Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for
International Scholarly Exchange
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INTRODUCTION
The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (the Foundation) was
established in 1989 in memory of the late President of the Republic of China, Chiang Ching-kuo
(1910-1988). Operational funds come from interest generated from an endowment donated by both the
public and private sectors. The Foundation is governed by a Board of prominent officials, distinguished
scholars and leading citizens. The Foundation’s central headquarters is located in Taipei, Taiwan,
ROC, with a regional office in McLean, Virginia, near Washington D.C. The Foundation currently
also maintains three international centers for sinological research: the CCK International Sinological
Center at Charles University in Prague; the Inter-University Center at McLean and Chiang Ching-kuo
Asia-Pacific Center at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The Foundation is a private organization
designed to promote the study of Chinese culture and society. It also hopes to promote a broader
understanding of the Republic of China on Taiwan with all its complexities.
The Foundation’s principal work is to award grants, as approved by the Board of Directors, to
institutions and individuals conducting Sinological and Taiwan-related research and other academic
ventures. An annual budget of approximately four and half 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 postdoctoral researchers. Since its establishment, the Foundation has aided research institutes,
university presses, national museums, and libraries all over the world. Through its support of
international scholarly exchange, the Foundation believes that such academic undertakings offer all
parties involved an opportunity to reflect on the broader issues facing humanity today.
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
Taipei Headquarters:
13F, 65 Tun Hwa South Road, Section 2
Taipei, Taiwan 106
Tel: 886-2-2704-5333
Fax: 886-2-2701-6762
Email:cckf@ms1.hinet.net
American Regional Office:
8361 B Greensboro Drive
McLean, VA 22102
Tel: 703-903-7460
Fax: 703-903-7462
Email:CCKFNAO@aol.com
The disciplinary scope of the Foundation’s grant programs covers sinological research in the
Humanities and Social Sciences pertaining to both traditional and contemporary issues. The
geographical scope of the Foundation’s operations includes America, Europe, the Asia-Pacific region
and the Domestic region. The principal aim of the Foundation is to encourage the pursuit of Chinese
Studies internationally and to foster scholarly exchange through collaborative research projects,
conferences, workshops and publications. By working closely with other foundations overseas, the
Foundation intends to facilitate the accessibility of its grant programs for scholars in Chinese Studies
worldwide.
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Website: http://www.cckf.org.tw
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2010-2011 Annual Report
2011 September

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
(June 5, 2010 – May 31, 2013)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Kao-wen Mao, Chairman
Morris Chang Fredrick F. Chien Yun-han Chu
Cho-yun Hsu Douglas Hsu Ying-mao Kao
Ambrose King Wei-fan Kuo Lawrence Lau
Yih-yuan Li Chan Lien Tsong-ming Lin
James C. Y. Soong Ovid J. L. Tzeng David Der-wei Wang
Yueh-sheng Weng Pauline Yu Ying-shih Yu
INTRODUCTION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
2 THE YEAR IN REVIEW
4 THE ACTIVITIES OF THE BOARD
6 THE ACTIVITIES OF THE FOUNDATION
6 REVIEW COMMITTEES
7 OVERSEAS SINOLOGICAL CENTERS
21 GRANT ACTIVITIES IN THE FOUR REGIONS
30 SPECIAL PROJECTS
33 GENERAL AFFAIRS
41 OTHER ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS
SUPERVISORS
(June 5, 2010 – May 31, 2013)
In-jaw Lai Fai-nan Perng Cheng Sun
44 GRANT RECIPIENTS, 2010-2011
44 RECIPIENTS IN THE AMERICAN REGION
57 RECIPIENTS IN THE EUROPEAN REGION
65 RECIPIENTS IN THE DOMESTIC REGION
67 RECIPIENTS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
69 FINANCIAL STATEMENT
73 APPENDICES

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Overview
The Year in Review
(July 2010 – June 2011)
The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (hereafter referred to as
the Foundation) entered its twenty-second year of operations on January 12, 2011. Established in
January 1989 as the first Taiwan-based foundation to provide grants to scholars and institutions in
Chinese Studies worldwide, the Foundation has funded more than 2,000 research projects involving
718 academic institutions and 2,300 scholars in 43 countries. These projects have resulted in the
completion of over 1,000 scholarly articles, 600 books and 800 doctoral dissertations.
From the very beginning, the government of the Republic of China (ROC) and donors from the private
sector had the vision to establish the Foundation as an independent non-governmental scholarly
agency. Under the leadership of its two late Chairmen, K. T. Li and Kuo-hua Yu, as well as former
Chairman Yih-yuan Li, the Foundation has strived to adhere to the principle of awarding grants solely
on the basis of academic merit. In 2003, Professor Yun-han Chu succeeded Professor Yih-yuan Li as
President of the Foundation. The Foundation has entered its second stage of operations, seeking to
promote cooperation with leading overseas academic institutions and international organizations.
Professor Yih-yuan Li has been associated with the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation since its
establishment in 1989, serving four terms as President and then as Chairman for three terms. Under
his leadership, the Foundation emerged as one of the most active and prestigious organizations
dedicated to the promotion of Chinese Studies internationally. Owing to health reasons, Professor Li
resigned on June 5, 2010.
Dr. Yueh-sheng Weng (left) and Professor Cho-yun Hsu, members of the Board, exchange greetings at the meeting
In 2010, Dr. Kao-wen Mao succeeded Professor Yih-yuan Li and became the Chairman of the
Foundation. Since assuming the position of Chairman, Dr. Mao has followed the path of his
predecessors, abiding by well-accepted academic principles. At the same time, he has taken initiatives
to expand bilateral collaborations among scholars across the Taiwan Straits. All of Foundation’s Board
Members, Supervisors, and employees are forever indebted to Chairman Li for his devotion to our
mission, and are looking forward to the Foundation’s continued development under the leadership of
Chairman Mao. The Foundation maintains its commitment to supporting scholars engaged in pathbreaking
scholarship, as well as fostering collaborative research projects that cross both continents and
academic disciplines.
The Eighth Board of Directors consists of the following members: Morris Chang, Yun-han Chu,
Fredrick F. Chien, Cho-yun Hsu, Douglas Hsu, Ying-mao Kao, Ambrose King, Wei-fan Kuo,
Lawrence Lau, Yih-yuan Li, Chan Lien, Tsong-min Lin, Kao-wen Mao, James C. Y. Soong, Ovid J. L.
Tzeng, David Der-wei Wang, Yueh-sheng Weng, Pauline Yu, and Ying-shih Yu. The Board’s term runs
from June 5, 2010 to May 31, 2013. For the next phase of development, the Foundation maintains two
vacant seats, for which the Board of Directors will propose candidates for the next Board.
Chairman Kao-wen Mao (left) and President Yun-han Chu at the Board of Directors meeting
In-jaw Lai, Fai-nan Perng, and Chen Sun were nominated and approved to serve as the Foundation’s
Supervisory Board, which supervises the management of its endowment. The three Supervisors and a
Finance Committee work to strengthen the Foundation’s financial operations by providing oversight in
accordance with legal regulations and requirements, as well as striving to achieve the goals of prudent
management and sustainable operations, thereby ensuring the Foundation’s continued stability.

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In addition, there are four Review Committees responsible for recommending grant recipients to the
Board of Directors. President Yun-han Chu, assisted by the two Vice-Presidents, Professor Ayling
Wang and Professor Gang Shyy, supervise the Foundation’s day-to-day operations.
I. Activities of the Board of Directors, the Supervisory Board, and the Finance Committee
1. Board of Directors
The Board of Directors met twice during the past fiscal year. On December 18, 2010, it convened
to authorize the 2010-2011 annual budget, of which US$4,650,581 was allocated for grant-making
activities. At that meeting, the Board also approved the recommended list of candidates from the
first round of the grant application cycle. In addition, President Yun-han Chu submitted the names
of new members for the Domestic, American, European and Asia-Pacific Review Committees,
specifically 13 for the Domestic Region, 17 for the American Region, 10 for the European Region,
and 9 for the Asia-Pacific region, with 9 members for the European scholarship Committee. All
were approved by the Board. The terms for the new members of the Review Committees will be
parallel to those of the Board’s Directors.
Board member Fredrick F. Chien won the honor of Distinguished Alumnus of National Taiwan
University this year. Dr Chien has held many prominent positions, including Director of the
Government Information Office, Embassy Representative to the United States, and Minister of
Foreign Affairs. He was involved in many important policy sectors, including National Health
Insurance, Taiwan High-Speed Rail, and the Taipei-Yilan Highway. Dr. Chien was given this award
in light of his contributions to the diplomatic and economic development of Taiwan. We take this
opportunity to express our pride and gratitude for his association with the Foundation.
On May 21, 2011, the Board met for the third time. Due to health reasons, Cho-yun Hsu presided
over the meeting in Chairman Kao-wen Mao’s stead. At the meeting, approval was given for
US$2,790,547 in funding for grantees from the main competition as per the recommendations of the
regional review committees.
Honorary Members of the Board, Huan Lee and Professor Hungdah Chiu, passed away last
December and this April respectively. We at the Foundation wish to express our profound regret for
the loss of these two outstanding figures. Both served as Board members for 21 years, for which
service we remain deeply grateful.
2. Supervisory Board
The Supervisory Board met twice, on December 13, 2010 and May 16, 2011. Both meetings were
attended by Supervisors Chen Sun, Fai-nan Perng, and In-jaw Lai. During the meetings, President
Yun-han Chu and Vice-President Gang Shyy, presented detailed accounts of the Foundation’s
financial operations and investment strategies, which in each case met with the Supervisors’ full
approval. The external auditor’s report was also submitted for inspection. Mr. Hsin-Liang Wu,
the chief auditor, expressed satisfaction with the accuracy of the Foundation’s bookkeeping. The
Supervisory Board further confirmed that the Foundation’s operations were in complete accordance
with all relevant government regulations, as well as specific requirements of the Board of Directors.
Moreover, the Supervisory Board praised the outstanding performance of the Finance Department
President Yun-han Chu briefs the Board about the Foundation's activities
Members of the Board

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in successfully managing the Foundation’s endowment during the current period of global economic
instability, especially debt crisis in European countries, unstable currencies, and an volatile stock
market.
3. Finance Committee
The Finance Committee, which consists of three Board members (Professor Lawrence Lau, former
Vice-Chancellor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Dr. Morris Chang of the Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing Company; and Dr. Douglas Hsu, Chairman of the Far Eastern Group)
met on December 18, 2010. President Yun-han Chu and Vice-President Gang Shyy reported to the
Finance Committee on the Foundation’s finances and investments. On May 21, 2011, the Finance
Committee held another meeting to discuss investment strategies and mechanisms. Douglas Hsu
commented that the Foundation’s financial management performance last year was fairly good, but
below the average rate of return over the past six years of over 8%. He also suggested applying for
investments in private equity to be approved by the Ministry of Education, with the investment limit
up to 10% of the fund. Private equity should be suitable for the Foundation because the payout ratio
of the fund is low enough so that the portfolio can contain some illiquid but high-return potential
asset classes, also paying attention to an assessment in terms of the variation of U.S. and Chinese
currencies.
II. Activities of the Foundation
1. Review Committees
In accordance with its charter, the Foundation has established review committees for each of its
four regions of operation: American, European, Domestic, and Asia-Pacific. The President of the
Foundation chairs the review committee meetings, but takes no part in evaluating the applications.
Service on these committees is three years per term, with roughly one third of the committee
members rotating at the end of each term.
(1) The American Review Committee is composed of 16 distinguished scholars and professors
from American academic institutions. In 2011, the Committee met on March 25-27 in
Pittsburgh to evaluate applications received by the Foundation’s North American regional
office.
(2) The European Review Committee is composed of 10 eminent scholars possessing an
exceptional understanding of European Sinology. The committee met on April 16, 2011 at
Kinmen to evaluate applications from the European region.
(3) The Domestic Review Committee consists of 13 professors who evaluate all applications
from universities and research institutes in the Domestic Region, as well as doctoral
Dissertation Fellowship applications from ROC graduate students based in Europe,
America and the Asia-Pacific region. This year’s meeting took place in Taipei on April 30,
2011.
Members of the Asia-Pacific Review Committee
(4) The Asia-Pacific Review Committee consists of 9 distinguished scholars familiar
with the region’s scholarly community. This committee is responsible for evaluating
applications from Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, Japan, and Korea. This year,
the Committee’s meeting was held on April 17, 2011 at Kinmen.
2. Overseas Sinological Centers
(1) The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation International Sinological Centre at Charles University
(CCK-ISC)
The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation International Sinological Centre at Charles University
(CCK-ISC) was established in 1998 to foster the tradition of Sinological studies in the Czech
Republic, while simultaneously enriching research resources in Sinology for East European
scholars. The programs that the Centre sponsors include lectures, seminars, conferences,
travel grants, and publication subsidies. Professor Olga Lomová served her third term as
Director. This year’s activities included:
A. Visiting Professors
During the past year, the Centre hosted four professors giving intensive courses dealing
with Chinese history and Chinese literature. On April 4-7, 2011, Professor Catherine Jami
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS) conducted a series of lectures
entitled “The Sciences in Late Imperial China: Tradition and Circulation.” Professor Jami’s
four lectures offered an introduction to issues in the history of science in China, focusing
mainly on the late imperial period. On March 14-April 29, Professor Yu Tsai (National
Taiwan University) also delivered a series of four lectures. The main purpose of the visit

