Grant Recipients, 2022-2023
Recipients in the Domestic Region Unit: NT$
(in order of date application received)
A. Research Grants
1. Harry Yi-jui Wu
Cross College Elite Program, National Cheng Kung University, with Hsin-yen Lai of University of St Andrews (UK)
“Revisiting Medical Humanitarianism between Taiwan and Saudi Arabia: Health Diplomacy and International Relations towards the End of Cold War”
Grant amount : NT$2,120,000
Grant period : 2 years
2. Yi-ting Wang
Department of Political Science, National Cheng Kung University, with Howard Liu of University of South Carolina (USA)
“Informants, Intelligence Selection, and State Repression”
Grant amount : NT$2,080,000
Grant period : 3 years
B. Publication Subsidies
1. Ying-fen Wang
Graduate Institute of Musicology, National Taiwan University, with Laurie Matheson of University of Illinois Press (USA)
“The Formations of Phonographic Modernity in East and Southeast Asia: Exploring the Gramophone Industry and Music Genres”
Grant amount : NT$300,000
Grant period : 1 year
Recipients in the American Region Unit: US$
(in order of date application received)
A. Research Grants
1. John Upton
Temple University
“Indigenous Rights in the Balance: Contemporary Bunun Hunting and Human-Animal-Land Relations”
Grant amount : US$7,981
Grant period : 1 year
2. Eiren Shea
Grinnell College
“Adornment and Identity in Middle Period China”
Grant amount : US$15,000
Grant period : 1 year
3. Shaowen Luo
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
“The Network of Local Officials in Qing China: Did Nepotism Contribute to the Decline of the Empire?”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 2 years
4. Kerry Ratigan
Amherst College
“The Politics of China’s Economic Engagement with Latin America”
Grant amount : US$12,200
Grant period : 1 year
B. Scholar Grants
1. Wenqing Kang
Cleveland State University
“Life in Silence: Male Same-Sex Relations in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-Present”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
2. Michael Gibbs Hill
College of William and Mary
“Worlds Apart: Histories of Cultural Exchange Between China and the Arab World, 1850-Present”
Grant amount : US$15,000
Grant period : 1 year
3. Wen-shing Chou
City University of New York
“Shaping Time: Art of Rebirth in Qing Buddhist China and Inner Asia”
Grant amount : US$15,000
Grant period : 1 year
4. Ming-cheng Lo
University of California, Davis
“Pandemic and Processes of Civil Repair: Understanding Taiwan’s Democracy through Its COVID Experience”
Grant amount : US$30,000
Grant period : 1 year
5. Meng Li
Loyola Marymount University
“Family of Origin: How an American Idea Became a Chinese Social Ill”
Grant amount : US$15,000
Grant period : 1 year
6. Yi Ding
DePaul University
“Observances, Feasts, Scripts: The Evolution of Zhai in Chinese Buddhism from the Second to the Tenth Century”
Grant amount : US$21,000
Grant period : 1 year
7. Elaine Liu
University of Houston
“The Effect of Foreign Language Exposure: Case of Economic Decision Making”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
8. Alexei Ditter
Reed College
“Collaborative Memory in 7th-10th Century China”
Grant amount : US$15,000
Grant period : 1 year
9. Yajun Mo
Boston College
“From Shanghai to Shangri-La: Zhuang Xueben and China’s Ethnographic Frontier”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
10. Meredith Schweig
Emory University
“Enter the Butterfly: Voicing Teresa Teng in Post-Cold War Taiwan”
Grant amount : US$15,000
Grant period : 1 year
11. Seung-youn Oh
Bryn Mawr College
“Turning China Fever into China Fear? China’s Economic Statecraft and Weaponized Economic Interdependence”
Grant amount : US$32,000
Grant period : 1 year
C. Conference and Seminar Grants
1. Peter Bol
Harvard University
“Tools of the Trade: The Way Forward”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 6 months
2. Patricia Sieber
The Ohio State University
“In Search of the Sayable: Traditional Chinese Plays, Translation, and Stage Performance”
Grant amount : US$12,000
Grant period : 6 months
3. Shuang Shen
Pennsylvania State University
“Oceans and Empires: Sinophone Crossroads in Global Space and Time”
Grant amount : US$13,000
Grant period : 6 months
4. Yun-chien Chang
Cornell University
“Empirical Legal Studies in the Sinophone Region”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 6 months
5. Chee-hann Wu
University of California, Irvine
“North American Taiwan Studies Association 28th Conference -- ‘Resistance and Resilience: Repositioning Taiwan’”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 6 months
6. Trenton Wilson
Princeton University
“Local Communities in Early China Workshop”
Grant amount : US$15,000
Grant period : 6 months
D. Publication Subsidies
1. Kim Robinson
University of California Press Foundation
“Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978-1985”, by Jennifer Dorothy Lee
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
2. Christian Winting
Columbia University Press
“The Uyghur History of the World: A Translation of the Tarikh-i Hamidi”, translated by Eric Schluessel
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
3. Beth Fuget
University of Washington Press
“Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts”, by Ruth Yun-ju Chen
