Faculty

Recipient

Project Title

Year

Jianqing Fan

Fan engaged in international travel, mainly to Europe, to present his work on economics, finance, and data science.

2022

Naima Green-Riley

Projects that specialize in diplomacy, Chinese foreign policy, and US-China relations, with a focus on public diplomacy and the global information space

2022
Xu Xu

Book: Authoritarian Control in the Age of Digital Surveillance

2022

Jerry Zee

How anti-desertification and sand-control campaigns in China have engendered experiments in local government in China

2022
Yu Xie

Research related to China Family Panel Studies

2022
Rory Truex Surveys: “Public and University Student’s Personality and Attitudes Towards Social Justice”; “The Psychology of Authoritarian Rule”; “How Propaganda Works”; “The Dictator is Me: Nation, Regime, and Self-Concept”; and “Personality, Dissent, and Indoctrination.” 2021
Janet Chen Completing The Sounds of Mandarin and new project on the history of Hainan Island 2021
Jianqing Fan “Learning Latent Factors from Diversified Projections and its Applications’’ 2021
Deborah Kaple Let’s Be Modern and Soviet! The Sino-Soviet Effort to Build Communism in China, 1949–60 2021
Steve Kotkin Final volume of his Stalin and the World series 2021
Stephen F. Teiser “How Buddhism and Chinese Religion are Studied in the Contemporary Chinese University" 2021
Yu Xie Publishing a number of research papers on such topics as trends in intergenerational mobility; educational inequality; demographic behaviors and outcomes; socioeconomic differentials in health, child development, and wealth inequality and their consequences in China 2021
Rory Truex Engaged in surveys: “Public and University Student’s Personality and Attitudes Towards Social Justice”; “The Psychology of Authoritarian Rule”; “How Propaganda Works”; “The Dictator is Me: Nation, Regime, and Self-Concept”; and “Personality, Dissent, and Indoctrination" 2020
Janet Chen Completing a book manuscript, Sounds of Mandarin, and launching a new research project on the history of Hainan Island 2020
Jianqing Fan Led a seminar at the Sao Paulo School of Economics on August 28, 2019 on “Learning Latent Factors from Diversified Projections and its Applications,’’ participated in a workshop, “Time Series, Wavelets and High Dimensional Data,” at Campinas, Brazil, on August 29-30, 2019, and attended “The 18th Time Series and Econometrics Meeting” at Gramado, Brazil on September 3-5, 2019 2020
Steven Kotkin the final volume of his Stalin and the World series 2020
Yu Xie Initiated several research projects, including “Attitudes toward China,” and “Chinese Attitudes to the United States.” Released a number of research papers related to the China Family Panel Studies. 2020
Stephen F. Teiser Project: “How Buddhism and Chinese Religion are Studied in the Contemporary Chinese University" 2020
Rory Truex Engaged in several surveys: Public and University Student’s Personality and Attitudes Towards Social Justice; The Psychology of Authoritarian Rule;How Propaganda Works; The Dictator is Me: Nation, Regime, and Self-Concept; and Personality, Dissent, and Indoctrination 2019
Janet Chen Completing a book manuscript The Sounds of Mandarin and launching a new research project on the history of Hainan Island 2019
Jianqing Fan Developing statistical machine-learning tools for analyzing big data on Chinese society   2019
Steve Kotkin Final volume of his Stalin and the World series 2019
Stephen F. Teiser “How Buddhism and Chinese Religion are Studied in the Contemporary Chinese University" 2019
Yu Xie Releasing a number of research papers related to the China Family Panel Studies 2019
Deborah Kaple “China’s Experience with Soviet Friendship, 1949-1962" 2019

Janet Chen

The Sounds of Mandarin, a book project on the social history of how people in China and Taiwan learned to speak a new national language in the twentieth century. 

2018

Jianqing Fan

Develop statistical machine learning tools for analyzing Big Data that are directly related to Chinese Society.  He will addresses several challenges that are inherent to the analysis of big data:  heterogeneity, endogeneity, spurious correlation, robustness, privacy, and computation via developing new generations of statistical methods.  These techniques will be investigated and employed to study the risks of financial systems and other societal problems in China.

