INTRODUCTION
The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (the
Foundation, or CCKF) was established in 1989, in memory of the late President of the
Republic of China, Chiang Ching-kuo (1910-1988). The Foundation's central
headquarters is in Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, with a regional office in McLean, Virginia,
near Washington D.C. The Foundation also features two international centers for
sinological research: the CCKF Center for Chinese Cultural and Institutional History
at Columbia University and the CCK International Sinological Center at Charles
University in Prague. The Foundation is a private organization whose purpose is to
promote the study of Chinese culture and society. Operational funds come from
interest generated from an endowment donated by both public and private sectors.
The Foundation's principal work is to award grants, as approved by the Board of
Directors, to institutions and individuals conducting China-related research and
academic ventures. An annual budget of approximately five million US dollars is
distributed under grant categories such as institutional enhancement, research,
conference and seminar grants, subsidies for publication, and senior scholar grants.
There are also fellowships available for graduate students, and post-doctoral
researchers. Since its establishment, the Foundation has aided research institutes,
university presses, national museums, and libraries all over the world.
The CCK Foundation is governed by a board of prominent officials,
distinguished scholars and leading citizens. Through its support of international
scholarly exchange, the Foundation promotes a broader understanding of the Republic
of China on Taiwan, in all its complexities. The Foundation believes that this
academic dialogue offers all parties an opportunity to reflect on the broader issues
facing humanity in our global village.
The disciplinary scope of the Foundation's grant programs covers Chinese
studies in the fields of the Humanities and Social Sciences on both traditional and
contemporary issues. The geographical scope of the Foundation's operation includes
America, Europe, the Asia/Pacific region, and the Domestic area. The principal aim of
the Foundation is to encourage the pursuit of Chinese Studies internationally, and to
foster international scholarly exchange through collaborative research projects,
conferences, workshops, and publications. By working closely with foundations
overseas, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation intends to facilitate the accessibility of its
grant programs for scholars in Chinese Studies worldwide.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Yih-yuan Li, Chairman
Morris Chang
Frederick F. Chien
Hungdah Chiu
Cho-yun Hsu
Douglas Hsu
Ying-mao Kao
Ambrose King
Chen-fu Koo
Wei-fan Kuo
Lawrence Lau
Huan Li
Chan Lien
Ts'ui-jung Liu
Kao-wen Mao
James C. Y. Soong
Robert Tsao
Ovid J. L. Tzeng
Yueh-sheng Weng
Shyi-kun Yu
Ying-shih Yu
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
THE YEAR IN REVIEW
THE REGIONAL PROGRAMS
THE AMERICAN REGION
THE EUROPEAN REGION
THE ASIA/PACIFIC REGION
THE DOMESTIC REGION
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
CCK GRANT RECIPIENTS, 2000-2001
RECIPIENTS IN THE AMERICAN REGION
RECIPIENTS IN THE EUROPEAN REGION
RECIPIENTS IN THE ASIA/PACIFIC REGION
RECIPIENTS IN THE DOMESTIC REGION
APPENDICES
THE YEAR IN REVIEW
(July 2000 - June 2001)
I. The Board of Directors and Foundation Executives
1) Transitions
It has been a year of transitions here at the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. The
year saw more than the average number of partings, but at the same time the
Foundation consequently has been invigorated with new talents. Most sadly,
Kuo-hwa Yu, who served as Chairman of the Foundation from 1994 to 2000, passed
away in October 2000. Chairman Yu led a distinguished life of public service, and is
often credited for his decisive leadership in spurring Taiwan's "economic miracle."
After serving in executive positions at a number of important banks and financial
institutions in the 1950s and early 1960s, Chairman Yu was named Minister of
Finance Minister from 1967 to 1969. Chairman Yu made further significant
contributions to Taiwan's development when he was the Governor of the Central Bank
of China and concurrently the Minister of State. While head of these two crucial
public service institutions from 1969 to 1984, Taiwan saw an incredible spurt of
economic development. The miraculous economic growth continued under his
stewardship as Premier of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1984 until his
retirement in 1989. Upon retiring from the rigors of government office, Chairman
Yu continued to show his concern for the country his involvement in a number of
charitable activities. In particular, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for
International Scholarly Exchange is grateful for the care and effort that he made to
ensure that its work in promoting the understanding of Chinese culture continues to be
fruitful. The entire Foundation will miss Chairman Yu and mourns his passing. On
passing, the chairman was 86 years old and leaves behind two sons.
In addition, on May 31, 2001, Kwoh-ting Li, Chairman of the Foundation from
1989 to 1994, also passed away. He was 93 years old. Chairman Li is remembered
as the "Father of Technology" in the Republic of China for his devotion to Taiwan's
development. He served as Minister of State from 1976 to 1988. Finally, we bid a
sad farewell to Shao-Chuan Tony Leng, a longtime member of the Foundation's North
American Review Committee. Prof. Leng had a distinguished career in the academy,
teaching at the University of Virginia for over 40 years and producing numerous
books and articles on law and politics in Taiwan and China.
Though it saddens us to say goodbye to people who have helped the Foundation
to expand its efforts in promoting sinology and extending its outreach programs,
which now cover four global regions, new officers have joined to help continue our
mission into the new century. Now we welcome a new board of directors, a new
chairman, a new president, and a new director for the CCK-International Sinological
Center at Charles University in Prague.
2) The Fifth Board of Directors
The Board of Directors, consisting of 21 members, oversees the administration
of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. Every three years, the Board of Directors
meets to elect new board members from a nomination list of prominent
representatives from academic, business and government circles within the Republic
of China on Taiwan. In addition to overseeing and approving all major decisions of
the Foundation, the Board also elects a Chairman of the Board who presides over
Board meetings and serves as the highest public representative of the Foundation.
Amid much public and media curiosity, the Board of Directors met in December
16, 2000 to elect a new board to serve for the three-year term that began June 2001
(See Chart 1) At the meeting, Morris Chang, Douglas Hsu, Ts'ui-jung Liu, Robert
Tsao, Ovid Tzeng, Yueh-sheng Weng, and Shyi-kun Yu, were newly elected to serve
on the board. The board members who will continue service from the last term are:
Frederick F. Chien, Hungdah Chiu, Cho-yun Hsu, Ying-mao Kao, Ambrose King,
Chen-fu Koo, Wei-fan Kuo, Lawrence Lau, Huan Li, Yih-yuan Li, Chan Lien,
Kao-wen Mao, James C.Y. Soong, and Ying-shih Yu. The new board members have
proven themselves to be important advocates of this country and each is widely
respected in the fields that they represent. Each has contributed significantly to
society and is a strong advocate of cultural and intellectual research. Members of
the Board of Directors serve in a voluntary capacity. They serve their three-year
terms with no monetary compensation. All members are dedicated to promote
cultural and educational exchange between the Republic of China on Taiwan and
other nations and to enhance the welfare of humanity. They furthermore wish to
promote Chinese culture and to enhance the international understanding of the
"Taiwan Experience."
CCKF Board of Directors
Names appear alphabetically.
Name
*Morris Chang
A member newly elected December 16, 2000 is indicated by an *.
Title
Chairman, Taiwan Semiconductor
Manufacturing Corp.
Frederick F. Chien
Hungdah Chiu
Cho-yun Hsu
*Douglas Hsu
Ying-mao Kao
Ambrose King
Chen-fu Koo
Wei-fan Kuo
Lawrence Lau
Huan Li
Yih-yuan Li
Chan Lien
*Ts'ui-jung Liu
Kao-wen Mao
James C.Y. Soong
*Robert Tsao
*Ovid J.L. Tzeng
*Yueh-sheng Weng
*Shyi-kun Yu
Ying-shih Yu
President of the Control Yuan
Maryland University Professor
Pittsburgh University Professor, and Academica
Sinica Member
Chairman, Far Eastern Group
Brown University Professor
Chinese University of Hong Kong Vice
President
Chairman of the Board, Taiwan Cement
ROC Representative to France
Stanford University Professor
Chairman of the Board, Pacific Cultural
Foundation
Academica Sinica Member, President Chiang
Ching-kuo Foundation
Former Vice President of the R.O.C.
