- $50,000
Eternal Flames: Living Memories of the Pacific War
Recipient: Christy, Alan Scott (Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Santa Cruz
Goal: Development and testing of a prototype multilingual website platform for the gathering and study of memories of the Pacific theater of World War II incorporating perspectives of survivors from the United States and Asia.
Description: Funds requested for an innovative website that provides a living archive of Pacific War memories in multiple languages. Out prototype provides a social media and multi-lingual database structure enabling communication between researchers, war survivors, and the general public in English, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. This site facilitates research on the circulation of war memories throughout the Pacific region and across linguistic boundaries. Online participants will transcribe, translate, tag, and add context to user-contributed archive posts. The architecture makes transparent the negotiations and contested categories of memory-in-translation. In this online environment, users can confront the cultural embeddedness of language, and researchers can trace the transformations of memory as it travels across cultural boundaries. As an open source tool, our online platform can be applied in various contexts to address the language barrier issue that is so central to the humanities.
Grant: 196216 / HD-50594-09, Division: Digital Humanities, Program: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, Year Awarded: 2009 - $1,000
NEH on the Road: Asian Games
Recipient: Lundberg, Sara (Brigham City, UT 84302 USA) in affiliation with Brigham City Museum and Gallery
Description: The museum requests a $1,000 stipend to help support the cost of public humanities programming when it hosts the traveling exhibition.
Grant: 194775 / MR-50034-09, Division: Public Programs, Program: NEH on the Road, Year Awarded: 2009 - $800,000
The Medieval Spain Project
Recipient: Schwarz, Michael (Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA) in affiliation with Catticus Corporation (Berkeley, CA 94710 USA)
Goal: Production of a two-hour historical television documentary, website, and DVD that examine the rich and complex intermingling of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in medieval Spain from the Muslim conquest in 711 through the consolidation of Christian power in the 15th century.
Description: The Medieval Spain Project is a historical television documentary examining the rich and complex period of Muslim, Christian and Jewish coexistence in Spain that began with the Muslim conquest in 711 and continued through the consolidation of Christian power, into the 15th century. During this period Muslims, Christians and Jews competed and collaborated in the construction of a culture and a civilization that would become instrumental in shaping what we now know as Europe.
Grant: 191583 / TI-50110-08, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media TV Production, Year Awarded: 2008 - $256,390
China Historical Geographic Information System
Recipient: Bol, Peter (Cambridge, MA 02138 USA) in affiliation with Harvard University
Goal: The creation of an authoritative common base geographic information system for Chinese history from 221 BCE to 1911 CE, in collaboration with Fudan University of Shanghai.
Description: The China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS) project is creating an authoritative, freely available database and GIS that describes the administrative structures of Chinese history from the formation of the Qin Dynasty (222 BCE) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1911 CE). The objective of the project is to create an open-ended platform, which can be used as the basis for exploring the successive political systems through more than 2,000 years of Chinese History, and also to provide a means for the digital representation of their locations in the contexts of space and time. In addition, the CHGIS provides a means for statistical datasets (such as population, tax, land-use, or other data) to be added for particular periods and areas of interest, allowing users to store, search, compare and analyze their own data in relationship to numerous other types of data within a single unified geographic framework.
Grant: 184806 / PM-50025-07, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Reference Materials, Year Awarded: 2007 - $120,000
Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China: Translation and Study of the Zhangjiashan Legal Texts
Recipient: Barbieri-Low, Anthony J (Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Santa Barbara
Goal: The translation, annotation, analysis, and interpretation of a group of Chinese legal and administrative texts from the late 3rd to early 2nd centuries BCE, which were recently excavated from a tomb in Hubei Province, China. (24 months)
Description: This project will translate and study a group of Chinese legal and administrative texts dating from the Qin and Han empires (late 3rd-early 2nd centuries BCE), recently excavated from a tomb at Zhangjiashan (Hubei Province, China). The importance of these texts for understanding the development of the early imperial legal and administrative system, social organization, and cultural values cannot be overemphasized. These extraordinarily detailed legal texts show how the Han rulers adopted and adapted Qin legal, bureaucratic, social, and economic precedents and how they and their Qin predecessors used the law to dominate and exploit local populations, including minorities, eventually forging a Chinese people. Our translation will be of value not only to historians of China and comparative historians, but also to those studying the importation of Western law into modern China.
