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. For further information please visit the "Grants and Fellowships" main page.
CIAC Grants for 2011 were awarded to:
Organization of Conferences and Seminars
Francesca Fiaschetti & Julia Schneider; LMU Munich University & University of Ghent; “Ethnicity and Sinicization Reconsidered: Workshop on non-Han Empires in China”
Joanne N. Smith Finley; Newcastle University; “Uyghur Youth Identities in Urban Xinjiang”
Short Research Travel - Professors/Independent Scholars
Tami Blumenfield; Portland State University; “Projecting Na Voices: Developing a Curricular DVD”
Shin-yi Chao; Rutgers University; “Our Lady on the Mountain: Religious Revivalism in Communist China”
Paul E. Festa; Stanford University; “Neither Black Cat nor White Cat: The Informal Economy in Contemporary China”
Eric D. Mortensen; Guilford College; “Digital Compendium and Analysis of Performances of Ye Ren (Giant) Stories in Gyalthang, P.R.C.”
David Mozin & Mark Meulenbeld; University of North Carolina, Charlotte & University of Wisconsin, Madison; “Zhengyi Ordination jiao: Daoist and Local Nuo Ritual Traditions in Central Hunan”
Leslie Wang; University of British Columbia,” Child Abandonment and Orphanage Care in Beijing and Hunan”
Short Research Travel - Graduate Students
Britt L. Crow; University of California Los Angeles; “Social and Ecological Impact of the South-North Water Transfer Project”
Katie Dimmery; Indiana University; “Contemporary Dongba Art in Muli, China”
Daisy Yan Du; University of Wisconsin, Madison; “Pictures in Motion: The Trans-National Animation Film in 1940s-1970s China”
Saehoon Kim; Harvard University; “Spreading-Out China: Environmental Resources and Urbanization in the Changjiang Delta Region”
Hamsa Rajan; University of Oxford; “Gender-based Violence in Qinghai Province, China”
Suzanne E. Scoggins; University of California – Berkeley; “Policing China: Effective Policing Practices and Bureaucratic Structure in the PRC”
Xia Shi; University of California, Irvine; “Republican Ladies: Gender, Philanthropy and Social Networks in Early Twentieth-Century China”
Luman Wang; University of Southern California; “State and Market, Hinterland and Coast: Shanxi Draft Firms, 1820s–1930s”
Mi Zhao; University of Oregon; “Singing Girl-Prostitute-Revolutionary Artist: Female Entertainers across the Revolutionary Divide of 1949”
Translation of Scholarly Books/Articles
Jeremy Brown & Matthew David Johnson; Simon Fraser University & Grinnell College: ha Qingqing, “Tianjin Earthquake Diary, 1976: Private Jolts and Public Tremors at the End of the Mao Era” for their volume Between Revolution and Reform: China at the Grassroots.
Cho-ying Li; National Tsing Ha University, “Chinese Translation of Charles Hartman’s Scholarship on Song Dynasty Historiography”
Jing Li & Thomas DuBois; Gettysburg College & National University of Singapore; “New Themes and Perspectives in Contemporary Chinese Folklore Studies”
