Grant Recipients (II), 2023-2024
May 20, 2024Recipients in the American Region Unit: US$
(in order of date application received)
A. Research Grants
1. Rachel Core
Stetson University
“Food Markets, Street Vending, and the Post-Pandemic Cosmopolitan Canopy in Taiwan”
Grant amount : US$23,175
Grant period : 2 years
B. Scholar Grants
1. Stacey Van Vleet
University of California, Berkeley
“The World the Medicine Buddha Built: Tibetan Medical Governance in Qing Inner Asia”
Grant amount : US$27,579
Grant period : 1 year
2. Rivi Handler-Spitz
Macalester College
“Savage Script: How Chinese Writing Became Barbaric”
Grant amount : US$26,000
Grant period : 1 year
3. Dalton Lin
Georgia Institute of Technology
“The Political Economy of China’s Belt and Road Initiative”
Grant amount : US$17,000
Grant period : 1 year
4. Huijun Mai
University of California, Los Angeles
“Poets in the Kitchen: Food Literature and the Birth of a Gustatory Epistemology in Song China (960–1279)”
Grant amount : US$26,000
Grant period : 1 year
5. Jianqing Chen
Washington University in St. Louis
“Touchscreen Media: The Touch and its Users in Contemporary China”
Grant amount : US$28,859
Grant period : 1 year
6. Thomas Kelly
Harvard University
“The Unfinished Book, c. 1644: Memory and Manuscript Culture in the Ming-Qing Transition ”
Grant amount : US$25,000
Grant period : 1 year
7. Najung Kim
University of Richmond
“Displaced Landscapes: The Art of Ni Zan (1301/06-1374) and Voices of the Marginalized”
Grant amount : US$16,961
Grant period : 1 year
C. Conference and Seminar Grants
1. Joshua Fogel
York University (Canada)
“Translation within a World of Chinese Characters: China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 6 months
D. Publication Subsidies
1. Randy Schmidt
University of British Columbia Press (Canada)
“Not Just a Man’s War: Chinese Women’s Memories of the War of Resistance against Japan, 1931–45”, by Yihong Pan
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
2. Amanda Todd
University of California Press Foundation
“In the Global Vanguard: Taiwan, Agrarian Development, and the World”, by James Lin
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
3. Beth Fuget
“Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese”, by Zev Handel
Grant amount : US$5,000
Grant period : 1 year
E. Doctoral Fellowships
1. Marc Lagace
McMaster University (Canada)
“Harui Kuishina! Devotional Yoga in the People’s Republic of China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
2. Christopher Hu
University of Virginia
“The New Gold Mountain: Education, Ethnicity, and Privilege in the New Jersey Chinese Ethnoburb”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
3. Yi Lu
State University of New York, Albany
“Parenting ‘Model Minority’: Class, Gender, and Family Life of Chinese Immigrants”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
4. Teng Ge
University of Chicago
“There is no I in Team: How Chinese Basketball Prodigies Failed to Become Champions”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
5. Weizheng Lai
University of Maryland, College Park
“China’s Trade Liberalization and State-Owned Enterprises”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
6. Man Ning Chan
University of California, Santa Cruz
“Music, Tradition, and Politics: A History of Qin-zither in Early Modern China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
7. Benjamin Kletzer
University of California, San Diego
“China’s Dream of the Red Railway: Professional Railroaders and the Making of an Industrial Power”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
8. Maï-Lan Marine Thaler
University of Ottawa (Canada)
“Buddhism as an Instrument of Diplomacy for the People’s Republic of China, under Xi Jinping (2012): New Strategies of Influence Aimed at Southeast Asian Countries, including Taiwan”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
9. Xiao Schutte Ke
University of Pennsylvania
“More-than-human Governance Beyond the State: Grassroots Science, Highland Expertise, and the Politics of Conservation in Amdo Tibet”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
10. Wandi Wang
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Taste and Gastropoetics in Traditional China, 9th-17th Century CE”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
11. Yedong Chen
Harvard University
“Videogaming China: Performance, Pleasure, and the Politics of Play”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
12. Yang Qu
Harvard University
“Obsession with India: Literature, Spirituality, the Quest for Alternative Modernity in Early Twentieth Century China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
13. Keyun Tian
Cornell University
“Troublesome Bodyminds: Sexuality and Debility in Contemporary Sinophone Cultures”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
14. Matthew Douthitt
Pennsylvania State University
“Clandestine China: Extraterritorial Violence and the National Revolution Abroad, 1895-1917”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
15. Jiaqi Yao
University of British Columbia (Canada)
“Journeying to the Authentic Borderlands: Chinese Travel Narratives in the Era of National Crisis, 1931-1945”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
16. Christopher Chan
University of California, Berkeley
“Crafting for the Enemy to Come: The Production of Techno-Aesthetic Security, Infrastructural Imaginaries, and the Cultural State Apparatus in the Taiwan Strait”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
17. Tsz Ching Joy Zhu
University of California, Los Angeles
“Geology as Antiquity: The Invention of Hong Kong’s Prehistory”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
18. Yajie Wang
Yale University
“The Fiscal Politics of Economic Openness in Contemporary China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
19. Yvonne Lin
University of California, Berkeley
“The Aestheticization of Pastness in Postsocialist Chinese Media”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
20. SJ Zanolini
Johns Hopkins University
“Everyday Medicines: Prescribed Foods in Early Modern China”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
21. Ruoxuan Wen
McGill University (Canada)