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Zádrapová: “Sources for the Origins and the Golden Age of Czechoslovakian Sinology
1945-1969” (March-July 2011).
D. Travel Grants
This year, the Centre provided grants for Ph.D. students and young scholars to attend
international conferences, including Jana Heřmanová, who attended the conference “New
Trends in the Study of Chinese Popular Religions” in Leipzig, October 1-2, 2010; Dušan
Vávra, who presented a paper at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, held
in Honolulu, Hawaii, on March 31st - April 3rd, 2011; Jakub Hrubý, who attended the
conference “Ethnicity and Sinicization Reconsidered: Workshop on Non-Han Empires in
China,” held in Ghent, Belgium, June 14-18, 2011; and Táňa Dluhošová, who participated
in the EATS Annual Conference, May 11-15, 2011.
E. Publication Support
Conference (featuring Mr. Bei Ling, left) held at the CCK-ISC
was participation in a research project organized at Charles University. It included reading
an interpretation of early Chinese literature dealing with nature, and three talks for graduate
students and participants in the Czech research project. On May 4-6, Professor Deborah
Sommer (Gettysburg College, USA) lectured on “Depictions of Confucius.” Confucius
nowadays is often understood as a wise sage and teacher, but over the centuries he has also
been understood in many other ways - not all of them flattering. He has been perceived, for
example, as a fool, a king, a master of demons, a child-killer, and a disciple of the Tibetan
Bon tradition. On May 16-20, Professor Siu-hung Lau (National Taiwan University)
lectured on the topic “The Ci Poetry of Su Shi.” A detailed study of Su Shi (1036-1101),
the best known author of the ci poetry in the Song Dynasty, the lectures considered the
individual achievement of the poet in an attempt to illuminate both the internal and
sentimental worlds of Su Shi, as well as the aesthetics embodied in ci poetry.
The Centre followed its previous policy of giving support to publishing the results of scholarly
research and translations of Chinese and Taiwanese literature. This year it awarded
B. International Workshops
On June 24-25, 2011, a workshop entitled “Comparative Epistemology of China Studies:
An Oral History Approach” was organized in collaboration with Professor Chih-yu Shih
(National Taiwan University), together with scholars from Asia, Europe and Russia.
Other smaller seminars were organized, the participants including Professor Hui-yu
Ts’ai (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Professors Jakub Hrubý, Jiri Holba and Josef Kolmaš
(Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), Professor Marco Fumian (University of
Venice) and Professor Dušan Vávra (Masaryk University, Czech Republic).
C. Small Research Projects
The Centre awarded two small research grants, including Jana Heřmanová: “The Cult
of the Goddess Mazu in Taiwan – A Case Study” (March-October 2011), and Anna
Publications supported by the CCK-ISC

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grants for Chan-Fej-c´ (Hanfeizi), Czech translation of Chan-Fej-c´(Hanfeizi) with commentary
and essay on his role in the history of Chinese philosophy and Jaroslav Průšek
(1906–1980), prameny k životu a dílu zakladatele české sinologické školy (The Sources for
the Biography of Jaroslav Průšek (1906–1980), the Founder of Czech Sinology), as well as
an edition of Průšek’s archive with a biography.
(2) The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinology (CCK-IUC)
Established in 2005, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinology
(CCK-IUC) is supervised by the American Regional Office of the Chiang Ching-kuo
Foundation. Under the direction of Professor David Der-wei Wang of Harvard University, the
CCK-IUC has actively engaged in the organization of conferences, lectures, and symposia
representing cooperation between scholars and academic institutions in the United States,
Europe, and Asia. Over the past year, the CCK-IUC has organized and sponsored numerous
projects in the United States and beyond, promoting Sinological study across a wide range
of disciplines in the humanities. These projects include large-scale international conferences,
workshops, seminars, and lecture series at U.S. universities, as well as translation and
monograph publication.
During the period from December 2010 to June 2011, the CCK-IUC has sponsored the
following events:
A. Conferences and Symposiums
(a) Peking Opera in Taiwan: New Concepts, New Horizons
The international symposium entitled “Peking Opera in Taiwan: New Concepts, New
Horizons” was held at National Taiwan University on July 3, 2010. Co-sponsored by
the CCK-IUC and the College of Liberal Arts at National Taiwan University, this symposium
gathered more than thirty scholars from Hong Kong, the U.S., Mainland China,
and Taiwan. Fifteen papers were presented on a wide range of subjects concerning
Taiwanese Peking Opera. The symposium coincided with the celebration of the 15th
anniversary of the National Guoguang Opera Troupe, the only government-sponsored
Peking Opera troupe in Taiwan.
(b) The Ninth International Junior Scholars Conference on Sinology
On July 10-12, 2010, the Ninth International Junior Scholars’ Conference on Sinology
was held at National Taiwan University in Taipei. More than one hundred scholars
from the U.S., Mainland China, Germany, Japan, and Taiwan attended the conference.
The conference is devoted to the theme of Taiwanese Literature and Cultural Studies,
covering important issues that span the late nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
During this two-day conference, scholars cast new critical light on studies of the complex
formation and evolution of Taiwanese identity and subjectivity; explored the dynamics
between the colonizers and colonized, guest and host; unraveled the entanglement
of the politics and poetics of history; and envisioned a new cultural landscape
Dr. Tai-Jen George Chen (standing), Vice President of National Taiwan University, gives an opening speech at the Ninth
International Junior Scholars’ Conference on Sinology at National Taiwan University, Professor David Wang is at his right
that sustains authors with either a nativist or a cosmopolitan concern, or both.
(c) Taiwan Literature: History and Methodology
Sponsored by the Taiwanese Ministry of Education, the Department of East Asian
Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Davis, and the Taiwan Studies
Program at the University of Texas, Austin, the international conference “Taiwan
Literature: History & Methodology” was held at UC Davis on November 12-13, 2010.
This conference was held in conjunction with the announcement of the completion
of a sourcebook on Taiwan literary criticism and history under the joint editorship of
Professor Michelle Yeh (UC Davis) and Yvonne Chang (UT Texas). The CCK-IUC is
an active sponsor of this sourcebook’s publication. This collection of selected essays,
articles, and reviews by important Taiwanese intellectuals and writers since the beginning
of the twentieth century promises to be an important companion to both scholars
and general readers who are interested in the trajectories of literary, cultural, and historical
developments of modern Taiwan.
(d) The Story of the Stone and The Tale of Genji in Modern China and Japan: Issues in
Media, Technology, Gender, and National Identity
The symposium “The Story of the Stone and The Tale of Genji in Modern China and
Japan: Issues in Media, Gender, and Cultural Identity” was held on November 19-
20 at Columbia University. This symposium was co-sponsored by the CCK-IUC, the
Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and the Department of East Asian Languages and
Cultures, Columbia University. This symposium explored the remarkable histories of
reception of the Stone and the Genji in the early modern and modern world.

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(e) Hong Kong: Urban Imagination and Cultural Memory
Co-sponsored by the CCK-IUC, Hong Kong Institute of Education, and The
Chinese University of Hong Kong, the international conference “Hong Kong: Urban
Imagination and Cultural Memory” was held in Hong Kong on December 17-18,
2010. Eighty-five scholars from Mainland China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan,
and the U.S. presented papers on the city of Hong Kong as depicted in literary and
cinematic texts as well as cultural discourses. The conference opened with remarks
from Professor Pingyuan Chen and Professor Leonard Chan, and was followed by two
keynote speeches. Professor David Der-wei Wang gave the first speech on the literary
history of Hong Kong, while Professor Leo Ou-fan Lee recounted the colonial history
of Hong Kong and highlighted important events and figures that gave rise to Hong
Kong’s cultural diversity. Professors Feng-huang Ying, Leonard Chan, Pingyuan Chen,
Mamoru Yamaguchi, Zai-yu Pu, and Weijie Song concluded the two-day conference
with personal reflections.
(f) Chinese Cinemas: Reframing the Field
On April 15-17, the conference “Chinese Cinemas: Reframing the Field” was held at
Duke University. Co-sponsored by the CCK-IUC, the conference invited film scholars
from across the U.S. and Asia to survey the field of Chinese cinema as it is currently
configured, while examining new directions in which it is moving. The conference also
explored the diversity of ethnic, national, and linguistic dimensions included in the notion
of what is “Chinese,” together with the multiplicity of formats and media included
in the idea of “cinema.”
B. Lectures
and the multi-media and multi-lingual excursions of contemporary avant-garde theater
generated a lively discussion from the large audience attending the symposium. This
event was co-sponsored by the CCK-IUC, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies,
the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and the Department of East Asian Languages and
Civilizations.
(a) Director Christina Yao, “The Wall Street of China: Filmmaking in the Middle Kingdom”
On March 30, 2011, Christina Yao, director and producer, spoke about her awardwinning
historical epic Empire of Silver in a talk entitled “The Wall Street of China:
Filmmaking in the Middle Kingdom.” Using characters and stories from her film, she
explained the traditional Chinese banking system from the Ming to the Qing dynasties,
showing how the amalgamation of a unique system based on respect for talent, operative
principles, and ethical standards produced a culture that is conducive to business
success and its longevity.
(b) Professor Zhaoguang Ge, “A Vietnamese King’s Homage to the Qianlong Emperor in
1790”
Zhaoguang Ge, professor of history and the director of the National Institute for Advanced
Humanistic Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai, made a special visit to
Harvard University on April 19 to present a lecture entitled “A Vietnamese King’s
(g) Staging the Modern: Theatre, Inter mediality,
and Chinese Drama
The symposium “Staging the Modern:
Theatre, Intermediality and Chinese
D rama” w as held on M ay 6-7 at
Harvard University. This international
meeting explored the deep entanglement
of theater, new media, and Chinese
modernity in the dramas of Mainland
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the
Chinese Diaspora during the twentieth
and twenty-first centuries. Participants
included scholars of theater and drama
from the United States, Europe, and
Asia, but also featured the renowned
playwrights and directors Nick Rongjun
Yu from Shanghai and Danny Yung from
Hong Kong. Presentations on the theater
scene in nineteenth-century Beijing, the
changing concept of theater in Taiwan,
Poster for the “New Directions in the Study of
Chinese Drama” conference held by the CCK-IUC
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Homage to the Qianlong Emperor in 1790.” His talk discussed the intriguing situation
that occurred in 1790, when delegates from Vietnam, Korea, the Ryūkyū Islands,
Burma, and Mongolia, visited the imperial resort at Chengde to pay homage to the
Qianlong emperor on his eightieth birthday. Curiously, the Vietnamese king who had
just defeated the Qing army offered to appear in Qing costume and kowtow to the Qing
emperor, an act that infuriated the other delegates. Professor Ge’s stimulating lecture
on ceremonial etiquette and East Asian political order was followed by a response by
Professor Mark Elliott and a lively discussion with the audience. This event was funded
in part by the CCK-IUC.
C. Workshops
Conference at the CCK-IUC
Professor Wilt Idema of Harvard addressing the “New Directions in the Study of Chinese Drama” workshop
(a) New Directions in the Study of Chinese Drama
On November 10, 2010, a one-day workshop invited leading drama scholars from
Mainland China and Taiwan to join Harvard faculty and visiting scholars in discussing
new sources and methods for the study of traditional Chinese drama. Sponsored by the
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC), the Harvard-Yenching
Institute, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the CCK-IUC, this workshop
featured presentations by scholars from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and China.
(b) In Quest of a Chinese Literary Canon
The workshop “In Quest of a Chinese Literary Canon” was organized on April
8 at Harvard University by visiting scholars affiliated with the EALC, being cosponsored
by the CCK-IUC and the EALC. Ten presentations dealt with changes and
transformations of the Chinese literary canon throughout history based on various
perspectives such as literary genres, sound, image, cultural politics, temporality, and
locality. EALC Chair Professor Wilt Idema gave the keynote speech in which he
shared his observations about these issues with visiting scholars in the humanities at
Harvard.
(c) Writing a New Literary History of Modern China: A Workshop
On April 22-23, the workshop “Writing a New Literary History of Modern China”
was held at Harvard University. Sponsored by the CCK-IUC, the workshop gathered
together both historians and literary
scholars with diverse research
interests to discuss new approaches
to modern Chinese literary history,
and featured more than twenty-five
presentations in five panels covering
the last hundred years of Chinese
history. Topics ranged from
the discovery of the oracle bones
in the early twentieth century, the
construction of “time consciousness”
during the Great Leap Forward,
and the ongoing star power
of Teresa Teng in East Asia, to the
recent Ming Hwa Yuan production
of the Legend of the White Snake
in Taiwan, and stimulated a broader
discussion of the role of the literary
imagination in writing history. Poster of a workshop sponsored by the CCK-IUC
Additionally, the CCK-IUC sponsored workshop programs at various universities including
“China Workshop” at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Early
China Seminar” at Columbia University, and the “Modern China Seminar: Culture and
Society” at the University of Pennsylvania.
D. Publications
The CCK-IUC has supported several recent book and publication projects, including:

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of different locations and modalities of Chinese-language (or Sinophone) production.
Co-edited by David Der-wei Wang and Jing Yuen Tsu, contributors include scholars
from Asia, North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. This volume was published by
Brill in 2010.
(d) Imperialism and Literature
Collaboratively edited by scholars based in the U.S., Taiwan, and Japan, Imperialism
and Literature collects twenty essays from academics across Asia dealing with a range
of topics related to the cultural production of areas colonized by Japan in the first half
of the twentieth century. Grouped into six sections addressing issues such as culture,
East Asian political consciousness, literature in Manchuria and Taiwan, film, and theater,
the essays gathered here break new ground in the study of the multifaceted effects
of imperialism in East Asia. Imperialism and Literature was published by Kenbun
Publishing in Japan in 2010.
Publications supported by the Foundation
(a) Writing and Literacy in Early China
Since 2006, the CCK-IUC has been a leading supporter of the Early China Seminar
at Columbia University. This project’s research has led to the publication of the volume
Writing and Literacy in Early China. Edited by Feng Li and David Branner, this
volume includes contributions from eleven respected scholars addressing the issue
of the origins and social contexts of writing and the spread of literacy in early China,
while also serving as a tribute to the study of Chinese civilization from the Early China
Seminar. Its publication is further sponsored by the CCK-IUC. It is scheduled to be released
by the University of Washington Press in the spring of 2011.
(b) The History and Study of Modern Chinese Fiction: Essays in Honor of Professor C.T.
Hsia
Under the editorship of David Der-wei Wang, The History and Study of Modern Chinese
Fiction collects more than twenty-six essays from current scholars and specialists
in the field of Sinology from the U.S., Canada, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland
China. Each contribution addresses innovations and renovations in the field of modern
Chinese literature in the wake of the pioneering work of Professor C.T. Hsia. Taking
the achievements of Professor Hsia as a starting point, these selections challenge, reconfigure,
and magnify his research, yielding new directions in the study of modern
Chinese literature for the twenty-first century. This volume was published by Linking
Books in Taiwan in 2010.
(c) Global Chinese Literature: Critical Essays
This path-breaking collection of critical essays introduces a diverse range of approaches
to open up the field of modern Chinese literature to new cross-regional, local, and
global analyses. Inspired by the “Globalizing Modern Chinese Literature” conference
held at Harvard University and sponsored by the CCK-IUC in December 2007, the ten
essays collected here deal with particular conceptual problems or examine case studies
E. Other Activities
On October 23, 2010, scholars, friends,
and dignitaries gathered in New York to
celebrate the 90th birthday of Professor
C.T. Hsia. Professor Hsia, the preeminent
critic of modern Chinese literature and
Emeritus Professor of Chinese at Columbia
University, was honored at a reception
by his former students and colleagues.
Professor Hsia received special commendations
from Ambassador Chen-chun Kao,
Secretary-General of the Taiwan Economic
and Cultural Organization in New York,
and Ms. Mary Hsu, Director of the New
York Taipei Cultural Center, including a
congratulatory piece of calligraphy from
President Ying-jeou Ma.
Professor C.T. Hsia receiving President Ma Ying-Jeou's
calligraphic work from Ambassador Kao Chen-chun on
October 23, 2010, in New York
(3) The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Asia-
Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CCK-APC)
The Board of Directors approved the establishment of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese
Studies (CCK-APC) in December 2005. Professor Billy So served as the Center’s Director
until his retirement in February 2011, when Professor David Faure succeeded him. It
operates under the supervision of a steering committee consisting of eleven scholars. The
chairman is Professor Ambrose King, a CCKF Board member and former Vice-Chancellor
of CUHK. The Center originally had an annual budget of US$135,000, of which $120,000
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to the importance of this Centre in the field of Sinology in the Asia-Pacific area, the former
Chancellor of CUHK, Professor Lawrence J. Lau, submitted a five year (2010-2014) proposal
last year, according to which the Foundation will grant the Centre $75,000 every year, with
the same amount of matching funds being provided by CUHK. The following activities took
place in 2010-1011.
A. Accomplishments
(a) The Seventh Annual Graduate Seminar on China
In view of the success of the Graduate Seminars on China (GSOC) held annually
during the past four years, the CCK-APC continued to allot a sum of HK$250,000
to sponsor the Seventh GSOC, which aimed at promoting research on contemporary
China, encouraging national and international exchanges among scholars of Chinese
Studies and broadening the perspectives of junior researchers. This year’s GSOC
lasted for four days (January 5-8, 2011). A total of fifty Ph.D. candidates from various
institutions in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and other overseas countries
attended.
(b) Focus Area Project – Language and Society Symposium on History and the Present
Situation of Written Chinese
Organized by the Department of Chinese Language and Literature CUHK, and coorganized
with the CCK-APC, the Symposium was an activity under the Focus Area
Project – Langua ge and Society. It was held on May 7-8, 2011 at the Y.C. Liang Hall,
CUHK. A total of twenty scholars from the U.S., Germany, Norway, Mainland China,
Taiwan and Hong Kong were invited, including Professor Lening Liu of Columbia
University, Professor Barbara Meisterernst of Humboldt-University Berlin, Professor
Christoph Harbsmeier of the University of Oslo, Professor Pingyuan Chen of Peking
University, and Professor Dylan Wei-tien Tsai of National Tsing Hua University. Participants
provided in-depth discussions on the function, essence and past, and present
and future of written Chinese grammar from different aspects including the history and
current situation of Chinese grammar, literature, language teaching, and second language
teaching.
(c) Focus Area Project – Research Centre for Ming-Qing Studies
Since its establishment in 2009, the Research Centre for Ming-Qing Studies has
organized a variety of events with support from the CCK-APC. There have been
seminars, luncheons, informal sessions, exhibitions and so on. An international
conference on New Horizons in Ming-Qing Studies was held on December 13-14,
2010, with partial sponsorship from the budget for 2011. In order to enhance academic
exchanges, scholars from China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, the U.S., and Hong Kong
were invited.
(d) Focus Area Project – Regional History and Heritage
Supported by the CCK-APC, the Focus Area Project – Regional History and Heritage
Scholars gather at the “First Symposium on New Perspectives on Traditional Chinese Law and Legal Culture”, a conference
sponsored by the CCK-APC
has organized a series of activities in 2011, including lectures held approximately every
two weeks during term and workshops led by research team members. Workshops
which have already been held this year include the “Conference on ‘Bazi Society,’
Local Society and Culture in the Yunnan-Guizhou Highland” in January, as well as
“The Comparative Ethnography of Local Daoist Ritual” and “Religion, History and
Documents in the Meishan Area in Middle Hunan” (both in April). In order to fully
promote academic exchanges in the field of regional history and heritage, a workshop
has been planned on Jiangxi local society and history, to be held at Jiangxi Normal
University in May.
(e) Focus Area Project – Law and Society
In view of the success of the First Symposium on New Perspectives on Traditional
Chinese Law and Legal Culture, the Focus Area Project – Law and Society will continue
to collaborate with other research units at CUHK and other academic institutions
in organizing the Second Symposium. Eminent scholars from Mainland China, Japan,
Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong will be invited to this two-day event, with a collection
of papers in Chinese to be published.
(f) The Barometer of China’s Development: Potential for Research in China Studies
Organized by the Universities Service Centre for China Studies (USC) and the CUHK,
in cooperation with the CCK-APC, this conference was held on May 27-29, 2011 at
the Tin Ka Ping Building, CUHK. A total of twenty-seven eminent scholars from U.S.,
Canada, Mainland China, and Hong Kong were invited to this three-day conference,

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the Chinese version was edited by Professor Billy So. Another set of papers will be
published in the Annals of GIS journal as a special edition issued by Professor Billy So
and Professor David W. Wong.
B. Personnel Matters
(a) Professor Billy So (former Professor of History, CUHK) retired in February 2011,
thereby completing his term as the Director of the CCK-APC. Professor David
Faure (Professor, Department of History, CUHK) succeeded Professor So as the new
Director.
Attendees of “The Republic of China’s Urban and Cultural Changes (1910-1940): A Study of Cultural Discourses and Historical
GIS Research Dialogue”, a conference sponsored by the CCK-APC
including Professor Deborah Davis of Yale University, Professor Weili Ding of Queen’s
University, Professor Gang Cheng of Beijing Normal University, and Professor Shaoguang
Wang of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The conference was divided
into five discussion sessions.
(b) Professor Angela Leung (former Professor of History, CUHK) and Professor Samuel
Cheung (former Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, CUHK) resigned from
CUHK at the end of 2010, thereby completing their terms as members of the CCK-
APC Steering Committee. Professor Hua Wei (Professor, Department of Chinese
Language and Literature, CUHK; Director, Research Centre for Ming-Qing Studies)
succeeded them as a member of the Steering Committee.
(c) Professor Angela Leung also completed her term as the PI of the Focus Area Project
- Language and Society. Professor Shengli Feng (Professor, Department of Chinese
Language & Literature, CUHK) succeeded Professor Leung as the new PI.
(g) Focus Area Project – Digital China Research
On September 18-20, 2010, the Institute of Chinese Studies CUHK held an international
academic conference entitled “The Republic of China’s Urban and Cultural Changes
(1910-1940): A Study of Cultural Discourses and Historical GIS Research Dialogue.”
This conference was organized by the Department of History at CUHK and the Chinese
Research Center of Oxford University, and jointly organized by The Chinese University
of Hong Kong, East Asian Studies Center, and the Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese
Studies. The conference attracted more than fifty well-known scholars from the
United Kingdom, U.S., Japan, Australia, France, Singapore, the Netherlands, Taiwan,
Mainland China and Hong Kong. The participants divided into eleven groups according
to six research topics for discussion, namely: Governance and the Order of Space
in the City, The Urban Culture of the Market Economy, GIS and the Spatial Approach
to Urban Culture, The City and the Body, Calamity and City, and Spirituality and the
Identity of the City.
The final Forum of the seminar, on the theme of “cultural discourses and historical
study of Geographic Information System,” was chaired by Professor Rana Mitter, Centre
for Chinese Studies of Oxford University and Professor Billy So, Department of
History at CUHK. The seminar was intended to promote interdisciplinary research at
home and abroad, and to promote academic exchanges between scholars. Conference
proceedings were assembled into three sets: two of them in English were edited by
Professor Billy So, Professor Harriet Zurndorfer, and Professor Madeleine Zelin, while
(d) Professor Samuel Cheung also completed his term as the PI of the Focus Area Project
- Digital Chinese Studies. Professor Mu-chou Poo (Professor, Department of History,
CUHK) succeeded Professor Cheung as the new PI.
3. Grant Activities in the Four Regions
The Foundation’s funding programs can be grouped into two broad categories: grants and
fellowships. Grants provide assistance to academic institutions and individual professors, while
fellowships subsidize doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers.
The Foundation received 197 grant applications in 2010-2011. Of these, 114 came from the
American Region, 32 from the European Region, 17 from the Domestic Region, and 34 from
the Asia-Pacific Region (including Hong Kong and Macau). The total amount requested was
US$7,584,747. Because of the time-sensitive nature of applications for conferences, publications,
and travel grants, applications in those categories have two submission deadlines per year. All other
categories have one yearly deadline. To ensure fair and objective treatment of each proposal, all
applications are first evaluated by individual reviewers and then reassessed by the regional review
committees in a two-tier process. The results of these evaluations are then ranked by priority before
the review committees present them to the Board of Directors for final approval.
This year, the four review committees submitted 65 grant applications for the Board’s approval.
During the first round of applications, the Board approved 13 grants. Seven proposals were
approved in the American Region, including two Conference Grants and five Publication Subsidies

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totaling US$54,000. Three Conference Grants and one Publication Subsidy were awarded in
the European region, totaling US$52,709 (37,649 Euros). One Conference and Seminar Grant
application was awarded in the Domestic Region, totaling US$50,000 (NT$1,500,000). In the Asia-
Pacific Region, one Conference Grant was approved, with an award totaling US$22,000. The total
budget for this first round of grants was US$178,709.
During the second round of applications, the Board approved 52 grants. These included: 29 projects
in the American Region, with a total budget of US$602,345; 9 projects in the European Region for
a total budget of US$395,430 (282,450 Euros); 5 projects in the Domestic Region, with funding
totaling US$204,334 (NT$6,130,000); and 9 projects in the Asia-Pacific region, with budgets
totaling US$322,000. The total amount approved in the second round for all four regions was
US$1,524,109.
The Foundation also received 193 applications for dissertation and postdoctoral fellowships. Of
these, 114 came from the American Region, and included applications from 52 Ph.D. candidates who
were non-ROC citizens, 9 who were Canadians applying to the Canadian Asian Studies Association
(which the Foundation has entrusted to carry out its fellowship program in Canada), and 53
applicants who were ROC doctoral students pursuing their studies at American universities. There
were 76 applications from the European Region, including 40 European candidates (9 postdoctoral
researchers and 31 Ph.D. students), and 36 ROC doctoral students in Europe. In addition, there were
3 doctoral dissertation applicants from Australia and Japan. The Board approved 50 applications
from the American Region, including 25 fellowships for American doctoral candidates, 22 for ROC
doctoral candidates in the United States, and 3 for doctoral candidates in Canadian universities, with
awards totaling US$745,000. In Europe, the Board approved grants for 1 postdoctoral researcher,
12 European doctoral candidates, and 11 ROC doctoral candidates, with awards amounting to
US$411,600 (294,000 Euros) (see Table 1; Figure 1).
European 27.42%
Asia-Pacific
9.78%
Headquarters
1.87%
Domestic
21.96%
American
38.97%
Figure 1 – 2010-2011 Regional Expenditures
American
Domestic
European
Unit: US
Asia-Pacific
Headquarters
Region
First
Round
Grants
Second
Round
Scholarships
America 54,000 602,345 745,000
Europe 52,709 395,430 411,600
Domestic 50,000 204,334 33,333
Asia-Pacific 22,000 322,000 0
Headquarters
Special
Projects
1,670,555
(38.97%)
1,175,205
(27.42%)
941,514
(21.96%)
419,000
(9.78%)
80,000
(1.87%)
Total
269,210
315,466
653,847
75,000
80,000
Total 178,709 1,524,109 972,300 4,286,274 1,393,523
(1) The American Region
Table 1 - 2010-2011 Grant Allocation in Four Regions
The Foundation’s North American Office
received a total of 114 applications
in the 2010-2011 grant cycle, including
34 proposals under the category of
Research Grants, 13 under Conference/
Seminar Grants, 12 under Subsidies for
Publications, 25 under CCK Scholar
Grants, and 30 under CCK Junior
Scholar Grants. Additionally, there
were a total of 114 fellowship applications
from Ph.D. students and post-doctoral
researchers. The North American
Review Committee convened in March
2011 and recommended 79 proposals
for the amount of $1,347,345 to the
Foundation’s Board of Directors.
The approved research grant applications
covered a wide variety of subjects,
including: Professor Xun Liu of
Rutgers University’s project entitled Publication supported by the Foundation
“Daoist History, Clerical Activism,
and Local Society in Nanyang, 1600-2010”; Professor Kwai Hang Ng of the University
of California at San Diego’s “Rule of Law from Below: Litigants in Housing Demolition
Cases in China”; Professor Shin-yi Chou of Lehigh University’s project “Socioeconomic

