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FY10 Grant Recipients

In its third year, the Harvard China Fund Faculty Grant program received 15 research proposals from faculty representing five schools across Harvard. A second grant program was also launched to support the development of new curriculum with a China focus. After review by the Fund’s advisory committee and external specialists focusing on collaboration, interdisciplinary nature, and overall feasibility, three grants were ultimately awarded in 2009 totaling $250K:

  1. “From Hunting and Gathering to Early Village Lifeways – Research & Teaching in China” ($50K) Ofer Bar-Yosef (FAS-Anthropology) will use his two-year grant to: 1) write a bi-lingual book on the technologies of making Chinese stone tools (including their method of classification and function); 2) teach two Harvard courses in the School of Archaeology and Museuology in Peking University; and 3) conduct joint excavations of an early village site with colleagues from the Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Relics of Hunan Province, Peking University, and Harvard University.
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  1. “Developing a Wintersession Course on China’s Health System Reforms” ($50K) Yuanli Liu (HSPH) was awarded a one-year grant to develop a comprehensive curriculum for a Harvard wintersession course on China's healthcare system reforms. This course will have three parts: 1) a preparatory seminar series at Harvard; 2) three weeks of field study culminating in a policy seminar, interacting with health policy makers in China; and 3) a final research paper. A series of teaching cases will also be developed for use by HSPH, HMS, KSG, and College professors.
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  1. “A Digital Archive for Chinese Local History” ($150K) The two-year grant awarded to James Robson and Michael Szonyi (FAS-East Asian Languages and Civilizations) will support the infrastructure and lay the foundations for a permanent digital archive of unique historical documents and materials collected in various localities in China. The archive project will yield three significant outcomes: 1) produce significant new research on the religion, culture, and society of Hunan province from the Qing dynasty to the present; 2) produce the world’s leading web-based archive for Chinese local historical materials; and 3) create new networks of scholarly collaboration.
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