Announcing the Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies' 2019 Grant Recipients
May 30, 2019
The Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies has awarded grants to thirty-six scholars who will research and write about China’s religions, economic systems, histories, art, cinema, environment, and technologies.
Academic work is supported through three award categories: Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants for PhD students traveling to China as preparation for dissertation research; Postdoctoral Fellowships for early-career scholars; and Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grants for teams of multidisciplinary scholars examining Chinese texts.
Doctoral Student, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
Columbia University In Search of the Commune: China's Cultural Experiments for a New Society (1947 to 1962)
Doctoral Student, History
University of Chicago Wheels and Sweat: Bicycles, Wheelbarrows, and Horse-Drawn Carts in the Everyday Life of Socialist China, 1949 to 1976
Doctoral Candidate, Early China
University of Pennsylvania Theories of Human Nature (Xing) in Early China (5th c. BCE–2nd c. CE) and Their Implications
Doctoral Student, History
Northwestern University The Vietnamese Revolutionary Underground: Vietnamese Revolutionary Networks in South China c. 1900 to 1940
Doctoral Student, History
University of Wisconsin-Madison Creating a Religious Diaspora: Travelling Clergy Across Chinese Worlds in the Twentieth Century
Doctoral Student, History
University of Chicago Negotiating Extraterritoriality at the Southwestern Frontier: Grassroots Strategies and Colonial Knowledge in Late Qing China (1860 to 1911)
Doctoral Student, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Columbia University Omens of a Revolution: Making Paranormal Knowledge and Bodies in Post-Mao China
Doctoral Student, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Columbia University Revolution on Air: Radio Technology and Socialist Culture in China’s Global Engagement
Doctoral Student, Premodern Chinese Literature
Columbia University Inscribing the “Airs” of Suzhou: Vernacular Soundscape, Local Knowledge, and Cultural Hybridity in Early Modern China, 1450 to 1650
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures, and Religious Studies
University of Oregon Water Control and Political Culture in Early Imperial China
Assistant Professor, Sociology
University of Hawaii at Manoa Capitalism Out of the Shadow: The Emergence and Transformation of China's Education and Training Industry
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Art and Design History and Theory
Parsons School of Design The Empire’s New Cloth: Western Textiles at the Eighteenth Century Qing Court
Assistant Professor, Film and Media Studies
State University of New York, College at Purchase Sounding Screen Ambiance: Acoustic Culture and Transmediality in 1920s-1940s Chinese Cinema
Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grants
"How Can We Talk about the Ritual of Yin?" Warring States Perceptions of Shang Civilization in the Light of the Tsinghua Manuscripts