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Causes and Consequences of Low Birth Weight in Taiwan”; Professor Yong Z. Volz of the
University of Missouri’s “Transplanting Modernity: Chinese Journalism and Western Influences,
1870s-1930s”; Professor Philip Silverman of California State University at Bakersfield’s
“Bridging Generation: Family History and Lifestyle”; Professor Byeong-Uk Yi of
the University of Toronto at Mississauga’s project “Studies of the Chinese Language and
Ancient Chinese Logic”; Professor Hsiang Iris Chyi of the University of Texas at Austin’s
“News Across the Great Wall: Analyzing Taiwan, Asian and Western News Media’s Web
Strategies for Internet Users in China”; Professor Sonya Lee of the University of Southern
California’s “Between Culture and Nature: Cave Temples of Sichuan”; Professor Zai Liang
of State University of New York at Albany’s “From Tidal Wave to Shortage: Understanding
Recent Migration Dynamics in China”; Professor Scott Simon of the University of
Ottawa’s “Emissaries of the Ancestors: Ethno-ornithology of Taiwan’s Truku People”;
Professor Weijie Song of Rutgers University’s “From Beijing to Taipei: Border-crossing
Travel, Beijing Memory, and Taiwan Literature” and Professor Yuen Yuen Ang of Columbia
University’s “Budgetary Politics in Local China: A Mixed Methods Approach.”
The Foundation’s North American Committee also approved several conference grants,
including “Matteo Ricci: His Map and Music”, by Professor Ann Waltner of the University
of Minnesota; “The Seventeenth Annual Conference of the North American Taiwan Studies
Association (NATSA 2011): The Trajectory of Taiwan in a Global Context”, by Mr.
Hsin-Yang Wu of the NATSA; “The ECFA at One: The Economic Cooperation Framework
Agreement’s First Year”, by Professor Clayton Dube of the University of Southern
California; “The Construction of Modern Knowledge in China”, by Professor Minghui Hu
of the University of California at Santa Cruz and “The Maintenance of Knowledge:
Cultures of Preservation in Early Modern Eurasia”, by Professor Bruce Rusk of Cornell
University. The Foundation’s publication grants supported various book projects from
Harvard University Press, Columbia University Press, Duke University Press, University
of Chicago Press, University of California at Berkeley and University of British Columbia
Press.
(2) The European Region
The Foundation received 32 applications from the European Region in 2010, including 12
proposals from the United Kingdom, 4 from France, 4 from Russia, 2 each from the Czech
Republic, Germany and Italy, and 1 each from Denmark, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Slovenia,
and Spain. The total amount of funding requested was 743,571 Euros (US$1,041,000).
In the first round of competition, the Board approved 3 Conference Grants and 1 Publication
Subsidy for a total of 37,649 Euros (US$52,709). In the second round, 9 grants were
approved for a total of 282,450 Euros (US$395,430).
Like the American regional program, the European program offers dissertation and postdoctoral
fellowships to Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers. Proposals submitted to
the Foundation included 31 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowship applications and 9 Postdoctoral
Fellowship applications. There were also 36 Dissertation Fellowship proposals from ROC
students studying at European academic institutions. The Board of Directors approved
12 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowships and 1 Postdoctoral Fellowship, with a total budget of
162,000 Euros. In addition, 11 Dissertation Fellowships for ROC students in Europe were
funded for a total of 132,000 Euros, bringing the total fellowship amount to 294,000 Euros.
In all, 614,099 Euros (US$859,739) or 27.42% of the Foundation’s grant budget including
Participants at an EATS meeting
Conference sponsored by the Foundation

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Six Publication Subsidies were awarded to: Professor Vibeke Børdahl of Nordic Institute
of Asian Studies for her book Jin Ping Mei i vers og prosa, Første bog, a translation into
Danish of Jin Ping Mei cihua, Book One, translated and edited by Professor Børdahl; Professor
Jana S. Rošker of the University of Ljubljana, Traditional Chinese Philosophy and
the Paradigm of Structure (Li); Versets chamaniques d’un Maître de la psalmodie (Shamanic
Verses of a Master of Psalmody), by Professor Aurélie Névot of Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique; The Chinese Novel and Popular Prints, by Professor Boris
Riftin of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Popular Religion in Modern Taiwan: Temple
Associations and Religious Activities, by Professor Ekaterina Zavidovskaya at Saint Petersburg
State University, and Professor Shuang Xu of Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7,
Imaginaires de l’exil dans les littératures contemporaines en Chine et au Japon (Imaginary
of Exile in Contemporary Literature in China and in Japan).
Professor John Lagerwey’s field site in Huizhou
the amount for special projects, were allocated to the European Region in 2010-2011.
The East European Committee is a division of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation created
to promote Chinese Studies in Eastern Europe. The committee received 11 applications
from the East European Region in 2010, including 2 Library Acquisition applications, 4
Research Grant applications, 1 Publication Subsidy application, 1 Visiting Professorship
application, and 3 Graduate Student and Faculty Mobility Grant applications. The Board
approved 2 Library Acquisition applications, 2 Research Grants applications, 1 Visiting
Professorship application, and 3 Graduate Student and Faculty Mobility Grant applications
for a total of 26,625 Euros (US$37,275).
(3) The Domestic Region
Grants made in the European Region in 2010-2011 included 1 Institutional Enhancement
Grant, 2 Research Grants, 4 Conference Grants, and 6 Publication Subsidies. The Institutional
Enhancement Grant went to the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona, which is closely linked to the Institute for International and
Intercultural Studies, to help found and develop its East Asian Studies Program. This year’s
Research Grants included: one project by Professor Wei-pin Tsai of Royal Holloway,
University of London, to look at how the modern Chinese postal service was first created
by the Chinese Maritime Customs Service from 1896 to 1912 through incorporation with
existing local private letter hongs; one grant to Professor Vincent Goossaert of the Groupe
Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités, the first scholarly attempt at studying Chinese migration to
any European country from a religious perspective.
A total of four Conference Grants were approved this year, including: “Migration to and
from Taiwan: Policy, Politics and Identity”, by Professor Dafydd Fell of the School of Oriental
and African Studies; “International Society and East Asia: English School Theory at
the Regional Level”, by Professor Barry Buzan of the London School of Economics and
Political Science; “The Culture of Entertainment in China: Past and Present”, by Professor
Regina Llamas of the University of Bristol; and “China Rising: Towards a Global-Asian
Era?”, by Professor Jeffrey Henderson of the University of Bristol.
The Foundation received 17 applications in
2010 from 10 universities and research institutions
in Taiwan. There were 6 Cooperative
Research Grant proposals, 3 Database
Grant applications, 5 Conference and Seminar
Grants applications, 2 Publication Subsidy
proposals, and 1 Distinguished Lectureship
application, with funding requested
totaling NT$32,397,031. The Board of Directors
approved 1 Conference and Seminar
Grant application in the first round of competition
for a total amount of NT$1,500,000
(US$50,000). During the second round,
the Board approved 1 Research Grant, 1
Database Grant, 2 Conference and Seminar
Grants, and 1 Publication Subsidy totaling
NT$6,130,000 (US$204,334). In addition,
NT$1,000,000 was used to support graduate
students pursuing short-term research
Publication supported by the Foundation

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(4) The Asia-Pacific Region
Professor Shu-min Huang’s field site at Lugu Lake
abroad. The total amount of grants for the Domestic Region this year was NT$8,630,000.
If the Special Projects budget of US$653,847 is included, the Foundation allocated 21.96%
of its annual budget to this region.
The one approved Research Grant in the Domestic Region this year was “A Cross-language
Approach of the Emergence of the Speech Capacity in Infant Vocalization” by Professor
Li-mei Chen of National Cheng Kung University, with Professor D. Kimbrough Oller of
the University of Memphis. The approved Database Grant was “Name Authority Files
Database and China Biographical Database” by Professor Cheng-yun Liu and Professor
Nap-yin Lau of Academia Sinica, with Professor Peter Bol of Harvard University.
Three Conference and Seminar Grants were awarded to: Professor Chung-Chian Teng of
National Chengchi University, with Professor Quansheng Zhao for “China Rising: External
and Internal Impact”; Professor Roy Kuo-Shiang Tseng of National Sun Yat-sen University,
with Professor Wei Shan of the National University of Singapore for “Unfinished
Revolution: Revisiting the Legacy of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and His Time: An International Academic
Conference”; and Professor Wen-Huei Cheng, with Professor Leung Yuen Sang of
The Chinese University of Hong Kong for “The International Conference on Conceptual
Change and Identity Making in Modern East Asia and the Workshop for Chinese Identity
and the Formation of Modern State”. One Publication Subsidy was awarded to Precious
Scrolls (Baojuan) Functioning in the Culture of China, with Baojuan about Three Rebirths
of Mulian as an Example, by Dr. Rostislav Berezkin of Academia Sinica.
In 2010, the Foundation received 34
applications from the Asia-Pacific
Region. Among these were 17 from
Hong Kong, 8 from Australia, 3 from
New Zealand, 2 from Singapore,
2 from Malaysia, and 1 each from
Japan and Vietnam. The proposals
requested a total of US$2,097,515
in funding. In the first round of
competition, the Board of Directors
approved 1 Conference Grant application
for a sum of US$22,000.
During the second round, the Board
approved 6 Research Grants proposals,
1 Conference Grant, and 2
Publication Subsidies amounting to
US$322,000. The total allocation for
this region in 2010-2011, including
special projects, was US$419,000,
or 9.78% of the Foundation’s annual
budget.
Publication supported by the Foundation
The six Research Grants in the Asia-
Pacific region this year included two awards to scholars from New Zealand. Professor
Glenn Reginald Summerhayes of the University of Otago received a grant for his project
entitled “Austronesian Expansion - A New Guinea Corridor,” while Professor James H.
Liu of Victoria University of Wellington was awarded a grant for a project entitled “The
Benevolent Authority Model of Societal Organization”. A total of two proposals from
Australia were approved for funding, including “Archaeological Research of Austronesian
Neolithic Origins and Relations at the House of Taga Site in Tinian, Mariana Islands” by
Dr. Hsiao-chun Hung of Australian National University, and “Politeness in Taiwan” by
Professor Michael Haugh of Griffith University. Other approved projects included “The
Bureau for the Editing of Medical Texts of the Northern Song” by Professor Ka-wai Fan
of the City University of Hong Kong; and “Chinese Family Business and Stock Market: A
Comparative and Cooperative Study in Shanghai, Taiwan and Hong Kong” by Professor
Wan-tai Victor Zheng of the University of Hong Kong.
The two Conference Grants were “Intra-Regional Popular Cultural Flows: Towards an East
Asian Identity?”, organized by Professor Nicholas Tarling of University of Auckland; and
“The International Conference on Vietnamese Confucianism and East Asian Culture” by
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organize a Biannual Workshop on ERCCT Contemporary Taiwan. Twenty-five young and
senior scholars from Europe and Taiwan will be invited to participate.
(2) Continued Support for the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS)
In 2000, Professor Robert Ash of the University of London created the Taiwan Research
Centre, focusing on contemporary Taiwan. The Centre’s activities extend to important
areas of research, a co-teaching program, publishing, regular seminars and other related
activities, in order to attract students from around the world. In 2006, the Centre set up the
first Taiwan Studies master’s program, which has been carried out very smoothly. With the
support of the CCK Foundation, Professor Ash set up the European Association of Taiwan
Studies (EATS) in 2004. Its first secretariat was located in the SOAS Taiwan Research
Centre.
Conference conducted by the ERCCT and sponsored by the Foundation
Two Publication Subsidies were awarded to Professor Dennitza Gabrakova of the City University
of Hong Kong for her book Weed Dreams: Home and Hope in Modern Japan, and
the Chinese edition of Brush and Shutter: Early Photography in China, by the Hong Kong
University Press.
4. Special Projects
(1) Continued Support for Tuebingen University to Establish the European Research Center
on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT)
Tuebingen University established a Chair of Greater China Studies in 2003, with a focus
on both teaching and research on contemporary Taiwan. Subsequently, in order to achieve
the goal of establishing a more systematic approach to the development of Taiwan Studies
in Europe, including a Master’s program, workshops, publishing papers on Taiwanrelated
issues, developing library resources, and supporting visiting scholars, Tuebingen
University decided to establish the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan
(ERCCT) under the Institute of Chinese and Korean Studies in 2007.
Although EATS was established only seven years ago, its annual meetings have been held
in many major cities in Europe, with the number of participants and papers submitted
increasing year by year, thereby becoming an important event in Taiwan Studies
worldwide. The scope of this year’s application not only covers the annual meeting and
website maintenance, but also includes a Young Scholars Award.
(3) Continued Support for the European Lecture Series
In 2006, the CCK Foundation supported a three-year grant to the University of Heidelberg,
which, along with Tuebingen University, the University of London, and the University
of Edinburgh inaugurated a course entitled “Taiwan Studies Summer School,” inviting
scholars in Taiwan to deliver a series of lectures on Taiwan’s history, as well as political,
economic, social, and cultural issues. In principles, each scholar should stay for two
weeks. Some of the results have been published in Tuebingen University’s Occasional
Paper Series, as well as the University of Heidelberg’s Heidelberger Ostasiatische
Schriften.
The ERCCT provides a platform focusing on sustainable higher education research on
Taiwan Studies in Germany. This Center is currently cooperating with Academia Sinica,
National Taiwan University, National Chengchi University, and National Chung Hsing
University.
The new proposed three-year project, in addition to the original working activities, will
also encourage and fund more doctoral students from Taiwan to visit the ERCCT, and also
Professor Robert Ash (left) and Professor Christian Göbel exchange ideas at an EATS meeting

