Translation: The Zuo Tradition on the Spring and Autumn Annals

Recipient: Schaberg, David (Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA)

Goal: A new English translation with a full scholarly introduction and notes of the ZUO TRADITION ON THE SPRING AND AUTUMN ANNALS (ZUOZHUAN), China's first great work of historical writing. (16 months)

Description: The Zuo Tradition on the Spring and Autumn Annals (Zuozhuan) is China's first great work of history. The longest and one of the most difficult texts surviving from pre-imperial times, it has been as important in the founding and preservation of Chinese culture as the historical books of the Hebrew Bible have been in the Jewish and Christian traditions. Our translation, accompanied by the original text, will make the Zuozhuan accessible, with full scholarly introduction and notes, to a wide public, including specialists in Chinese history, scholars of world history and comparative intellectual history, new graduate students and undergraduates, and general readers.

Grant: 176272 / RZ-50456-05,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Collaborative Research,   Year Awarded: 2005

The Traditions of Exemplary Women (Lienu huan)

Recipient: Pitti, Daniel V (Charlottesville, VA 22904-4115 USA) in affiliation with University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA)

Goal: A translation of the ancient (c. 78 B.C.) Chinese text Traditions of Exemplary Women and a bilingual-multimedia internet resource for scholarly inquiry into representations of women in ancient China. (36 months)

Description: The Traditions of Exemplary Women consists of biographical accounts of female role models in early China and is the earliest extant book in the Chinese tradition solely devoted to the moral education of women. It became the standard textbook for women's education for over two millennia. Our project is a collaborative effort to publish electronically both a digital translation and bilingual-multimedia resource for scholarly inquiry into the complex relationship between representations of women in early China and the cultural forces that shaped them. As a resource for discovering new relationships between texts, geography, genealogies, images, and themes, the project will help redefine the boundaries of humanistic research in this field and potentially transform the way sinologists translate and annotate texts, ask questions, and engage in research. By making all of its resources bilingual, the project also promises to open up the culture of early China to scholars who know no Chinese.

Grant: 162953 / RZ-50105-03,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Collaborative Research,   Year Awarded: 2003

The Sidatsangara

Recipient: Gair, James W (Ithaca, NY 14853-0000 USA) in affiliation with Cornell University (Ithaca, NY 14853 USA)

Goal: To support the translation and annotation of a medieval Sinhalese Grammar, the SIDATSANGARA, or COMPILATION OF PRINCIPLES, composed in the 13th-century in present day Sri Lanka.

Grant: 122528 / RZ-20814-02,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Collaborative Research,   Year Awarded: 2002

Humanities Scholar in Residence

Recipient: Copley, Jennifer (Missoula, MT 59801-0000 USA) in affiliation with Maureeen and Mike Mansfield Foundation (Missoula, MT 59812 USA)

Grant: 157561 / HE-20004-00,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Humanities Scholar in Residence Awards,   Year Awarded: 2000

Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia

Recipient: Pollock, Sheldon I (New York, NY 60637 USA) in affiliation with University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637 USA)

Goal: To support a collaborative effort of 12 scholars of languages and linguistics of South Asia exploring the formation of national or regional literatures and the development of artistic standards in language areas.

Grant: 160669 / RO-22868-95,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Basic Research,   Year Awarded: 1995

NEH Summer Institute: Japanese Culture Through Literature

Recipient: MacWilliams, Mark W (Canton, NY 13617 USA) in affiliation with Bethany College, West Virginia (Bethany, WV 26032 USA)

Goal: To support a five-week regional summer institute on Japanese culture as seen through literature for 20 high school teachers of the humanities from the Ohio Valley and northern West Virginia.

Grant: 143559 / ES-22694-95,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1995

The Plum in the Golden Vase

Recipient: Roy, David T (Chicago, IL 60637-0000 USA) in affiliation with University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637 USA)

Goal: To support the translation of the 16th-century Chinese novel CHIN P'ING MEI (The Plum in the Golden Vase).

Grant: 160281 / RL-22283-95,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Translations,   Year Awarded: 1995

An Anthology of Telugu Classical Poetry

Recipient: Rao, V. Narayana (Madison, WI 53706 USA) in affiliation with University of Wisconsin, Madison

Goal: To support the translation of an anthology of classical poetry in Telugu, a Dravidian language of southern India.

Grant: 160250 / RL-22134-94,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Translations,   Year Awarded: 1994

VALMIKI RAMAYANA

Recipient: Goldman, Robert P (Berkeley, CA 94720 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Berkeley

Goal: To support an annotated translation of the last three books of the Sanskrit epic poem, the RAMAYANA of Valmiki.

