (# 3)
Universite Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France)
“In-Between: The Liminality of Contemporary Chinese Art -- A Study of Contemporary Creation in China 1989-2016”
F. Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
1. Desiree Remmert
University of Tuebingen (Germany)
“Challenging ‘Ming’ -- How Are Culturally Specific Notions of Fate, Choice and Agency Affected by the Economic and Political Transformations in Taiwan?”
Grant amount: €21,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Monica Gines Blasi
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain)
“Sino-Spanish Negotiations on Chinese Immigration to Cuba and the Philippines, 1868-1898”
Grant amount: €21,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Jerome Doyon
University of London (UK)
“Our Kind of Stranger: The Cooptation of Minority Cadres in Post-Mao China”
Grant amount: €42,000
Grant period: 2 years
4. Joseph Ciaudo
University of Heidelberg (Germany)
“Mapping the Concepts of Culture in Early Twentieth-Century China: Historical Semantics and Social Mobilization”
Grant amount: €21,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Shajidanmu Tuxun
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Germany)
“The Taste of the Silk Road: A Research Proposal on Xinjiang/Uyghur Restaurants in China and Europe”
Grant amount: €21,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Tarryn Li-min Chun
University of Oxford (UK)
“Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theatre, Technology, and Media in Modern China”
Grant amount: €21,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Victor Louzon
Sciences Po (France)
“Mobilization, Demobilization and Remobilization in the Wartime Japanese Empire -- From Taiwan to Manchuria (1937-1949) ”
Grant amount: €21,000
Grant period: 1 year
G. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Yin-an Chen
University of Kent (UK)
“Constructing a Micro-Political Theology, Considering Desire, Sexuality and Body: Taiwan as Method”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Yi-chieh Shih
University of Geneva (Switzerland)
“Modelling the West: Chitqua, a Chinese Artist and Chinese Art in Eighteenth Century London”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Hao-tzu Ho
Durham University (UK)
“The Different Face of Urban Living: An Ethnography of Hands-on Food Growing in Postcolonial Hong Kong”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Chun-hou Chang
University of Cambridge (UK)
“Beliefs about the Expression and Regulation of Emotion, and Knowledge about Mental Health in the Chinese Cultural Context: Their Implications on Taiwanese Mothers’ Attitudes in Seeking Professional Psychological Help”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Yang-sheng Chen
Freie Universitat Berlin (Germany)
“The Principle of Proportionality in Taxation: Theoretical Reflections on the Problems of Taiwanese Taxation from German Law’s Perspective”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Ying-hsueh Chen
Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense (France)
“Right to Equality and Affirmative Action: A Comparative Study on the Legal Policy of France, America and and Republic of China (Taiwan)”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Hui-ju Tsai
Loughborough University (UK)
“The Cultural Public Sphere under the Waves of Neoliberal Reform: Rethinking Communication and Cultural Policies in Taiwan”
Grant amount: €15,000
Grant period: 1 year
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Social Sciences
1. Chia-yuan Huang (#2 in the Social Sciences Category)
University of London (UK)
“Global Mobility of Talents: Taiwanese Highly Skilled Migrant Workers to Shanghai and Singapore”
H. Special Project Grants
1. Olga Lomova
Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)
“Continuation of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation International Sinological Center at Charles University in Prague, 2018-2020”
Grant amount: €225,000
Grant period: 3 years
Recipients in the Asia-Pacific Region
| (in order of date application received) | Unit: US$ |
A. Research Grants
1. Michael Radich
Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)
“Auditing Attributions in the Chinese Buddhist Canon”
Grant amount: US$40,185
Grant period: 2 years
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2. Grace Qiao Zhang
Curtin University (Australia)
“Elastic Language in Health Communication: A Cross-Cultural Perspective ”
Grant amount: US$72,000
Grant period: 3 years
3. Quentin Stevens
RMIT Univeristy (Australia)
“Public Memorials in Taiwan as Expressions of Democracy and Cultural Identity”
Grant amount: US$40,000
Grant period: 2 years
B. Conference and Seminar Grants
1. Hoang Huy Nguyen
Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (Vietnam)
“ASEAN-Taiwan (ROC) Relations in the Context of the Taiwan’s New Southbounce (NSB) Policy and the Role of Vietnam”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 6 months
2. Cordia Chu
Griffith University (Australia)
“2017 International Conference on Chinese Food Culture”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 6 months
C. Publication Subsidies
1. Shuge Wei
Australian National University (Australia)
“News under Fire: China’s Propaganda against Japan in the English-Language Press, 1928-1941”
Grant amount: US$6,000
Grant period: 1 year
D. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Ting-ting Yeh
Waseda University (Japan)
“The National Vision and Political Consciousness of Taiwanese People (1945.8~1947.2)”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Yu-chen Chien
University of Tokyo (Japan)
“A Study on the Establishing of the Port Cities in Taiwan in the Early Period of Japanese Governance”
Grant amount: US$18,000
Grant period: 1 year
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Social Sciences
1. Yu-hua Chen (#1 in the Social Sciences Category)
The Australian National University (Australia)
“Beyond the Great Wall: China’s Search for Buffers”
Recipients in the Developing Regions
| (in order of date application received) | Unit: US$ |
A. Lecture Series Grants
1. Ewa Zajdler
Jagiellonian University (Poland)
“The Jagiellonian Window to China”
Grant amount: US$9,910
Grant period: 3 years
B. Research Grants
1. Sonika Gupta
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India)
“Liminal Spaces of Citizenship: A Study of Tibetan Exiles”
Grant amount: US$22,000
Grant period: 2 years
C. Library Acquisition Grants
1. Kornelia Major
Eotvos Lorand University (Hungary)
“Enhancement of the Library of the Institute of East Asian Studies at ELTE”
Grant amount: US$9,000
Grant period: 3 years
2. Aurelijus Zykas
Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania)
“Expansion of Library Funds for Chinese Studies in Vytautas Magnus University”
Grant amount: US$$9,000
Grant period: 3 years
3. Csenge Gulyas
Pazmany Peter Catholic University (Hungary)
“Library Acquisition for the Department of Chinese Studies, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary”
Grant amount: US$6,000
Grant period: 2 years
D. Graduate Student and Faculty Mobility Grants
1. Lucie Olivova
Masaryk University (Czech Republic)
“Some Examples of Interior Chinese-style Decorations in Czechia”
Grant amount: US$900
Grant period: 6 months
2. Li-Chi Chen
Kazimierz Wielki University (Poland)
“Modern Japanese Comics: Visual Language, Humor and Translation”
Grant amount: US$1,500
Grant period: 6 months