“Echoes of Mid-Eastern Han Changsha: A Rediscovery of the City’s Administrative, Family, and Social Dimensions in the Light of Excavated Documents”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
22. Kaho Yasuda
University of Pennsylvania
“Soldering Through Time and Space: Taiwanese Mobilizations in the Mid-Twentieth Century”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
F. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Chiao-wen Chiang
University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
“Making (K)new Knowledges and Performing Indigeneity: The Politics of Music and Environment in the Indigenous Yami/Tao Community, Lanyu, Taiwan ”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
2. Shih-an Wang
University of Chicago
“Judicial Strategies under Geopolitical Distress: A Comparative Study of the Constitutional Courts of Taiwan, South Korea, and Lithuania”
Grant amount : US$20,000
Grant period : 1 year
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A. Research Grants
1. Angela Schottenhammer
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
“The Spread of Disease across the (South-)East Asian Seas: Environment, Health, and Medicine (1560 to 1850)”
Grant amount : €65,000
Grant period : 3 years
2. Ruben Gonzalez Vicente
University of Birmingham (UK)
“Development at the Final Frontier: China and Taiwan in the Caribbean”
Grant amount : €21,000
Grant period : 3 years
3. Beatrice Zani
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
“Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Migrant Fishers, Seafarers and Farmhands and the Impact of Digitality on their Work, Life and Activism”
Grant amount : €70,000
Grant period : 3 years
B. Database Grants
1. Mary Brazelton
University of Cambridge (UK)
“Lu Gwei-Djen as Biochemist and Historian of Chinese Science: Recovering a Major Archive”
Grant amount : €60,000
Grant period : 2 years
C. Conference and Seminar Grants
1. Lama Jabb
University of Oxford (UK)
“Seventh International Seminar of Young Tibetologists: A Platform for Global Dialogue and Collaboration”
Grant amount : €16,000
Grant period : 6 months
D. Publication Subsidies
1. Jana S. Rošker
University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
“Publication Subsidy for the Book Chinese Philosophy in Transcultural Contexts: Comparative Approaches and the Method of Sublation”, by Jana S. Rošker
Grant amount : €5,000
Grant period : 1 year
E. Doctoral Fellowships
1. Yiqiao Yan
École Pratique des Hautes Études (France)
“Charity, Ritual, and Spiritual Work in Wartime Chengdu and Chongqing, 1938-1946”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
2. William Blythe
University of Oxford (UK)
“Speak Mnemosyne: A Genetic Study of Qian Zhongshu’s Limited Views”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
3. Laura Boyer
Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)
“Saving Animals: A History of fangsheng 放生 (“releasing life”) in China, from the 18th to the 20th Century, through the Study of Jiangnan Charitable Societies and the Study of Books, Images and Proselytizing Discourses Exhorting People to Practice fangsheng”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
4. Yuqing Sun
Charles University (Czech Republic)
“Deconstructing the Artist’s Image: A New Perspective on Tang Yin’s Art”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
5. Georgijs Dunajevs
Julius Maximilian University of Wurzburg (Germany)
“Ordering the Extraordinary: A Study of Textual History, Thematic Structure, and Sources of the Taiping guangji”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
6. Stefan Kukowka
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (France)
“Aspiring World Peace Through Education: Pure Land Societies and the Global Promotion of Traditional Chinese Culture”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
7. Yaojing Wang
The University of Edinburgh (UK)
“Unsettling Desire for Gaming Among Working Adults in China: Digital Technology, Play, and Work”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
8. Xu Peng
University of London (UK)
“The Rise and Fall of Two Chinese-impacted Rebel Groups in the China-Myanmar Borderland: Wa and Kokang”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
9. Alexandra Nachescu
University of Vienna (Astria)
“Funerary Couches in Fifth Century Datong”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
10. Simon Lam
University of Oxford (UK)
“Shunde County from Post-war to Civil War: The Political Reconstruction of Guangdong, 1944-1949”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
F. Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
1. Agathe Lemaitre
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (France)
“From Conservation to Survivance, Itinerary of a Liminal Disappearance in the Paiwan Relationship to Wildlife”
Grant amount : €42,000
Grant period : 2 years
2. Laetitia Chhiv
Centre de Recherche sur les Civilisations de l’Asie Orientale (France)
“The Transmission of Confucius’ Words, from the Warring States to the Han Period”
Grant amount : €42,000
Grant period : 2 years
G. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Chunhan Michelle Hsu
University of Oxford (UK)
“Gender and Empire in Turn-of-the-Century French Literature on China”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
2. Meng-hao Li
University of Zurich (Switzerland)
“Taiwan’s White Terror Perpetrators in Fiction and Film”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
3. Tzu-yi Hsu
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
“‘Trade of No Use to Us’?: Taxation and Non-VOC Commerce in the Dutch Taiwan, 1624-1662”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
4. Pang-yen Chang
University of Oxford (UK)
“Measuring Chinese Minds: Intelligence, Race, and Nationalism in Modern China”
Grant amount : €16,800
Grant period : 1 year
Recipients in Developing Regions Unit: US$
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A. Graduate Student and Faculty Mobility Grants
1. Ivana Buljan
University of Zagreb (Croatia)
“Presenting a Paper ‘‘Attuning One’s Ears’ or Becoming ‘The Single Individual’? Confucius and Kierkegaard on the Concept of Self’ on the XXV World Congress in Philosophy ‘Philosophy across Boundaries’, from August 1 to August 8, Rome, 2024”
Grant amount : US$1,500
Grant period : 6 months