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Students come not only from Western European countries, but also neighboring countries
like Poland and the Czech Republic. All have been very enthusiastic about this program,
which has successfully integrated four universities’ resources and is working very well.
The Foundation will continue to support the University of Heidelberg’s efforts to carry out
this project, while the University of Bonn will become the fifth institution to join this year.
In addition to inviting scholars to publish their lectures, the program will make use of nine
to ten week lectures and teaching courses recorded by National Taiwan University that
will now be provided to the five participating universities. Other European universities or
research institutions may also use this mechanism.
(4) Integrative Project on the Digitalization of Dunhuang Art
The Dunhuang caves, which flourished along the Silk Road from the 5th to 13th centuries
of the Common Era, have long been renowned for their magnificent works of art, earning
recognition as a World Heritage site, while the advent of digitalization technology has
breathed new life into the study of Dunhuang art. This project, a joint effort involving the
Institute of History and Philology (Academia Sinica), the Graduate Institute of Networking
and Multimedia (National Taiwan University), and the Dunhuang Academy, endeavors
to merge Dunhuang Studies and digitalization techniques by using research results to
effectively digitalize and thereby reconstruct the art of the Dunhuang caves. At the same
time, advances in digitalization can also prompt scholars to rethink conventional wisdom
about Dunhuang’s overall significance, thereby stimulating new research efforts.
The project has selected Caves 254, 332 and 61 for digitalization. All three have long
attracted scholarly interest, and are representative of the Dunhuang murals at different
stages of their development during the Northern Wei, early Tang, and late Tang dynasties.
(5) Cross-Strait Academic Exchanges and Cooperation Project
The issue of funding Cross-Strait collaborative projects proposed directly by domestic
scholars was discussed at the Board of Directors meeting held on May 23, 2009. Owing
to the considerable potential demand for Cross-Strait academic cooperation, as well as the
financial consequences of dealing with the high volume of potential applications, allowing
applications from domestic academic institutions and scholars still need to be carefully
assessed. However, in the case of projects with special significance for Cross-Strait
academic exchanges and cooperation, the Foundation may need to adopt a more flexible
means of assessment for special cases, including the formation of an advisory group.
After leading a delegation to visit China on October 18-27, 2010, President Yun-han
Chu invited delegation members to a meeting held on the afternoon of November 19 for
promoting Cross-Strait academic exchanges as well as common objectives and strategies.
Topics discussed included strengthening the ties between scholars across the Strait who
specialize in the modern interpretation of Chinese culture and experience, how to deepen
Cross-Strait cultural and academic cooperation in the humanities and social sciences, ways
of enhancing the vision of young scholars through basic training in theory, etc.
During the meeting, participating scholars made plans to further discuss Cross-Strait
cooperation, the nurturing of young scholars (including high-level workshops for young
scholars, dissertation writing workshops, research internships, etc.) and mechanisms for
Cross-Strait talks. They further recommended the establishment of a Cross-Strait academic
exchange planning committee responsible for the planning and review of cooperative
projects. The funding for these future projects, in addition to coming from the Foundation,
will also consist of matching funds from academic institutions as well as donations from
the private sector.
In light of these concerns, a proposal was submitted to the Board of Directors to set up a
Cross-Strait Academic Exchange Planning Committee in the near future, and to allocate
a special budget provision each year for promoting Cross-Strait academic exchanges and
cooperation. The Committee was established on March 17, 2011, and has now begun
operations, with a first year budget of NT$10 million. The budget for the future is to be
adjusted annually.
III. General Affairs
1. European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS) Biannual Conference
CCK Foundation delegation in Shanghai
The Eighteenth European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS) Biannual Conference was held
July 14-18, 2010 at the University of Latvia. The conference’s theme was “Culture is a Crowded
Bridge,” with more than 200 papers related to Chinese Studies being delivered by scholars and
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and Program Director Paul Katz represented the Foundation. President Chu delivered the opening
address.
The Center for Chinese Studies at Taiwan’s National Central Library has regularly taken part in
the biannual conferences organized by the EACS, and has organized book exhibitions during the
meetings held in Paris (1992), Slovenia (2006), and Lund (2008). Most of the books exhibited
during these conferences were research results in Chinese Studies from fields in the humanities
and social sciences. These exhibitions have proven highly successful, with the books being
subsequently donated to local libraries for the enrichment of their Chinese collections. In order to
promote cultural and scholarly exchange, the Foundation provided the Center with US$5,000 to
support this project.
2. Vice-President Ayling Wang Visited Dunhuang to Discuss Cooperative Projects
On September 1-6, 2010, Vice-President Wang went to Dunhuang to meet with scholars
participating in a joint research effort involving the Institute of History and Philology (Academia
Sinica), the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia (National Taiwan University),
and the Dunhuang Academy. The main goal of this project is to merge Dunhuang Studies and
digitalization techniques by using research results to effectively digitalize and thereby reconstruct
the art of the Dunhuang caves.
3. Mr. David Dean Attended the 52 nd Annual Conference of the American Association for
Chinese Studies
President Yun-han Chu (right) presents a Chinese scroll painting as a token of the Foundation’s gratitude to Mr. David
Dean
The CCK North American Committee was represented by Mr. David Dean, who attended the 52 nd
Annual Conference of the American Association for Chinese Studies (AACS) at Wake Forest
University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on October 15-17, 2010. Mr. Dean met with
various scholars including AACS’ new President, Professor Shelley Riggers.
4. CCK Foundation Delegation Visited Beijing, Shanghai, and Nanjing
Chairman Kao-wen Mao, at the invitation of the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation, organized
a delegation to visit China in October 18-27, 2010. The delegation was comprised of scholars
from the Institute of History and Philology (Academia Sinica), National Taiwan University and
Tsinghua University. The visit covered many prominent organizations like the China Soong
Ching Ling Foundation, Beijing University, Tsinghua University, the Academy of Social
Sciences, Fudan University, Nanjing University, the National Library of China, and the Nanjing
Number Two Archives.
Chairman Kao-wen Mao (middle) displays his calligraphic work at the Second Historical Archives of China in Nanjing
Ever since its establishment, the Foundation has worked to achieve the goal of promoting the
internationalization of Chinese Studies, blending the best of academic trends both in Taiwan
and abroad while also helping to cultivate young talent in order to promote the development
of new fields and conceptual frameworks. Through the assistance of the China Soong Ching
Ling Foundation, we aim to build a platform for academic dialogue across the Taiwan Strait,
and to exchange views on potential areas of cooperation in hopes of finding joint projects that
scholars from the two sides of the Strait can join forces to work on. The Foundation intends to

