Member News: Group Grants/Awards Received

ACLS Travel Grants

The American Council of Learned Societies periodically spnsors a program which permits travel to conferences and symposia. Scholars wishing to receive information about the next competition should write to the ACLS Travel Grant Program, 228 East 45th Street, New York, NY 10017-3398. AAS 1995 recipients are listed as follows:

• Conference on China and the World in the Eighteenth Century, Beijing, People's Republic of China - June 20-24, 1995: James A. Millward (University of Arizona) Fear and Loathing in Kashgar: Aspects of Qing Imperium.
• Conference on State and Ritual in East Asia, Paris, France - June 28-July 1, 1995: Charles D. Orzech (University of North Carolina-Greensboro) Ritual and Polity in the Creation of National Protection Buddhism in China
• International Colloquium on Cultural Dialogue and Misunderstanding, Beijing, People's Republic of China - October 9-11, 1995: Yingjin Zhang (Indiana University-Bloomington) Chinese Film Studies in Cross-cultural Perspective; President of the American Association of Chinese Comparative Literature
• International Symposium on Social Transformation and Cultural Change, Wuhan, People's Republic of China - October 28-31, 1995: Kristin E. Stapleton (University of Kentucky) Developments in Urban Administration in China during the Republic: Historical Continuities and Influences from Abroad

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation

The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange announces the 1994-95 grantee list for Conference Grants, Institutional Enhancement Grants, Research Grants, Senior Scholar Grants, and Subsidies for Publication. Deadline for the next competition is October 15. See Grants and Fellowships section, this issue.

CCK Conference Grants

• Washington University - Midwest Seminars on Taiwan Studies (Proj Dir: Joseph R. Allen)
• University of Wisconsin - The 4th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics and the 7th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (Proj Dir: Tsai-fa Cheng)
• George Washington University - The 24th Sino-American Conference on Contemporary China, Washington DC (Proj Dir: William R. Johnson)
• Harvard University - Culture, Media, and Society in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China (Proj Dir: Leo Ou-fan Lee)
• Syracuse University - Internationalization and Women's Self-identity: A Comparative Analysis of Women in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong (Proj Dir: L.H.M. Ling)
• Duke University - American Political Science Association Conference Group on Taiwan Studies (CGOTS) Conference (Proj Dir: Emerson M.S. Niou)
• University of New Brusnwick - Conference/Symposium on Re-searching the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945): New Sources and Interpretations (Proj Dir: Larry N. Shyu)
• Asia Pacific Legal Institute - Seminar on United States-Republic of China Dispute Settlement under the World Trade Organization TRIPS Agreement (Proj Dir: Andy Y. Sun)
• Rutgers University - Conference on the Hermeneutic Traditions in Chinese Culture (Proj Dir: Ching-I Tu)

Institutional Enhancement Grants

• Philadelphia Museum of Art - Public Programs, for Chinese Visiting Scholar (Proj Dir: Elizabeth Anderson)
• Universite de Montreal - Institutional Enhancement: Creation of Position in Chinese History (Proj Dir: John Dickinson)
• Muhlenberg College - Strengthening Chinese Studies at Muhlenberg College (Proj Dir: Richard C. Hatch)
• Huron College - Faculty Position in Chinese Culture and Language (Proj Dir: C.J. Jago)
• University of Colorado-Denver - University of Colorado at Denver in Chinese Studies (Proj Dir: Lionel Jensen)
• University of Oregon - Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Institutional Enhancement (Proj Dir: Wendy Larson)
• Carleton College - A Professorship in Chinese Art at Carleton (Proj Dir: Elizabeth McKinsey)
• University of California-Berkeley - for the Creation of a Research Group on the Study of Twentieth-century China (Proj Dir: Wen-hsin Yeh)

