Academia Sinica Taiwan: Past Awards

For information on these schemes, see Individual Research visits to Academia Sinica or Joint Projects with Academia Sinica

Please note: Awards are arranged alphabetically by surname of the grant recipient. The institution is that given at the time of application.

Year of award

Individual Visits: 2009-10 | 2008-09 | 2007-08 | 2006-07 | 2005-06 | 2004-05 | 2003-04 | 2002-03 | 2001-02 | 2000-01 | 1999-00

Joint Projects: 2007-08 | 2004-05


2009-10

Dr Y-Y Chang
(University of Abertay, Dundee)
HRM Transfer within Mutlinational Corporations (MNCs) 
Six weeks

Dr S Chen
(Royal Holloway, University of London)
Education and wage inequality in Taiwan
One month

Dr B Kushner
(University of Cambridge)
When Empire Fails: Legally Deconstructing Japanese War Crimes and the postwar question of nationality
3 weeks

Dr T Ma
(University of Oxford)
The Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Postwar China
3 weeks

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2008-09

Dr T McClellan
(University of Edinburgh)
"Zhong Lihe (1915-1960), father of Taiwan Nativism" - a book length study of Zhong's literary work in the context of his life in colonial and post-colonial Taiwan
Six weeks

Dr J Strauss
(SOAS)
Security, land and rice: Trajectories of regime consolidation in China and Taiwan, 1949-1955
One month

Dr S Suzuki
(University of Manchester)
Historical memory and reconciliation in East Asia: The case of Taiwanese 'comfort women'
One month

Dr H-L Yu
(University of Stirling)
Can the institution of mediation/arbitration play a key role in the reform of the Civil Justice System?
One month

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2007-08

Dr G Cheung
(University of Durham)
The Politics of Culture and Identities: A Sudy of Liminal Citizenship of Greater China
One month in quota year 2007-08 

Dr M Sung
(University of Southampton)
Random forests for competitive event prediction
Six weeks in quota year 2008-09

(b) Joint Projects

Dr J St. André
(University of Manchester)
China and Its Others: Knowledge Transfer and Representations of China and the West
Dr Peng Hsiao-yen (Academia Sinica)
£6,975

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2006-07

Dr M Hillenbrand
(School of Oriental and African Studies)
Escape from Nativism: the Allure of Japan for Contemporary Taiwanese Culture
Two months in quota year 2007-08

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2005-06

Professor W Callahan
(University of Manchester)
History, Identity and Security in Sino-Japanese Relations
Three weeks in quota year 2006-07

Dr D J Fell
(School of Oriental and African Studies)
Party change in Taiwan's DPP era: Polarisation or convergence
Three months in quota year 2006-07

Dr R Ong
(School of Oriental and African Studies)
Taiwan's foreign policy towards western Europe
Four weeks in quota year 2006-07

Dr L Williams
(University of Leeds)
City of sadness?: modernity, melancholy, and masculinity in contemporary Taiwanese urban cinema Four weeks in quota year 2006-07

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2004-05

(a) Individual Visits

Dr Li-cheng Chang
(University of Kent)
Operational efficiency in different health care systems: A comparison study of the English and Taiwanese health service systems
Three weeks in quota year 2005-06

(b) Joint Projects

Dr R Shillcock
(University of Edinburgh)
Is Chinese orthography processed differently in the male and female brain? Psychological and educational implications
Dr Chia-ying Lee (Academia Sinica)
£4,000

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2003-04

Dr Li-cheng Chang
(University of Kent)
A pilot study in connection with the development of the Private Finance Initiative within the public sector in Taiwan
Two months in quota year 2004-05

Dr G Chan
(University of Cambridge)
Taiwan: National renewal and international survival
Six weeks in quota year 2004-05

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2002-03

Dr H K Harrison
(University of Leeds)
Illness: Searching for meaning and building community in early twentieth-century rural Shanxi
2 weeks in quota year 2002-03

Dr W Hebenton
(University of Manchester)
Social harm and international commercial treaties (world trade organisation): A case study of the rice wine "Mi-chiu" crisis in Taiwan
4 weeks in quota year 2003-04

Dr S H Lim
(University of Leeds)
Configuration spaces: Alternative literary, theatrical and cinematic practices in Taiwan
3 months in quota year 2003-04

Dr J McDermott
(University of Cambridge)
The formation of an urban order: Law and commerce in Suzhou
5 weeks in quota year 2003-04

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2001-02

Dr M Rack
(Keele University)
Preliminary study of the expression of cultural identities in villages of mixed Taiwanese and Han descent
5 weeks in quota year 2002-03

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2000-01

Dr M Dillon
(University of Durham)
Islamic communities in China: China's relations with Central Asia
2 weeks in quota year 2001-02

Dr Yuko Kikuchi
(Chelsea College of Art & Design)
Refracted colonial modernity: Japanese cultural imperialism and modern Taiwanese identities in art & design
2 months in quota year 2001-02

Dr J McDermott
(University of Cambridge)
Sung agricultural production and consumption
6 weeks in quota year 2001-02

Dr J C Strauss
(School of Oriental and African Studies)
Bureaucracy, civil service and the 20th century Chinese state
1 month quota year 2000-01

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1999-2000

Dr R Mitter
(University of Warwick)
Nationalism, memory and the Second World War in Chinese political culture, 1931-1999
1 month in quota year 2000-01