The East and Inner Asia Council (EIAC; formerly the China and Inner Asia Council [CIAC]) is pleased to announce the recipients of its EIAC Small Grants program. The EIAC Small Grants program is made possible by the generous support of the Chiang Ching-kuo (CCK) Foundation and through individual donations.
For further information, please visit the EIAC Small Grants page.
2022 Grants
Organization of Conferences, Workshops, and Seminars
Malte Kaeding, University of Surrey, “Hong Kong 25 Years After the Handover: Changes, Trends, and Reflections”
Short Research Trips — Tenure-line Faculty
Jenny Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, “Buy with 1-click: New Labor Relations in China’s Parcel Delivery Sector”
Shaohua Guo, Carleton College, “Streaming China in Times of Precarity: Webcasts, Short-Form Videos, and Creative Industry”
Hsunhui Tseng, National Cheng Kung University, “Migrant Single-Parent Families in Taiwan”
Short Research Trips — Graduate Students
Miao Dou, Washington University in St. Louis, “Being a Female Youth in China: Regulating and Mobilizing Wartime Girls as Press Campaigns, 1937-1945”
Daigengna Duoer, University of California-Santa Barbara, “Buddhism Beyond Nations and Empires: Mapping Transnational Buddhist Networks from Early Twentieth-century Inner Mongolia and Manchuria”
Kevin Gao, Washington University in St. Louis, “The Human Tide: Hydraulic Engineering and the Art of Mass Infrastructuralism in China, 1958-2007”
Ying Gong, Boston University, “Fieldwork on Ersu and Yi language in Southwest China”
Yiming Ha, University of California-Los Angeles, “Fighting for the State: Military Mobilization, State-building, and the Mongol Transformation of China, 1206-1644 CE”
Weiyue Kan, University of California-San Diego, The World of Care: Managing Disability in Qing China (1644-1911)
Fan Li, University of Colorado Boulder, “The Political Ecology of the Giant Panda National Park in China”
Ruo-Fan Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Engines of Mobility or Gateways to Reproduction: Revisiting Cultural Reproduction in Taiwan’s Post-Admissions Era”
Yu Liu, University of California-Santa Barbara, “The Fetish of Law: Rights and State in the Making of the Chinese Constitution, 1921-1948”
Yuqing Liu, The University of British Columbia, “Lexicographic and Literary Practices of Pidgin English in Canton”
Tiasangla Longkumer, Jawaharlal Nehru University, “Rockefeller Foundation International Health Board in China and India: A Study of the Anti-Hookworm Campaign from 1913 to 1920s”
Yasser Nasser, University of Chicago, Creating ‘New Asia’: Sino-Indian Friendship and its Global Afterlives, 1947-1962
Wu Qu, University of Virginia, “A Cold Conflict amid a Hot War: US-Chinese Indoctrination Contest over the POWs during the Korean War”
Donald Santacaterina, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Between Party and People: Journalistic Cultures in High Socialist China, 1949-1976”
Aaron Su, Princeton University, “Indigenous ‘Living Labs’: Participatory Design and Technological Stewardship in Rural Taiwan”
Sabrina Yunzhu Tao, University of Oregon, “Exhibiting Socialist Chineseness Abroad: PRC’s Audio-visual Propaganda in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, 1950s-80s”
Niu Teo, University of Chicago, Pig People: an interspecies tale of chimerical emergence
Anran Wang, Cornell University, “Archival research in Tanzania on the promotion of radical Maoism by Chinese and local Maoists in the late 1960s”
Yingchuan Yang, Columbia University, Revolution on the Air: Mass Technology and the Demise of Chinese Socialism
Kaho Yasuda, University of Pennsylvania ““Soldiering” Through Time and Space: Han Taiwanese and Indigenous Servicemen Under the Japanese and U.S. Empires, 1930s – 1970s”
2021 Grants
Organization of Conferences, Workshops, and Seminars
Tobias Zuern, Washington University in St. Louis,“Global Reception of the Classic Zhuangzi: Song to Ming”
Short Research Trips — Tenure-line Faculty
Shuning Liu, Ball State University, “Transnationalism, Elite International Education, and Imagined Mobility: Becoming Global Middle Class?”