Research Grants

• University of Nevada-Reno -The Dragon Awakes: Chinese Conceptions of Nation and Nationalism (Proj Dir: Maria Hsia Chang)
• The American University - The Impact of Economic Development on Employment, Life Quality, and Family Well-being: A Cross-national Comparative Study (Proj Dir: Esther Ngan-ling Chow)
• McGill University - Inscribing Gender: Poetry and Prose by Women in Late Imperial China (Proj Dir: Grace S. Fong)
• Smith College - Political Evolution in Taiwan: the New Politics of Economic Relations with the Mainland (Proj Dir: Steven M. Goldstein)
• Oklahoma State University - An Evaluation of Operational Efficiency of Independent Retailers in Taiwan (Proj Dir: Chrwan-jyh Ho)
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Conserving and Managing the Underwater Cultural Resources of the China Seas (Proj Dir: Porter Hoagland)
• Florida State University - Take-off Policies of Taiwan's Economic Development (Proj Dir: Anthony Y.C. Koo)
• Defense Budget Project - A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Defense Production and Trade: Implications for Security across the Taiwan Strait (Proj Dir: Andrew Krepinevich)
• University of Akron - Redrawing the Boundaries of State Power and the "Statecraft" Quest for Moral Order in Early Nineteenth-century China (Proj Dir: Jane Kate Leonard)
• University of Pittsburgh - Sorting out the Artifacts: The Reflection of "Others" within Ancient Chinese Spheres (Proj Dir: Katheryn M. Linduff)
• University of Washington-Seattle - Comparative Studies on the Policies and Legal Framework of Technologies Development and Transfer between the ROC and the United States (Proj Dir: Paul C.B. Liu)
• Harvard University - Political Development in the ROC (and PRC) in the 1980s and 1990s (Proj Dir: Roderick MacFarquhar)
• University of Alaska-Fairbanks - Democratization and Foreign Trade Policy in Taiwan (Proj Dir: Gerald A. McBeath)
• University of Iowa - Taoism, Divination, and the Social Implications of Ritual Choices in the Religion of Southern Taiwan (Proj Dir: Peter Nickerson)
• University of Toronto - Trade and Investment in the Pacific Area: Theoretical Analysis and Implications for International Trade (Proj Dir: Peter Pauly)
• Cornell University - Patterns of Charity and Philanthropy in Twentieth-century China: Discourses on "Doing Good" in the Early Republic and in Taiwan (Proj Dir: Vivienne B. Shue)
• East-West Center - The Transformation of China and the Role of Taiwan (Proj Dir: Anne Thurston)
• Purdue University - Becoming Enemies of the State: Deviant Labeling Process in Mao's China (Proj Dir: Wen-hui Tsai)
• University of California-Santa Barbara - An Annotated Bibliography of Worldwide Studies in Taiwan Literature (Proj Dir: Kuo-ch'ing Tu)
• University of California-Irvine - The Phonology of Chinese Dialects (Proj Dir: Moira Yip)

Senior Scholar Grants

• Chauncey Cheng-hsi Chu (University of Florida) A Discourse Grammar of Mandarin Chinese: the Conclusion of a Book-writing Project
• Andrew J. Nathan (Columbia University) Commonality and Variation in Chinese Political Culture
• Andrew G. Walder (Harvard University) The Politics of China's Cultural Revolution, 1966-71: A Sociological Analysis
• William S. Atwell (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) Climatic Change, Monetary Contraction, and Economic Decline in Mid-fifteenth-century China and East Asia
• Arif Dirlik (Duke University) The Canton Commune in the Chinese Revolution
• Yen-p'ing Hao (University of Tennessee) China's Three Commercial Revolutions
• Ronald G. Knapp (SUNY-College at New Paltz) China's Folk Architecture: Aesthetic, Architectonic, and Ecological Traditions

Subsidies for Publication

• Cambridge University Press - Reconsidering Tu Fu: Literary Greatness and Cultural Context, by Eva Shan Chou, to be published in the Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature, and Institution Series (Proj Dir: Denis Twitchett)
• Cambridge University Press - From War to Nationalism: China's Turning Point, 1924-1925, by Arthur Waldron (Proj Dir: Denis Twitchett)
• Cambridge University Press - From Chronicle to Canon: the Hermeneutics of the Spring and Autumn Annals, According to Tung Chung-shu, by Sarah Queen (Proj Dir: Denis Twitchett)
• Beijing Agricultural Publishing Company - Grain Yields in China, 1700-1950 (Proj Dir: Kang Chao)
• University of Toronto - The Burdens of the May Fourth Cultural Project (Proj Dir: Milena Dolezelova-Velingerova)
• Yale University Press - Negotiating Daily Life in Medieval China: The Concerns of Ordinary People as Seen in Chinese Contracts, 600-1400, by Valerie Hansen (Proj Dir: Charles Grench)
• The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - Rethinking Early China: Pictographic Inscriptions, Decor and Religion (Proj Dir: Xiaoneng Yang)
• Stanford University Press - Bell Yung, Evelyn S. Rawski, and Rubie W. Watson, eds., Harmony and Counterpoint: Ritual Music in Chinese Context (Proj Dir: John R. Ziemer)
• Stanford University Press - Word Order Change and Grammaticalization in the History of Chinese, by Chaofen Sun (Proj Dir: Muriel Bell)
• University of Hawaii Press - Inquiry into the Origin of Humanity: an Annotated Translation of Tsung-mi's Yuan Jen Lun with Modern Commentary, by Peter N. Gregory (Proj Dir: Patricia Crosby).