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
4. Beth Fuget
University of Washington Press
“Miscellany of the South Seas: A Chinese Scholar’s Chronicle of Shipwreck and Travel through 1830s Vietnam”, translated and introduced by Kathlene Baldanza and Lu Zhao
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
5. Christian Winting
Columbia University Press
“Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in
China, Japan, and Korea”, by Satoru Hashimoto
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
6. Doris Sung
University of Alabama
“Women of Chinese Modern Art: Gender and Reforming Traditions in National and Global Spheres, 1900s-1930s”, by Doris Sung
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
7. Christian Winting
Columbia University Press
“Zombie Citizenship: Precarity and Cultural Practice in China”, by Margaret Hillenbrand
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
8. Beth Fuget
University of Washington Press
“Taiwan: A People’s History”, by Niki J. P. Alsford
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
E. Doctoral Fellowships
1. Mian Chen
Northwestern University
“Reassembling the Ideological Apparatuses: Propagandists and the Making of the Chinese Communist Propaganda Complex (1921-1965)”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
2. Christopher Kim
Columbia University
“Institutional Change in the State of Qi and the Rise of Territorial States in Early China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
3. Yuxing (Yolanda) Zhang
University of Toronto (Canada)
“Program Life: The Making of Data-driven Agroecological Worlds in China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
4. Qi Song
Northwestern University
“Platforms as Market Organizers: Understanding the Emergence, Roles, and Impacts of the Platform Economy in Emerging-Market China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
5. Shengqiao Lin
University of Texas, Austin
“Address Risk by Doing Good: Business Responses to Government Initiatives”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
6. Zekun Zhang
Yale University
“State and Slavery in the Tang Empire”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
7. Xiaotian Yin
Harvard University
“Collecting Embers: Buddhist Art in Central Tibet in the Age of Fragmentation, circa Tenth to Twelfth Century”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
8. Erxin Wang
The Ohio State University
“Dilemmas of Remembrance: Literati Theater and the Rhetoric of Memory, 1540s-1620s”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
9. Qinyou Hu
Rice University
“More Empathy, Fewer Bullies: Evidence from a Parental Involvement Program in China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
10. Mengling Wang
The Ohio State University
“Looking Through a Digital Humanities Lens: The Formation of Literary Community and Remediation of Early Medieval Anthologies in China, 500-1700”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
11. Ning He
New York University
“The Bureaucratic Politics of Social Disaster”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
12. Shuo Liang
Arizona State University
“Mapping Morality: Lu Fu’s Maps and Writings”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
13. Xuesong Shao
University of California, Davis
“Feeling the Rural: Politics and Affect in Chinese Literature and Film from the Reform Era”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
14. Hyangseon Ahn
University of California, San Diego
“Contested Meaning of Money in Reparations for Victims of Historical Injustice: A Comparative Study between Taiwan 2.28 Incident and South Korea 4.3 Incident”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
F. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Shih-han Wang
Columbia University
“Elite Formation on the ‘Periphery’ in the Bronze Age Lower Yangtze River Region (ca. 1300-300 BCE)”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
2. I-lin Liu
Indiana University, Bloomington
“Before the Wave: Art Film Culture in Taiwan, 1945-1982”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
3. Han-yun Tseng
Colorado State University
“Views of Aging: Their Measurement, Implications for Health Promotion, and Their Associations with Health and Well-Being in the Second Half of Life”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
4. Cheng-cheng Li
University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
“Re-imagining and Re-articulating Taiwan-Palau Relations through the Lens of Education”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
5. Yung-hsu Tsui
University of California, Los Angeles
“Measuring Non-Pecuniary Benefits of Entrepreneurial Firms in Taiwan”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
G. Special Project Grants
1. David Der-wei Wang
Harvard University
“The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies, USA”
Grant amount : US$240,000
Grant period : 3 years
Recipients in the European Region Unit: € |
(in order of date application received) |
A. Research Grants
1. Jeremy Taylor
University of Nottingham (UK)
“Documenting Wartime Collaboration: Scholarly Geopolitics and Transnational Re-assessments of the Wang Jingwei Regime”
Grant amount : €66,600
