Grant Recipients, 1991-1992

Recipients in the Domestic Region

A. Research Grants

1. Tsun-wu Chang

Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
Overseas Chinese in the Philippines:Ａ Survey of Sources
4,100,000

2. Chiu-Yu Cheng

Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
Independence of Tonal Features in Chinese
2,800,000

3. Teh-yuan Cheng

Hwakang Arts School
The Study of Chinese Music in the United States
730,000

4. Te-Fu Huang

National Cheng-chi University
The Political Counter-Elite in Prewar Mainland China and Taiwan 1919~45): A Comparative Study
1,900,000

5. Gregory James

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
An Annotated Critical Edition of the Dizionario Portoghese-Cinese(c.1583) by Matteo Ricci and Michele Ruggieri, with the Assistance of Chung Ming-jen("Brother Sebastian")
416,000

6. Lun Ngai-ha Ng

The Chinese University Hong Kong
A Database of Traditional Chinese Texts of Wei-jin and the Northern and Southern Dybasties (220-589 AD)
185,000

7. Benjamin Tsou

City University of Polytechnic of Hong Kong
Language Variation in Chinese Communities: Database and Comparative Study
3,700,000

8. Cheng-sheng Tu

Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
A Short History of the Bronze Age Collection of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm
1,800,000

9. Ch'iu-kuei Wang

National Tsing Hwa University
Chinese Regional Theatre in Its Social and Ritual Contexts
6,800,000

10.Shu-Hwei Wang

Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
Women in Modern Chinese History
5,500,000

11. Ching-tsuen Yi

Sun Yat-sen Institute for Social Sciences and Philosophy, Academia Sinica
Development of Private Colleges:ＡStudy of Institutional Transition
5,000,000

B. Publication Subsidies

1. Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica

Shu-Hwei Wang
Women in Modern Chinese History
485,499

2. National Cheng-chi University

Shih-shung Yang
A Project on Chinese Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Life
603,685

3. Sun Yat-sen Institute for Social Sciences and Philosophy, Academia Sinica

Te-lan
Publication of Sheng Hsuen-huai Papers
261,734

C. Conferences, Workshops and Seminars

1. National Normal University

Wu-Dien Wu
Series of Conference on Special Education
330,000

2. National Taiwan University

Shou-jon Chang
International Symposium on the History of Taiwan during Japanese Rule 1895-1945
560,000

Recipients in the American Region

A. Institutional Enhancement Grants

1. Augustana College

Don Erickson
Enhancing the Study of Chinese Language and Literature
$150,000

2. Colby University

Lee Feigon
Staff Expansion for Chinese Art Instruction
$143,000

3. College of William and Mary

Howard M. Fraser
New Faculty in Chinese Language and Literature
$147,750

4. Columbia University

Ping-sheng Yen Chin
Establishment of the Dr. Y.C. James Yen Archives in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University
$5,000

5. National Humanities Center

W. Robert Connor
Chiang Ching-kuo Visiting Scholars at the National Humanities Center
$49,500

6. North Carolina State University

Jonathan Ocko
Years Support for Lecturer in Chinese at North Carolina State University
$117,743

7. Rice University

Richard Smith
Proposal for a three-year faculty position in Chinese Literature with an emphasis on Buddhism
$122,610

8. Rutgers University

Ching-I Tu
Staff Expansion and Curricular Development in Chinese Studies
$131,628

9. State University of New York at Albany

Charles Hartman
Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Language and Literature
$95,966

10. State University of New York at Binghamton

John Chaffee
Expansions of Chinese Language Instruction for the Liberal Arts and Management
$111,004

11. Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara

Fernando Torres de la Torre
Programs in Chinese Studies
$97,000

12. University of Alabama

Ronald Robel
Staff Expansion in Asian Studies-Humanities
$130,000

13. University of British Columbia

Pitman Potter
Enhancement of Resources For Teaching the Law of Taiwan, Republic of China, at University of British Columbia Law Faculty
$30,000