Short Research Trips — Non-Tenure-Line Faculty
Angie Baecker, University of Hong Kong, “High Socialist Toile: The Emergence of an Ornamental Political Imaginary in Industrial Printed Cotton and Silk Design in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1976”
Esuna Dugarova, UNDP, “Ethnocultural Identity, Transnational Power, and Local Agency: The Case of Buryatia in the Eurasian Space”
Andrew Grant, Independent Scholar, “China’s Seasonal Cities: Urban Infrastructure and Mobile Lives on the Tibetan Plateau”
David Mozina, Independent Scholar, “Death of a Ritual Master and the Roots of Modern Buddho-Daoist Practice”
Ruslan Yusupov, Chinese University of Hong Kong, “Semiotics of Unity: Islamic Dietary Restrictions and the Management of Multiculturalism in Xi-Era China”
Zhiqiu Zhou, University of Pennsylvania, “Desirable Queers in a Pink China: Identities, Masculinities, and Sexual Hierarchies”
Short Research Trips — Graduate Students
Jongyoon Baik, University of Chicago, “Politics of the Administrative Litigation System in China”
Erqi Cheng, Syracuse University, “Renyao 人藥 (Human-Derived Drugs) in Late Imperial China”
Beiyin Deng, Arizona State University, “Images and Imagination: The Historical Circulation of Marble Buddhas from Myanmar to China, 1880s-1930s”
Tenzin Dorjee, Columbia University, “Buddhism, Nationalism, and the Renunciation of Violence in Ethnic Conflict”
Carl Kubler, University of Chicago, “Barbarians on the Shore: Negotiating Global Trade and Daily Life on the South China Coast, 1780-1860”
Chuncheng Liu, University of California, San Diego, “Algorithms of Trust: An Examination of a Municipal Social Credit System in China”
Mingtang Liu, Johns Hopkins University, “Pragmatic Statism: Marketization, Vulnerability, China’s Economic Statism since the Early 2000s”
Ye Liu, The New School, “Return from the Tropical Odyssey: How China’s Aid Projects in Africa Reshaped China, 1960s-70s”
Chenxi Luo, Washington University in St. Louis, “Embodiments of Justice: A History of Punishing Women’s Bodies in Qing China, 1636-1800”
Zichan Wang, University of California, Los Angeles, “Resilience, Environment, and Social Organization in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age China: Understanding the Longshan-Erlitou Transformation from an Archaeobotanical Perspective”
Jiangjiang Wu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Caring for the Active Elder: An Elite Retirement Home in Post-socialist China”
Yaohan Wu, University of California, San Diego, “Pandemics in the Past: Exploring the Relationship between Population Density and Zoonotic Diseases in Neolithic China”
Xiaoyu Xia, University of California, Berkeley, “Paper Archive: A Haptic Album of Modern China”
Chang Xu, Washington University in St. Louis, “Military Institutions, Garrison Medicine, and the Qing Empire, 1640-1800”
Taoyu Yang, University of California, Irvine, “Entangled Colonialisms: Multi-Imperial Relations in Treaty-Port China, 1860s-1930s”
Jongsik Christian Yi, Harvard University, “Animals and Acupuncturists of Revolution: Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine and Commune Science in Maoist China, 1949–1976”
Sarah Zanolini, Johns Hopkins University, “Prescribed Diets in Early Modern China”
Xiaoyi Ze, University of British Columbia, “The Uninvited Guests—The Qing visitors to Late Chosǒn Korea, 1882-1905”
Jinghong Zhang, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Down to the Roots: Teeth, Dentistry, and Dental Hygiene in Modern China, 1908-1985”
Xuyi Zhao, Boston University, “Living in the Future City: Migration, Class, and Local Citizenship in a Chinese ‘New Area’”
Website, Exhibit and Digital Archive
Huei-Lan Xiong, Leiden University, “Song Research Tool 2.0”
Zhaojin Zeng, Duke Kunshan University, “The Chinese Factory Project: Digitizing the Historical Transformation of the Factory Economy in Twentieth-Century China”
