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22 The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation 2010-2011 Annual Report 23
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