Grant period : 3 years
B. Database Grants
1. Julia Weber
Dresden State Art Collections (Gemany)
“Dresden Porcelain Project: Data Processing”
Grant amount : €64,700
Grant period : 1 year
2. Christine Moll-Murata
Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Gemany)
“Broadening the Horizon for Taiwan Studies through Visualization: The Photography Database of the National Taipei University of Education”
Grant amount : €47,600
Grant period : 3 years
C. Conference and Seminar Grants
1. Rebekah Clements
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
“Mastering of Materialities: Resources and Technology in Post-Imjin East Asia (1598-1650)”
Grant amount : €8,000
Grant period : 6 months
2. Julie Yu-wen Chen
University of Helsinki (Finland)
“The Rising Soft and Hard Power of China in Central Asia”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 6 months
D. Publication Subsidies
1. Vivian Constantinopoulos
Reaktion Books (UK)
“The Art of the Chinese Picture-scroll: Image-Word-Medium”, by Shane McCausland
Grant amount : €6,000
Grant period : 1 year
E. Doctoral Fellowships
1. Kunsang Thokmay
University of Oxford (UK)
“Tibetans, Mongols, and Manchus: Factionalism and Shifting Power Dynamics in Early Eighteenth-Century Inner Asia”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
2. Pauline A. Duval
École Pratique des Hautes Études (France)
“The Neolithic Societies of North-Eastern China (IXth-IId Millenium BC): An Anthropological Interpretation of Their Material Cultures based on Ceramic Technology”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
3. Mariia Guleva
Charles University (Czech Republic)
“Expose and Extol: A History of Manhua Magazine between Domestic Policies and International Interactions, 1950-1960”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
4. Ke Huang
Université Paris Cité (France)
“Work Platforms and Redeployed Capitalism in China: Sociology of Actors in the Algorithmic System”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
5. Ao Huang
University of London (UK)
“Before and Beyond Homosexuality: Trans-femininity in Ming-Qing China”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
6. Yinglei Chen
University of Oxford (UK)
“Urban Process and Mobility of Urban Elites in Southwestern China”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
7. Ningsi Song
Aix-Marseille University (France)
“The Rules of the Game in Mao’s China: Re-writing the History of the Cultural Revolution by Cinema 1964-1979”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
8. Yu Zhang
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)
“The Ordinary Life of Mental Illness: Construction of Inequalities within and around a Psychiatric Hospital in a Small Town in China”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
9. Wai Tan Law
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
“Local Identity and Global Entanglements of Cantonese Literati during the Ming-Qing Transition (1644-1680s)”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
F. Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
1. Guillermo Ruiz-Stovel
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
“Chinese Shipping and Merchant Networks at the Edge of the Spanish Pacific: The Minnan-Manila Trade in the Eighteenth Century”
Grant amount : €21,000
Grant period : 1 year
2. Joachim Boittout
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)
“A History of Fear in China: A New Perspective on Chinese Modernity, 1898-1937”
Grant amount : €37,800
Grant period : 2 years
G. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Po-hsun Chen
University of Manchester (UK)
“Negotiating Herbal Toxicity for Modern Imaginaries of Diasporic Chinese Countries: Controversies of Herbal Toxicities in Taiwan and Singapore after World War II”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
2. Minhui Tou
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany)
“Final Liberation: The Theory of Seeds and Perfumes between Vasubandhu and Sthiramati”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
H. Special Project Grants
1. Olga Lomová
Charles University (Czech Republic)
“Continuation of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation International Sinological Center at Charles University in Prague, 2023-2025”
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. Shih-wen Sue Chen
Deakin University (Australia)
“Science and Children’s Literature in Modern China”
Grant amount : US$60,000
Grant period : 3 years
2. Xiaoying Qi
Australian Catholic University (Australia)
“Small Business Entrepreneurs, Crisis and Resilience: A Study of Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan”
Grant amount : US$86,000
Grant period : 3 years
B. Publication Subsidies
1. Koji Hirata
Monash University (Australia)
“Making Mao’s Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism”, by Koji Hirata
Grant amount : US$4,000
Grant period : 1 year
Recipients in Developing Regions Unit: US$
(in order of date application received) |
A. Research Grants
1. Sonika Gupta
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India)
“Protracted Conflict and Borderland Communities in Taiwan and India: Case Studies of Kinmen (Taiwan) and West Kameng (India)”
Grant amount : US$18,000
Grant period : 2 years