Grant: 160261 / RL-22181-94,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Translations,   Year Awarded: 1994

American and British Children's Classics

Recipient: Knoepflmacher, Ulrich C (Princeton, NJ 08544-1016 USA) in affiliation with Princeton University (Princeton, NJ 08544 USA)

Grant: 154545 / FV-21831-94,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1994

Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on Literature, 1893-1945, ed. by Kirk A. Denton

Recipient: Pope, Norris (Stanford, CA 94305 USA) in affiliation with Stanford University

Goal: To support the publication of an anthology of writings on literature dating from the late Qing period (1895-1911) to shortly before the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

Grant: 161069 / RP-21797-94,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Publications,   Year Awarded: 1994

A Topic, Motif and Name Index and Selective Translation of 3,200 Chinese Tales

Recipient: Campany, Robert (Bloomington, IN 47405-0000 USA) in affiliation with Indiana University, Bloomington (Bloomington, IN 47405 USA)

Goal: To support the creation of an index of topics, motifs, and names for a corpus of 3,200 early medieval Chinese ZHIGUAI tales with a companion volume of over 100 translated tales.

Grant: 161150 / RT-20098-93,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Reference Materials - Tools,   Year Awarded: 1993

WATER OF LIFE by Muhammad Husain Azad

Recipient: Pritchett, Frances W (New York, NY 10027-0000 USA) in affiliation with Columbia University (New York, NY 10027 USA)

Goal: To support the translation of WATER OF LIFE. Written in 1880 by Muhammad Husain Azad, the work is both the last classical anthology and the first modern literary history of Urdu poetry.

Grant: 160236 / RL-22060-93,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Translations,   Year Awarded: 1993

THE RAMAYANA OF VALMIKI, Vol. 4, Robert P. Goldman, ed.; Rosalind Lefeber, trans.

Recipient: Lippincott, Walter H (Princeton, NJ 08540-0000 USA) in affiliation with Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ 08540 USA)

Goal: To support the publication of the fourth volume in the seven-volume translation of the Indian epic, the RAMAYANA of Valmiki.

Grant: 161006 / RP-21649-93,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Publications,   Year Awarded: 1993

Faculty Study Project in Chinese and Japanese Literatures

Recipient: Jarvis, John C (Pittsburgh, PA 15219 USA) in affiliation with Robert Morris College (Coraopolis, PA 15108 USA)

Goal: To support a study project for 18 faculty members who will integrate Chinese and Japanese texts and themes into a four-course humanities concentration.

Grant: 142533 / EH-21606-92,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1992

Publication of Chin P'ing Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase), Vol. 1, trans. by David Roy

Recipient: Lippincott, Walter H (Princeton, NJ 08540-0000 USA) in affiliation with Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ 08540 USA)

Goal: To support the publication of the first complete English-language translation of volume 1 of THE PLUM IN THE GOLDEN VASE, an anonymous 16th-century Chinese novel.

Grant: 160967 / RP-21551-92,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Publications,   Year Awarded: 1992

Modern Southeast Asian Literatures Summer Institute

Recipient: Volkman, Toby A (New York, NY 10158 USA) in affiliation with Social Science Research Council (New York, NY 10019 USA)

Goal: To support a six-week summer institute for 25 college and university faculty members on modern Indonesian, Thai, Filipino, and Vietnamese literature.

Grant: 142490 / EH-21465-91,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1991

Building Bridges: Faculty Development in the Humanities Through Faculty Study Institutes

Recipient: Meyn, Virginia (Mission Viejo, CA 92629 USA) in affiliation with Saddleback College (Mission Viejo, CA 92692 USA)

Goal: To support two four-week workshops for 25 faculty members each, who will study Chinese and Japanese literature and Latin American literature in order to integrate non-Western texts into humanities courses.

Grant: 142459 / EH-21382-91,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1991

Translation and Annotation of the Kiskindha, Sundara, and Yuddha Kanda-s of the Valmiki RAMAYANA

Recipient: Goldman, Robert P (Berkeley, CA 94720 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Berkeley

Goal: To support continuing work on an edition and translation of the Sanskrit epic, the RAMAYANA of Valmiki.

Grant: 160179 / RL-21721-91,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Translations,   Year Awarded: 1991

Women Writing in India: The Twentieth Century (vol. 2 of 2), edited by Susie Tharu and K. Lalita

Recipient: Howe, Florence (New York, NY 10128-0000 USA) in affiliation with Feminist Press at CUNY (New York, NY 10031 USA)

Goal: To support publication of a translated anthology of 20th-century writings by women in India.

Grant: 160932 / RP-21460-91,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Publications,   Year Awarded: 1991