14. University of Colorado at Boulder

Paul W. Kroll
Faculty Enhancement for Chinese Program
$140,306

15. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Thomas R. H. Havens
New Teaching Position in Traditional Chinese Literature
$182,999

16. University of Montana

Philip West
The Enhancement of Teaching Resources In Chinese Studies And The Professional Exchange With The Republic of China
$120,000

17. University of Notre Dame

David Ladouceur
Enhancing Chinese Studies at Notre Dame
$134,991

18. University of Victoria

Joseph Kess
Seed Money to Establish a Position in Chinese Language and Linguistics
$164,484

B. Research Grants

1. Bruce H.Billing

History of Technology in Taiwan in the Early 1900's- Straw Rope/Bag and Sisal Industry
$39,800

2. Jo-shui Chen

University of British Columbia
The Confucian Revival in Mid-T'ang China (750-850)) and the Origins of Neo-Confucianism
$4,700

3. Yu-shih Chen

University of Alberta
Women as Object of Ideology: Old Spectacle and New Social Space
$15,600

4. John F. Copper

Rhodes College
Political Development and the "Ethnic" Problem in the Republic of China
$11,800

5. Antonio S. Cua

Catholic University of America
Tradition, Virtues and Principles: Toward a Confucian Theory
$12,580

6. Rita S. and Bernard Gallin

Michigan State University
Development and Chang in Rural Taiwan: A Longitudinal Micro Study in Macro Perspective
$62,800

7. John W. Garver

Georgia Institute of Technology
The United States-Republic of China Alliance, 1950-1978
$28,932

8. T.H.Gindling

University of Maryland at Baltimore County
The Nine Year Compulsory Education Policy and the Development of Human Resources Taiwan; 1976-1989
$23,000

9. Norman Giradot

Lehigh University
James Legge (1815-1897) and the Victorian Encounter with China
$32,000

10. Melvin J. Hinich

University of Texas at Austin
A Spatial Analysis of Electoral Competion in Taiwan
$5,1963

11. Jae-Dong Han

University of Western Ontario
Monetary History of Modern China I: The Postwar Era
$17,498

12. Marilyn Levine

Lewis Clark State University
The Kuo Min Tang in Europe During the Twenties
$31,748

13. Robert Lipsey

National Bureau of Economic Research
Changing Methods of Taiwan's Entry Into World Markets
$67,000

14. Jonathan K. Ocko

North Carolina State University
Finding Common Ground: Mediation in Chinese Society
$26,380

15. Frank Shulman

"Doctoral Dissertations on China and on Inner Asia, 1976-1990: A Bobliography of Studies in Western Languages." Compiled and Edited by Frank Joseph Shulman, with contributions by P. Polansky & Anna Shulman
$20,483

16. Cecile Sun

University of Pittsburgh
The Lyrical Scene: Chinese Perspective on Poetry Comparing Chinese and Anglo-American Poetry
$13,870

17. Pang-Hsin Ting

University of California at Berkeley
The Phonology of the Oracle Bone Inscriptions
$18,350

18. David Der-wei Wang

Columbia University
Chinese Literary Modernization: 1851-1937
$50,229

19. E. Leong Way

University of California at San Francisco
Science and Civilization in China-Pharmacy and Pharmacology
$80,000

20. Thomas Wilson

Hamilton College
Canonizing (ts'ung) the Sages in the Confucian Temple (K'ung Miao) and Neo-Comfucian Construction of the Confucian Tradition of the Tao (Tao t'ung)
$11,000

21. Shawn Wong

University of Washington
Chinese Immigration And Naturalization Service Records Data Base Project for Seattle, Washington
$48,726

22. David Y.H. Wu

East-West Center
Chinese Childhood Socialization:Comparative Study of Chinese Cultural Indentity in Asia and in the United States
$58,000

