Results of the Small Grants Scheme (2024)
We are pleased to announce the awardees of the Small Grants Scheme 2024. We received a high-quality selection of applications across two rounds – Spring and Fall. A sub-committee was formed to review and assess these submissions. A total of 16 awardees have been selected, with eight recipients in each round.
Spring-round Awardees:
Dr. Thibault Fontanari
(UCLouvain University and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
“Poetic and Musical Infrastructure: Compositions and Circulation of Wakhi Songs in the Karakoram Mountain Range (Pakistan)”
Ms. Yijun Gai
(University of Hong Kong)
“Local Participation in China’s Solar PV Construction: Case Study of Trade and Recycling of Retired PV Panels”
Ms. Ye Hua
(University of Hong Kong)
“Knowing the Mountains: How Geomatic Knowledge Consolidated Imperial Power (14th-16th Century)”
Dr. Anthony Po-shan Leung
(Island Studies Network HK)
“香港沿岸社區研究──青衣街渡與擔杆山路船廠區”
Mr. Qiyuan Liu
(Yale University)
“In Search of Theory: The Genesis of Chinese Documentary Photography (1976-1989)”
Dr. Rundong Ning
(University of Hong Kong)
“Is Africa Changing China? An Explorative Case Study of Hunan”
Dr. Anna Notsu
(Leiden University)
“Troubled ‘Soils’: More-than-human Healing in Highland North East India”
Dr. Mélanie Sadozaï
(University of Regensburg)
“The Borderlands of Central Asia and Afghanistan: Maintaining Cross-border Contacts Under the Taliban”
Fall-round Awardees:
Dr. Yufang Gao
(Yale University)
“Seeing from the Mountain: Human-Nonhuman Coexistence in the Kailash Sacred Landscape”
Dr. Irna Hofman
(University of Oxford)
“Cultivating Contestation? Chinese Agri-tech and the Politics of Cotton Processing in Tajikistan”
Dr. Mary Ann O’Donnell
(Duke University & Handshake 302 Art Space)
“Journeys of Delta Objects”
Dr. Jiaying Shen
(University of Toronto)
“Navigating Troubled Waters: Territorial Sea in Modern Japan and China”
Mr. Ka Shing So
(Binghamton University)
“Shadow Economy: Smuggling, the Gold Trade, and Everyday Life in Cold War Hong Kong”
Dr. Emilia Sulek
(University of Fribourg)
“Back to the Roots: Medicinal Plant Supply Chains in Post-Covid Asia”
Mr. Hieu Truong
(Vietnam National Universities –
The University of Social Sciences and Humanities)
“Chinese-Vietnamese ‘HẺM’, Typology, Human Relations, and Adaptations through a Collaborative Design Approach”
Mr. Botao Zhao
(Yale University)
“Salty Environment: Transforming Salt-Grain Trade, Smallholder Subsistence, and Livelihood Risks in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland”
