The Esherick-Ye Foundation is pleased to announce the results of its inaugural competition for small grants of up to $5,000 to support projects in modern Chinese economic, social, and political history or archaeology. Congratulations to the 2017 grant recipients, whose publications to date are also listed:
Clayton Brown, assistant professor, Utah State University. “Preserving China’s Past: Sino-American Collaboration in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management,”
Katherine Brunson, postdoctoral fellow, Brown University. “The Oracle Bone Project: Tracing the Spread and Development of Oracle Bone Divination in Ancient China.”
Aaron Glasserman, PhD student, Columbia University. “Islamic Death, Islamic Revival: Cemeteries, Religion and State in Modern China.”
Koji Hirata, PhD candidate, Stanford University. “Steel Metropolis: Industrial Manchuria and the Making of Chinese Socialism, 1909-1964.”
Yitzchak Jaffe, visiting assistant professor, New York University. “Shandong fieldwork on Cooking and Ceramics in the Late Shang and Early Zhou Period”
Carl E. Kubler, PhD student, University of Chicago. “Living on the Empire’s Edge: Cooperation, Conflict and Continuity on the South China Coast, 1796-1850.”
Natasha Kristine Osing, PhD candidate, University of British Columbia. “Investigation into the Habitual Practice of Kneeling During the Late Shang Period.”
Shan Windscript, PhD candidate, University of Melbourne. “Diary Writing in the Chinese Cultural Revolution.”
Jongsik Yi, PhD student, Cornell University. “Fruits of Socialism: State-owned Horticultural Stations, the Municipal Fruit Company, and the Interactions between the State, Society, and Environment in Communist Chengdu.”