2018

Deborah Kaple

China’s Experience with Soviet Friendship, 1949-1962

2018

Steve Kotkin

Stalin and the World Series, research into authoritarian regimes, including China

2018

Martha Sandweiss

Cultural Resource Development in Guizhou Province

2018

Stephen F. Teiser

Examine how Buddhism and Chinese religion are studied in the contemporary Chinese university

2018

Rory Truex

Public and university student’s personality and attitudes towards social justice, among other research projects

2018

Yu Xie

Collection of Social Survey Data on Chinese Society

2018

Undergraduate Students

Recipient

Program

Project Title

Fiscal Year

Sheherzad Jamal

Internships

American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan

2022

Samuel Chang, David Song

Internships

China Market Research Group (CMR)

2022

Zi Liu

Internships

QBS System Limited

2022

Xiao-Ke Lu

Internships

Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs

2022

Kelsey Ji, Stephanie Tang

Internships

Summer Atlantic Capital

2022
Florence Wang Senior Thesis Research “The Rise and Drivers of Nationalistic Sentiment in Contemporary China” 2021
Elliot Chen Senior Thesis Research “Information Manipulation and Public Opinion in China” 2020
Naomi Cohen-Shields Senior Thesis Research “Socioeconomic Status and Air Pollution Disparities Across Chinese” 2020
Jack Tait Senior Thesis Research “China's Belt and Road Initiative” 2020
Princeton University US-China Coalition (PUCC) PUCC Speaker Series One Country, New System? Reflections on Hong Kong’s National Security Law - July 16, 2020. PUCC Global Governance. PUCC Book Club 2020
Sophia Chen Senior Thesis Research “Demystifying the Chinese Housing Boom and its Risks to China’s Macroeconomy” 2019
Angela Feng Senior Thesis Research Grammatical Particles in Tujia 2019
P.J. James Greenbaum Senior Thesis Research “The East is Red (Ink): China, Aid, and Debt Diplomacy in Sub-Saharan Africa” 2019
Frances Ash Lodge Senior Thesis Research “The Decline of Chinese International Adoption” 2019
Samuel Rasmussen  Senior Thesis Research “Chinese Soft Power Campaigns in Response to BRI-Critical Countries Reaching Out to the West” 2019
Catherine Wang Senior Thesis Research “School Zone Scramble; How Beijing’s Changing Education Policy Impacts Housing Prices” 2019
Princeton University US-China Coalition Group Projects Global Governance Forum, Book Club, and Delegation to Global China Connection Conference 2019
Policy Punchline Group Projects China-related podcasts 2019
International Relations Council  Group Projects Model UN 2018 2019
Sumner Brinkley, Devin Sun Internships IIP: Wolver Hill Asset Management Asia Ltd., an Asia-focused alternative investment asset management and advisory group, in Hong Kong 2019
Joseph Feng, Grace Gong, Ange Matsumoto Ndayishimiye Internships IIP: Beijing University Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (Bridge China), Beijing 2019
Yousung Kim, Alyssa Lau, Jenny Wang Internships IIP: Joint US‐China Collaboration on Clean Energy (JUCCCE), Shanghai 2019
Derek Li Internships IIP: Octagon, Beijing 2019
Xinyi Han Internships IIP: China Market Research Group, Shanghai 2019
Kevin Zheng Internships IIP: StepStone Group, Beijing 2019
Maryam Abdurrahman, Zaza Asatiani, Diego Ayala-McCormick, Elizabeth Brennan, Jacquelyn Davila, Amichai Feit, Soumya Gottipati, Rebecca Han, Johanne Kjaersgaard, Dhyan Patell, Rylie Pease, Jonathan Som, Shiina Yuri, Kaylee Zecchin Global Seminar  Contemporary Chinese Society 2019