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After Washington D.C., Dr. Chu traveled to Hawaii to participate in the Association for Asian
Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, held in conjunction with International Convention of Asian
Scholars (ICAS) from March 30 to April 3. Dr. Chu was invited to the President’s Reception at
the AAS, where Professor Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, the President of the AAS, thanked
the Foundation for its long-term support of the AAS and the China and Inner Asia Council
(CIAC).
In Hawaii, Dr. Chu was invited to lunch by the AAS incoming President, Professor Gail Hershatter,
as well as Professor Timothy Cheek, ex-chairman of the CIAC; Professor Matt Sommer, current
CIAC chairman; incoming new chairman Professor Paul Smith; and Dr. Robert Snow, the
AAS Director of Development and Strategic Planning. Program Director Paul Katz took part as
well. Dr. Chu discussed the Foundation’s sponsored projects and exchanged views on future cooperation.
Dr. Chu also met with Dr. Philippe Peycam, Director of the International Institute for
Asian Studies (IIAS), and Korea Foundation President Byung-kook Kim, exchanging views on
potential cooperation in the future.
President Yun-han Chu (left) meeting with the President of AAS, Professor Gail Hershatter, at the AAS Annual
Meeting in Hawaii
continue fulfilling its mission of promoting international scholarly exchange, while also playing
an active role in promoting new forms of Cross-Strait academic interaction. We aspire to serve as
a leading intermediary between scholars on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and in other Chinese
communities, thereby becoming a leader in academic progress. As the field of Chinese Studies
continues to expand, Cross-Strait interaction will assume an ever-increasing importance, all of
which has prompted the Foundation to encourage scholars to pursue new research topics in this
area.
In addition, Dr. Chu met with professors and scholars from various universities, including Jean
Oi of Stanford University, Lynn White of Princeton University, Shuishen Zhao of the University
of Denver, and Mr. John Fitzgerald of the Ford Foundation.
6. Vice-President Ayling Wang Presided Over the European Scholarship Review Committee
at Charles University, Prague
Vice-President Wang presided over the annual meeting of the European Scholarship Review
Committee in Prague on April 9, 2011. In addition to reviewing applications for European
Doctoral Fellowships and Postdoctoral Research Fellowships, the committee also reviewed
5. President Yun-han Chu Attended Mettings AAS in the U.S.
Dr. Yun-han Chu, President of the Foundation, visited New York on March 24, 2011. He paid
a personal visit to Dr. William Theodore de Bary in New York City and presented him with a
Chinese painting to represent the Foundation’s appreciation of his support and assistance over
the past twenty years. Dr. Chu also visited the Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia
University, and met with various scholars including Andrew Nathan, Thomas Berstein, and
Xiaobo Lu.
Dr. Chu also participated in the Foundation’s annual North American Review Committee
meeting in Pittsburgh on March 25-27, where he met with members of the panel and exchanged
views on the Foundation’s programs. After the meeting, Dr. Chu came to Washington, D.C., to
meet scholars from various think tanks and universities, including Mr. Alan Romberg from the
Stimson Center; Mr. Douglas Paal, Vice President of the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace; Professor David Shambaugh of George Washington University; and Mr. Charles Freeman,
Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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applications from Eastern Europe. During her stay in Prague, Dr. Wang had a fruitful discussion
with Professor Catherine Jami, while also holding a meeting with Professor Jan Škrha, Vice-
Chancellor of Charles University. Dr. Wang was also invited to attend the 663 rd
anniversary
ceremony of Charles University on April 7.
7. Program Director Paul Katz Attended the Annual Meeting of the European Association
of Taiwan Studies (EATS) in Slovenia
Dr. Katz attended the annual meeting of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS),
held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on May 12-14, 2011. Approximately eighty scholars took part, with
nearly fifty participants presenting papers. A total of sixteetn participants work at academic
institutions in Taiwan (five of these are European scholars). During the opening ceremony,
Dr. Katz made a presentation about the Foundation’s programs, entitled “Building Bridges for
Scholarly Exchange: The CCK Foundation and its Programs.” Dr. Katz also held individual
discussions with a number of scholars in order to consider how they might work to submit viable
applications.
8. Meeting for the First History and Culture Camp
During his visit to Sichuan University on June 21-24, 2011, President Chu met with President
Heping Xie of Sichuan University, as well as Professor Ying-fu Li and other scholars, to discuss
issues related to “The First History and Culture Camp -- Ba-Shu Culture.” This camp is scheduled
to be held on August 18-27, 2011. The China Soong Ching Ling Foundation will co-organize the
event. This project is expected to enroll foreign and Cross-Strait students as well as other young
scholars, totaling 60 participants in all. It aims to promote the exchange of views and knowledge
between students and young scholars.
9. President Yun-han Chu visited the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
President Chu visited the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences on June 15-18, 2011, to meet
with the Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies, as well as the Director of the Institute of
Philosophy, in order to exchange views on future academic cooperation. The Foundation has
sponsored the Institute of Philosophy, which together with Academia Sinica’s Institute of Chinese
Literature and Philosophy has held several international conferences in Vietnam.
10. Organization of the Seven Seas Cultural Park Architectural Advisory Committee
The Seven Seas Cultural Park was formerly the official residence of the late President Chiang
Ching-kuo (1910-1988). This advisory committee aims to evaluate and monitor the progress of
preparatory work related to this cultural park.
Eight members were selected to serve on the advisory committee. After a four-stage process of
evaluation, J.J. Pan and Partners was selected as designer and planner for the Park’s architecture.
11. Cross-Strait Academic Exchange Planning Committee and Follow-up Plans
In light of the potential increasing demand
for Cross-Strait academic cooperation, the
Foundation is attempting to form a platform
for flexible evaluation and decision-making.
On March 17, 2011, the Board approved
nine senior scholars as members of a new
Cross-Strait Academic Exchange Planning
Committee to oversee this proposal.
After consultation with committee members,
it was concluded that a mechanism for supporting
young scholars from both sides of
the Strait will be the Foundation’s top priority.
This could take the form of domestic
academic institutions organizing summer or Publication supported by the Foundation
winter special training camps. The projects
under preparation include: 1) Manchu and Qing History Camp, to be held on July 2-12 in Beijing;
2) The First History and Culture Camp -- Ba-Shu Culture (August 18-27, Chengdu); 3) Contemporary
China Research Methods Camp, to be held in Taipei.
12. Progress on the Chiang Ching-kuo Library
Professor Tsui-hua Yang of the Institute of Modern History at Academic Sinica was appointed as
the Executive Secretary of the Chiang Ching-kuo Library Planning Committee in January 2010.
This library will be located at Seven Seas Cultural Park. Current progress is as follows:
(1) Library Contents
A. Chronicle of Major Events in the Life of Chiang Ching-kuo: A wide array of documents
will be examined to contribute to an ongoing project entitled “Chiang Chingkuo,
1948-1988.”
B. Historical Data Collection: Scanning has been completed of documents, paintings, and
photographs on loan from Mr. Juyu Zhao and Mr. Bocun Hao, totalling 2,480 pages in
all.
C. Images: Digitalization of Chiang Ching-kuo’s photos is well underway, including “Chiang
Ching-kuo Historical Old Photo Library” (the Chinese Kuomintang Party History
Museum) and “Chiang Fang-liang Image Database” (Seven Seas Residence), totaling
approximately 50,000 items in all.
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A. Calligraphy and Painting Repair and Replication: Twenty pictures were repaired. Of
these, fourteen were copies of originals hanging on display. The original works were
collected on the first floor.
B. Classification and Maintenance of Textiles: Apparel fabrics, accounting for the bulk of
the artifacts in the heritage residence, were categorized, packaged, and protected according
to their functions and materials. They were isolated and stored with acid-free
materials.
C. Assisting the Department of Cultural Affairs of Taipei City in Roof Renovation and
Protection: During renewal work on the residence, furniture and paintings are at risk of
damage if protective measures are not adopted. On March 27, 2011, rain water flooded
into the house, causing several leaks and serious damage to the building. From now
on engineers in charge will give more attention to protective measures during renewal
work.
13. International Academic Exchange and Cooperation
(1) Delegation from Tuebingen University, Germany
On October 1, 2010, a delegation visited the CCK Foundation, being led by the President
of Tuebingen University, Professor Bernd Engler; along with the Vice-President, Professor
Heinz-Dieter Assmann; and Professor Gunter Schubert, Director of European Research
Center on Contemporary Taiwan. President Yun-han Chu met with the visitors and
discussed further cooperation and enhancement of the ERCCT in order to promote Taiwan
Studies as a common subject for European and Taiwanese scholars as well as among the
young students.
(2) Visitors from the University of Hawaii
The President of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Professor Virginia Hinshaw, and
two other two professors visited the CCK Foundation on March 10, 2011. President Chu
encouraged scholars from University of Hawaii to submit applications to the Foundation.
(3) Visit by Social Science Research Council Program Director
Director Seteney Shami, Ph.D., a Program Director for the Social Science Research
Council (SSRC), accompanied by Professor Angela Leung of the University of Hong
Kong, visited the Foundation on March 21, 2011 to express their gratitude for the
Foundation’s support of their conference held in Singapore in December 2010.
(4) University of Washington Visit
Seattle-based University of Washington President Dr. Phyllis Wise and Assistant Vice-
University of Washington President Dr. Phyllis Wise (second from the right) visiting the Foundation
President Diane Adachi visited the Foundation on April 26, 2011, as arranged by the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dr. Wise expressed appreciation for the Foundation’s
continuous support of the University of Washington, and a desire to strengthen this
partnership in the future.
In addition, there were also visits from members of Leiden University (August 18, 2010),
Maryland University (September 7, 2010), European University (November 9, 2010) and
the Asia New Zealand Foundation (December 14, 2010).
IV. Other Activities and Events
1. Completion of Collaborative Digitalization Project for Rare Books
The large-scale digitalization project entitled “A Digital Library of Chinese Rare Books: A
Collaborative Digitizing Project of the Asian Division of the Library of Congress, the East Asian
Library and the Gest Collection of Princeton University, the Harvard-Yenching Library of the
Harvard College Library and the Fu Ssu-nien Library of the Institute of History and Philology
of the Academia Sinica” is a three-year collaborative effort supported by the Foundation that
commenced in January 2007. The four libraries involved in this effort each digitized their own
holdings from an agreed-upon list of Chinese rare books, and developed a collaborative digital
library of these works based on the Fu Ssu-nien Library’s existing digital library and metadata
schema. Upon completion of the project, the database will reside at the Fu Ssu-nien Library.
There are more than 384,000 digitalized images in the database which can be accessed through
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Mr. James Kwing-man Cheng (left) of the Harvard-Yenching Library of the Harvard College Library, and Dr. Tai-loi Ma of the
East Asian Library and the Gest Collection of Princeton University, attend the event marking the completion of the collaborative
digitalization project for rare books in Academia Sinica
The Asia Division of the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/rr/asian/
The Harvard-Yenching Library of the Harvard College Library
http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/harvard-yenching/
The East Asian Library and the Gest Collection of Princeton University
http://eastasianlib.princeton.edu/
The Fu Ssu-nien Library of the Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica
http://lib.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/index.htm
The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
http://www.cckf.org.tw/
On June 9, 2011, the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Fu Ssu-nien Library, President Yunhan
Chu and Vice-President Ayling Wang attended the opening presentation marking the completion
of the project. An enormous amount of images of the four libraries can be easily accessed,
including the Library of Congress: 96,030 pages; Harvard-Yenching Library: 96,138 pages;
Princeton University East Asian Library: 97,020 pages; Fu Ssu-nien Library: 96,469 pages. Bibliographic
work proposed by the Fu Ssu-nien Library has also been finished. A forum to discuss
further planning was held on the same day, with participants including representatives from the
four libraries.
The China Soong Ching Ling Foundation visiting the Foundation
2. Establishment of the Executive Yuan’s Working Group to Promote Taiwan Academies
The Executive Yuan is attempting to establish “Taiwan Academies”, which will have three main
functions: Chinese language teaching, Taiwan Studies, and Chinese Studies. Academies will
be established in Houston and Los Angeles. President Yun-han Chu was invited to serve as a
member of the working group designed to promote these efforts.
During the initial stages, group members will join with the Center for Chinese Studies to plan
and promote activities related to Sinological research. In order to encourage a global perspective
and long-term planning to explore Sinology and Taiwan Studies internationally, a permanent
academic planning committee will be organized in the near future.
3. The China Soong Ching Ling Foundation was Invited to Visit the Foundation and
Related Institutes
The China Soong Ching Ling Foundation was invited by the Foundation to visit Taiwan for
nine days, June 7-15, 2011. The six delegates, led by Deputy Chairman Rongjun Chang, visited
prominent universities, research institutes, political associations, museums, and the CCK
Foundation. Among the Taiwanese scholars and officials they met with were Chin-shing Huang
(Director, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica), Yi-long Huang (Academician,
Academia Sinica; Vice-President, National Tsing Hua University), Po-hsiung Wu (Honorary
KMT Chairman), etc. The possibilities for further promoting cultural exchange were discussed in
depth. The delegation also did some sight-seeing at places like the National Palace Museum, the
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Grant Recipients, 2010-2011
RECIPIENTS IN THE AMERICAN REGION
A. Research Grants
1. Xun Liu
Rutgers University
“Daoist History, Clerical Activism, and Local Society in Nanyang, 1600-2010”
Grant amount: US$36,000
Grant period: 2 years
2. Kwai Hang Ng
University of California at San Diego
“Rule of Law from Below: Litigants in Housing Demolition Cases in China”
Grant amount: US$22,600
Grant period: 1 year and 3 months
3. Shin-Yi Chou
Lehigh University
“Socioeconomic Causes and Consequences of Low Birth Weight in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$28,006
Grant period: 2 years
4. Yong Z. Volz
University of Missouri
“Transplanting Modernity: Chinese Journalism and Western Influences, 1870s-1930s”
Grant amount: US$16,706
Grant period: 1 year and 7 months
5. Philip Silverman
California State University at Bakersfield
“Bridging Generation: Family History and Lifestyle”
Grant amount: US$10,040
Grant period: 1 month
6. Byeong-Uk Yi
University of Toronto at Mississauga
“Studies of the Chinese Language and Ancient Chinese Logic”
Grant amount: US$8,000
Grant period: 1 year
Unit: US$
7. Hsiang Iris Chyi
University of Texas at Austin
“News Across the Great Wall: Analyzing Taiwan, Asian, and Western News Media’s Web
Strategies for Internet Users in China”
Grant amount: US$34,955
Grant period: 2 years
8. Sonya Lee
University of Southern California
“Between Culture and Nature: Cave Temples of Sichuan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 5 months
9. Zai Liang
State University of New York at Albany
“From Tidal Wave to Shortage: Understanding Recent Migration Dynamics in China”
Grant amount: US$21,656
Grant period: 2 years
10. Scott Simon
University of Ottawa
“Emissaries of the Ancestors: Ethno-ornithology of Taiwan’s Truku People”
Grant amount: US$19,100
Grant period: 1 year
11. Weijie Song
Rutgers University
“From Beijing to Taipei: Border-crossing Travel, Beijing Memory, and Taiwan Literature”
Grant amount: US$24,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Yuen Yuen Ang
Columbia University
“Budgetary Politics in Local China: A Mixed Methods Approach”
Grant amount: US$20,632
Grant period: 1 year and 6 months
B. Conferences/Seminars/Workshops Grants
1. Minghui Hu
University of California at Santa Cruz
“The Construction of Modern Knowledge in China”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year

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2. Bruce Rusk
Cornell University
“The Maintenance of Knowledge: Cultures of Preservation in Early Modern Eurasia”
Grant amount: US$4,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Ann Waltner
University of Minnesota
“Matteo Ricci: His Map and Music”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Hsin-Yang Wu
North American Taiwan Studies Association
“The Seventeenth Annual Conference of the North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA
2011): The Trajectory of Taiwan in a Global Context”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Clayton Dube
University of Southern California
“ECFA at One: The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement’s First Year”
Grant amount: US$25,000
Grant period: 1 year
C. Subsidies for Publication
1. Anne Routon
Columbia University Press
“Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Modernity and Popular Politics in Mid-Qing China, 1740-
1839”, by Ho-fung Hung
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 10 months
2. David W. Morrow
University of Chicago Press
“The Journey to the West, vols. 1-4, Revised Edition”, translated by Anthony C. Yu
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 2 years
3. Emily Andrew
University of British Columbia Press
“Educational Reform and Village Society in a Northeast China County, 1904-31”, by Elizabeth
VanderVen
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year 7 months
4. Wen-hsin Yeh
University of California at Berkeley
“Pure and Remote’ - A Lecture Series on Early Chinese Painting”, by James Cahill
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 8 months
5. Stephen A. Cohn
Duke University Press
“Creativity and its Discontents: Critical Implications of China’s Intellectual Property Rights
Offenses”, by Laikwan Pang
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Jennifer Crewe
Columbia University Press
“Shi Zi: China’s First Syncretist”, translated and edited by Paul Fischer
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Jennifer Crewe
Columbia University Press
“Nineteen Lectures on Chinese Philosophy and Its Implications Mou Zongsan”, translated by Julie
Lee Wei
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. William M. Hammell
Harvard University Asia Center
“Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Medieval China”, by Shih-shan Susan Huang
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Anne Routon
Columbia University Press
“Rivers of Time: A Cultural History of China”, by Cho-yun Hsu, translated by Timothy D. Baker,
Jr. and Michael S. Duke
Grant amount: US$5,000
Grant period: 1 year

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D. Scholar Grants
(a) Scholar Grants
1. Sylvia Li-chun Lin
University of Notre Dame
“Mediating the Past and the Present: Historical Documentary Films from Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$21,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Amy McNair
University of Kansas
“Catalogue of the Imperial Painting Collection in the Proclaiming Harmony Era: An Annotated
Translation of Xuanhe Huapu 宣 和 畫 譜 ”
Grant amount: US$35,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Yan Sun
Gettysburg College
“Constructing Ancient China: Identity and Power in the Western Zhou”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 month
4. Hui-Ching Chang
University of Illinois at Chicago
“Naming China: Language, Politics, and Taiwanese Identity”
Grant amount: US$24,000
Grant period: 10 months
5. Tong Soon Lee
Emory University
“Cultural Hybridity, Multiculturalism and the Nation-state: Musical Practices of the Peranakan
Chinese in Singapore”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 9 months
6. Bettine Birge
University of Southern California
“Marriage, Law, and Social Order in the Age of Khubilai Khan: Together with an Annotated
Translation of Marriage Cases from the Yuan Dianzhang (Statutes and Precedents of the Yuan
Dynasty, 1322)”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Chi-chiang Huang
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
“The Buddhist Family Named Shi: The Elite Family’s Patronage of Buddhism in the Southern
Song (a book-length monograph)”
Grant amount: US$19,650
Grant period: 3 months
(b) Junior Scholar Grants
1. Elaine M. Liu
University of Houston
“The Impact of Family Size on Risk Sharing among Migrant Workers in China”
Grant amount: US$28,500
Grant period: 10 months
2. Lei-Shih Chen
Texas A&M University
“Knowledge, Attitudes, and Intentions Regarding Advanced Reproductive Genetic Testing among
Parents of Children with Disabilities in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$30,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. David Mozina
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“Quelling the Divine: The Performance of a Talisman in Contemporary Daoist Thunder Ritual”
Grant amount: US$22,500
Grant period: 1 year and 1 month
E. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Chia-Ying Shih
University of Washington
“Acerbic Exhortation: Modern Chinese Satirical Fiction in the Wartime (1937-1945) Chongqing”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Hsin-Chieh Li
University of California at Irvine
“Subject as a Question: An Interpretive Reading of Winds and the Moon 風 月 報 , a Popular
Magazine in Colonial Taiwan, 1937-1944”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