2020 Grants
Organization of Conferences, Workshops, and Seminars
Hanna Burdorf, Newcastle University, “The Xinjiang Crisis: Genocide, Ethnocide, Crime Against Humanity, or Politicide?” Conference
Hannah Theaker, University of Oxford, “Amdo at the Crossroads: 3rd International Workshop of the Amdo Research Network”
Ting-Fai Yu, Monash University Malaysia, “Chinese Mobility to Southeast Asia in the 21st Century: A Two-day Workshop”
Short Research Trips — Tenure-line Faculty
Hanzhang Liu, Pitzer College, “Empowered as Women? Understanding Female Politicians in Contemporary China”
Yang Wang, University of Colorado, Denver, “Yellow Earth: Regional Chinese Ink Painting in the Age of Postwar Modernism”
Short Research Trips — Non-Tenure-Line Faculty
Lei Duan, Arizona State University, “Popular Power and the New Frontier: The Communist Policies on Armed Masses in Tibet in the 1950s”
Florence Mok, Nanyang Technological University, “Cold War Pivot: Chinese Communist Cultural Activities in British Hong Kong, c. 1949-80”
Nan Ouyang, National University of Singapore, “The Abode of Dizang Bodhisattva Revolutionized: A Study of Modern Jiuhua Buddhism (1949-1976)”
Short Research Trips — Graduate Students
Thomas Burnham, University of Oxford, Keble College, “Rival Communist Developmentalisms: Beijing and Moscow’s Competing Aid Diplomacy in Africa During the Cold War”
Shu Chang, University of California, Santa Cruz, “In Search of the Socialist Working Woman: The Spatial Politics of Gender in Chengdu from Maoism to State Capitalism”
Bukhchuluun Dashzeveg, Yale University, “Social Change and Mortuary Practices of Early Pastoralists of The Gobi Desert”
Preston Decker, University of Kansas, “Toward a Modern Makan and Jiayuan: Discourses of Environmental Modernity in Twentieth Century Xinjiang
Nan Hu, Rutgers University, “Living with Post/socialism: Memory, Affect, and Everyday Life in a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise”
Minwoo Jung, University of Southern California, “Queer Geopolitics: Rights Projects in a Globalized World”
Zifeng Liu, Cornell University, “Redrawing the Balance of Power: Black Radical Women, China, and the Making of a Political Imaginary, 1949-1978”
Matyas Mervay, New York University, “Administering Post-Habsburg Refugee Diasporas in Republican China 1912-1949”
Arina Mikhalevskaya, Yale University, “The Nature of the Empire: Animal Wonders in China, 1680-1800”
Ray Xiaolei Qu, University of Virginia, “Buying ‘A Good Life’: Incense Divination, Uncertainty and Hope in Post-Mao China”
Jiacheng Ren, University at Albany, SUNY, “Half the Sky but Confined: The State and Women’s Rights Activism in China”
Melody Tze Yin Shum, Northwestern University, “The Vietnamese Revolutionary Underground in South China (c. 1880s-1940s)”
Brian Spivey, University of California, Irvine, “Copper City: Mining, Society, and Environment in Western China”
Ignatius Gongonlunuba Donba-Evuu Suglo, University of Hong Kong, “Self-representations and African Agency in Chinese Media”
Yuan Tian, University of Chicago, “Negotiating Western Privileges: A Social History of Extraterritoriality in Qing China’s Southwest Frontier (1860-1911)”
Haochen Wang, Washington University, St. Louis, “‘Only Chinese Police Can Take Care of Chinese’: Policing the End of Extraterritoriality in Republican Beijing, 1910s-1940s”
Theo Westphal, Indiana University of Sheffield, “The Belt and Road Initiative and China’s Normative Power”
Manchu Wu, Johns Hopkins University, “Social Lives and Legal Status of the Banner People in Qing China: From Cases in Hetu Dangse of the Kangxi-era”
Yijie Zou, The College of William & Mary, “How to Achieve Freedom with ‘Chinese Speed’ in ‘Slow Africa’? — Transnational Temporal Experience and Self-entrepreneurial works of Chinese in Accra, Ghana”