Grant: 186350 / RZ-50718-07, Division: Research Programs, Program: Collaborative Research, Year Awarded: 2007 - $29,850
`Finding and Using Moving Images in Context
Recipient: Sheldon, Karan (Bucksport, ME 04416 USA) in affiliation with Northeast Historic Film (Blue Hill Falls, ME 04615 USA)
Goal: The development of tools and practices for describing and accessing digital film and video materials.
Description: Using selected moving images from Northeast Historic Film, this project will take a team approach to achieve open access with a metadata system incorporating emerging standards for discovery. We will emphasize contextualization, building tools to provide access to articles, scene-by-scene notes, both item-level and collection-level descriptive records, and we will integrate this information with new curriculum materials through easy-to-use interfaces. Partners are Primary Source and China Source, Maine Historical Society's Maine Memory Network, MIC, and the University of Maine's Windows on Maine. Three China scholars associated with Primary Source are committed to the project. We will digitize and put online unique footage of China,1928-1936, with rights to reuse, and we will ensure that researchers can easily find, identify, understand, and use the moving images. Teachers will participate in evaluation, informing decisions regarding follow-up initiatives.
Grant: 187398 / HD-50178-07, Division: Digital Humanities, Program: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, Year Awarded: 2007 - $160,928
Modernity, Early Modernity and Post-Modernity in Japan
Recipient: Nosco, Peter (Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA) in affiliation with University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA 90089-0012 USA)
Goal: A five-week national institute for 25 college and university teachers to explore "modernity" and related constructs in Japanese studies.
Grant: 142758 / EH-22316-01, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers, Year Awarded: 2001 - $150,210
China and the World
Recipient: Kassel, Marleen (New York, NY 10021 USA) in affiliation with China Institute in America, Inc.
Goal: A four-week national institute for 30 high school teachers to study Chinese history, focusing on the ways in which China was influenced by, and influenced, other cultures with which it came into contact during its history.
Grant: 143669 / ES-23122-00, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 2000 - $150,000
Volumes 2, 4, 5A-5B, 9A-9B of the CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF CHINA
Recipient: Peterson, Willard J (Princeton, NJ 08544 USA) in affiliation with Princeton University
Goal: To support the research, writing, and editing of Vols 2, 4, 5A-5B, and 9A-9B, covering the history of China from the Han, Sui, Tang, Sung (3rd-13th c.) dynasties, and Ch'ing dynasty (1644-1800) of the CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF CHINA.
Grant: 161725 / RZ-20535-00, Division: Research Programs, Program: Collaborative Research, Year Awarded: 2000 - $49,636
Morning Sun (Digital Enhanced Television Project)
Recipient: Gordon, Richard (Brookline, MA 02445 USA) in affiliation with Long Bow Group, Inc. (Brookline, MA 02146 USA)
Goal: To support prototype development of a digital enhanced television project about China's Cultural Revolution, to be produced in conjunction with the NEH-funded, two-hour documentary film "Morning Sun."
Grant: 157021 / GN-25978-00, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 2000 - $700,776
Morning Sun
Recipient: Hinton, Carma (Brookline, MA 02445 USA) in affiliation with Long Bow Group, Inc. (Brookline, MA 02146 USA)
Goal: Production of a two-hour documentary film on China's Cultural Revolution.
