Long-Term Research Fellowships in China sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

FAIN: RA-235158-16

American Council of Learned Societies Devoted to Humanistic Studies (New York, NY 10017-6706)
Andrzej W. Tymowski (Project Director: August 2015 to March 2021)

27 months of stipend support (2-4 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

This proposal seeks funding from the NEH for the period beginning January 1, 2017 and ending June 30, 2020 to support research fellowships in China Studies. We have successfully administered longterm postdoctoral fellowships in China Studies since 1995, providing scholars with access to archives and other collections in China, and nurturing collegiality among U.S. scholars and their Chinese counterparts. We seek to continue our record of achievement in this field with the proposed program, which will offer NEH-funded fellowships to fellows conducting research on China. (edited by NEH staff)

Associated Products

The Evolution of the Chinese Internet: Creative Visibility in the Digital Public (Book)
Title: The Evolution of the Chinese Internet: Creative Visibility in the Digital Public
Author: Shaohua Gao
Abstract: Despite widespread consensus that China's digital revolution was sure to bring about massive democratic reforms, such changes have not come to pass. While scholars and policy makers alternate between predicting change and disparaging a stubbornly authoritarian regime, in this book Shaohua Guo demonstrates how this dichotomy misses the far more complex reality. The Evolution of the Chinese Internet traces the emergence and maturation of one of the most creative digital cultures in the world through four major technological platforms: the bulletin board system, the blog, the microblog, and WeChat. Guo transcends typical binaries of freedom and control, to argue that Chinese Internet culture displays a uniquely sophisticated interplay between multiple extremes, and that its vibrancy is dependent on these complex negotiations. In contrast to the flourishing of research findings on what is made invisible online, this book examines the driving mechanisms that grant visibility to particular kinds of user-generated content. Offering a systematic account of how and why an ingenious Internet culture has been able to thrive, Guo highlights the pivotal roles that media institutions, technological platforms, and creative practices of Chinese netizens have played in shaping culture on- and offline.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32857
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Type: Single author monograph

The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China (Book)
Title: The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China
Author: Peter Lavelle
Abstract: In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by an unprecedented conjunction of natural disasters, domestic rebellions, and foreign incursions. The imperial government responded to these calamities by introducing an array of new policies and institutions to bolster its power across its massive territories. In the process, Qing officials launched campaigns for natural resource development, seeking to take advantage of the unexploited lands, waters, and minerals of the empire’s vast hinterlands and borderlands. In this book, Peter B. Lavelle uses the life and career of Chinese statesman Zuo Zongtang (1812–1885) as a lens to explore the environmental history of this era. Although known for his pacification campaigns against rebel movements, Zuo was at the forefront of the nineteenth-century quest for natural resources. Influenced by his knowledge of nature, geography, and technology, he created government bureaus and oversaw state-funded projects to improve agriculture, sericulture, and other industries in territories across the empire. His work forged new patterns of colonial development in the Qing empire’s northwest borderlands, including Xinjiang, at a time when other empires were scrambling to secure access to resources around the globe. Weaving a narrative across the span of Zuo’s lifetime, The Profits of Nature offers a unique approach to understanding the dynamic relationship among social crises, colonialism, and the natural world during a critical juncture in Chinese history, between the high tide of imperial power in the eighteenth century and the challenges of modern state-building in the twentieth century.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-profits-of-nature/9780231194709
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Type: Single author monograph

Water Control and Policy-Making in the Shiji and Hanshu (Book Section)
Title: Water Control and Policy-Making in the Shiji and Hanshu
Author: Luke Habberstad
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2021
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Book Title: Technical Arts in the Han Histories: Tables and Treatises in the Shiji and Hanshu

Toward Simla: Proposing Provinces and Claiming Territory on the Tibetan Plateau (Book Section)
Title: Toward Simla: Proposing Provinces and Claiming Territory on the Tibetan Plateau
Author: Scott Relyea
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2022
Publisher: Routledge India
Book Title: Boundaries and Borderlands: A Hundred Years after the 1914 Simla Conference

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