Website, Exhibit and Digital Archive
Yanfei Li, University of Toronto, “An Interactive Digital Archive of Mainland Chinese Independent Documentaries”
Charles Krusekopf, Royal Rhoads University, “American Center for Mongolian Studies Website Redesign Project”
2019 Grants
Conference, Workshop, or Seminar Organization
Ihor Pidhainy, University of West Georgia, “Southeast US Scholars and Friends of Late Imperial China (SEUS-SFLIC) Morality and Politics in Late Imperial China Conference”
Short Research Trips—Tenure-line Faculty
Andrew Shimunek, University of Naples “L’Orientale.” “Early 19th Century Gobi Khalkha in Tibetan Transcription: Danjin Rabjai’s The Kite and Related Original Manuscripts in the Danjin Rabjai Museum in Sainshand, Mongolia”
Yang Zhan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, “From Laborers to Homeowners: Urbanizing Rural Migrant through Homeownership in China’s Small Cities”
Short Research Trips—Non-Tenure-Line Faculty
Selda Altan, University of Florida, “Labor and the Politics of Life Along the Yunnan-Indochina Railway, 1898-1911”
Elizabeth Berger, University of Michigan, “Death and Disease in a Time of Climate Change: Paleodemography of Bronze Age Northwest China”
Yumjir Munkh-Amgalan, Orkhon University, “A Catalog of the Mongolian Holdings at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” Library and the Royal Palace Library in Naples”
Short Research Trips—Graduate Students
Gilbert Z. Chen, Washington University in St. Louis, “Living in This World: A Social History of Buddhism in Late Imperial China”
Li-Ping Chen, University of Southern California, “(Alter)Native Soil: Cultural Identity and National Consciousness in Transnational Taiwan Literature”
Jiling Duan, Indiana University-Bloomington, “Negotiating Spaces Within and Without: Chinese Feminisms Between Transnational Flows and State Dominance, 1995-2015”
Matthew Foreman, Northwestern University, “Science and Security: Constructing the Modern Chinese Citizen, 1900-1966”
Lu Hao, Northwestern University, “Destined to Marry? – Marriage Renunciation and Reform for Women in Republican China”
Rong Kong, University of California-Irvine, “Confucius in Motion: The State, The Kong Family and the Masses, 1966-1980s”
Yujie Li, University of Chicago, “Wheels and Sweat: Bicycles, Wheelbarrows, and Horse-drawn Carts in the Everyday Life of Socialist China, 1946-1976”
Tiantian Liu, Johns Hopkins University, “Seeing Like the States: China’s Rural Reform from Above and Below”
Yi Ci Lo, University of California-Irvine, “Measuring Up to Modernity: Metrological Reform in China, 1900s-1940s”
Matthew Lowenstein, University of Chicago, “Finance in the Chinese Republic: Warlord Governance and Capital Markets in Sichuan Province, 1912-1949”
Yun-Chen Lu, University of California-Santa Barbara, “Gao Fenghan’s (1683-1749) Path to Eccentricity and the Growth of Epigraphical Writing in Early Qing Yangzhou”
Andrew Elijah MacIver, University of California-Los Angeles, “Engendering Community in Early Bronze Age Shaanxi”
Xiuyuan Mi, University of Pennsylvania, “Writing Commoners: Poetry Inscriptions on Excavated Artifacts in Middle Period China”
Shayan Momin, New York University, “Dreamworld on the Margins of History: Migrant Labor in Chinese Media Industries”
Lillian Prueher, University of Washington, “Shifting Care Landscapes: Non-Familial Elder Care in Chengdu, China”
Fabian Humberto Toro, University of California-San Diego, “Subsistence Strategies and Cross-Cultural Exchange of the Proto-Silk Road”
Rachel Wallner, Northwestern University, “Oceans of Knowledge: Science, the Citizen and China’s Modern Maritime World, 1885-1957”
Suisui Wang, Indiana Unversity-Bloomington, “Of Disease and Identity: Therapies, Sexualities, and Biopower in Postsocialist China”