Committee on Scholarly Communication with China (CSCC)

The CSCC 1995-96 grant recipients for research in China, their topics and host institutions are as follows (* = alternate):

Graduate Program Participants

• Julie Broadwin* (University of California-San Diego) The Silkworm Breeders of Hangzhou: Women's Work and Culture in Early 20th Century Rural China; Hangzhou University
• Andrew Chittick (University of Michigan) Community and Historiography: Xiangyang in the Wei-Jin Period; Wuhan University
• John A. Crespi (University of Chicago) When Roads Diverge: Poetry, Politics, and Symbols of Nation in Wartime China, 1937-1945; Peking University
• Robert J. Culp (Cornell University) Urban Networks and the Diffusion of Revolution: Leftist Discourse in the Cities and Towns of China's Lower Yangzi Region, 1915-1927; Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
• Jay Dautcher (University of California-Berkeley) Man Sodigar: an Ethnographic Inquiry into "Doing Business" among the Uighurs of Xinjiang; Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences
• Keith Randall Sean Dede (University of Washington) The Syntax of Qinghai Chinese; Qinghai Nationalities Institute
• James Farrer* (University of Chicago) The Production of Sexual Culture in Contemporary Shanghai; Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
• Sara Lizbeth Friedman (Cornell University) Alternative Marriage Customs and Local Identity in Southeastern China: the Relationship between Talk and Social Practice; Xiamen University
• Charles S. Gitomer (University of Minnesota) Diversity of Institutional Choice in Chinese Rural Reform; Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Office of Macro-Agricultural Research
• Douglas J. Guthrie (University of California-Berkeley) Organizational Theory and Institutional Change in China's Economic Transition, 1978-94; Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
• Seth Morton Harter (University of Michigan) Collective Identity in the Pearl River Delta: Workers' Sense of Family, Class, and Nation; Zhongshan University
• Lisa Mae Hoffman* (University of California-Berkeley) Gender, Culture, and Competition: the Emergence of Dalian's Professional Management Class; Dalian University of Technology
• Andre Christopher McNally (University of Washington) Dynamos or Dinosaurs: Market Competition, Ownership Structures and Enterprise Autonomy in China's Industrial Reforms; Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
• Andrew Meyer (Harvard University) The Correct Meaning of the Five Classics; Peking University
• Jennifer Gillian Purtle (Yale University) Placing Their Mark: an Art-historical Geography of Min (Fujian) Painters of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644); Fujian Normal University
• Stephen William Schaefer (University of Chicago) Chinese Experimental Historical Fiction; East China Normal University
• Jonathan K. Skaff (University of Michigan) Military Administration of China's Northwestern Frontier during the Reign of Tan Xuanzong (712-56); Institute of Ancient Historical Literature and Documents
• Michelle Stephenson (University of Chicago) Chinese Spectatorship and Japanese Occupation Films in Shanghai, 1937-45; East China Normal University
• Janet Carol Sturgeon (Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies) People, Property, and Politics: Access and Control of Forest Resources in Southern China and Northern Thailand; Kunming Institute of Botany
• Janet L. Upton (University of Washington) Pedagogy and the Construction of Zangzu Identity in the PRC; Sichuan Provincial Nationalities Research Office
• Li Zhang (Cornell University) The Transformation of Cultural Identities among the Floating Population during China's Market Reform; Peking University

Research Program Participants

• Gina L. Barnes - with Gerald Wait(St. John's College/University of Cambridge) Archaeological Survey at Niuheliang and Investigation of the Site's Function; Liaoning Provincial Archaeological Research Institute
• Cynthia Brokaw (University of Oregon) Commercial Publishing and Popular Culture in Late Imperial China: the Zou and Ma Houses of Sibao, Fujian; Xiamen University
• Thomas Buoye (University of Tulsa) Ruler, State, and Economy in 18th Century China; Renmin University/Number One Historical Archives
• Bruce J. Dickson (George Washington University) Spatial and Temporal Variation in Chinese Communist Party Membership: Adaptation and Political Change in Post-1949 China; Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences/Institute of Asian and Pacific Studies
• Dennis A. Etler (University of California-Berkeley) Archaeological Investigations at the Yunxian Fossil Hominid Site; Hubei Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Relics
• Bryna Goodman (University of Oregon) Death in the Office: Scandal and Society in 1920s Shanghai; Fudan University
• Denise Hare* (Reed College) Labor Migration as a Development Strategy; State Council/Development Research Center
• Shu-min Huang* (Iowa State University) Privatization in Rural China; Xiamen University
• Kay Ann Johnson (Hampshire College) Child Welfare Centers and Foundling Care in Anhui; Anhui Academy of Social Sciences/Anhui Agricultural University
• Marjorie M. King* (University of Arizona) The Social Service Department at the Beijing Union Medical College Hospital; Beijing Union Medical College Hospital
• Nancy E. Riley* (Bowdoin College) Work, Wages, and Women's Family Power in Northeast China; Liaoning University/Population Research Institute
• Jerry D. Schmidt (University of British Columbia) Mid-nineteenth Century Chinese Poetry; Suzhou University/Fudan University
• Mingzheng Shi (University of Houston) Early Modernization of Beijing; Beijing Academy of Social Sciences/Institute of History
• Richard VanNess Simmons (Rutgers University) Mandarin and Wu Fringe Dialects in Zhejiang and Jiangsu; Chinese Academy of Social Sciences/Institute of Linguistics/Fudan University
• David B. Solnit (University of Michigan) The Gelao Languages of Southern China; Guizhou Nationalities Academy
• Gregory Veeck* (Louisiana State University) Resource Utilization and Agricultural Development in Northern Jiangsu, PRC; Nanjing Agricultural University
• Gerald A. Wait, with Gina Barnes (Gifford and Partners) Archaeological Survey of Stone Structures Near the Goddess Temple Site, Nuiheliang, Liaoning; Liaoning Provincial Archaeological Research Institute
• Elizabeth Wichmann (University of Hawaii-Manoa) Aesthetics and Modernization: Preservation, Development, and Performance Structure in Shanghai-style (haipai) Beijing Opera; Shanghai Beijing Opera Company
• Xiushi Yang (Old Dominion University) Determinants of Long-term Rural Outmigration in Contemporary China; Hangzhou University/Population Research Institute
• Qiang Zhai* (Auburn University-Montgomery) Chiang Kai-shek and Decolonization in Asia During World War II; Nanjing University
• Jian-Hua Zhu* (University of Connecticut) Professional Values, Norms, and Skills: a Sociological Profile of Chinese Journalists; Chinese Academy of Social Sciences/Journalism Research Institute