Chairman of Preparation Committee, Institute
of Taiwan History, Academica Sinica
R.O.C. Ambassador to Costa Rica
Former Governor of Taiwan Province
Chairman, United Microelectronics Corp.
Minister of Education
President of the Judicial Yuan
Secretary-General to the President of the ROC
Princeton University Professor
The newly elected Board of Directors of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for
International Scholarly Exchange met on June 3 with an important agenda which
included the elections of a new chairman of the board and a new president for the
organization. First, the board elected Prof. Yi-yuan Li as its new Chairman of the
Board, and then in his first official act as Chairman, Prof. Li nominated Prof. Yun-Han
Chu to succeed himself as the president of the Foundation. The Board then
unanimously endorsed the Professor Chu's appointment as the officer in charge of all
day-to-day operations. In addition to these appointments, in order to meet the
requirements of the organizational charter of the Foundation, the Board nominated
three Supervisors, namely Sun Chen, Hu Sheng-Cheng, and Fai-nan Perng. The
main responsibilities of the Supervisors include overseeing the Foundation's
endowment, its financial policy, as well as expenditures and allocations. Finally, the
Board approved the grant recipients for the 2000-2001 competition.
3) The Third Chairman of the Board, Yih-yuan Li, and the new President,
Yun-Han Chu
Those familiar with the Foundation will already recognize both Prof. Li and Prof.
Chu. Yi-yuan Li has been the guiding force behind the Foundation's growth and
development, serving as President since its establishment in 1989. Yun-Han Chu,
meanwhile, has served as vice-president since April 1, 1999, providing energetic
leadership as the Foundation entered a new phase of expansion in its sinological
outreach efforts.
Born in 1931 in Fukien Province in China, Chairman Yi-yuan Li came to Taiwan
as a student at National Taiwan University. He was separated from his family until
China reopened her doors to visitors from Taiwan in 1989. After his graduation
from Harvard University in anthropology in 1960, Chairman Li returned to Taiwan
and has worked since then as a research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology in the
Academia Sinica. He served as Director of the Institute from 1971 to 1977 and was
elected an academician of the Academia Sinica in 1984. During 1980-81, he was a
Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Chairman Li also taught
at National Taiwan University from 1968 to 1984. He served as Dean of Humanities
and Social Sciences at National Tsinghua University from 1984-1990. He was
awarded "Cultural Medal" by the Executive Yuan in 1999 for his outstanding
contribution to the enhancement of cultural elements in a society. He also received
Honorary Doctorate Degree from University of Paris IV- Sorboone and Griffith
University of Australia this year.
Between 1955 and 1984, Chairman Li devoted most of his time to field studies
and research, particularly among Taiwan's aboriginal peoples and the overseas
Chinese communities in Southeast Asia. His methods and theories regarding
anthropological research have profoundly influenced the study of anthropology in
Taiwan. Many of his students from National Taiwan University are carrying his
message to a new generation of students in the field. Several of Professor Li's
publications are considered classics in anthropology, and he has received numerous
awards for his work.
The Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation's new president, Dr. Yun-Han Chu, who is
Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University, received his Ph.D. from
the University of Minnesota in 1987. In his distinguished research and teaching
career since then he has focused on the political economy of East Asian
newly-industrialized countries (NIC's), democratization, and comparative mass
political behavior. Before taking his post at the Foundation, Prof. Chu served for
eleven years as Director of Programs at the Institute for National Policy Research in
Taipei, and from 1994 until 1997 he was Coordinator of the Political Science section
of the National Science Council.
President Chu is an eight-time recipient of the National Science Council's Annual
Research Award, and three has been awarded the prestigious Outstanding Research
Award, the highest honor the Council bestows on individual professors. Publications
to Prof. Chu's credit include more than forty journal articles and edited volume
chapters, as well as numerous books and collaborative volumes. Prof. Chu is also a
current and former editorial board member for several major research journals,
including Proceedings of the National Science Council, Journal of Contemporary
China, and China Perspective. His professional affiliations include the Chinese
Association of Political Science and the National Science Council, for which he is a
member of the advisory of board for Social Sciences and Humanities.
Board of Directors
II. Foundation Organization and Operations
Supervisors
Chairman of the Board
1) Foundation Organization
The Foundation's principal work is to award grants, as approved by the Board of
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2) Operations at CCKF Overseas Centers
While the Foundation itself welcomes a new group of leaders, it's first overseas
center, the Chiang Ching-kuo International Sinological Center (CCK-ISC) at Charles
University in Prague, Czech Republic, has also begun a new phase of development.
CCK-ISC was founded in September 1997 with the aim to promote study and
research within the European region on topics related to China and its culture.
Operating with a regional focus, the center is not limited by it and simultaneously
encourages academic exchanges with scholars from around the world. The CCKF
Center at Charles University organizes conferences and workshops, as well as special
cultural events to promote the Foundation's goals to further sinological studies. The
year 2000 was the last year of the initial three-year contract with Charles University,
and now the partnership has been renewed to continue into the 21st Century.
CCK-ISC's first director, Professor Oldrich Kral has reitred from his post after helping
establish a solid basis for growth. Now the partners hope to extend the center's
outreach programs under the guidance of the CCK-ISC's new director, Professor Olga
Lomova, who accepted her appointment in July 2001. Prof. Lomova is associate
professor at Charles University specializing in the history of Chinese literature,
classical Chinese language, and classical poetry. She is also Director of the Institute
of East Asian Studies at Charles University.
Meanwhile, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation's Center for Chinese Cultural and
Institutional History, at Columbia University, New York, USA has continued its
numerous scholarly activities under the directorship of Prof. David Der-wei Wang,
who is also the chairman of Columbia University's Department of East Asian
Languages and Cultures. The Center has hosted a "seemingly endless stream of
exciting scholars and professors" in its on-going conference and lecture series.
Among the many eminent professors offering CCK sponsored lectures were Anthony
Yu, Denise Gimpel, Michelle Yeh, Yeh Chia-ying, Victor H. Mair, and many more.
Conferences brought even more scholars together. Over the past year, the CCK
Center hosted conferences such as "New Directions in Chinese History," "Chinese
Popular Culture Unveiled," and two workshops led by Prof. Cho-yun Hsu on the Shi
jing and on the Li ji, among other activities.
The two Centers will have a joint venture this year in September to co-sponsor
an international conference " Understanding Chinese Poetics: Recarving the Dragons".
There will be 30 scholars from Europe, North America, Taiwan, Hong Kong and
Mainland China to participate in the conference. The meeting will take place in
Prague.
3) Proposals Received and Grants Awarded
In 2000, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation received over 359 applications,
including 191 grant proposals and 168 fellowship applications. Once again the
geographic distribution of the grant applications revealed the broadness of the
Foundation's international operations. Of the total of 191 grant applications, the
Foundation received 107 grant proposals from the North American region, 23 from
the Domestic region, 28 from the European region, and 33 from the Asia-Pacific
region. In addition, the foundation received 168 applications for its dissertation and
post-doctorate fellowships. The North American region received 116 requests for
fellowships, while the European region received 52. Of the grant applications for
the European region, institutions from 11 countries were represented, including from
the United Kingdom, three from Germany, three from France, three from Russia, two
from Denmark, two from Italy, and one each from Switzerland, the Czech Republic,
Hungary, Ireland, and Bulgaria. Asia/Pacific applications came from eight countries,
including 15 from Australia, three from Singapore, three from Korea, two from
Thailand, and one each from Japan, Vietnam, Israel, and Malaysia. The Domestic
region included applications from Taiwan and Hong Kong for a total of 21.
The Board of Directors met on June 3, 2001. Of the 333 total applications, the
Review Committees forwarded 74 project proposals and 64 fellowship applications to
the Board for consideration. Of these, 62 projects and 62 fellowship proposals were
approved for funding. A total of US$3,378,630 or NT$1133,178,630 (1 US$ = 33.5
NT$), has been allocated for the support of these projects. The sum also includes
student travel grants administered for the Foundaiton by the European Association for
Chinese Studies (EACS) and the domestic fund for short-term overseas research and
conference participation for R.O.C. students.
In 2000 US$1,757,856, or 52 percent of the total monetary amount awarded in
the 2000/2001 grant competition, was allocated to projects in the American region.