Website, Exhibit and Digital Archive
Daryl R. Ireland, Boston University, “Chinese Christian Propaganda Posters” Digitization Project
2018 Grants
Conference, Workshop, or Seminar Organization
Isabelle Cheng, University of Portsmouth, UK, “The Invisible within: Actors, Relationships and Activities in Chinese Migrant Families” Conference
Short Research Trips—Tenure-line Faculty
Timothy Thurston, University of Leeds, “Heritage With and Without the State in China’s Tibet”
Yuanchong Wang, University of Delaware, “Time, Territory and Sovereignty: Imperial Calendar and the Manchu Empire, 1644-1911”
Michael L. Zukosky, Eastern Washington University, “Historical Narrative, Cultural Chang, and Meaning Among Chinese Kazakh”
Short Research Trips—Non-Tenure-Line Faculty
Charlotte D’Evelyn, Loyola Marymount University, “Höömii in China: Surveying a UNESCO Decision and its Outcomes”
Kim Hunter-Gordon, University of London, “Social Context of the Establishment of the Kunju Perpetuation Institute in 1921”
Derek Sheridan, Brandeis University, “Chinese-African Mutualities and the Politics of Destination in China”
Emilia Roza Sulek, University of Zurich, “History from the Other Side: New Tibetan Sources on the Warlords Era in Qinghai”
Ilse Timperman, Independent Scholar, “ A Preliminary Mapping and Assessment of Bronze Age, Early Iron Age and Early Historic Sites in the Keriya-Hetian Interfluvial in the Taklamakan Desert”
Jing Xu, University of Washington, “No Comparison, No Harm: Childrearing Anxiety, Social Comparison (Pan-bi), and Children’s Wellbeing in Urban China”
Short Research Trips—Graduate Students
Elise Anderson, Indiana University, “Gender and Music in Uyghur Society”
Melvin Barnes, Jr., Ohio State University, “Revolution and Race: The African-American Freedom Struggle in the Chinese Imagination, 1912-1989”
Julie Bellemare, Bard College, “A New Creation of this Dynasty: Color Technologies and Imperial Taste in Qing China, 1700-35”
Catherine Alice Crowther, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, “Consultation of the Manuscripts of Texts Written by Jesuit Missionaries to Introduce Contemporary European Medical Knowledge to the Qing Court (and of related material) in Saint Petersburg”
Benjamin Daniels, University of California-Berkeley, “The Image of Wu and Yue in the Han”
Jessica DiCarlo, University of Colorado-Boulder, “The Everyday Lives of Infrastructure: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Rail Development in Laos”
Linda Huang, The Ohio State University, “Re-imagining Post-socialist Corporeality: Technology, Body and Nation in Post-1989 Chinese Art”
Xiaoqian Ji, John Hopkins University, “Cosmetic Practices in Early Modern China: Consumption, Vernacular Knowledge and Technologies of Gender”
Wenjing Jiang, Clark University, “Contemporary Agrarian Transformation in China: Empowerment, Valuation and Distributive Justice in the Transfer of Farmland Use Rights (TFUR)”
Andrew Kuech, The New School, “Imagining America in Communist and Nationalist China, 1949-1965”
Lantian Li, Northwestern University, “Developmental Laws and Regulations: The Uneasy Role of the State in the Rise of China’s Pharmaceutical Industry in Comparative Perspective”
Aiqi Liu, University of Iowa, “Cradle of Conflicts: the Formation of Fiscal Regimes in Manchuria, 1902-1912”
Lu Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Away with the Pest: Hygiene, Popular Science and Interspecies Encounters in China, 1930s-1980s”
Zixian Liu, University of Toronto, “Constructing and Defending Maoism: Space, Production and Everyday Life in China’s Cold War Factories, 1964-1976”
Wilson Miu, University of California-Santa Cruz, “Moving the Wind and Changing Custom: Local Implementation of Marriage Laws in South China, 1930-1976”