Overseas Ministries Study Center Grants

The Overseas Ministries Study Center (OMSC) grant program is designed to support both younger scholars undertaking dissertation field research and established scholars engaged in major writing projects dealing with mission and Christianity in the non-western world. The following persons received grants to conduct research and writing on Asian topics:

Postdoctoral Book Research and Writing

• Gail O. King (Brigham Young University) Candida Xu and the Growth of Christianity in Seventeenth Century China
• Peter Cho Phan (Catholic University of America) Religious Inculturation into the Vietnamese Society: a Study of Alexandre de Rhodes' Contribution to Vietnamese Culture
• Adelbert Agustin Sitompul (Nommensen University) Batak Proverbs: Resources for Contextual Mission, Education and Worship in Christian Churches of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia

Dissertation Field Research

• May M. Cheng (University of Hong Kong) Christianity Fever: Contagion and Constraint of a Religious Movement in Contemporary China
• Lars Peter Laamann (School of Oriental and African Studies/University of London) The Acculturation and Development of Chinese Christianity during the Eighteenth Century
• Susan E. Malone (Indiana University) Cooperating for Literacy: the Relationship between Government and Non-government Organizations in Papua New Guinea

The Japan Foundation Awards

The Japan Foundation sponsors grant programs for a range of fields and interests. Awards are made on the bases of scholarly and professional quality, the project's contribution to a better understanding of Japanese culture, arts, language and society and to the promotion of Japanese cultural relations between Japan and the world. A list of 1994-95 awards is as follows:

Research Fellowships (affiliations not cited in announcement)

• Phyllis Birnbaum - Portraits from the Japanese Arts
• Peter Kees Bol (Harvard University) The Reconceptualization of Oriental History in Japan
• Michael Cusumano (Sloan School of Management/MIT) Beyond Japan's Software Factories: Managing the Evolution of Computer Technology
• Winston Davis (Washington and Lee University) The Political and Ethical Thought of Kato Hiroyuki
• Theodore Foulk (University of Michigan) Zen Buddhist Monastic Reforms in Tokugawa Period Japan
• Scott Harrison (Harvard Law School Library) Survey of Japanese Electronic Information Sources
• James Huffman (Wittenberg University) The Press in Meiji Japan: a Political History
• Keiko Ikeda (Barnard College) Changing Gender Relationships among Japanese Couples of Retirement Age
• Takako Kishima (Harvard University) Transcending Modernity: Japan's Cultural Scheme for Social Transformations
• Sharalyn Orbaugh (University of California-Berkeley) Through a Distorted Mirror: Images of Self and Other in the Japanese Fiction of the Occupational Period
• Kang Hoon Park (Southeast Missouri State University) Comparative Study on Economic Growth and Distributional Equality: Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
• Quitman Phillips (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Portraiture in Japan from 1475 to 1525
• Luke Roberts (University of California-Santa Barbara) Samurai Social and Political History through Samurai Diaries of the Kansei Reform Period
• Stephen Snyder (University of Colordao-Boulder) Half-world Fictions: Representing the Japanese Demimonde
• Mark Tilton (Purdue University) The Politics of Anti-trust in the U.S. and Japan
• John Tucker (University of North Florida) Legitimizing Watakushi: Transformation of Japanese Conceptions of the Private Sphere in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan

Doctoral Fellowships

• Peter Boberg (University of Michigan) A Revised Model of the Japanese Firm
• Lee Branstetter (Harvard University) Interfirm Alliances and Corporate Performance in the Japanese Economy
• Jonathan Dresner (Harvard University) Emigration and Opportunity in Late Meiji Rural Villages
• Teruko Kawashima (Harvard University) Marginalized Women and Divine Performance in 12th Century Japan: an Examination of Ryojin Hisho and Its Context
• Kiyomi Kutsuzawa (University of Connecticut) Shufu-Kigyo: a Study of Married Women's Collective Self-Employment in Japan
• Katherine Pak (University of Chicago) The Impact of Immigration on Japanese Society
• Simon Partner (Columbia University) The Japanese Electronics Industry in Historical Perspective: 1940-1973
• Eric Rath (University of Michigan) Warrior Patronage and the Development of Noh Theatre: 1400-1650
• Miryam Sas (Yale University) Cultural Memory and Literary Movements: Dada and Surrealism in Japan
• Franziska Seraphim (Columbia University) World War II in History and Memory: Japan and Germany, 1945-1995
• Andrew Smith (Princeton University) Japanese Dialects in the Works of Tanizaki Junichiro and Inour Hisashi
• Matthew Thorn (Columbia University) Japanese Adolescent Girls and the Comic Literature They Live By
• Linda White (University of Colorado-Boulder) The Current Feminist Movement in Japan: an Ethnographic and Comparative Analysis
• Kenneth Wilkening (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Japan and the Science and Politics of the Acid Deposition Issue in Northeast Asia

Visiting Professorship Grants (from Japan)

• Dartmouth College - for Prof Toru Mitsui, Music
• Harvard University - for Prof Isao Kumakura, Ethnology
• University of Illinois-Urbana - for Prof Masayuki Sato, Historical Writings
• University of Iowa - for Haruhiko Yoshimeki, Writer

Staff Expansion Grants

• University of California-Riverside - for Japanese Literature
• University of Florida - for Japanese Language and Literature
• Pennsylvania State University - Japanese and Comparative Literature
• SUNY at Albany - Japanese Literature and Culture

Research Grants (collaborative projects)

• Brown University - Osaka: Cultures of Dominance, Cultures of Opposition
• Cornell University - Japan Studies in the U.S.: Reassessment and Prospects in International and Interdisciplinary Contexts
• Harvard University - for Conference on Meiji Studies
• University of Iowa - Invention of Japanese Tradition
• Princeton University - Society and Popular Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Japan
• University of Texas-Austin - National Conference on Women in Japanese Culture

Conference Grants

• American Council of Learned Societies - Regional Seminars on Japan
• Portland State University - Language in Culture
• Social Science Research Council - Japan Studies Dissertation Conference

Library Support Programs (developing programs)

• Louisiana State University-Shreveport
• Thomas More College
• University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
• York College (CUNY)
• College of DuPage
• Denison University
• DePaul University
• Edmonds Community College
• Florida Atlantic University
• Fort Lewis College
• University of Richmond
• Skidmore College
• Whitworth College

Library Support Programs (established programs)

• University of California-Los Angeles
• University of California-San Diego
• Columbia University
• Duke University
• University of Illinois-Urbana
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of South Carolina

Study-in-Japan Grant Program (institutional support)

• University of Alabama
• University of Alaska-Anchorage
• Arizona State University
• Brigham Young University
• Carleton College
• East-West Fusion Theatre
• Johns Hopkins University
• Michigan State University
• Morgan State University
• Ohio State University

Publication Assistance

• Cambridge University Press for Changing the Buddha's Eyes: the Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Culture in Edo Japan
• University of Chicago Press for Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb
• Cornell University Press for Edo and Paris: the State and Urban Life in the Early Modern Period
• University of Hawaii Press for Warriors of Japan, as Portrayed in the War Tales
• University of Washington Press for Democratizing the Japanese, 1945-1948: a Prefectural View
• Yale University Press for Discontinuity and the Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Literature

Translation Assistance

• University of Hawaii Press for Japan and Indonesia in the Prewar Showa Period

Arts Programs

• Jane Chermayeff (consultant in arts education) for preliminary study of environmental exhibitions and programs
• Gloria Gonick (museum curator) to study textiles used in festival floats
• John Hilliard (composer) to create composition based on traditional Japanese music
• Ann Kaneko (filmmaker) to film Shinjuku: Where I Go to Work
• Lynn Piasecki (film producer/director) to film documentary on how the educational system affects creativity in Japan
• Margaret Prentice (professor) to study printmaking and paper making
• Eric Rudd (contemporary artist) to study multi-cultural communication in contemporary muti-media Japanese art

Film Production Support

• Christopher Beaver (IDG Films) for Nagasaki Journey
• Leigh Marcous-Devine for The Shinjinrui Get Married
• Abraham Ravette (Hampshire College) for Horse/Kappa/House
• Renee Elizabeth Tajima for Fortune Cookies: the Search for Asian America

Exhibition Assistance Program

• Echizen: Eight Hundred Years of Japanese Stoneware at The Birmingham Museum of Art (AL)
• JAPAN: A Cartographic Vision at Japan Society, Inc. (NY)
• JAPAN: The Nature of Now at Spirit Square Center fror the Arts (NC)
• Japanese Artists in Los Angeles at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (CA)
• Japanese Design: A Survey Since 1950 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Kindred Spirits at Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art (CA)
• NINGYO: The Art of the Human Figurine at Japan Society, Inc. (NY)

Salary Assistance for Full-time Japanese-Language Teachers

• The Barstow School (M)
• Episcopal of Baton Rouge (LA)
• University of North Carolina-Chapel Hil
• Oglethorpe University (GA)
• SUNY at Binghamton (NY)

Japanese-language Teaching Materials Donation Program

The Japan Foundation provides teaching materials at the college and pre-college levels, for colleges and universities, schools, and nonprofit institutions. Two hundred three institutions received materials during the grant period. They are too numerous to cite here, but congratulations are extended to all.