US$657,419 or 20 percent, was awarded to those in the European region. Scholars
and institutions in the Asia/Pacific will receive US$336,893, or 10 percent.
US$590,770 or 18 percent, was allocated for Domestic region projects (See Chart 3).
In addition, the two overseas Centers will receive US$120,000 each this year for the
activities as proposed to the Foudation in their annual planning report.
REGION
American Region
European Region
Asia/Pacific Region
Domestic Region
Total
GRANTS
US$ 1,757,856
US$ 657,419
US$ 336,893
US$ 590,770
US$ 3,378,630
PERCENTAGE
52%
20%
10%
18%
100%
(Chart three) Grant allocation for four regions, 2000-2001
THE REGIONAL PROGRAMS
The American Region
The Foundation's North American Office received a total of 224 applications.
These included 45 proposals under the category of Research Grants, 18 under
Conference/seminar Grants, 9 under Subsidies for Publications, 9 under Senior
Scholar Grants, 20 under Travel Grants, 2 under Walter Judd Scholarships 2 under
Visiting Fellowships and 2 special projects. Additionally, there were a total of 116
fellowship applications from Ph.D. students and post-doctoral researchers ( see
Appendix I ). The North American Review Committee convened in March and
recommended 87 proposals to the Foundation's Board of Directors.
In its March meeting the Foundation’s North American Committee also
discussed the current post-doctoral and senior scholar grants. It recommended that
these grants be divided into two categories. First, post-doctoral grants would only
include scholars who had just received their doctorates (within two years of their
application). These applicants must be pursuing a scholarly project with the
sponsorship of an academic institution. A letter of recommendation would be
required from their sponsors. These grants would be for one year and will not
exceed $30,000. A second category would be for assistant, associate and full
professors. A one-year grant would be available for all these faculty ranks. The
grant would provide up to $45,000 to help replace half of the salary of faculty on
sabbatical or for time off for research and writing. If grants from other sources are
also awarded to the applicant, the Foundation’s grant, added to the others, should not
exceed the recipient’s annual salary. These new definitions will replace the category
of post-doctoral and senior scholar grants in the Foundation’s grant program booklet
The North American Committee was represented at the annual Association for
Asian Studies (AAS) meeting in Chicago from March 22 to 25. Professor Cho-yun
Hsu, Hsing-wei Lee and David Dean met with Dr. Robert Weller, chairman of the
Association's China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC), to discuss the Foundation's
ongoing grants for scholars administered by CIAC, and new directions in the field.
Also, at the AAS Meeting New York University's Professor Angela Zito explained and
discussed her newly funded conference project “ A Workshop on the State of China
Studies Now.”
The University of Pittsburgh has completed its undergraduate curriculum in
Chinese studies on CD-ROM (Contemporary Chinese Societies: Continuity and
Change). The project was originally sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo
Foundation. The Henry Luce Foundation also provided substantial support. The
CD will be published by the Columbia University Press soon. It has been well
received by many colleges and there have been many inquiries regarding this product.
A centerpiece CCKF-sponsored project in the American Region has been the
highly acclaimed Columbia University Press Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
Series. This series presents, for a whole new audience, English translations of
contemporary Taiwanese novels, short stories, and poetry. This series has brought
top contemporary Taiwanese writers to the English-reading public through the best
translations of Chinese literary scholars. As a result, the struggles and
contemplations of a society undergoing tremendous change in a transnational world
are available to a much wider audience.
The series has already published eight works, each representing the influential
work of acclaimed Taiwanese writers. They range in scope from the satirical
comedy of Rose, Rose, I Love You by Wang Chen-ho, to the intense moments of
nostalgia in Three-Legged Horse by Cheng Ch'ing-wen and A Thousand Moons on a
Thousand Rivers by Hsiao Li-Hung, and the deep pathos of the Notes of a Desolate
Man by Chu T'ien-wen. The critics have warmly greeted the series, with the New
York Times Book Review, The Seattle Times, Newsday, and others praising the
translations as well as the content of these Taiwanese bestsellers. For individual
descriptions of each of these works, please see the Columbia University Press website
on the Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan at:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/idx_series.html
The European Region
Leading the way once again in the European Region was the Chiang Ching-kuo's
International Sinological Center at Charles University in Prague, as the CCK-ISC has
spearheaded efforts to expand the Foundation's academic outreach programs in
Europe. These efforts formed the main theme of the first meeting of the CCK-ISC
Steering Committee held in Torino, Italy, on August 31, 2000. Prof. Yun-han Chu
chaired the meeting and the Committee members made recommendations on how to
improve the resources of the center in order to further enhance the facilities and
programs at the research institution. Ways to maximize the use of the center's
resources for the benefit of both scholars at the center and across the European
sinological community were also discussed.
The second CCK-ISC Steering Committee Meeting was held in Prague on
February 23, 2001. This meeting set the stage for the transition, which occurred in
July 2001 as the Center moves from its period of establishment into a new era of
expansion. The committee discussed Prof. Chu's proposals for facilitating the
process of the mutual evaluation of the Center's operation during its first stage
(August 1998 - July 2001). As stipulated by the Memorandum of Understanding
between Charles University and the Foundation, the two institutions conducted an
official evaluation of the cooperative efforts to date, in order to assess the successes of
the program and prepare for future improvements. The mutual evaluation process
yielded a picture of overall success in implementing the main goal of the CCK-ISC to
promote greater worldwide cooperation in Chinese studies, with a special focus on
work in Eastern Europe. In addition, Professor Olga Lomova succeeded Professor
Kral in becoming the director of the Center
In addition to bringing greater resources to Charles University in the form of
library materials and Chinese text databases, the CCK-ISC has sponsored numerous
programs and lectures over the last year. For example, Prof. Hans van Ess of the
University of Munich, Craig Clunas of the University of Sussex, Maghiel van Crevel
of Leiden University, Anthony C. Yu of the University of Chicago, and Viviane
Alleton of CNRS, Paris all gave lectures at the Center in 2000.
Meanwhile, at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, the Foundation is
sponsoring the special "Research Unit on the Taiwanese Literature and Culture." Ruhr
University is currently working to amass a comprehensive collection of scholarly
research on Taiwanese culture. With the assistance of CCKF, the university is
acquiring works of literature, biography, literary theory, literary criticism, and literary
history. The aim is to create a center, where scholars from Europe and around the
world can utilize a single, centralized collection of materials on a field of growing
international interest. This representative collection of research literature is designed
to suit the needs of a broad range of users--students and other researchers--in order to
make available more concrete and less biased knowledge on Taiwan in Germany and
Europe. Currently the university is working with National Taiwan University on a
manuscript bibliography of Taiwan research materials. They are also collecting rare
materials, especially M.A. and Ph.D. theses on Taiwanese culture as well as local
publications by the numerous cultural centers in Taiwan (wen-hua chung-hsin). For
more information see their website at:
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/slc/taiwan.html
The Foundation received 28 grant applications and 52 fellowship proposals from
European countries this year. Twelve of the applications were for Institutional
Enhancement grants, ten for Research Grants, three for Conference and Seminar
grants, one for Subsidies for Publication, and two for Senior Scholar grants (see
Appendix II). After evaluation, the European Review Committee recommended 10
grant proposals and 16 fellowship applications for Board approval. The Board
approved funding for nine grant proposals and 16 fellowship applications. The
acceptance rate in the European region was 57 percent. The nine grant recipients hail
from Germany, the United Kingdom, Denmark, France, and Russia.
Some projects approved for funding this year in Europe include a project
collaborated by Professor Rudolf Wagner of University of Heidelberg and Professor
Christoph Harbsmeier of University of Oslo on developing an internet accessible
version of the Analytical Dictionary of Classical Chinese Synonyms, Synonyma
Serica Comparat". Professor Alexander I. Petrov at the Russian Academy of Sciences,
Far East Branch intends to do a research on the history of the Chinese in Russia
between 1858 to 2003. Professor Robert Ash of SOAS will establish a virtual network
of Taiwan studies as a part of the institutional enhancement to strengthen the
understanding of ROC in Europe. Professor John Lagerwey of EFEO, France will
look into the connection among religion, architecture and the economy in Southern
China. A conference on linkage on Chinese genetics, archaeology and linguistics
submitted by Professor Laurent Sagart of Centre de Recherches in France also gained
the approval of the Board this year.