Yingyi Wang, University of Washington, “NGO Precarity and Neoliberal Governance in China”
Rupak Shrestha, University of Colorado-Boulder, “Chinese Extra-Territoriality, Nepali State-making Practices, and Fluid Ethnicities at the Himalayan Borderlands”
2017 Grants
Organization of Conferences and Seminars
Xiao Liu, McGill University, “A Literary History of Information in China”
Eric Schluessel, University of Montana, “The Montana East Asia Workshop and China Lecture”
Short Research Travel—Professors/Independent Scholars
Dan Chen, Elizabethtown College, “Local Media and Governance in Urbanizing China”
Zach Fredman, Nanyang Technological University, “From Allies to Occupiers: Living with the US Military in Wartime China, 1941-1951”
Anna High, Loyola University-Chicago School of Law, “The Role and Regulation of Non-State Orphan Welfare Providers in China”
Macabe Keliher, West Virginia University, “The Manchu Translation of Li (ritual)”
Yukiko Koga, Hunter College-City University of New York, “The Unmaking of Empire: Wartime Forced Labor and Transnational Legal Redress in East Asia”
Emily Mokros, Albion College, “The Court Gazette and Information Policy in Qing-Dynasty China”
Susan Powell, University of California-Berkeley, “20th Century Maps of Mongolia in Mongolian Collections”
Christopher K. Tong, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, “Torrents of Revolution: The Writing of Environmental Disasters in Modern China, 1930-1949”
Nicolai Volland, Pennsylvania State University, “Imperial Eyes, Cosmopolitan Minds: Sino-French Literary Encounters, 1900-2000”
Vesna A. Wallace, University of California-Santa Barbara, “Text, Image and Imagination in Mongolian Buddhist Rituals”
Short Research Travel—Graduate Students
Elissa A. Bullion, Washington University in St. Louis, “Social and Biological Communities in Medieval Inner Asia: An Osteological and Mortuary Practice Perspective from Uzbekistan”
Muyang Chen, University of Washington, “Spending or Lending: the Political Economy of Infrastructure Finance in China”
Yige Dong, Johns Hopkins University, “Contesting the Dual-Role: Gender and the Changing Institutions of Labor Reproduction during China’s Industrial Transformations (1949-present)”
Kati Fitzgerald, The Ohio State University, “Tibetan Buddhism in Rural Qinghai: Innovation and Preservation”
Kyuhyun Han, University of California-Santa Cruz, “Seeing the Forest Like a State: Forest Management, Wildlife Conservation, and Center-Periphery Relations in Northeast China, 1949-1965”
Xiaoran He, Pennsylvania State University, “Experiencing Deluges in Twentieth-Century China: Hydraulic Modernity, State-Building and the Making of Local Memory in Harbin”
Yupeng Jiao, University of California-San Diego, “Self-Governance Confronts Communism: Popular Religious Sects, Secret Societies and the Reorganization of Rural Society in the Early People’s Republic of China”
Yung-hua Kuo, University of Washington, “Land Rights of Taiwanese Indigenous Peoples under Natural Disasters-Analysis of Post-Typhoon Morakot Reconstruction from Legal, Historical and Cultural Perspectives”
Mei-chun Lee, University of California-Davis, “Transcoding Open Government: Civic Technologies and Digital Activism in Taiwan”
Melissa Lefkowitz, New York University, “Chinese Dreams in the Silicon Savannah: An Ethnography of Chinese Millennials in Nairobi, Kenya”
Youjia Li, Northwestern University, “Human-powered Metropolis-Evolving Transport Networks in Japan and East Asia, 1630s-1930s”
Yi Lu, Harvard University, “Socialist Pulp: Print and Information in Revolutionary China, 1940-1980”
Hosung Shim, Indiana University-Bloomington, “Central Asia’s Last Nomad Conquerors: The Zunghars between China, Russia and Tibet”
Shan Windscript, University of Melbourne, Australia, “Diary Writing in the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76”
