Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange

26 The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation 2010-2011 Annual Report 27
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