The Asia/Pacific Region
While the Asia/Pacific region continues to be the least represented of the four
regional programs of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, it is nevertheless the base for
some important programs, which are increasing the exposure of the Foundation in the
area. For example, with the support of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the
Australian National University on February 26, 1999 established the Centre for the
Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora (CSCSD). The Centre serves as a
permanent focus for research and teaching on the Overseas Chinese and their
interaction with other societies and cultures in Southeast Asia and the Southwest
Pacific. The Centre's goal is to investigate such themes as the role of transnational
communities in an increasingly globalized world, the central but contested role of
Sino-Southeast Asians and Sino-Australasians in their local economies, multiple
identities, cultural heritage and the political management of minority status.
The CSCSD publishes a biannual newsletter, as well as offering booklets and
on-line papers by scholars in the field. In addition, the Centre sponsors a regular
interdisciplinary course at Australian National University on the Chinese Southern
Diaspora. It also holds regular public lectures by distinguished scholars, and hosts
conferences. For example, in September 2001, the Centre will convene a
multidisciplinary international conference entitled, "Migrating Identities and Ethnic
Minorities in Chinese Diaspora." (For more information, including a calendar of
events, see the Centre's home page: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/cscsd/home.html)
Professor S. N. Eisenstadt, renowned sociologist of University of Jerusalem, was
awarded grants twice. In 1993 Professor Eisenstadt looked into the historical
experience of China, India and Japan by comparing the impact of the modernization
and cultural programs of modernity in these three countries. And in 1997 he expanded
his observation into the public spheres, collective identities and social reflexivity in
the formation of modernity. A book resulting from this intensive research on these
three countries will be published soon.
In 2000, the Foundation received 33 proposals from nine countries in the region
including three applications for Institutional Enhancement grants, 19 for Research
Grants, nine for Conference and Seminar grants, and two for Subsidies for Publication
(see Appendix III). Though the Foundation would like to further promote its
programs in the Asia/Pacific region these totals represent a significant increase in the
number of applications received, compared to only 18 received in the 1999
competition.
Of the 33 received this year, 16 were recommended by the Review
Committee and 13 were finally approved by the Board. Again, the number of grants
approved was higher in 2000, nearly doubling the 7 awarded in 1999. The 2000
acceptance rate in the Asia/Pacific region was 39 percent.
Grants were awarded to applicants in Australia, Thailand, Singapore, Korea, and
Israel. Some of the projects approved for funding this year include: "A Conference
on an Anthology of Texts on Chinese Gardens" organized by Professor Stanislaus
Fung of the University of South Wales; "A Comparative Lexicology Study on the
Southern Min Dialect" by Professor Chew Cheng Hai of Nanyang Technological
University; and "Communal Diasporic Voluntary Cultures: Hmong Transnationalism
in Asia and Overseas" by Professor Nicholas Tapp of the Australian National
University.
The Domestic Region
The Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation has been sponsoring the creation of one of
the most ambitious internet-accessible databases in the history of sinology. Inspired
by the enormous effort in the 18th Century to collect all of the most important books
in China's long and prolific history of writing, the Academia Sinica has undertaken to
reduplicate that feat in the electronic age. This time, the "New Ssu-k'u ch'uan-shu"
will make China's most important traditional texts available on the internet.
This new comprehensive collection is building on work already begun in 1984,
with the Academia Sinica's Electronic Database of Chinese Texts (see:
http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ftms-bin/ftmsw3.) With the financial support of the
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the electronic database will be dramatically updated to
include many more texts. The "New Ssu-k'u ch'uan-shu" is expected to contain than
2 billion characters, more than 3 times larger than the existing Ssu-k'u ch'uan-shu.
One reason why the 21st century version will be so much larger is that in addition to
the four categories of knowledge compiled for the original collection, the new
compendium will add six further categories: religion, literature, divination,
language/linguistics, inscriptions, and Taiwanese history.
Meanwhile, the Foundation has also sponsored another important on-line
resource for sinologists, namely the Center for Chinese Studies International
Directory of Chinese Studies Resource Organizations. Work began on this
comprehensive database in July 1996, and over the years it has compiled information
on more than 600 organizations from around the globe. The database includes
organizations in categories such as universities and graduate schools, libraries and
museums, Chinese studies centers and research institutes, and foundations and
academic associations. This data is invaluable for any researcher, whether trying to
find source materials, funding for a project, or places to present a paper.
Unrestricted access is available at the Center for Chinese Studies (Taipei) website:
www.ncl.edu.tw.
In 2000, the Foundation received 23 proposals from 13 research institutions in
the Domestic region. Of these, 16 were for Collaborative Research projects, two for
Databases, one for a Conference/Seminar, and four for Subsidies for Publications (see
Appendix IV). The Domestic Review Committee recommended 15 projects and a
sum of NT$500,000 in travel and overseas training grants for graduate students. The
Board of Directors approved 13 projects for funding with a total of amount of
NT$19,790,799. The acceptance rate in the Domestic region was 57 percent.
Some projects approved for funding in the Domestic region this year include a
project by Professor Chu Yun-Peng of the Sun Yat-sen Institute for Social Sciences
and Philosophy, Academia Sinica. Professor Chu intends to look into the origin of
development of technology-intensive industries and its social implications in Taiwan,
South Korea, Malaysia The Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia. Professor Bhikkhu
Huimin at the National Institute of the Arts continued to construct the Buddhist digital
database, a project supported by the Foundation in 1999. There is a project by
Professor Tan Chee-Beng of the Chinese University of Hong Kong to study emigrant
communities in Quanzhou of Fujian. A conference organized by National Taiwan
University, Chinese Dietary Culture Foundation and Ajinomoto Foundation of Japan
on overseas dissemination of Chinese dietary culture and topics related to
international innovations in Chinese cuisine.
Other Notable News
 CCKF's New Website
By the time this annual report goes to press, the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation's new
and improved website will be in operation. For the past few years, the Foundation's
North American Office has maintained a website with essential information on our
grant programs in the four regions, including application procedures and
downloadable forms. Now, the central headquarters in Taipei, under the direction of
President Yun-Han Chu has constructed a new website to maintained from our office
in Taiwan. Not only will it have all the fundamental resources needed for grant
applications, it will also include expanded information on the Foundation's
organization and background. In addition, the new website will be the new home of
our popular newsletter, which provides all the latest news of CCKF events and
happenings. The new website's address is:
www.cckf.org.tw. Welcome!
 Partnership with the Himalaya Foundation Continues
The Himalaya Foundation has worked closely with the Chiang Ching-Kuo
Foundation for many years. Every year since 1997, the Himalaya Foundation has
donated US$200,000 for CCKF programs. Unfortunately, with the recent economic
downturn in Taiwan, the Himalaya Foundation and CCKF have had to temporarily
suspend their plans for further cooperation. Nevertheless, CCKF has greatly
appreciated the generosity of the Himalaya Foundation, which has helped us
considerably to continue to support research and institutional enhancement in Chinese
studies. We look forward to resuming our joint efforts when the economy improves
once again.

Partnership with the Cultural Charity Foundation of the United World
Chinese Bank
Former chairman of the board, the late Kwo-hua Yu, in 1996 spearheaded a
cooperative effort with the Cultural Charity Foundation of the United World Chinese
Bank. Since 1996, the CCKF has with the generous support of the United World
Chinese Bank been supporting R.O.C. students in their graduate studies in the United
States. Foundation grant programs have provided for the expenses of students
pursuing doctoral and post-doctoral studies overseas to current total of more than
7,500,000 NTD. This year, the CCKF continues its fruitful partnership with United
World Chinese Bank.
 CCKF joins the CAFO
The Conference of Asia Foundations and Organizations (CAFO) is an international
collection of funding agencies and cultural foundations focusing on Asia. The
Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation recently joined CAFO in order to coordinate our
efforts with other organizations to maximize our outreach programs in the Asia. The
CAFO includes members from China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, the
Philipines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand.