Yinyin Xue, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Not a Utopia: Science Fiction, Popular Science and Transmedia Storytelling: Imagining Socialism in Cold War China”
Patricia J. Yu, University of California-Berkeley, “Reproducing and Reconstituting the Fragmented Body of the Yuanming Yuan”
Translations of Scholarly Books/Articles
Holly Gayley, University of Colorado-Boulder, “Emergent Buddhist Modernism on the Tibetan Plateau: Translating Works of Advice by Cleric-Scholars at Larung Buddhist Academy”
2016 Grants
Organization of Conferences and Seminars
Michelle T. King, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, “Culinary Nationalism in Asia”
Andrea Piazzaroli Longobardi, University of São Paulo, “International Conference of Critical Asian Studies in Brazil-Disseminating and Founding a Field of Research with a Singular Methodological Approach”
Short Research Travel—Professors/Independent Scholars
Gareth Fisher, Syracuse University, “A Tale of Four Temples: Buddhism and the Continuing Search for Modernity in Post-Mao China”
Kenneth Hammond, New Mexico State University, “Urban Cartography in Early Modern China”
Mauricio Hernandez, UCLA, “ Ecology, Subsistence and Cultural Admixture: A Bioarchaeological Perspective of Community Health Along Northwest China’s Prehistoric Exchange Networks”
Tina Phillips Johnson, St. Vincent College, “Women’s Health in Twentieth-Century China: The Early People’s Republic (1949-1978)”
Rachel Silberstein, Rhode Island School of Design, “Embroidered Figures: Commerce and Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Chinese Fashion System”
Josh Stenberg, University of British Columbia, “Chinese Performance Networks across the South China Sea: A Regional View”
Andrew Wong, California State University-East Bay, “Much Ado about Nothing? Language Activism in Postcolonial Hong Kong”
Short Research Travel—Graduate Students
Dawn Batts, Wayne State University, “In Pursuit of the Three Highs: Urban Professional Chinese Women’s Experiences and Perceptions of Gender In/Equality in Contemporary China”
Melissa A. Brzycki, University of California-Santa Cruz, “Inventing the Socialist Child in China, 1949-1966”
Jinok Lee, University of Texas-Austin, “Subsistence Ecology in the Making of the Shang State, Eastern China”
Chao Ling, Yale University, “Shaking the Rivers and Passes: Lyricism and Canonization of Yu Xin (513-581)”
Yan Ma, University of Hawaii-Manoa, “Nandan in the Post-Cultural Revolution Era: Training, Acting, and Reception for Male Cross-Gender Performance in Jingju”
Jessica Madison, University of California-Santa Cruz, “Golden Mountain, Iron Heap: Landscape Poetics and Mining in Eastern Mongolia”
Nan Ouyang, University of Arizona, “The Makings of a Sacred Site: The Ascension of Mount Jiuhua in Late Imperial and Republican China”
Yiyun Peng, Cornell University, “Summer Research Trip to Zhenjiang, China, Investigating the Traditional Iron Production From the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century”
Xian Wang, University of British Columbia, “Mao’s Revolution and Ethno-religious Conflicts: The 1970s Muslim Uprising in Southern Yunnan”
Chieh-Ju Wu, SUNY-Binghamton, “Science, Snakes and the Tropics: Japanese Colonialism in Taiwan, 1895-1945”
Yunkang Yang, University of Washington, “The More You Protest, the Stronger I Grow: How do ENGOs and Protesters in China Empower Each Other”
Shana Ye, University of Minnesota, “Post-socialist China and the Promise of Ku’er Politics of Affect and Transnational Queer Praxis”
Yi Yu, University of Oregon, “Institutional Mothers, Professional Caregivers: The Biopolitics of Affective Labor in State-owned Social Welfare Institutions in China”
Gary Zhiwen Zhao, Stanford University, “A Comparative Study of the Meaning of Work between China and the U.S.”