Idir Aitsahalia

Independent projects

Airline finance and public policy in China

2018

Justice Dixon Internships IIP-J&J Shanghai 2018

Angela Feng

Senior Thesis Research

Grammatical particles in Tujia

2018

Millie Goldrup Internships IIP-Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (Bridge to China) 2018

Julie Goldstein

Senior Thesis Research

Children's Health Education in China

2018

P.J. Greenbaum

Senior Thesis Research

The Impact of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment on Ethnic Politicking in Kenya

2018

Shobhit Kumar

Senior Thesis Research

Explaining Judicial Transparency: An
Examination of the Digitization of Court Cases in
China

2018

Tiffany Lim Internships IIP-Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (Bridge to China) 2018

Frances Lodge

Senior Thesis Research

The Decline of Chinese International Adoption

2018

Vera Lummis

Senior Thesis Research

Implications of the new Foreign NGO Law in China on the Political and Operational Climate for Foreign Environmental NGOs in Beijing

2018

Hugues Martin Dit Neuville Internships IIP-Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy (JUCCCE) 2018
Brandon Mintzer Internships IIP-Octagon 2018

Princeton U.S. China Coalition

Group Activities

PUCC Annual Conference and Book Club

2018

Vanessa Phan

Senior Thesis Research

Understanding Diversionary Foreign Policy and Leadership Transitions in China

2018

Melanie Porras Internships IIP-Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (Bridge to China) 2018

Cadee Qiu

Senior Thesis Research

Black vs Green: China's exportation of
Renewable and Non-Renewable energy and its drivers and implications

2018

Robert Scheerer Internships IIP-China Market Research Group 2018

Guoen Sheng

Senior Thesis Research

Comprehensive Analysis of Atmospheric Water Generation as An Innovative Solution to Chinese Water Crisis

2018

Nina Sheridan

independent projects

Forum for American-Chinese Exchange in Beijing

2018

Matthew Troiani

Senior Thesis Research

The Lingua-Cultural Effects of Mainland Chinese Immigrants on Cultural Identity in Hong Kong

2018

Eileen Wang Internships IIP-Octagon 2018

Eric Wang

Senior Thesis Research

The Impact of “One Belt One Road” on Chinese Judicial Reform

2018

Kevin Yu Internships IIP-StepStone Group 2018
SiTian Zhang Internships IIP-China Market Research Group 2018
Janet Zhao Internships IIP-Tsinghua University 2018
David Zhou Internships IIP-StepStone Group 2018

Graduate Students

 

Recipient

Program

Project Title

Department/Group Name

Fiscal Year

Merlin Boone

Graduate - Research

“Bureaucratic Elites and Economic Influence in the Indopacific"

SPIA 2022

Gavin Cook

Graduate - Research

Planned paper on discrimination against Chinese and Chinese-American scholars in the sciences

Sociology

2022

Yanping Ni

Graduate - Research

Seeing things as things (not subordinated to humans) as a humbling anthropological methodology that illuminates what otherwise constitutes blind spots

Anthropology

2022
Aaron Su Graduate - Research

“Indigenous ‘Living Labs’: Participatory Design, Technological Stewardship, and the Pluralization of Health in Taiwan"

Anthropology

2022
David Logan Graduate - Research “Domestic Kindling, International Sparks" SPIA 2021
Hannah Waight Graduate - Research “Information under Authoritarianism: Media Manipulation and its Effects in Contemporary China” Sociology 2021
Erik Wang Graduate - Research Aims to take a major step toward resolving why women are severely underrepresented in China’s political system with rigorous, systematic causal evidence Politics 2021
Meir Alkon Graduate - Research Examine how foreign policy preferences – and specifically public demands for militaristic policy responses to China’s territorial disputes -- can be influenced by changes in local economic conditions Politics and SPIA 2020
Fin Bauer