CONCLUSION
Under the direction of the Fourth Board of Directors and former President Li
Yih-yuan, the Chiang-Ching Kuo Foundation concluded the twentieth century on the
same firm principles upon which the organization was founded. That is, the
Foundation was established to promote the understanding of Chinese culture in our
world through support of the world's best sinologists conducting solid academic
research on important topics, while also nurturing younger scholars in an effort to
broaden the pool of talented scholars devoted to Chinese studies. In the more than
12 years since CCKF began, the world seems to have gotten smaller as it entered the
e-generation, so that now people proclaim the new era of the "global village."
Meanwhile, under President Li, the Foundation's operations expanded, with grant
programs extending to four regions of the globe. It has also made significant efforts
to support work that helps sinologists "get connected" to that electronic version of the
global village, thereby decreasing the distance between scholars, whether in Russia or
the United States, Sweden or Australia, Japan or Mexico. To us, it is a fantastic
trend: the growing of connections that link the world and the expanding of awareness
about the importance of Chinese culture in this new world.
And now the Foundation is under new leadership. President Yun-Han Chu and the
Fifth Board of Directors, under Chairman Li Yih-yuan will continue to pursue the
excellent work already begun. With an energetic leadership style and an ambitious
outlook, President Chu will continue to keep the CCKF "connected" both in the
electronic sense and in the "old fashioned" sense of real life, face to face encounters
with scholars and organizations who share our vision of a truly multicultural world.
For in the end, it is the people in this scholarly community and their passion greater
understanding that make sinological studies compelling.
Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Jan. 1, 2000 - Dec. 31, 2000
All denominations in US$
Rate of Conversion: 34 NT$ = 1 US$
The Foundation's investment portfolio in 2000 followed the resolution of the
Fourth Meeting of the Board of Directors which stipulated that at least 65 percent of
the fund be invested in fixed-income securities and at most 35 percent be invested in
equity-securities and short-term bills or notes. However, because of the recent
troubles and perceived instability in the domestic stock market, the actual percentage
of investment in equity-securities was 13 percent, while 83 percent was invested in
fixed-income securities.
The fixed income portfolio was mainly invested in one-year time deposits and
government bonds as well. The equity-securities investment was mainly in Taiwan's
domestic securities market, as well as in the stock market and overseas stocks.
At the end of 2000, the total assets of the Foundation were US$89,588,141.
Long term assets amounted to US$75,753,849. Current assets were US$10,117,928;
fixed assets US$3,704,767 and other assets US$11,597 (See Balance Sheet).
Table 1: Balance Sheet
Assets
Current Assets:
Revolving Funds
Checking, savings accounts
Short-term bills
US Dollar deposits
Interest receivable
Tax Refunds receivable
Other receivables
Prepaid Expenditures
Long Term Assets:
Time deposits
Stock Funds
Mutual Funds
Bond Funds
Fixed Assets:
Sub-total
Total
10,117,928
21,532
268,480
261,563
8,140,281
1,344,916
283
78,471
2,402
75,753,849
41,408,714
4,450,677
6,406,049
23,488,409
3,704,767
Liabilities & Net Worth
Current Liabilities:
Govt bond mortgage
Grants payable
Accrued expenses
Other
Sub-total
647,092
4,485,330
108,322
355
Net Worth:
Endowment
Accumulated Surplus
Current Surplus
84,470,588
320,156
-443,702
Total
5,241,099
84,347,042
Headquarters Office
North American Office
Transport Equipment
Less: depreciation allowance
3,719,264
175,341
124,088
-313,927
Other Assets:
Guarantee Deposit
11,597
11,597
Total:
89,588,141
Total:
89,588,141
The net income at the end of 2000 was US$5,167,724, which included operation
income of US$4,895,956, donation income of US$185,970, and other income of
US$85,798. (See Details of Income and Expenditures.)
Table 2: Details of Income and Expenditures
Item
Surplus from Last Period
Current Income:
Operating Income
Interest from deposits
Interest from bills
Security investment income
Sub-total
Administrative expenses
Board of Directors
Headquarters
North American Office
Management fee
Recapitalization
Balance for this Period
Grand Total
320,156
5,167,724
4,895,956
3,031,635
915,469
948,852
Donation Income
Other Income
Current expenditures:
Operating expenses
Domestic
North American
European
Asia/Pacific
Proposal review and evaluation
Total
185,970
85,798
5,611,427
4,062,029
1,021,196
1,937,847
779,347
249,975
73,664
1,327,189
128,620
997,640
200,929
117,647
104,562
-443,703
Operation expenditures included grants to the four regions of America, Europe,
Asia/Pacific and the Domestic regions, under various grant categories.
US$1,069,781 was allocated to the Domestic region; US$1,962,926 was allocated to
the American region; US$779,347 was allocated to the European region; and
US$249,975 for the Asia/Pacific region. (See Details of Operation Expenditures.)
Table 3: Details of Operating Expenditures
Item
Grants:
Institutional Enhancement
Research Grants
Conferences and Seminars
Subsidies for Publication
Databases
Senior Scholars
Subsidies through EACS
Subsidies through CASA
PhD/Post-Doc Fellowships
Special Projects
North America
Domestic
652,548
156,502
23,724
332,912
90,798
13,235
263,663
Europe
Asia/Pacific
81,586
363,946
44,182
22,069
206,895
18,077
25,003
191,880
28,286
Total
81,586
1,456,301
309,559
84,031
263,663
191,880
28,286
46,588
860,890
665,581
46,588
671,370
195,235
320,588
Sub-total Grants
Review Committees
1,937,847
25,079
1,021,196
48,585
779,347
249,975
3,988,365
73,664
Total
1,962,926
1,069,781
779,347
249,975
4,062,029
189,520
149,758
Administrative costs in 2000 included expenses of the Board of Directors, which
were US$128,620; expenses of the headquarters in Taipei, which were US$997,640,
and the expenses of the Regional Office in McLean, Virginia, USA, which were
US$200,929. (See Details of Administrative Expenses).
Table 4: Details of Administrative Expenditures
Item
Board of Directors
Personnel
Administration
Equipment
Other
Sub-total
28,002
57,863
488
42,267
Headquarters
Personnel
Administration
Equipment
Other
800,123
92,961
72,560
31,996
North American Regional Office
Personnel
Administration
Equipment
Other
174,006
17,344
6,172
3,407
Total:
Total
128,620
997,640
200,929
1,327,189
Head, Finance Section
GRANT RECIPIENTS, 2000-2001
RECIPIENTS IN THE AMERICAN REGION
Unit: US$
A.
Research Grants
1.
Taunya Banks
University of Maryland
“The Work of Chinese Interpreters from Baltimore, 1904-1934”
One-year project
Total grant amount: $19,883
2.
Alfred Chan
University of Western Ontario
“Power and Policy in Mao's 'Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution,' 1966-1976”
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $19,240
3.
Adrian Hsia
McGill University
“The Concept of China of European Thinkers: 17th - 20th Centuries”
17-month project
Total grant amount: $51,560
4.
Xiaobo Hu
Clemson University
“Transformation of Property Rights in China: Urban versus Rural Enterprises”
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $30,000
5.
Daniel Lai
The University of Calgary
“Impact of Culture on the Health of Chinese Seniors: An International
Comparison”
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $89,800
6.
Emerson Niou
Duke University
“U.S. Commitment to Taiwan and South Korea: Change and Continuity in the
Post-Cold War Era”
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $30,000
7.
George Slotsve
Northern Illinois University
“An Investigation of the Distribution of Income in Taiwan: 1978-1999”
14-month project
Total grant amount: $33,569
8.
Hoyt Tillman
Arizona State University
“Culture and Contested Boundaries: Interactions and Consequences in China
(900-1300)”
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $99,916
9.
T.Y. Wang
Illinois State University
“Taiwanese Identity vs. the 'One-China Principle': Is there a Solution Acceptable
to Taiwan's Citizens?”
One-year project
Total grant amount: $35,000
B.
Conferences and Seminars
1.
George P. Chen
The Association of Chinese Social Scientists in North America
“Conference: 'Taiwan Entering the 21st Century: Society, Politics and the
Challenge of a New Administration'”
One-year project
Total grant amount: $20,000
2.