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3. Yin Wang
University of California at San Diego
“Cold War Transformations: Transpacific America and Cultural Pursuits from Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Yu-An Lu
Stony Brook University
“The Role of Alternation in Phonological Relationships”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Chia-Fen Chang
New York University
“Grotowski’s Illegitimate Child: Art as Vehicle Theatre in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Po-wei Weng
Wesleyan University
“Music, Technology, and Mediated Modernity: Soundscape of Pili Budaixi in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Chunghao Kuo
New York University
“Food-related Technology, Culinary Knowledge, and Regional Gastronomy in Early Modern
China (from the mid-Ming Era to the Early 18 th Century)”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Yi-Hsiang Chang
Columbia University
“Negotiated Legal Modernity: Chinese Judges in the Period of Legal Reform, 1907-1937”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Ying-Chen Peng
University of California at Los Angeles
“This Imperial Body: The Cultural Enterprise of Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908)”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Wei-Ti Chen
University of Chicago
“Geo-social Mobility and Jurisdictional Obstacles for Taiwanese Doctors under Japanese
Colonialism”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Fei-Hsien Wang
University of Chicago
“Translating / Translated Profit: The Curious Journey of ‘Copyright’ in China (1868-1937)”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Lin-Yi Tseng
City University of New York
“Travelers under Japanese Imperialism: The Commercial Activities, Social Networks, and
Modernity of Taiwanese Sekimin in the Zhaoshan Area (1895-1945)”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
13. Ching-Chih Lin
University of California at Berkeley
“Take Me to the Water: Environmental Transformation and Religious Adaptation among Boatdwellers
in Modern Shandong and Jiangsu”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
14. Kuei-Chen Lin
University of California at Los Angeles
“Social Complexity and Inter / Regional Interactions, Exemplified by the Sichuan Basin, China of
the Bronze Age”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
15. Kuan-Hung Chen
University of Hawaii at Mānoa
“Knowledge and Conduct: Reexamining the Epistemic and Ethical Stances of Xunzi”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

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16. Ya-Wen Lei
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
“Consolidation of China’s Counterpublic Spheres in Cyberspace: The Simultaneous Process of
Constructing Online Counterpublic Spheres, Legality, and Citizen Identity”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
17. Yu-Ju Chien
University of Minnesota
“Constructing Knowledge and Policies on Avian Influenza: How are Global Disease Policies and
the Discourse on ‘the Other’ Manufactured ?”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
18. Li-Chung Cheng
University of Chicago
“The Co-construction of Profession and Politics: The Formation of Engineering Mind-set and
the Neglect of Environmental-health Risk Governance in Taiwanese Administrative Regime of
Environmental Protection, 1980-2010”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
19. Wen-Jiun Wang
University of Pittsburgh
“The Formation of Inter-Organizational Networks in Extreme Events: A Comparative Study of the
1999 ChiChi Earthquake and the 2009 Typhoon Morakot”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
20. Ling-Fei Lin
Cornell University
“The Island of Normal Engineering: How Taiwanese Contract Manufacturers Matter in the
History of Laptop Production, 1980-2005”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
21. Wei-Ting Wu
City University of New York
“Expanding Political Space: Domestic Violence, Women’s Groups and the State in China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
22. Kuen-Da Lin
University of Wisconsin at Madison
“Separation Anxiety: Explaining China’s Neighborhood Policies”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
23. Hui-Ling Yang
Arizona State University
“Grammaticalization in Hakka, Mandarin and Southern Min: The Interaction of Negatives with
Interrogatives, Modality and Aspect”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
24. Hsiao-Ting Huang
McGill University
“Tracing the Sporting Body across the Strait: A Comparative Study on Girls’ Physical Education
in Taiwan and China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
F. Doctoral Fellowships
1. Ke Li
Indiana University at Bloomington
“Seeking Divorce in the Countryside: Marital Grievances, Dispute Resolution, and Gender
Inequalities in Contemporary China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Ori Tavor
University of Pennsylvania
“Bio-spiritual Practices and Ritual Theories in Early and Medieval China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Junpeng Li
Columbia University
“Hayek’s Disciples: Liberal Intellectuals in Post-Tiananmen China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

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4. William Nitzky
Arizona State University
“Living Heritage: The Cultural Politics of Heritage Protection in China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Gregory Scott
Columbia University
“Practices of Authenticity: Print Culture and the Modern Reconstruction of Buddhism in China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Jiayao Han
University of Pittsburgh
“Creating Visual Emblems for Eastern Zhou Militarized Frontier Societies (771-221 BCE)”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Yi Kang
Yale University
“Turning Crises into Chances: Disaster Politics in Authoritarian Regimes”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Chia-Yi Seetoo
University of California at Berkeley
“Kinaesthetic Inscriptions: Dancing / Writing the Global from Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Liping Wang
University of Chicago
“Ethnicizing the Frontier: Chinese Imperial Crisis and the Transformation of the Inner Mongolian
Frontier, 1890-1949”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Li Jiang
Harvard University
“Nominal Phrases and Language Variations”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Hongyu Wu
University of Pittsburgh
“Leading the Good Life: Biographical Narratives and Instructions for Buddhist Lay Women in the
High Qing (1683-1839)”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Aurelia Campbell
University of Pennsylvania
“Emperors, Eunuchs, Craftsmen, and the Creation of the Gan-Qing Architectural Style in Early
Ming China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
13. Xiaoli Tian
University of Chicago
“Relocating Science: Medical Mission and Western Medicine in 19 th -Century China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
14. Oiyan Liu
Cornell University
“How Overseas Chinese Became Citizens of the Empires”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
15. Boliang Zhu
Columbia University
“Domestic Political Institutions and the Sectoral Composition of Inward Foreign Direct
Investment in Developing Countries”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
16. Byung-Ho Lee
University of Michigan
“China between Empire and Nation: A Study of Making and Clearing Ethnic Group Boundaries”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
17. Scott Gregory
Princeton University
“The Uses of the Margins: A Social History of the Shuihu Zhuan”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year

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18. Yan Long
University of Michigan
“Constructing Political Actorhood: The Emergence and Transformation of the AIDS Movement in
China, 1989-2009”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
19. Christy Delair
Brown University
“Crafting Indigenous Identity in Taiwan: The Role of Handicrafts in the Negotiation of
Community”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
20. Jeffrey Rice
University of Pennsylvania
“Northern Song Reflections on the Tang”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
21. Tong Blackburn
Indiana University at Bloomington
“Transcultural Hybridity in the Operas of Chinese-born American Composers: Bright Sheng, Tan
Dun, and Zhou Long”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
22. Liangyu Fu
University of Pittsburgh
“Found in Translation: Western Science Books, Maps, and Music in China, 1860-1920”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
23. Meina Cai
University of Wisconsin at Madison
“Political Origins of Property Rights: Public Finance, Land Property and Economic Growth in
China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
24. Charlotte Develyn
University of Hawaii at Mānoa
“Sounding ‘Mongolian’: The Horse-head Fiddle in Inner Mongolia, China”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
25. Olivier Henripin
Northwestern University
“Where is China? Cross-Strait Relations and the Strategic Social Construction of the Chinese
National Homeland after 1949”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
G. Postdoctoral Fellowships administered by the Canadian Asian Studies Association
1. Olga Alexeeva
University of Québec at Montréal
“Energy and Environmental Issues in Chinese Geopolitics: A Case Study of Mekong River
Conflict”
Grant amount: US$18,774
Grant period: 1 year
H. Doctoral Fellowships administered by the Canadian Asian Studies Association
1. Alanna Krolikowski
University of Toronto
“China-U.S. Cooperation and Competition in Civil Air and Space”
Grant amount: US$8,866
Grant period: 1 year
2. Craig Smith
University of British Columbia
“Asianism at the Margins of the Japanese Empire”
Grant amount: US$8,866
Grant period: 1 year
RECIPIENTS IN THE EUROPEAN REGION
A. Institutional Enhancement Grants
1. Joaquin Beltrán
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain)
“East Asian Studies Undergraduate Program at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain”
Grant amount: €140,000
Grant period: 3 years
Unit: Euro

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B. Research Grants
1. Weipin Tsai
University of London (UK)
“Out of Many, One: The Transformation of Private Letter Hongs into a National Chinese Postal
Service in the Late Qing Period”
Grant amount: €40,000
Grant period: 3 years
2. Vincent Goossaert
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
“Chinese Religions in France”
Grant amount: €62,000
Grant period: 3 years
C. Conference & Seminar Grants
1. Dafydd Fell
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (UK)
“Migration to and from Taiwan: Policy, Politics and Identity”
Grant amount: €14,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Barry Buzan
London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London (UK)
“International Society and East Asia: English School Theory at the Regional Level”
Grant amount: €9,349
Grant period: 1 year
3. Regina Llamas
University of Bristol (UK)
“The Culture of Entertainment in China: Past and Present”
Grant amount: €8,300
Grant period: 1 year
4. Jeffrey Henderson
University of Bristol (UK)
“China Rising: Towards a Global-Asian Era ?”
Grant amount: €18,000
Grant period: 1 year
D. Subsidies for Publication
1. Vibeke Børdahl
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (Denmark)
“Jin Ping Mei i vers og prosa, Første bog” (“Jin Ping Mei cihua, Book One”), translated and
edited by Vibeke Børdahl
Grant amount: €6,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Jana S. Rošker
University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
“Traditional Chinese Philosophy and the Paradigm of Structure (Li )”
Grant amount: €6,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Aurélie Névot
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
“Versets chamaniques d’un Maître de la psalmodie (Shamanic Verses of a Master of Psalmody)”
Grant amount: €1,500
Grant period: 1 year
4. Boris Riftin
Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
“The Chinese Novel and Popular Prints”
Grant amount: €10,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Ekaterina Zavidovskaya
Saint Petersburg State University (Russia)
“Publication Subsidy for Publishing Popular Religion in Modern Taiwan: Temple Associations
and Religious Activities”
Grant amount: €2,950
Grant period: 1 year
6. Shuang Xu
Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (France)
“Imaginaires de l’exil dans les littératures contemporaines en Chine et au Japon
(Imaginary of Exile in Contemporary Literature in China and in Japan)”
Grant amount: €2,000
Grant period: 1 year

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E. Special Project Grants
1. Barbara Mittler
University of Heidelberg (Germany)
“Taiwan Politics, History and Society: A Series of Lecture Series (Part 2)”
Grant amount: €25,000
Grant period: 3 years
2. Dafydd Fell
European Association of Taiwan Studies
“European Association of Taiwan Studies: Application for Continued Funding from
the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (2011-2013)”
Grant amount: €30,750
Grant period: 3 years
3. Gunter Schubert
Tuebingen University (Germany)
“Institutionalising and Strengthening the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan
(ERCCT)”
Grant amount: €162,750
Grant period: 3 years
F. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad
1. Ching-Ling Wang
Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
“Praying for Ten-thousand Goodness: Research on Buddha’s Preaching by Ding Guanpeng”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Pin-Chu Shih
École Pratique des Hautes Études (France)
“Money Trees in Southwest China, 1st – 3rd Century: Style, Iconography, Religious and Social
Significance”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Shuli Wang
University of London (UK)
“Heritage on Display - The Poetics and Politics of China’s Yinxu Archaeological Site Museum in
the Making”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. Chun-Yu Lin
Lancaster University (UK)
“Border Control and Intimate Citizenship - A Study on the Affective Apparatus and Policies
Concerning of Marriage Migrants from Southeast Asian Countries and Mainland China in
Taiwan”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Ya-Han Chuang
Université de Paris IV - Paris Sorbonne (France)
“Two Modes of Chinese Globalisation: The New Chinese Community in France”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. Li-Wen Shih
Lancaster University (UK)
“Body Enacted: Pleasure and Anxiety in Prenatal Genetic Screening and Testing in Taiwan”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Yi-Yang Hung
University of Oxford (UK)
“Fashioned Space - The Assemblage of Fashion as Affective Material”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Hung-Jen Wang
University of Tübingen (Germany)
“The Making of International Relations Theory in China”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Chien-Yu Shih
University of London (UK)
“Uyghur Nationalism and Xinjiang in China-Central Asian Relations”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Kuan-Hsun Chen
University of Edinburgh (UK)
“Benefit Sharing as Fair Terms of Social Cooperation in a Large-Scale Biomedical Database
Project”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

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11. Chenching Cheng
University of Edinburgh (UK)
“Transcending Ideological Boundaries during the Cold War Period in Pan Chinese Popular Music
- The Case of Teresa Teng”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
G. Fellowships for Ph.D. Dissertations
1. Pablo Blitstein
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (France)
“The Political Art of Texts: Political Dimensions of Textual Production in 5th - 6th Century
Southern China”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Yi Chen
University of Oxford (UK)
“Interregional Interaction and Social Development – Southern China from 3000 to 500 BC”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Hailian Chen
University of Tübingen (Germany)
“Metal for Coin and Brass: Zinc Miners, Transporters, Merchants and Bureaucrats in Qing China,
c.1684 – 1835”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
4. J. Henning Huesemann
Leipzig University (Germany)
“Record and ‘Reality’: Knowledge Construction in the Shuijing zhu of Li Daoyuan”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
5. Yijie Zhuang
University of Cambridge (UK)
“Landscape Change and its Interaction with Prehistoric Human Activities: Geoarchaeological
Investigation in North China”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
6. May Farid
University of Oxford (UK)
“‘Wild Children’: China’s Grassroots Development Organizations and their Relationships with
Local Government”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
7. Jacqueline Hobbs
University of Cambridge (UK)
“When the Milkbird Comes: Amdo-Tibetan Constructions of Time in Qinghai Province, PRC”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
8. Elisa Cencetti
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)
“The Sedentarization of Nomads: Transformation and Sociopolitical Reorganization of Amdo
Tibetan Herders (Qinghai, P.R.C.)”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
9. Juliette Genevaz
University of Oxford (UK)
“The Chinese Revolutionary Army in the Reform Era (1980-2010)”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
10. Guillaume Dutournier
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (France)
“Claiming Simplicity: The Philosophical Practice of Lu Jiuyuan (1139-1193). A Sociohistorical
Study of Distinctiveness in Southern Song Neo-Confucianism”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
11. Andreas Siegl
University of Munich (Germany)
“Discussing Power: Manchus, Mongols and Tibetans in Dialogue”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
12. Kathrin Messing
University of Munich (Germany)
“Story and History in Chen Shou’s Sanguo zhi ?”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year

