China Studies Research Fellowships

FAIN: RA-50125-13

American Council of Learned Societies Devoted to Humanistic Studies (New York, NY 10017-6706)
Steven C. Wheatley (Project Director: August 2012 to July 2024)

Twenty-seven months of stipend support (3 to 4 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

This proposal seeks funding to support China Studies research fellowships. 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 54 NEH-funded fellowship months per year to fellows conducting research in China.

Associated Products

Rethinking the spread of agriculture to the Tibetan Plateau (Article)
Title: Rethinking the spread of agriculture to the Tibetan Plateau
Author: Jade d'Alpoim Guedes
Author: Hongliang Lu
Author: Anke M. Hein
Author: Amanda H. Schmidt
Abstract: not available
Year: 2015
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: The Holocene, Vol. 25 Issue 9

Early Evidence for the use of Wheat and Barley as Staple Crops on the Margins of the Tibetan Plateau (Article)
Title: Early Evidence for the use of Wheat and Barley as Staple Crops on the Margins of the Tibetan Plateau
Author: Jade d'Alpoim Guedes
Abstract: not available
Year: 2015
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences

The People Eat for Free and the Art of Collective Production in Maoist China (Article)
Title: The People Eat for Free and the Art of Collective Production in Maoist China
Author: Christine I Ho
Abstract: The Jiangsu Chinese Painting Academy's 1958 brush-and-ink painting The People Eat for Free was acclaimed as an exemplary work of collective production (jiti chuangzuo) in the early People's Republic of China. Within a history of theorizing communal creativity, collective production began as a practice of populist nationalism and became the medium of participatory socialism. An examination of the multiple versions and drafts surrounding the painting reveals the contested process of collective production and renders visible intersecting forms of state, official, artistic, and mass participation, while demonstrating the experimental nature of the socialist representational project.
Year: 2016
Primary URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00043079.2016.1150755
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: The Art Bulletin 98, no. 3

From Madness to Mental Illness: The Achievements and Limits of Western Psychiatric Philanthropy in Republican Beijing (Book Section)
Title: From Madness to Mental Illness: The Achievements and Limits of Western Psychiatric Philanthropy in Republican Beijing
Author: Emily Baum
Abstract: not available
Year: 2016
Publisher: Shanghai: Commercial Press
Book Title: Western Medicine in China, 1800-1950

Healthy Minds, Compliant Citizens: The Politics of 'Mental Hygiene' in China, 1928-1937 (Article)
Title: Healthy Minds, Compliant Citizens: The Politics of 'Mental Hygiene' in China, 1928-1937
Author: Emily Baum
Abstract: not available
Year: 2017
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Twentieth-Century China 42, no.3

Chinese Psychiatric Welfare in Historical Perspective (Book Section)
Title: Chinese Psychiatric Welfare in Historical Perspective
Author: Emily Baum
Editor: Paul Kadetz
Editor: Beatriz Carillo Garcia
Editor: Johanna Hood
Abstract: not available
Year: 2017
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Book Title: Handbook of Welfare in China

Choosing Cures for Mental Ills: Psychiatry and Chinese Medicine in Early Twentieth-Century China (Article)
Title: Choosing Cures for Mental Ills: Psychiatry and Chinese Medicine in Early Twentieth-Century China
Author: Emily Baum
Abstract: not available
Year: 2018
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Asian Review of World Histories 6, no. 1

Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India (Book)
Title: Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India
Author: Andrew Liu
Abstract: A history of capitalism in nineteenth‑ and twentieth‑century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries. Tea remains the world’s most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, Andrew B. Liu challenges past economic histories premised on the technical “divergence” between the West and the Rest, arguing instead that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capital accumulation across Asia. He shows how competitive pressures compelled Chinese merchants to adopt abstract industrial conceptions of time, while colonial planters in India pushed for labor indenture laws to support factory-style tea plantations. Characterizations of China and India as premodern backwaters, he explains, were themselves the historical result of new notions of political economy adopted by Chinese and Indian nationalists, who discovered that these abstract ideas corresponded to concrete social changes in their local surroundings. Together, these stories point toward a more flexible and globally oriented conceptualization of the history of capitalism in China and India.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/title/1148877434
Publisher: Yale University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780300243734
Copy sent to NEH?: No

Prizes

The Ralph Gomory prize
Date: 1/1/2022
Organization: Business History Conference
Abstract: The Ralph Gomory prize recognizes historical work on the effects of business enterprises on the economic conditions of the countries in which they operate.

Drawing from Life: Sketching and Socialist Realism in the People’s Republic of China (University of California Press, 2020) (Book)
Title: Drawing from Life: Sketching and Socialist Realism in the People’s Republic of China (University of California Press, 2020)
Author: Christine Ho
Abstract: Drawing from Life explores revolutionary drawing and sketching in the early People’s Republic of China (1949–1965) in order to discover how artists created a national form of socialist realism. Tracing the development of seminal works by the major painters Xu Beihong, Wang Shikuo, Li Keran, Li Xiongcai, Dong Xiwen, and Fu Baoshi, author Christine I. Ho reconstructs how artists grappled with the representational politics of a nascent socialist art. The divergent approaches, styles, and genres presented in this study reveal an art world that is both heterogeneous and cosmopolitan. Through a history of artistic practices in pursuit of Maoist cultural ambitions—to forge new registers of experience, new structures of feeling, and new aesthetic communities—this original book argues that socialist Chinese art presents a critical, alternative vision for global modernism.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520309623/drawing-from-life
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780520309623

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