Training Programs for Japanese-Language Teachers

• University of Alabama for Laurie Azumi
• Aldo Leopold School (WI) for Justin Miller
• Bettendorf/Pleasant Valley High Schools (IA) for Adrianne Sheybani
• Diamond High School (AK) for Willard Staats
• Eaton Rapids High School (MI) for Judith Nixon
• Forest Park Middle School (WI) for Natalie Hoyer
• Fox Mill Elementary School (VA) for Nobuko Kochuba
• Greenfield High School (WI) for Elizabeth Borstad
• Greenville High School (MS) for Marjorie Thomas
• Holy Name of Jesus School (WI) for Judith Vandenberg
• Kenai Peninsula Borough School District (AK) for Yasuko Lehtinen
• University of Nevada-Reno for Mimi Wen-Yi Yu
• North High School (WI) for Margaret Hagmann
• Northern Marianas College (MP) for Etsuko Kinoshita
• Phillips Academy (MA) for Cyrus Rolbin
• River Falls Public School (WI) for Mary Jo Dougherty
• River Falls Public School (WI) for Karen Klink
• University of Texas-Austin for Yukie Aida
• Wauwatosa West High School (WI) for Hanako Margaret Tani
• West High School (WI) for Karen Hendrickson

Japanese-Language Study Program for Librarians

• University of California (Northern Regional Library Facility) for Gustavo Caldas

Development of Japanese-Language Printed Resources

• The California Association of Japanese Language Schools, Inc. for Elementary Japanese

Japanese-Language Conference/Seminars/Workshops

• Washington Association of Teachers of Japanese
• Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

J. Paul Getty Awards

The J. Paul Getty Trust annually awards postdoctoral fellowships in the history of art and the humanities. One Asianist received a 1995-96 award for her work:

• Amy Elspeth McNair (Univeristy of Kansas) Rhetorical Function of Buddhist Art in a Confucian Society: Patronage at the Longmen Cave-shrines under the Reign of Empress Wu

NEH Project Grants 1995

Out of 27 research projects in translations, the National Foundation for the Humanities awarded five to persons working on Asian topics. The project grants for fiscal year 1995 are as follows:

• T. Griffith Foulk - Rules of Purity for Ch'an Monasteries and Related Chinese Buddhist Monastic Codes
• Thomas M. Hunter, Jr. - Sekar Iniket: an Anthology of Old Javanese Literature
• Roderick L. MacFarquhar (Harvard University) The Chinese Communist Revolution: Mao Zedong's Pre-1949 Works
• Jan Nattier (Indiana University) The Inquiry of Ugra, an Early Mahayana Buddhist Scripture
• David T. Roy (University of Chicago) The Plum in the Golden Vase, a 16th-century Chinese Novel

SSRC Announces Abe Fellowships

The Abe Fellowship Program is administered by the Social Science Research Council in cooperation with the American Council of Learned Societies with funding provided by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership. The sixteen fellows receiving Abe awards for 1994-95 are:

• Naoyuki Agawa (Gibson, Dunn and Cruther) The Law's Response to Discrimination in the United States: a Case Study of the Relationship between Law and Society in America
• Mary Brinton (University of Chicago) The School-Work Transition: a Comparative Study of Three Industrial Sectors
• Laurie Freeman (Harvard University) Comparative Media Institutions and the US-Japan Relationship
• Tony Freyer (University of Alabama) Regulatory Harmonization, the World Trade Organization, and Japanese Antitrust
• Andrew Horvat (Stanford University) Will Japanese Become an International Language?
• Susan Long (John Carroll University) Bioethics and Culture: End-of-life Decision Making in Cultural Context
• Michael Mastanduno (Dartmouth College) The United States, Japan, and the International Sources of National Economic Competition
• Deborah Milly (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) The Comparative Development of Policies toward Foreign Migrant Labor in Asia: Institutions and the Impact of Transnational and Subnational Networks on State Policies
• Yutaka Osada (Surugudai University) U.S. Policy Attitudes to a Regulatory Framework of Contemporary International Civil Aviation
• Susan Pharr (Harvard University) Political Ethics and Public Trust
• Iwaaki Sato (Sophia University) Comparison of Debtor-creditor Law in the U.S. with That in Japan
• Tatsujiro Suzuki (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Maintaining the Plutonium Technology Option: Reconciling Non-proliferation and Energy Security Concerns
• Steven Vogel (University of California-Irvine) When Domestic Politics Meets International Economics
• Hyuck-Soo Yoo (Yokohama National University) The Viability of the Co-existence of Section 301 and the New WTO System
• Akihiro Yoshikawa (Stanford University) How Does Japan Do It? A Quantitative Analysis of the Japanese Health Care System
• Daizaburo Yui (Hitotsubashi University) From Exclusion to Integration: Socio-historical Studies on the Process of Repealing the Anti-Asian Immigration Laws in the U.S.