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13. Wai Ling So
University of London (UK)
“Competition and Cooperation: Diederichsen, Jebsen & Company in German Qingdao and its
Hinterland of Shandong”
Grant amount: €12,000
Grant period: 1 year
H. Fellowships for Postdoctoral Research
1. Frederick Shih-Chung Chen
University of Oxford (UK)
“The Early Formation of the Buddhist Otherworld Bureaucracy in Early Medieval China”
Grant amount: €18,000
Grant period: 1 year
RECIPIENTS IN THE EAST EUROPEAN REGION
A. Research Grants
1. Martin Slobodník
Comenius University (Slovakia)
“Islam in China: A Textbook”
Grant amount: €6,000
Grant period: 2 years
2. Agita Baltgalve and Julija Gumilova
University of Latvia (Latvia)
“Basic Chinese Language Lessons for Latvians”
Grant amount: €6,000
Grant period: 1 year
B. Library Acquisitions
Unit: Euro
1. Aurelijus Zykas and Justina Razumaitė
Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania)
“Development of Vytautas Magnus University Library Funds on Chinese and Taiwanese Studies”
Grant amount: €3,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Jerzy Domaslowski and Monika Szmyt
Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland)
“Library Acquisition Grant for the Department of Art History, Adam Mickiewicz University”
Grant amount: €3,000
Grant period: 1 year
C. Visiting Professorships
1. Frank Kraushaar and Ieva Haas
University of Latvia (Latvia)
“Visiting Professorships for Chinese Classics and Ancient China at the Research Center for East
Asian Studies (University of Latvia) and its Baltic Partner Institutes”
Grant amount: €6,225
Grant period: 1 year
D. Mobility Grants
1. Jana S. Rošker
University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
“Participating in the XVIIth ISCP (International Society for Chinese Philosophy)
Conference with a Presentation ‘A Structural Reinterpretation of the
Neo-Confucian Binary Category Li and Qi ’”
Grant amount: €800
Grant period: 1 year
2. Mitja Saje
University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
“Attending a Workshop in Chinese Culture for the Students of Sinology Programme in Croatia:
Delivering Lectures in Chinese History”
Grant amount: €800
Grant period: 1 year
3. Helena Motoh
University of Primorska (Slovenia)
“Attending a Workshop in Chinese Culture for the Students of Sinology Programme in Croatia:
Delivering Lectures in Chinese Literature”
Grant amount: €800
Grant period: 1 year
RECIPIENTS IN THE DOMESTIC REGION
A. Cooperative Research Grants
Unit: NT$
1. Li-mei Chen
Department of Foreign Languages & Literature, National Cheng Kung University, with D.
Kimbrough Oller of University of Memphis (USA)
“A Cross-Language Approach of the Emergence of the Speech Capacity in Infant Vocalization”
Grant amount: NT$1,600,000
Grant period: 2 years

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B. Database Grants
1. Cheng-yun Liu and Lau Nap Yin
Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, with Peter Bol of Harvard University (USA)
“Name Authority Files Database and China Biographical Database”
Grant amount: NT$3,000,000
Grant period: 3 years
C. Conference and Seminar Grants
1. Chung-chian Teng
College of International Affairs, National Chengchi University, with Quansheng Zhao of American
University (USA)
“China Rising: External and Internal Impact”
Grant amount: NT$1,500,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Kuo-Shiang Tseng
Sun Yat-sen Research Center for Social Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, with Wei Shan
of National University of Singapore (Singapore)
“‘Unfinished Revolution: Revisiting the Legacy of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and His Time’
International Academic Conference”
Grant amount: NT$900,000
Grant period: 1 year
3. Wen-Huei Cheng
Department of Chinese Literature, National Chengchi University, with Leung Yuen Sang of The
Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), et al.
“The International Conference on the Conceptual Change and Identity Making in Modern East
Asia and the Workshop for Chinese Identity and the Formation of Modern State”
Grant amount: NT$450,000
Grant period: 1 year
D. Publication Subsidies
1. Rostislav Berezkin
Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, with Igor Alexandrovich Alimov of Russian
Academy of Sciences (Russia)
“Publication of the Book Precious Scrolls (Baojuan) Functioning in the Culture of China, with
Baojuan about Three Rebirths of Mulian as an Example”
Grant amount: NT$180,000
Grant period: 1 year
E. Special Project Grants
1. Shou-chien Shih
Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, with Graduate Institute of Networking and
Multimedia of National Taiwan University (Taiwan) and Dunhuang Academy (China)
“A Comprehensive Project for Integrating the Art of the Dunhuang Grottoes and Digital
Technology”
Grant amount: NT$5,994,000
Grant period: 3 years
RECIPIENTS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
A. Research Grants
1. Glenn R. Summerhayes
University of Otago (New Zealand)
“Austronesian Expansion - A New Guinea Corridor ?”
Grant amount: US$20,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Ka-wai Fan
City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
“A Study of the Bureau for Revising Medical Classics in Northern Song China”
Grant amount: US$40,000
Grant period: 2 years
Unit: US$
3. Wan-tai Zheng
The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
“Chinese Family Business and Stock Market: A Comparative and Cooperative Study in Shanghai,
Taiwan and Hong Kong”
Grant amount: US$50,000
Grant period: 2 years
4. James H. Liu
Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)
“The Benevolent Authority Model of Societal Organization”
Grant amount: US$60,000
Grant period: 3 years

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5. Hsiao-chun Hung
The Australian National University (Australia)
“Archaeological Research of Austronesian Neolithic Origins and Relations at the House of Taga
Site in Tinian, Mariana Islands”
Grant amount: US$70,000
Grant period: 2 years
6. Michael Haugh
Griffith University (Australia)
“Politeness in Taiwan”
Grant amount: US$48,000
Grant period: 3 years
B. Conference and Seminar Grants
1. Nicholas Tarling
University of Auckland (New Zealand)
“Intra-Regional Popular Cultural Flows: Towards an East Asian Identity ?”
Grant amount: US$22,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Pham Van Duc
Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (Vietnam)
“The International Conference on Vietnamese Confucianism and East Asian Culture”
Grant amount: US$15,000
Grant period: 1 year
C. Publication Subsidies
1. Dennitza Gabrakova
City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
“Publication of a Monograph Weed Dreams: Home and Hope in Modern Japan”
Grant amount: US$10,000
Grant period: 1 year
2. Michael Duckworth
Hong Kong University Press (Hong Kong)
“Publication of(Brush and Shutter: Early Photography in
China)”
Grant amount: US$9,000
Grant period: 1 year
Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Jan. 1. 2010 - Dec. 31, 2010
All denominations in US$
Rate of Conversion: 29.13 NT$ = 1US$
The foundation’s investment portfolio in 2010 followed the resolution of the Sixth Meeting of the
Board of Directors which stipulated that at least 50 percent of the fund be invested in money market
and government bonds, and at most 50 percent be invested in risky assets. At the end of 2010, the
actual percentage of investment in risky assets was 48.95 percent.
The portfolio still focused on high dividend yield value stock in 2010. The ratio invested in REITs
was reduced but maintained above 20% to keep the cash inflow steady. Because the risk and volatility of
Euro became larger, the amount allocated in European market was lower than 2009.
At the end of 2010, the total assets of the Foundation were US$128,161,224. The total assets
included current assets US$124,234,589, fixed assets US$3,922,945, and other assets US$3,689. (See
Balance Sheet)
Table 1 : Balance Sheet
Dec. 31, 2010 NTD/USD : 29.13
Assets Subtotal Total Liabilities and Net Worth Subtotal Total
Current Assets 124,234,589 Current Liabilities 754,759
Revolving funds 55,772 Grants payble 7,105
Currency deposits 9,755,388 Accrued expenses 40,111
Income tax refund receivable 18,233 Accrued tax expenses 701,871
Interests receivable 1,339,633 Other 854
Prepaid expenditures 37,892 Receipts under custody 4,818
Marketable securities 113,027,671
Government bonds 50,241,376
Corporate and convertible bonds 694,402
ETF and REITs 46,458,976
Stocks 15,632,917
Fixed Assets 3,922,945 Net Worth 127,406,464
Land 2,601,854 Endowment 107,449,365
Office 1,957,246 Accumulated Income 12,788,863
Transport Equipment 126,674 Current Income 7,168,237
Other Equipment 46,091
Less: depreciation allowance 808,920
Other Assets 3,689
Guarantee Deposit 3,689
Total Assets 128,161,224 Total Liabilities and Net Worth 128,161,224

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The revenues of 2010 were US$14,584,333. The expenses of 2010 were US$7,416,096. (See
Income Statement)
Operation expenditures included grants to the four regions of America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, and
the Domestic regions, under various grant categories. US$1,768,848 was allocated to the American
region; US$1,229,457 was allocated to the Domestic region; US$1,381,165 was allocated to the
European region; and US$681,969 was allocated to the Asia/Pacific region. (See Details of Operation
Expenses)
Table 2 : Income Statement
For the year ended Dec. 31, 2010 NTD/USD : 29.13
Items Subtotal Total
Previous Accumulated Income 12,788,862
Interest Revenues 4,641,262
Interests from deposits 180,960
Interests from bonds 1,138,171
Interests from funds 3,322,131
Exchange Revenues (3,064,770)
Donation Revenues 5,149
Other Revenues 11,282
Investment Revenues 12,991,410
Bonds 439,276
Stocks 12,769,717
Less: transaction fees 217,582
Total Current Revenues 14,584,333
Operating Expenses 5,061,439
Proposal review and evaluation 155,444
North America 1,737,103
Domestic 1,144,340
Europe 1,331,968
Asia/Pacific 671,211
Chiang Ching-kuo Library 72,898
Less: grants return 51,525
Administrative Expenses 2,354,657
Board of directors 135,437
Headquarters 1,948,078
North American Regional Office 231,928
Temporary staff 39,214
Total Current Expenditures 7,416,096
Current Income Before Tax 7,168,237
Income tax (Deferred) 701,871
Current Income 6,466,366
End Accumulated Income 19,255,228
Items
North
America
Domestic Europe Asia/Pacific Total
Subtotal Grants 1,737,103 1,217,238 1,331,968 671,211 4,957,520
Institutional Enhancement (IE)
Research Grants (RG) 192,108 440,432 236,683 305,018 1,174,241
Conferences and Seminars (CS) 165,464 54,926 92,977 87,749 401,116
Institutional Enhancement Grants (IE) 23,314 23,314
Visiting Professorships (VP) 4,719 4,719
Subsidies for Publication (SP) 49,478 16,615 47,452 4,161 117,706
Databases (DB) 119,436 119,436
Library Acquisitions (LA) 12,960 12,960
Senior Scholars, Grant for
Professors
(SS)(GP) 408,875 10,568 8,180 427,623
Dissertation Grants (DD) 224,894 157,234 382,128
Post-Doc Fellowships 169,210 169,210
Dissertation Fellowships for ROC
Student Abroad
Graduate Student and Faculty
Mobility Grants
Grants for Doctoral and Master’s Students for
Short-term Overseas Research
Table 3 : Details of Operating Expenses
For the year ended Dec. 31, 2010 NTD/USD : 29.13
(DF) 176,167 226,986 19,287 422,440
(MG) 3,253 3,253
35,333 35,333
Special Programs 475,997 477,597 346,612 246,816 1,547,022
Chiang Ching-kuo Library 72,898 72,898
Subsidies through EACS/CASA 44,119 44,119
Review Committees 61,734 13,983 53,533 26,194 155,444
Less: grants return 29,989 1,764 4,335 15,437 51,525
Total 1,768,848 1,229,457 1,381,165 681,969 5,061,439

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Administrative costs in 2010 included expenses of the Board of Directors, which were
US$135,437; expenses of the headquarters in Taipei, which were US$1,948,078; and expenses of the
Regional Office in McLean, Virginia, USA, which were US$231,928; expenses of temporary staff,
which were US$39,214. (See Details of Administrative Expenses)
APPENDIX 1
The American Region
Unit: US$
Items
Table 4 : Details of Administrative Expenses
Board of
Directors
For the year ended Dec. 31, 2010 NTD/USD : 29.13
Headquarters
North American
Regional Office
Temporary Staff
Personnel 40,749 868,462 199,976 39,214 1,148,401
Administration 17,960 238,577 19,768 276,304
Equipment 7,185 31,768 5,451 44,404
Other 69,544 809,271 6,734 885,549
Total 135,437 1,948,078 231,928 39,214 2,354,657
Total
No. Grant Category Cases Funding Requested
1 Research Grants 34 1,300,157
2 Conference/ Seminar/Workshop Grants 13 288,090
3 Publication Subsidies 12 82,000
4 Scholar Grants 25 847,807
5 Junior Scholar Grants 30 848,277
Total 114 3,366,331
APPENDIX 2
The European Region
Unit: US$
No. Grant Category Cases Funding Requested
1 Institutional Enhancement Grants 1 196,000
2 Lecture Series Grants 0 0
3 Research Grants 11 572,389
4 Conference and Seminar Grants 11 198,901
5 Publication Subsidies 9 73,710
6 Senior Scholars Grants 0 0
Total 32 1,041,000

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APPENDIX 3
The Domestic Region
Unit: NT$
No. Grant Category Cases Funding Requested
1 Cooperative Research Grants 6 16,755,518
2 Database Grants 3 8,115,000
3 Conference and Seminar Grants 5 5,846,800
4 Publication Subsidies 2 1,393,773
5 Distinguished Lectureships 1 285,940
Total 17 32,397,031
APPENDIX 4
The Asia-Pacific Region
Unit: US$
No. Grant Category Cases Funding Requested
1 Institutional Enhancement Grants 0 0
2 Research Grants 25 1,958,566
3 Conference and Seminar Grants 4 85,000
4 Publication Subsidies 4 33,339
5 Senior Scholar Grants 1 20,610
Total 34 2,097,515