23. S.S.G. Wu

Texas A&M University
China's Security Decision-Making: To Use or Not to use Force in the Domestic and International Arenas
$29,998

24. Anne Yue-Hashimoto

University of Washington
Lexical Diffusion in Chinese Grammar
$50,000

C. Conferences, Seminars, Workshops

1. Claudia Brown

Phoenix Art Museum
International Symposium: Painting at the close of China's Empire, 1796-1911
$10,000

2. Samuel Chang-ling Chu

Ohio State University
The Continuing Relevance of Traditional Chinese Institutions and Values in the Context of Modern China: From Yuan Dynasty to the Republican Period (13th to 20th Centuries)
$12,862

3. Michael LaFargue

University of Massachusetts at Boston
Two Seminars, Comparing Pre-Han Confucian and Taoist Classics to Several New Testaments Writings, and to Several Platonic Dialogues, Respectively
$5,000

4. Charles Le Blanc

University de Montreal
Joint European-American Committee for Cooperation in East Asian Studies: Civil Society in Modern Asia
$20,000

5. Paul Liu

University of Washington
The Conference on Environmental Law and Management
$20,000

6. Hsiao-peng Lu

University of California at Los Angeles
Second Conference of the American Association of Chinese Comparative Literature "Rethinking Critical Theory and Chinese Literary Studies"
$9,900

7. Peter Sturman

University of California at Santa Barbara
"Interpreting the Mountain in Medieval China" - An Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara
$11,062

8. Paul Michael Taylor

National Museum of Natural History
"Hell Scrolls" of Taiwan: Proposed Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition with Public Programs
$24,000

9. Ellen Widmer

Yale University
Women and Literature in Ming-Qing China
$20,000

D. Publication Subsidies

1. Princeton University Press

Margaret Case
Publication of Wai-yee Li, Enchantment and disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature
$5,500

2. Princeton University Press

Margaret Case
Publication of Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults in Southeast China By Kenneth Dean
$5,500

3. Wellesley College

Edward Gulick
Publication subsidy for the book-length manuscript --"Glimpses into pre-Maoist China: a photo-memoir of the 1930's
$1,4970

E. Dissertation Fellowships

1. Yuan-ling Chao

University of California at Los Angeles
Medicine and the Transmission of Knowledge in Late Imperial China: Physicians from Suzhou
$20,000

2. Lucille Chia

Columbia University
Commercial Printers of the Yianyang Area (Fujian), Song-Ming
$20,000

3. Sarah E. Fraser

University of California at Berkeley
The Artist's Practice in Tang Dynasty China and How New Stylistic and Technical Trends Found in Dunhuang Sketchbooks Reflect Culture
$20,000

4. Kristine M. Harris

Columbia University
Children of Troubled Times: Nation, Gender and the Emergent Film Culture of Modern China:1925-1937
$15,000

5. Christopher M. Isett

University of California at Los Angeles
Agricultural History of Manchuria and South China: A Comparative Study of Cropping Systems
$20,000

6. Teri J. Silvio

University of Chicago
Televised Folk Opera, Spectatorship, and Gender Identity in Taiwanese Culture
$16,000

7. Dorothy C. Wong

Harvard University
Public Religious Monuments: Chinese Buddhist Steles of the Northern and Southern Dynasties (386-581)
$20,000

8. Lydia Miin-Ling Yu

New York University
The Impact of the Soviet Experience on Chinese Students in the USSR, 1921-1935
$20,000

9. Fang Zhu

Columbia University
Civil-military Relations in Mao's China
$16,000

F. Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Robert F. Campany

Indiana University
Chinese Accounts of the Strange (zhi-guai) and Local Shrines and Temples in the Early Medieval Period
$5000

2. Grace S. Fong

McGill University
Between Gender and Genre: The Flight of the Feminine in Premodern Chinese Poetry
$24,000

