The Esherick-Ye Foundation is pleased to announce the results of its 2025 competition for grants to support project fieldwork in modern Chinese economic, social, and political history or archaeology. Congratulations to all recipients.
Jason CHAN, Ph.D. student, Harvard University. “Forging the Third Pole: Permafrost Science and the Trans-Polar History of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, 1954-2006”
Gaoziyan CUI, Ph.D. student, UC Santa Barbara. “Claiming the Black Gold: The Superiority of Rights in the Tungsten Industry of China, 1907-present”
Junyi HAN, Ph.D. student, Yale University. “Borders of Conflicts: The Collapse of the Sino-Vietnamese Alliance in Cold War Yunnan, 1964-1993”
Shumeng HAN, Ph.D. student, UC San Diego. “The Kernel of Innovation: The Politics of Agricultural Innovation and Wheat Variety Changes in Rural Sha’anxi, 1930-1980”
Christoph Alexander HESS, Ph.D. student, University of Cambridge. “Household Structure and the Standard of Living in pre-Industrial China c. 1650-1950”
Ariadin JONES, Ph.D. student, UCLA. “Tracing the Tools of Violence: A Bioarchaeological Study of the Mogou Cemetery”
Zhaorui LU, Ph.D. student, UC Irvine. “Caring for the People: Gender, Grassroots Politics, and State-building in the PRC 1949-1990s”
Ashley SHULTS, Ph.D. student, UC Riverside. “A Bioarchaeological Study of Daily Life and Identity During the Tang-Song Transition”
Yiyi TANG, Ph.D. student, Dartmouth College. “Exploring State Formation Through Food: Rice Consumption in the Late Neolithic Liangzhu Culture in Southern China”
Anke WANG, Ph.D. student, Cornell University. “Nature, Sovereignty and Development in the Gulf of Tonkin (1880-1970)”
Yen Chun WANG, Ph.D. student, UCLA. “Production Organization and Consumer Culture in Sugar Production of Early Taiwan: An Archaeological Perspective”
Shuhui ZHOU, Ph.D. student, University of Washington. “Karstic Borderlandsand Non-state Power: Environmental Governmentality in the Qing Era Wuling Mountains”
Yuwei ZHOU, Ph.D. student, University of Chicago. “Life and Death in a Shang City: Mortuary and Urban Landscapes of Late Shang (1250-1046 BC) Anyang, China”