SSRC Joint Committee Selections

Joint Committee on Japanese Studies-Dissertation Writeup Fellowships

• Timothy George (Harvard University) Minamata: Power, Policy, and Citizenship in Postwar Japan
• Kyu Hyun Kim (Harvard University) The State Civil Society, and Institutional Representation in Early Meiji Japan: Ideologies and Politics of the Popular Rights Movement, 1873-1890
• David Moerman (Stanford University) Local Paradises and the Theater of State: Kumano Pilgrimage in Early Medieval Japan
• Christiana Norgren (Columbia University) A Comparative Study of Japanese Reproductive Policy and Ideology
• Takeyuki Tsuda (University of California-Berkeley) Strangers in their Homeland: the Ethnic Adaptation of Japanese-Brazilian Return Migrants and the Japanese Sociocultural Response
• Gennifer Weisenfeld (Princeton University) Murayama, Mavo, and Modernity: Constructions of the Modern in Taisho Period Avant-Garde Art

Japanese Studies-Advanced Research Grants

• Paul Berry (University of Washington-Seattle) The Artistic Identity of Japanese Painters under the Impact of War and Peace from the Late 1920s to the Early 1960s
• Suzanne Culter (McGill University) The Social Care of Abandoned Children of Foreign Workers in Japan
• Laura Hein (Northwestern University) The Relation between Democracy and Capitalism in Postwar Japan
• Eiko Ikegami (Yale University) The Origins and Development of Japanese Civility
• Ann Jannetta (University of Pittsburgh) The Early 19th-century Vaccination Movement and the Rise of the Medical System in Japan
• Mark Mason (Yale University) Historical Analysis of the Role of Japanese Multinationals in East Asian Integration
• Matthew Mizenko (Haverford College) The Narratives of Internationalization and Negotiations of Identity in the Case of Nitobe Inazo
• Michael Molasky (Connecticut College) Women's Literature during the Postwar American Occupation Period
• Jennifer Robertson (University of Michigan) The Uses of Theater as a Technology of Japanese Imperialism during the Interwar Period, 1931-1945
• Richard Smethurst (University of Pittsburgh) Takahashi Korekiyo and Economic Policy in Japan during the Depression, 1931-1936
• Anne Walthall (University of California-Irvine) Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration
• David Weinstein (Harvard University) The Role of Exports in Japanese Economic Development

Joint Committee on Korean Studies-Dissertation Research Fellowhips

• Byung Yool Ban (University of Hawaii-Manoa) Korean Revolutionary Movement in China and Russia in Early 20th-century
• Kyung Moon Hwang (Harvard University) An Examination of the Transformation of the Structure and Personnel of Korean Bureaucracy in Late 19th- and Early 20th-century
• Andrew Killick (University of Washington-Seattle) Social History and Ethnographic Study of Korean Opera in P'ansori Style
• Alexandre Mansourov (Columbia University) The Role of Civilian-military Conflict in North Korea in the Origins of the Korean War
• Sunwoong Park (University of California-Los Angeles) The Causes of the Recent Transition to Democracy in South Korea
• Jiweon Shin (Harvard University) The Institutionalization of Christianity in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan

Korean Studies-Advanced Research Grants

• Anthony D'Costa (University of Washington-Tacoma) Industrial Maturity and the Case of the South Korean Steel Industry
• Michael Kalton (University of Washington-Tacoma) Survey History of Neo-Confucian Thought during the Choson Dynasty
• Jim Yong Kim (Harvard Medical School) Pharmaceuticals and the Political Economy of Meaning in South Korea
• Nancy Steinhardt (University of Pennsylvania) Koguryo Funerary Space and Its North Asian Context

Joint Committee on South Asia-Predissertation Awards

• Semanti Ghosh (Tufts University) Whose Nation? In Search of Identities in Colonial and Post-colonial Bengal 1905-1971
• Gregory Grieve (University of Chicago) Symbolic Space and Social Power: Community, Hierarchy and Sanctity in a Nepalese Temple Complex
• Mursaleena Islam (University of Illinois-Urbana) Economic Assessment of Sustainability: the Case of Water Resource Development (Irrigation and Flood Control) Programs in Bangladesh
• Jeffery Kile (University of California-Berkeley) Emotion and Change in Sexual Culture: Response to AIDS among Young Men of India and Pakistan
• Katherine Komenda (University of California-Santa Barbara) The Ritual Link: Uncovering Bengal Cultural Identity through Explorations of Village Religiosity
• Laura Kunreuther (University of Michigan) The Currency of Secrets
• Carole McGranahan (University of Michigan) Khampas in Kathmandu: Preparation for Fieldwork in Historical Anthropology
• Laura Miller (New York University) Animal Economies and Urban Provisioning at Harappa
• Robert Rozehnal (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Sufis, Shaykhs, and Shrines: Muslim Central Identity in Punjab, Pakistan

