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AAS CIAC Small Grant Awards for 2008

The China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC) of the AAS provides annual awards of up to $2,000 to scholars with special interests in China or Inner Asia.

Applicants must be AAS members, but there are no citizenship requirements. Junior and independent scholars, adjunct faculty, and dissertation-level graduate students are especially encouraged to apply. Application procedures are available on the AAS website. For questions, please e-mail Timothy Cheek at t.cheek@ubc.ca.

CIAC Grants for 2008 were awarded to:

Clayton Brown, “Making the Majority: Defining Han Chinese Identity in Chinese Ethnology and Archeology.”

Jie Guo, “The Connoisseur’s Eye: van Gulik Reading Late Ming Erotic Prints.”

Enze Han, “Ethnic Minorities in 21st Century P.R.C.”

Ke Li, “Migrant Rural Women and Divorce Lawsuits in 21st Century P.R.C.”

Sam Liang, “Alleyways and Villas: Spaces and Images of Home in Semicolonial Shanghai, 1900-1949.”

Jennifer Liu, “Nationalism and Guomindang Policy on Secondary Education in Southwest China and Taiwan, 1937-1960.”

Katherine Mason, “Lived Experiences of Public Health Professionals in Guangzhou and Shenzhen.”

Kate Merkel-Hess, “A New People: Rural Modernity in Republican China.”

Dongyun Ni, “Attending the Summer Institute for Chinese Studies Libriarianship Training.”

Leander Seah, “Jinan University and Chinese Education As Case Studies for the Chinese Diaspora.”

Karen Sullivan, “Determinants of Forestry Property Rights and Implications for the Sustainability of China’s Forests.”

Kiril Tochkov, “Growth and Regional Inequality in China: Evidence from Country-level Data.”

Po-wei Weng, “Ethnomusicological Study of Taiwanese Glove Puppetry.”

Enhua Zhang, Attendance of the “Writing under Socialism Conference” in the UK.