Grant: 156982 / GN-25810-99, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 1999 - $24,850
Tradition and Chance in East Asia: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Recipient: Solomon, Lesley (Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 USA) in affiliation with Cherry Hill School District
Goal: To support a faculty study project on East Asian culture for secondary school humanities teachers for Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
Grant: 141856 / ED-20983-98, Division: Education Programs, Program: Education Development and Demonstration, Year Awarded: 1998 - $18,000
Conference on Publishing and Book Culture in Late Imperial and Early Modern China
Recipient: Brokaw, Cynthia (Providence, RI 97403 USA) in affiliation with University of Oregon, Eugene (Eugene, OR 97403 USA)
Goal: To support an international conference to advance the study of the social and cultural history of publishing and print culture in China, 960-1800.
Grant: 161616 / RZ-20038-97, Division: Research Programs, Program: Collaborative Research, Year Awarded: 1997 - $531,095
Preservation Microfilming of Japanese Newspapers from the Gordon W. Prange Collection
Recipient: Vikor, Desider L (College Park, MD 20742-7011 USA ) in affiliation with University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD 20742-5141 USA)
Goal: To support the preservation microfilming of and improved access to 12,000 Japanese newspapers and newsletters published between 1945 and 1949 during the Allied Occupation.
Grant: 158952 / PS-21105-95, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects Pre 1996, Year Awarded: 1995 - $215,000
Final Editing of Vols. 2,4,5 of the CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF CHINA
Recipient: Twitchett, Denis C (Princeton, NJ 08540-0000 USA) in affiliation with Princeton University (Princeton, NJ 08544 USA)
Goal: To support the final research, writing, and editing of Volumes 2, 4, and 5 of the CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF CHINA, covering the Han through the Sui, Tang, and Sung dynasties (3rd through 13th centuries A.D.).
Grant: 160666 / RO-22853-95, Division: Research Programs, Program: Basic Research, Year Awarded: 1995 - $117,000
The Chinese State and Family at the End of the 20th Century
Recipient: Watt, John R (Cambridge, MA 02140 USA) in affiliation with Cambridge Public Schools (Cambridge, MA 02141 USA)
Goal: To support a 16-month local project on the history of modern China for 30 middle and high school teachers from the Northeast region.
Grant: 143562 / ES-22701-95, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 1995 - $120,000
Cambridge History of Korea, Volume 2
Recipient: Palais, James B (Seattle, WA 98195-0000 USA) in affiliation with University of Washington (Seattle, WA 98195 USA)
Goal: To support activities leading to the preparation and publication of volume 2 of the Cambridge History of Korea, a comprehensive, multi-authored political, social, and economic history of the Korean nation and its peoples.
Grant: 160649 / RO-22734-94, Division: Research Programs, Program: Basic Research, Year Awarded: 1994 - $116,537
Theory and Practice in Japanese Cultural History
Recipient: Craig, Albert M (Cambridge, MA 02138 USA) in affiliation with Harvard University
Grant: 151478 / FS-22761-94, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1994 - $40,000
Osaka: Cultures of Dominance, Cultures of Opposition
Recipient: McClain, James L (Providence, RI 02912 USA) in affiliation with Brown University
Goal: To support an international conference on the cultural history of Osaka in the early modern, or Edo (Tokyo) period, ca. 1550 - 1700, when Osaka was Japan's commercial center.
Grant: 161596 / RX-21530-94, Division: Research Programs, Program: Conferences, Year Awarded: 1994 - $30,000
Emergency Conservation of the Petra Papyri
Recipient: Bikai, Pierre M (Amman, MA 11181 Jordan) in affiliation with American Center of Oriental Research (Boston, MA 02215-2010 USA)
Goal: To support the conservation treatment and photographing of approximately 50 5th-century scrolls found in Petra, Jordan.
Grant: 158930 / PS-21016-94, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects Pre 1996, Year Awarded: 1994 - Endowment for the humanities grants to category Far Eastern History; items 1-21 of 93 with a total funding of $3,681,272.