Yungdeh Richard Chu
Rochester Institute of Technology
“Sino-Japanese Relations during the Republican Period: Japanese Aggressions in
China, 1931-1945”
Three-day project
Total grant amount: $22,000
3.
Bernie Frolic
University of Toronto-York University Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies
(JCAPS)
“Democracy, Globalization, and Identity Conflicts in Asia”
Two-day project
Total grant amount: $6,775
4.
Bryna Goodman
University of Oregon
“Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and
Modern China”
One-year project
Total grant amount: $20,000
5.
Chien-Juh Gu
University of Washington
“The 2001 North American Taiwan Studies Association Annual Conference”
Four-day project
Total grant amount: $25,000
6.
Ken-ichi Takashima
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Center for Chinese
Studies
“The Fourth International Conference on Classical Chinese Grammar”
Three-day project
Total grant amount: $20,000
7.
Constantine Tung
State University of New York at Buffalo
“The Historical, Fictional, Theatrical and Artistic Three Kingdoms: A
Sino-American Colloquium”
One-year project
Total grant amount: $16,000
8.
Angela Zito
New York University
“Stage One of Redefining China Studies: Globalization & History, 'How does the
21st Century Speak to its own past? A Workshop on one State of China Studies
Now.'”
One-year project
Total grant amount: $25,000
C.
Subsidies for Publication
1.
Columbia University Press
The Columbia History of Chinese Literature
edited by Victor H. Mair
One-month project
Total grant amount: $5,000
2.
University of British Columbia Press
Chinese Democracy after Tiananmen
by Yijiang Ding
One-year project
Total grant amount: $5,100
3.
University of British Columbia Press
The Scars of War: The Impact of Warfare on Chinese Society
edited by Diana Lary and Stephen MacKinnon
One-year project
Total grant amount: $8,000
4.
The UCLA Asian Pacific Monograph Series
Rethinking Confucianism: Past and Present in China, Japan, Korea, and
Vietnam
edited by Benjamin Elman, John Duncan, and Herman Ooms
One-year project
Total grant amount: $6,000
5.
University of California Press
To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth: A Critical, Annotated Translation and
Study of Ge Hong's Traditions of Divine Transcendents
by Robert Ford Company
One-year project
Total grant amount: $6,000
6.
University of Chicago Press
Ordinary Images
by Stanley K. Abe
16-month project
Total grant amount: $6,500
D.
Senior Scholar Grants
1.
W. Robert Conner, National Humanities Center
"Support for a Senior Scholar in Chinese Studies"
Eight-month project
Total grant amount: $40,000
2.
David Johnson, University of California, Berkeley
“The Great Temple Festivals (賽) of Southeastern Shanxi in Late Imperial
Times”
One-year project
Total grant amount: $18,168
3.
Lillian M. Li, Swarthmore College
“Commerce, Class, and Culture: A Social History of Chinese Merchants in the
Early Modern Period”
One-year project
Total grant amount: $40,000
4.
Nancy Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania
“Chinese Architecture of the 3rd through 6th Centuries”
One-year project
Total grant amount: $38,750
5.
Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., Brandeis University
“Beyond Redemption: Memory, Voice, and Resistance in the Aftermath of
China's Great Leap Famine, with Special Reference to the Crisis of State
Legitimacy in Qian Foji”
Nine-month project
Total grant amount: $40,000
6.
Jack F. Williams, Michigan State University
“The Geography of Taiwan's Environmental Struggle”
Six-month project
Total grant amount: $39,900
E.
Walter Judd Fellowship
1.
Ching Kwan Lee, University of Michigan
“Laboring in the Twilight of Socialism: Working Class Politics in the Chinese
Reform”
One-year project
Total grant amount: $15,000
F.
Travel Grants
1.
Padraig Carmody
University of Vermont
“The Globalization of Industrial Restructuring”
One-week project
Total grant amount: $1,000
2.
Tun-jen Cheng
College of William and Mary
“'Strategic Voting, the Third Party and a Non-Durvergerian Outcome: the March
2000 Election in Historical and Comparative Perspectives' for Taiwanense
Political Science Association's Annual Conference”
Four-month project
Total grant amount: $1,000
3.
Lucille Chia
University of California, Riverside
“'Text and Tu: Reading the Illustrated Page' -- Paper to be presented at the
European and North American Exchanges in East Asian Studies Conference
(Paris, Sept. 3-5, 2001)”
Three-day project
Total grant amount: $1,000
4.
Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
The University of Colorado, Boulder
“Presentation of Paper, 'The Second International System: China and East Asia,
5000 B.C. to 221 B.C.' at the 2001 Hong Kong Convention of the International
Studies Association”
Two-week project
Total grant amount: $1,000
5.
Lothar von Falkenhausen
University of California, Los Angeles
“'From Action to Image: Narrative Depiction in Early China and its Cultural
Background': to be Presented at the European and North American Exchanges in
East Asian Studies Conference”
Five-day project
Total grant amount: $830
6.
Hoyt Tillman
Arizona State University
“'Chu Hsi on Kuei-shen': Paper to be delivered in Chinese at the Chu Hsi
Conference in Shanghai, October 8-10, 2000”
One-week project
Total grant amount: $1,000
7.
Wen-hui Tsai
Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne
“Presentation of Paper, 'Economic Development as a Force for Improving
Women's Status in China and Taiwan' at the 2001 Hong Kong Convention of the
International Studies Association”
One-month project
Total grant amount: $1,000
8.
Griet Vankeerberghen
California State Polytechnic University
“The Chronological Tables in Sima Qian's Shi ji”
Three-day project
Total grant amount: $1,000
9.
Q. Edward Wang
Rowan University
“Toward a Humanist Interpretation of Tradition: The Hermeneutics of the
'Critical Review Group' (Xueheng pai)”
Three-day project
Total grant amount: $1,000
G.
Special Projects
1.
Robert Paul Weller
Association for Asian Studies, Inc.
“CIAC Small Grants Program”
Three-year project
Total grant amount: $55,200
2.
Philip Zelikow
University of Virginia
“The Shao-Chuan Leng Fellowship in East Asian Affairs”
One-year project
Total grant amount: $16,500
H. R.O.C. Student Grants for Ph.D. Dissertations
1.
Dong-Shin Chang
New York University
“Dramatizing China in London, Paris and New York, 1673-1912”
Total grant amount: $15,000
2.
Pao-Li Chang
The University of Michigan
“A Theoretical Model of the GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism”
Total grant amount: $15,000
3.
Ching-Wen Chao
Stanford University
“'Moksa' - Requiem to the Victims of the 9/21 Earthquake”
Total grant amount: $15,000
4.
Chun-Fu Chen
Northwestern University
“Social Construction and Media Consumption of 'Japan Fever' Youth
Culture--The Adoring Audiences of Japanese Television Programs in Taiwan”
Total grant amount: $15,000
5.
Chun-yen Chen
Cornell University
“Writing (the Impossible) Community in the Post-Colonial Condition:
Contemporary Taiwan and Post-colonial Anglophone Literature”
Total grant amount: $15,000
6.
Ju-chen Chen
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
“Transnational Media Technologies and the Making of Identities in Postsocialist
China”
Total grant amount: $15,000
7.
Jyh-Jia Chen
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“The Politics of Textbook Deregulation Policy in Taiwan, 1989 - 2001”
Total grant amount: $15,000
8.
Peiyao Chen
City University of New York
“The 'Isolation' of New York City Chinatown: An Historical Approach to a
Chinese Community in the United States”
Total grant amount: $15,000
9.