South Asia-Dissertation Awards

• Zahir Ahmed (University of Sussex) Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agricultural Activity in the Coastal Area of Bangladesh
• Jody Dick (Princeton University) Contested Tradition: Negotiations of Female Renouncer Practice in Sri Lanka
• Anjan Ghosh (University of Michigan) Rumor, Gossip and Communal Strife in Bangladesh and West Bengal, 1946-1994
• Pika Ghosh (University of Pennsylvania) Bengali Temple Terracotta from Mid-17th to Mid-18th Centuries: a Cultural Reassessment
• Robert Nichols (University of Pennsylvania) Autonomy and Empire: a Social History of the Yusufzai of Peshawar, 1700-1900
• Erin O'Donnell (University of Chicago) Ritwik Ghatak's Films: the Construction and Perpetuation of Popular Memory in Post-independence Bengal
• Anupama Rao (University of Michigan) Charting Dalit Women's History: Narratives of Caste and Gender in Maharashtra, 1818-1994
• James Reeves (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Introduction of Capitalist Business Relations and Discipline to Nepal
• John Roosa (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Nationalism, Islam, Monarchy: Hyderabad, 1880-1948
• Sayeeda Saikia (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Identities at the Crossroads: Dialoguing to be "Tai-Ahom" in Contemporary India
• Rahnuma Shehabuddin (Princeton University) Unveiling Resistance: Women's Struggles in South Asia
• Hugh Urban, Jr. (University of Chicago) Secret Bodies: Revisioning the Body and the Social Body in the Vaisnava-Sahajiya Tradition of Bengal

South Asia-Postdoctoral Awards

• William Fisher (Harvard University) Old Artificers in a New Smithy: Forging Ethnicity and Nationalism in Contemporary Nepal
• Indira Peterson (Mount Holyoke College) The Play of the Fortune-teller and the Birdcatcher: Discourses of Identity in an 18th-century Indian Literary Genre
• Sara Dickey (Bowdoin College) The Intimate Relations of Class and Power: Domestic Service in Urban India

Joint Committee on Southeast Asia-Predissertaiton Awards

• William Cummings (University of Hawaii-Manoa) Precolonial State and Social Structures and the Subsequent Impact of Colonial Rule in the Kingdom of Gowa, South Sulawesi
• Chan Ngoc Le (University of California-Berkeley) The Interplay between Music and Society in the Quan Ho Tradition
• Suzanne Moon (Cornell University) Agricultural Technology Transfer and Development in the Netherlands East Indies, 1900-1940
• Ingrid Muan (Columbia University) Cultural Production and Alternative "Modern" Artistic Practice in Cambodia
• Natalie Quizon (University of Washington) The Philippines as Transnational Terrain

Southeast Asia-Dissertation Fellowships

• Joshua Barker (Cornell University) Technology and Culture in West Java Since 1875
• Caroline Cleaves (University of Chicago) The Cultural Meaning of Transnational Migration in a Tagalog Community, the Philippines
• Amity Doolittle (Yale University) Patterns of Resource Ownership and Use in Sabah, Malaysia
• Thamora Fishel (Cornell University) Gender and the Culture of Local Politics in Thailand
• Ethan Mark (Columbia University) Culture and Communication between Japanese and Indonesians, 1942-1945
• Harriet Phinney (University of Washington) Reproductive Strategies among the Kinh in Northern Vietnam
• Jacqueline Siapno (University of California-Berkeley) Islam, Gender Relations, and Discourses of Power in Aceh, Indonesia

Southeast Asia-Advanced Research Grants

• Hildred Geertz (Princeton University) Social History and Artistry in a Balinese Temple
• Kenneth George (Harvard University) Contemporary Muslim Artist and Art Public in Indonesia
• Daniel Lev (University of Washington) Professionalism and Change in Indonesia and Malaysia
• Sally Ness (University of California-Riverside) Philippine Tourism and Post-independence Identity

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars announced the appointment of 31 fellows for the academic year 1995-96, of whom three are working on Asian topics. The Center accepts applications from candidates of any nationality. The deadline for the next competition is October 1, 1995. For information and application materials, call the Fellowships Office 202-357-2841. This year's recipients are:

• Richard M. Eaton (University of Arizona) Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1700
• Allen S. Witing (University of Arizona) Security Perspectives in East Asia
• André Wink (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Al-Hind: the Making of the Indo-Islamic World

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation named fifteen winners in the Women's Studies category, of whom one is working on an Asian topic. Funding is from the Ford Foundation, the Philip Morris Companies, Inc., and other donors. The winning Asia scholar is:

• Lida Junghans (Harvard University) The Household, the Family, and the Work Unit: Reconfiguring Public and Private in Contemporary China

Mellon Talent Search

Of ninety-seven Mellon Fellows in Humanistic Studies selected in the 1995 competition, two are working on Asian topics. The program is administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The 1995 winners are:

• Antonio C. Tavares (Bristol, CT) Chinese history
• Jing Y. Tsu (Farmington, NM) East Asian Rhetoric

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