Jessica Xiaomin Zu, Princeton University, “The Promise of a New Buddhist Canon: Building a Universal Buddhism Through Translation, China 1926-1937”
2015 Grants
Organization of Conferences and Seminars
Courtney Bruntz, Nebraska Wesleyan University, “Buddhist Tourism: Temple Aesthetics, the Monastic Body, and Interactions with Sacredness”
Short Research Travel—Professors/Independent Scholars
Ning Chia, Central College, “The Mink Fur Tribute of the Solon People in Heilongjiang and the Qing Imperial Patrician Hierarchy”
Martin K. Dimitrov, Tulane University, “Infiltrating the Opposition: The Recruitment and Management of Informants in Taiwan during the Martial Law Period”
Martin Fromm, Worcester State University, “History of the Ginseng Trade between the U.S., Hong Kong, and China”
Yan Gao, University of Memphis, “Transforming the Water Regime: State, Society and Ecology in the Jianghan Plain of Late Imperial and Modern China”
Shuang Shen, Pennsylvania State University, “From Hong Kong to the World: Cold War Literary Transnationalism in the Asia Pacific”
Marcella Szablewicz, Pace University, “The Losers of China’s Internet: The Politics of Youth Desire in a Digital Age”
Benno Weiner, Appalachian State University, “Liberation Postponed: Conflict and Accommodation on the Ethnic Margins of Early Maoist China”
Short Research Travel—Graduate Students
Huiying Chen, University of Illinois-Chicago, “Printing in Manchu Language in Eighteenth Century China”
Elise J. David, The Ohio State University, “Making” the Modern Woman Artist: The Painting and Practices of Wu Shujuan (1853-1930)”
Dominic DeSapio, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Between Fire Alarms and Police-Patrols: Institutional Durability and Adaptability Under Crisis in China”
Yue Du, New York University, “Parenthood and the State in China: Law, Gender, and State Building, 1800-1940”
Courtney Rong Fu, Pennsylvania State University, “Conservatism, Orthodoxy and Intellectual Change: The Qingyuan School of Learning in Early Modern China”
Xiaofei Gao, University of California-Santa Cruz, “Maritime Manchuria, 1898-2010”
Ryan Holroyd, Pennsylvania State University, “The Maritime Exportation and Overseas Consumption of Chinese Silk, 1680-1760”
Wenyi Huang, McGill University, “Crossing the Frontier Between North and South in Early Medievel China (386-589 CE)”
Jason M. Kelly, Cornell University, “Chinese Communists in Capitalist Markets: International Commerce and the Rise of the People’s Republic, 1948-1964”
Lili Liang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Choosing Quality: Educational Investment Among Middle-Class Households in Shanghai”
James Lin, University of California-Berkeley, “Sowing Seeds and Knowledge: Development Discourses in China, Taiwan and the World, 1920-1975”
Stephanie M. Montgomery, University of California-Santa Cruz, “Gender, Criminality, and the Prison in China, 1928-1953”
Cuma Ozkan, University of Iowa, “From Native-Oriented to Global Islam: The Changing Role of the Han Kitāb in Today’s China”
Yang Shen, Boston University, “Becoming “Renouncers” in Post-Mao Buddhist Monastic Institutions”
Kwok-leong Tang, Pennsylvania State University, “Cultural Unity and Political Legitimacy in Local and Transnational Contexts: The Temple of Culture (wenmiao) in Late Imperial China and Vietnam”
Kuan-chi Wang, University of Oregon, “The Reach of the Green Border: Political Economy and Ecology of Vegetable Trade Between China, Taiwan, and Japan”
Qingfei Yin, George Washington University, “Arrival of the Cold War, Expansion of the Communist States, and Transformation of the Land-Maritime Border Region in Guangxi, 1949-1969”
Yingchan Zhang, Northeastern University, “Tapping the Flow: The Global Circulation of Talent and Urban Development in China”