Hsiao-wei Chien
Columbia University
“Human Nature and the Liberal-Communitarian Debate”
Total grant amount: $15,000
10. Hung-Ken Chien
Stanford University
“Essays on Internet Auctions”
Total grant amount: $15,000
11. Ping Hsuan Loretta Fung
University of California, Davis
“Three Essays on Exporting, Firm Turnover and Productivity Growth”
Total grant amount: $15,000
12. Guo-Juin Hong
University of California, Berkeley
“Cinematographs of History: Shanghai Cinema in the 30's and 40's and
Taiwanese Cinema from 1982 Onward”
Total grant amount: $15,000
13. Shaw-wu Jung
New School for Social Research
“Law, State and Community: An Ethnographic Study of Land Problems by the
921 Earthquake in Dongshih, Taichung, Taiwan”
Total grant amount: $15,000
14. Nai-kuang Ku
University of Southern California
“The Constructive Commons to Bandura's Multidimensional Self-Efficacy Scale
and Michael's DOSC for a Chinese Version”
Total grant amount: $15,000
15. Hsiu-Chuan Liao
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
“Transitivity and Ergativity in Formosan Languages”
Total grant amount: $15,000
16. Su-hsing Lin
The Ohio State University
“Feng Zikai and the Kaiming Bookstore”
Total grant amount: $15,000
17. Hung-En Liu
Stanford University
“Mother or Father: Who Received Custody?--The Best Interests of the Child
Stanford and Judges, Custody Decisions in Taiwan”
Total grant amount: $15,000
18. Jhy-Ching Liu
University of Wisconsin Law School
“Establishing Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Legal Institutions in Developing
Countries--A Critical Analysis of BOT Legal Issues in Taiwan”
Total grant amount: $15,000
19. Chen-yuan Tung
Johns Hopkins University
“China's Economic Leverage and Taiwan's Security Concerns with Respect to
Cross-Strait Economic Relations”
Total grant amount: $15,000
20. Wen-chi Tzeng
University of California, San Francisco
“A Study of Cultural Influences on Persons with Suicide-Related Behaviors in
Taiwan”
Total grant amount: $15,000
I.
CCK Fellowships
(A) Post-Doctoral Fellowships
1.
Avron Boretz
The University of Texas at Austin
“Masculinity, Identity and Violence in Contemporary Taiwanese Society”
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $30,000
2.
Phillip Clart
University of Missouri-Columbia
“The Story of Han Xiangzi: Daoism and Popular Literature in Late Imperial
China”
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $30,000
3.
Xiaogang Deng
University of Massachusetts, Boston
“Comparing Shame and Deviant Behavior in the Cross-cultural Context”
Two-year Project
Total grant amount: $30,000
4.
Amy Dooling
Connecticut College
“Women's Literary Feminism in Modern China”
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $30,000
5.
Martin Huang
University of California, Irvine
“The Need to Continue: The Xushu (Sequel) in the History of Chinese Fiction”
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $30,000
6.
Joan Judge
University of California, Santa Barbara
“China's 'Women's Question': Female Literacy, Cultural Transformation, and
Modern Nationalism, (1890-1918)”
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $30,000
7.
Yun Kuen Lee
Harvard University
“Segmentary Kinship Organization of Yangshao China”
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $30,000
8.
I-Fen Lin
Bowling Green State University
“Giving between Generations in Taiwanese Families”
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $30,000
9.
Wing Chung Ng
University of Texas at San Antonio
“Regional Theater, Transnational Arena: Cantonese Opera and Social Change in
Modern South China, ca. 1860s-1945”
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $30,000
10. Sophie Volpp
University of California at Davis
“Worldly Stage: Simulation and Spectacle in Seventeenth-Century China”
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $30,000
(B) Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowships:
1.
Barbara Buhr
University of Virginia
“A Translation and Analysis of Zhu Hong's (1535-1615) Wangshengji and its
Role in the Buddhist Community in the Late-Ming Dynasty”
Total grant amount: $15,000
2.
Marcia Butler
Cornell University
“Ritual Refractions of a Military Medium: Omen, Ritual and Prognostication in
11th and 12th Century Chinese Military Manuals”
Total grant amount: $15,000
3.
Jack Chen
Harvard University
“T'ang T'ai-tsung and the Poetics of Sovereignty”
Total grant amount: $15,000
4.
Julie Chu
New York University
“Cosmologies of Credit: Understanding Fuzhounese Migration through
Exchange Theory”
Total grant amount: $15,000
5.
David James Davies
University of Washington
“Remembering the Cultural Revolution: Personal and Social Memories of
China's Red Guard Generation”
Total grant amount: $13,900
6.
Kenneth W. Foster
University of California, Berkeley
“Association and the State in Contemporary Mainland China: The Emergence of
New Forms of State-Society Engagement”
Total grant amount: $15,000
7.
Emily Hantman
The University of Chicago
“The Baoding Military Academy”
Total grant amount: $15,000
8.
Jeffrey Hou
University of California, Berkeley
“Between Protest and Planning: Transformation of Citizen Activism and
Discourse of Planning in Taiwan”
Total grant amount: $15,000
9.
Grace Huang
University of Chicago
“The Evolution of a Leader: Agency, Structure, & Concepts of Self from
Chiang's Daily Writings (1924-1949)”
Total grant amount: $15,000
10. Mark Jacobs
Cornell University
“A Comparative Study of Market Transition in China--The Relation of Changes
in TVE Property Rights to TVEs in Jiangsu and Zhejiang”
Total grant amount: $14,540
11. Isabella Notar
Boston University
“The Diffusion of Clean Air Technology Among Leading PRC Automobile
Manufacturers”
Total grant amount: $15,000
12. Vanessa M. Sterling
University of Pittsburgh
“The Force of Common Blood: The Korean Community and Ethnic Politics in
Northeast China, 1920-1998”
Total grant amount: $15,000
13. William C. Wooldridge
Princeton University
“The Transformation of State Ritual in Nineteenth-Century Nanking”
Total grant amount: $15,000
J. CCK Fellowships Administered by the Canadian Asian Studies Association
(A) Post-Doctoral Fellowship
1.
Der-yuan Wu
Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies of the University of Toronto/York University
“The NGOs in Canadian Foreign Policy Communities: Implications for Taiwan’s
Adaptability”
Total grant amount: $22,000
(B) Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowships
1.
Youngchun Cai
University of Toronto
“Postmodernist Intervention: The Counter Paradigmatic Discourse in Avant-Garde
Chinese Literature”
Total grant amount: $10,600
2.
Norman Dennis Smith
University of British Columbia
“Wielding Pens as Swords: Manchurian Women Writers and the Japanese
Occupation, 1937-1945”
Total grant amount: $10,600
RECIPIENTS IN THE EUROPEAN REGION
Unit: US$
A.
Institutional Enhancements
1.
University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
“Development of a Study Programme in Modern Chinese Language and Culture,
with an Understanding of the Geographical, Cultural, Economic, and Political
Diversities of the Chinese World with Particular Emphasis on Taiwan and
Taiwan Strait Relations”
Three-year project
Total grant amount: $90,000
2.
University of Heidelberg (Germany)
“Development of an Internet-Accessible version of the Analytical Dictionary of
Classical Chinese Synonyms, Synonyma Serica Comparata”
Six-month project
Total grant amount: $36,000
3.
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (UK)
“Proposed Institutional Initiative to Establish a European Network of Taiwan
Studies”
Three-year project
Total grant amount: $47,475
B. Research Grants
1.
Vibeke Børdahl
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (Denmark)
“Large-scale Registration of Chinese Storytelling”
Three-year project
Total grant amount: $35,090
2.
John Lagerwey
Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient (France)
“Religion, Architecture, and the Economy in Southeast China”
Three-year project
Total grant amount: $98,400
3.
Alexander I. Petrov
Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
“History of the Chinese in Russia, 1858-2003”
Three-year project
Total grant amount: $34,800
C.
Conferences and Seminars
1.
Shane McCausland
The Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, University of London (UK)
“The Admonitions Scroll: Ideals of Etiquette, Art and Empire from Early China”
One-year project
Total grant amount: $16,132
2.
Laurent Sagart
Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur L'Asie Orientale (France)
“Symposium: 'Perspectives on the Phylogeny of East Asian Languages: Genetics,
Archeology and Linguistics'”
One-year project
Total grant amount: $15,314
3.
Susanne Weigelin-Schweidrzik
University of Heidelberg (Germany)
“Conference on Modern Chinese Historiography and Historical Thinking”
One-year project
Total grant amount: $19,560
D.
CCK Fellowships
(A) Post-Doctoral Fellowships
1.
Paola Calanca
College de France (France)
"The Chinese Navy between the 16th and early 19th Centuries"
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $28,000
2.
Monica De Togni
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy)
“Self-government Policy and the Society: Influences of Descent Organizations
on the Local Assemblies in Sichuan (Late Qing - Early Republic)”
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $29,200
3.