3. Norman Girardot

Lehigh University
James Legge (1815-1897) and the Victorian Encounter with China
$25,000

4. Thomas G. Rawski

University of Pittsburgh
Reform and Innovation in Chinese Industry
$20,000

5. Gilbert F. Rozman

Princeton University
Regionalism and Realignment in Northeast Asia
$20,000

6. Lyman P. Van Slyke

Stanford University
The Life and Death of Liang Chi (1859-1918)
$20,000

7. Daniel B. Stevenson

Butler University
The Rites of the Four Samadhis in Chinese Tien-tai Buddhism
$25,000

G. R.O.C. PhD Dissertation Fellowships

1. Mei-chih Laura Chang

University of Hawaii
The Representation and the Parametric Variations of Tones in Chinese Language: A Prosodic Theory of Tone
$12,000

2. Chyi-mei Chen

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
An Equilibrium Model for Price Changes and Trading Volume: with Evidence of Taiwan Stock Market
$12,000

3. Daniel Shiangyen Chen

University of Virginia
Transfer of U.S. Technolgy to other Countries: Law and National Security of U.S. Unilateral Export Controls and Cocom Multilateral Export Controls
$12,000

4. Jingmei Chen

University of California at Los Angeles
The Dream World of the Yearning Maidens: A Reception Study of the Peony Pavilion among Women in the Late Imperial China
$12,000

5. Mingder Chung

New York University
The Aesthetics and Politics of the Little Theatre Movement in Taiwan
$12,000

6. Chen-ray Fang

Johns Hopkins University
Corporate Investment in the Newly Industrialized Countries: Evidence from Taiwanese Firms
$12,000

7. Wen-Rwei Hsu

Columbia University
Autonomy and Integration
$12,000

8. Jinlin L. Huang

University of California at Los Angeles
Symbol, Value, and Power: A Cultural Study of the May Fourth Discourse, 1915-1923
$12,000

9. Anchi Lin

Harvard University
Expanding through Non-Economic Linkage: Social and Cultural Bases of Private Corporate Expansion in Taiwan
$12,000

10. Liyu Lin

Northwestern University
The Rationality of Voting: A Case Study of Taiwan
$12,000

11. The-chang Lin

Northern Illinois University
Communist China's Foreign Aid Policy: A Theoretical Analysis
$12,000

12. Wen-cheng Lin

Tufts University
Political Integration and Democratization: the Case of Taiwan
$12,000

13. Yu-chen Lin

University of Minnesota
The Poetics of Alterity in James Joyce's Ulysses
$12,000

14. Ch'iu-ti Liu

Yale University
Passionate Enlightenment: Love and Knowledge in Ming and Qing Conversion Stories
$12,000

15. Tai-Hwa Emily Lu

University of Oregon
Adaptive Behavior of the Mentally Retarded in Taiwan, ROC
$12,000

16. Shuh-ren Mao

University of Wisconsin at Madison
Legal Aspect of Outbound Investment in Taiwan
$12,000

17. Wen-Yeu Wang

Stanford University
Corporate Investment Company Versus Unitary Investment Fund: An Evaluation of Governance Structure and International Competitiveness
$12,000

18. Agnes Chew-chung Wu

University of Iowa
A Cross-cultural, Cross-national Study of the Family Caregiver Burden of a Severly Mentally Ill Member
$12,000

19. Cynthia Hsin-feng Wu

Harvard University
"If Triangles were Circles…."- A Study of Counterfactuals in Chinese and in English
$12,000

Recipients in the European Region

A. Institutional Enhancement Grants

1. Leiden University

W. L. Idema
Dr. Hu Shih Visiting Professorship
$81,000

2. Maison Rhone-Alpes des Sciences de l'Homme

Christian Henriot
Taiwan Area Documentation and Research Project
$78,462

3. South Bank Polytechnic

John G. Taylor
Development and Improvement of Teaching and Research on the Republic of China
$4,615