Graduate - Research

Project solicits funds for a survey experiment on Chinese citizens' concerns about China's status in the world Politics 2020
Joyce Chen Graduate - Research Investigate sonic and spatial elements relevant to the reaction to the Hong Kong protests in conjunction with the political state of Taiwan, leading up to the presidential election on January 11, 2020 Music 2020
Gavin G. Cook Graduate - Research Accompanied Professor Xie on his winter travels to Vietnam and the Philippines in January 2020 in order to offer assistance with survey data collection efforts in Vietnam and to lay a foundation for his dissertation Sociology 2020
David Logan Graduate - Research “Domestic Kindling, International Sparks” SPIA 2020
Hannah Waight Graduate - Research “Information under Authoritarianism: Media Manipulation and its Effects in Contemporary China” Sociology 2020
Erik Wang Graduate - Research Researching under-representation of women in Chinese politics Politics 2020
Meir Alkon Graduate - Research “Economic Interdependence, Political Risks, and the Limits to Liberalization” Politics, SPIA 2019
Joyce Chen Graduate - Research “When Africa meets Asia? Reinterpreting African Music in Taiwan” Music 2019
Shuang (Yo-Yo) Chen Graduate - Research “Sibship Size and Parental Investment: Case of Low-Fertility China" Office of Population Research 2019
Gavin G. Cook Graduate - Research Attitudes Toward China Project Sociology 2019
Wei Gan Graduate - Research “Public Interest and Philanthropy in China: An Anthropological Exploration” Anthropology 2019
Haosen Ge Graduate - Research “Government Preferences and Political Risks: Evidence from China” Politics 2019
Ruo Jia Graduate - Research Investigates the creative misreading, rewriting, and repositioning out of the gap opened by exchanges across cultures, languages, and disciplines Architecture 2019
Karolina Koziol Graduate - Research “Representing Foreignness: Tourism in the Chinese-Russian Borderlands” Anthropology 2019
David Logan Graduate - Research “Searching for the Nuclear Cult of the Offensive in China” SPIA 2019
Junbin Tan Graduate - Research “Markets and Political Identities at the China-Taiwan Border” Anthropology 2019
Lai Wei Graduate - Research “Migration Experience, Social Comparison and Subjective Well-being in China" Sociology 2019
Erik Wang Graduate - Research “Does Anti-Corruption Undermine Bureaucracy? Evidence from the Primary Land Market in China” Politics 2019
Audyre Wong Graduate - Research “Crafting Payoffs: Strategies and Effectiveness of China’s Economic Statecraft" SPIA 2019
Wanru Xiong Graduate - Research “Human Trafficking of Women and Children in China” Office of Population Research 2019
Xue Zhang Graduate - Research “Opening One’s Eyes to Observe the World: Foreign Geography and the Studies of Xinjiang in Nineteen-Century China" East Asian Studies 2019

Fin Bauer

Graduate - Research

IUP Chinese Language Studies*

Politics

2018

Kyle Chan

Graduate - Research

China's High Speed Rail System

Sociology

2018

Xu Chen

Graduate - Research

China's Involvement in Southeast Asia's Power Sector

Woodrow Wilson STEP PhD

2018

Gavin G.Cook

Graduate - Research

Transnational Connections: The Chinese Communities in Mumbai

Sociology

2018

Larry Liu

Graduate - Conferences

From Export to Foreign Investment: Limitations to the Chinese Accumulation Model

Sociology

2018

Ryan Parsons

Graduate – Research and Conferences

Global Villages and the Remaking of Rural China.  Attendance of PopFest Oxford and Development Studies Association Conference

Soc

2018

Esther Louisa Robinson

Graduate - Research

Summer Mandarin Language Training at NTU's International Chinese Language Program*

Politics Ph.D.

2018

Grace Tien

Graduate - Research

Importing Silicon Valley: A Study of China's entrepreneurs and startups

Soc.

2018

Audrye Wong

Graduate - Conferences

Attendance of ISA for paper presentation

Woodrow Wilson Ph.D.

2018

Tszkit Yim

Graduate - Research

Late Imperial Chinese Novels in Hong Kong's Screenscape

East Asian Studies Ph.D.

2018

* CCC no longer funds language study.