Pei-Yin Lin
University of London (UK)
“Memory, Nation and Native Soil: Contemporary Chinese Fiction from Taiwan”
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $36,000
4.
Maria Rohrer
Universitat Tubingen (Germany)
“Fiction or Reality? The Fifty Palace Poems of Empress Yang (1162- 1232 AD)
and the Tradition of Court Poetry from Han to the Ming Dynasties”
Seven-month project
Total grant amount: $10,500
5.
Masayuki Sato
Leiden University (Netherlands)
“The Chinese Origin of Theory of Statecraft: A Study on the Political Thought of
Han Fei Zi”
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $36,000
6.
Bing Zhao
EPHE-CNRS UMR 8583 (France)
“Private Kilns in Jiangxi in the Song Period: For a Social History of Ceramics
Production”
One-year project
Total grant amount: $14,400
(B) Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowships
1.
Caroline Bodolec
Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers (France)
"The Vault in Chinese Civil Architecture: Anthropology and Building
Engineering of the Wuliang dian and the Yaodong (XVth- XIXth Centuries)“
Total grant amount: $12,000
2.
Gregoire Espesset
Universite Paris 7 – Denis Diderot (France)
“Throughly Analysing for the First Time the Ideology of China’s Earliest Taoist
Scripture: ‘Three Functions’ and ‘Triadic Thought’ in the ‘Book of Great Peace’
(T’ai- p’ing Ching)”
Total grant amount: $12,000
3.
Martin Gieselmann
Universitat Heidelberg (Germany)
“Between Entering the International Stage and Serving Local Markets – Chinese
Cinema(s) from the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1979 and 1999”
Total grant amount: $12,000
4.
Giulia Kado
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (France)
“Political Violence, A Linguistic Study of the Political Thought of Han Fei in the
Hanfeizi”
Total grant amount: $12,000
5.
Hsiao-Yun Kung
Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg (Germany)
“From Modernity to Tradition: Jiang Wenye (Chiang Wen-Yeh) and His Musical
Creation”
Total grant amount: $12,000
6.
Mark Antoine Leenhouts
Leiden University (Netherlands)
“Leaving the World to Enter the World: Han Shaogong and Root-seeking
Literature”
Total grant amount: $9,600
7.
Fang-long Shih
University of London (UK)
“The Pollution/Marginalization of Maidenhood: Maiden-death Taboos and
Corrective Practices in the Holo-Chinese Religious Culture of Taiwan”
Total grant amount: $14,400
8.
Delphine Spicq
Universite Paris 7 – Denis Diderot (France)
“Water in the City: Tianjin 1900-1949: An Analysis of the Beginning and the
Development of the Water Supply”
Total grant amount: $12,000
9.
Suey-ling Tsai
Universitat Heidelberg (Germany)
“From Devotion to Entertainment: Book Illustrations of the Life of the Buddha
in East Asia”
Total grant amount: $12,000
10. Su-Fen You
University of Warwick (UK)
“Medical Dominance: A Case Study of the Health Care Reforms in Taiwan”
Total grant amount: $8,240
RECIPIENTS IN THE ASIA/PACIFIC REGION
Unit: US$
A.
Institutional Enhancement
1. Princess Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC) (Thailand)
"Establishing the Chinese Studies Literature Materials in the Library of the
Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre"
Three-year project
Total grant amount: $40,500
B.
Research Grants
1.
Robert B. Albritton
King Prajadhipok's Institute (KPI) (Thailand)
"Comparative Survey of Democratization and Value Change in East Asia:
Thailand"
One-year project
Total grant amount: $21,618
2.
Mark D. Elvin
the Australian National University
"Atlas of Population Dynamics in China from 1600-1850 Subdivided by Period,
and County or Prefecture"
One-year project
Total grant amount: $60,000
3.
Chongyi Feng
University of Technology, Sydney
"From Uniformity to Pluralism: Intellectual Trends in China since 1949"
Three-year project
Total grant amount: $21,672
4.
Chew Cheng Hai
Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
"A Comparative Lexicology Study on Southern Min Dialect"
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $28,560
5.
Woosang Kim
Yonsei University (Korea)
"East Asian Regional Security Order, the Republic of Korea and the Republic of
China: Strategic Calculus and Options for Collaboration"
One-year project
Total grant amount: $45,280
6.
Nicholas Tapp
The Australian National University
"Communal Diasporic Voluntary Public Cultures: Hmong Transnationalism in
Asia and Overseas"
Thirteen-month project
Total grant amount: $32,040
C.
Conferences and Seminars
1.
Cordia Chu
Griffith University (Australia)
"International Conference on Middle Class Chinese Migrants in Asia-Pacific
Rim: Settlement, Needs and Dilemmas"
One-year project
Total grant amount: $19,400
2.
S. N. Eisenstadt
The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
"International Workshop on Axial Transformations"
One-year project
Total grant amount: $10,000
3.
Stanislaus Fung
University of New South Wales (Australia)
"Conference on an Anthology of Texts on Chinese Gardens"
One-year project
Total grant amount: $17,125
4.
Yuan-fang Shen
the Australian National University
"'Migrating Identities and Ethnic Minorities in Chinese Diaspora'--Centre for the
Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora (CSCSD) International Conference
2001"
One-year project
Total grant amount: $10,130
5.
Jin-Young Suh
Korea University
"China & East Asia: A Critical Assessment at the Dawn of the New Millennium"
One-year project
Total grant amount: $20,568
D.
Subsidy for Publication
1.
University of Tourism, Korea
The Korean Translation of A Pictorial History of Taiwan (Taiwan lishi tushuo)
originally by Chou Wan-yao, translated by Park Yun-ha
One-year project
Total grant amount: $10,000
RECIPIENTS IN THE DOMESTIC REGION
Unit: NT$
A.
Collaborative Research Grants
1.
Yun-Peng Chu
Sun Yat Sen Institute for Social Sciences and Philosophy, Academia Sinica
“Inquiry into the Origin of Development of Technology-intensive Industries and
Its Social Implications in East Asia”
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $2,347,500
2.
Mikhail V. Kryukov
Tamkang University
“A Complex Study of the Hermitage Collection of the Yin Oracle Bone
Inscriptions”
One-year project
Total grant amount: $549,600
3.
Jianmin Li
Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
“Medicine and the History of the Bodily Experience"
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $700,000
4.
Paul Jen-kuei Li
Institute of Linguistics Preparatory Office, Academia Sinica
“Formosan Language Materials by Ogawa and Asai during the Japanese Period”
Three-year project
Total grant amount: $2,019,750
5.
Tan Chee-Beng
Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Lineage, Migration and Chinese Networks: A Study of Emigrant Communities
in Quanzhou of Fujian”
Three-year project
Total grant amount: $1,608,000
6.
Shaoguang Wang
Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Associational Revolution in China"
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $1,336,770
B.
Database Grants
1.
Bhikkhu Huimin
National Institute of the Arts
“The Study and Creation of Taiwanese Buddhist Digital Database”
Two-year project
Total grant amount: $4,397,319
2.
C. Y. Cyrus Chu
Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
“Panel Study of Chinese Family Dynamics-Data Collection”
One-year project
Total grant amount: $1,500,000
3.
Jung Bor-Sheng
Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
“Database of Bronze Images with Internet Applications”
Three-year project
Total grant amount: $2,922,750
C.
Conference and Seminar Grant
1.
Been-Huang Chiang
National Taiwan University and Foundation of Chinese Dietary Culture
“The 7th Symposium on Chinese Dietary Culture”
One-year project
Total grant amount: $800,000
D.
Subsidies for Publication
1.
Chuang Ya-chou
National Chung Cheng University
"First Volume of 'the Chinese Fiction by Japanese Authors Series'"
One-year project
Total grant amount: $751,670
2.
Eva Hung
Chinese University of Hong Kong
“City Women: Selected Stories by Contemporary Taiwan Women Writers”
One-year project
Total grant amount: $192,440
3.
Jennifer Meei-Yau Wei
Soochow University
"Virtual Missiles: Allusions and Metaphors Used in Taiwanese Political
Discourse"
One-year project
Total grant amount: $165,000