4. University of Durham

K. L. Pratt
Research Fellowship in Chinese Art and Archaeology
$76,923

5. University of Durham

K. L. Pratt
Durham University Library Enhancement
$26,827

6. University of Heidelberg

Rudolf G. Wagner
Distinguished Lectureship: Culture and Society in Contemporary
$80,769

7. University of Paris 7-Denis Diderot

Ian McMorran
China and Other Countries in the Zone of Chinese Influence in the Seventeenth Century: Development of the Seventeenth-Century East Asian Research Centre
$6,154

8. University of Wien

Erich Pilz
Modern China: Social and Intellectual History Library Acquisitions
$4,000

B. Research Grants

1. Myriam Bongers

Royal Museum of Art and History
Research on Album of 70 Portraits of Famous Chinese Personalities
$20,000

2. Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard

University of Copenhagen
Danish-Chinese Relations, 1723-1990
$211,417

3. Roland Felber

Humboldt-Universitat Berlin
Images of Germany as Reflected by Chinese Intellectuals during the First Half of the 20th Century Studies and Documentation
$138,462

4. Georges Goormaghtigh

University of Geneva
Major Texts and Themes of the Art of the Qin
$19,231

5. Alan Hunter

University of Leeds
Religion in Modern China
$185,493

6. Francoise Kreissler

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Central European Refugees in Shanghai, 1933-1949
$25,000

7. A. V. Pantsov

Russian Academy of Sciences
Leon Trotsky and the Chinese Revolution (The History of the Trotskyist Movement in China)
$35,000

8. L. S. Perelomov

Russian Academy of Sciences
Publication of "LUN-YU" in Russian with Textological Researches, Commentaries, Parallel Comparisons and A Thorough Analysis of the Part Played by Confucius in the Chinese Spiritual Culture
$23,077

9. D. Rimmington

University of Leeds
Research on the Contemporary Theatre of Taiwan
$96,577

C. Publication Subventions

1. Bibliotheque Nationale

Monique Cohen
Impressions de Chine(A Millennium of Chinese Printing)
$36,923

2. Monumenta Serica Institute

Roman Malek
Publication of the General Index to Monumenta Serica, Journal of Oriental Studies, Vols. I-XXXV
$12,692

D. Dissertation Fellowships

1. Johannes Ludwig Kurz

University of Heidelberg
Confidence in the Beginning, Doubt in the End: The "Faction" as An Organizing Principle in the Sung Historiography on the Southern T'ang
$14,400

2. Peirre Kaser

University of Paris 7-Denis Diderot
The Vernacular Fiction of Li Yu (1610-1680)
$14,400

3. Tiziana Lippiello

Leiden University
Auspicious Omens, from Mythology to Dynastic History
$14,400

4. Sandrine Marchand

University of Paris 7-Denis Diderot
A Study of the Paop'utzu Waip'ien
$14,400

5. Robert John Neather

University of Cambridge
A Stylistic Study of the T'ang Personal Fu
$14,400

E. Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Nicola Di Cosmo

University of Cambridge
Ch'ing Administration in Central Asia in the Early 19th Century
$36,000

2. Frederic Obringer

College de France
An Historical and Anthropological Study of Cosmetics and Ferfumes in Imperial China
$36,000

3. Sybesma Rint

Leiden University
Subject in Mandarin Chinese
$36,000

4. Alexei Volkov

College de France
Philosophical Background of Ancient Chinese Mathematics
$36,000

Recipients in the Asia-Pacific Region

A. Institutional Enhancement Grant

1. Australian National University

Jonathan Unger
Taiwan Area Studies Program
$150,000

2. University of Waikato

K. G. Henshall
Lectureship in Chinese Studies
78,226

B. Subsidy for Publication Grant

1. Oriental Ceramics Society of the Philippines

Rita Liong-yu Ching
Chinese and Southeast Asian White Wares Found in the Philippines
$14,000