RESEARCH GRANTS

Competitive Grants

 

AS PI (Principal Investigator)

 

PI, CUHK Research Committee Funding Direct Grant for Research, A Study of Yingjiao in Central Hunan in Comparative Perspective, CUHK, HK$37,924, 2022-2023

 

PI, General Research Fund 2018-2022, A Historical and Anthropological Study of the Rituals of Chinese Popular Buddhism, RGC, HK$547,600, 2018-2022.

 

PI, RGC Research Grant Direct Allocation 2015-2016, A Ritual Study of Buddhism in Dali of Yunnan, CUHK, HK$80,000, 2015-2016.

 

PI, General Research Fund 2013-2016, Local ritual traditions in southeast China, RGC, HK$340,000, 2013-2016

 

PI, General Research Fund 2009-2011, Ritual Specialists in Local Society in Southeast China, RGC, HK$924,050, 2009-2011.

 

PI, RGC Research Grant Direct Allocation 2007-2008, A Study of Buddhist Miracle Tales - the case of the True Buddha School in Malaysia, CUHK, HK$60,640, 2007-2008.  

 

PI, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange 2006-2009,  Religion and Society in Southeast China, CCK, US$37,000

 

PI, CSMA Conference Grant for the International Conference on Comparative Study of Ritual in Chinese Local Society 2008, CUHK Major Area Project—Chinese Studies, HK$50,000, May 5-7, 2008

 

PI, RGC Research Grant Direct Allocation 2005-2006, Ritual Specialist and Local Social Life – A Study of the “Incense and Flower” Monks and Pu’an Buddhism in southeast China, CUHK, HK$100,000, 2005-2006.

 

PI, Earmarked Grant from the Research Grant Council 2004-2006, Local Religion and Society in Southeast China, RGC, HK$939,000, 2004-2006.

 

PI, A Special Grant for Conducting Research Outside Hong Kong During Summer 2003-2004, A Pilot Study on the Pu’an Ritual Tradition in Jiangxi, CUHK, HK$10,400, 2003-2004.

 

PI, RGC Research Grant Direct Allocation 2002-2003, Local Religion and Society in Qingyuan, CUHK, HK$100,000, 2002-2003.

 

PI, Earmarked Grant from the Research Grant Council 1999-2002, Religious Festivals in Northern Guangdong: A Study of Chinese Religion, Social Structure and Local Identity, RGC, HK$943,000, 1999-2002.

 

PI, A Special Grant for Conducting Research Abroad in Summer 1999, Local Religion in South China: the case of Anyuan in Gannan and Lechang in Northern Guangdong, CUHK, HK$10,000, 1999.

 

PI, RGC Research Grant Direct Allocation 1996-97, A Study on the Rituals of the True Buddha School, CUHK, HK$98,360.

 

PI, RGC Research Grant Direct Allocation 1995-96, Esoteric Buddhism in Chinese Communities: A Study of a New International Buddhist Religious Movement, CUHK, HK$97,220.

 

AS CO-I (Co-investigator)

 

Co-I, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange 2016-17, A proposal on a Collaborative International Research Project on the Study of Historical and Contemporary Local Taoism, CCK, NT$ 3,200,000, 2017-2019

 

Co-I, Areas of Excellence (AoE) scheme – fifth Round 2010, The Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society, RGC, HK$31.06 million, 2010-2017

 

Co-I, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange 2015-2016, Research on History and Contemporary Local Daoism (International Collaborative Academic Conference and Research Project Workshop), CCK, NT$ 570,000, 1/7/2016-31/12/2016

 

Co-I, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation / Duke University 2013-2015, Integrating the Humanities across National Boundaries, Mellon Foundation, HK$ $541,660 Co-I, CCK Conference Grant for the International Conference on Comparative Study of Ritual in Chinese Local Society 2008, CCK, US$ 25,000, May5-7, 2008.

Non-Competitive Grants

 

PI. Ritual, Religion and Chinese society 2024-2026 Co-investigator: LIN Chen Yuan (National Chengchi University) Funded by Fei Ngan Tung Buddhism & Taoism Society Ltd (HK$ 800,000)

 

PI. Daoist remnant and local society in cave temples along the Silk Road 2024-2026 Funded by Sik Sik Yuen (Wong Tai Sin Temple) (HK$1,500,000)

 

PI, Sik Sik Yuen (HK Wong Tai Sin Temple) Research Fund, Daoism in Dunhuang: A Study on the Buddho-Daoist Interaction from Qing on with special reference to the Dunhuang Caves 2020-2022, Sik Sik Yuen, HK$1,500,000.

 

PI, Sik Sik Yuen (HK Wong Tai Sin Temple) Research Fund 2019-2022, A Study of the Rituals in the Wong Tai Sin Temple in Hong Kong, Sik Sik Yuen, HK$60,000.

 

PI, John Templeton Foundation Sub-awarded from Purdue University 2015-17, Oral History of Contemporary Buddhism in China from 1949 to present, Purdue, US$90,000, 16/8/2015-31/7/2017.

 

Co-I, Sub-awarded from Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange 1997-98, Special Funding from Ecole Française D’Extrême-Orient, and The Structure and Hong Kong Tsung Tsin (Hakka) Association, Dynamics of Chinese Rural Society, CCK, US$ 6,000, EFEO, US$3,000, Tsung Tsin US$2,000, 1997-1998.