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OYCF-Chow Fellowship for Field Research in China

Established in 2018 and funded by the generous donations by Gregory C. and Paula K. Chow, the OYCF-Chow Fellowship for Field Research in China provides up to $5,000 to graduate students in humanities and social sciences in a U.S. or Canadian university to conduct fieldwork in China for their thesis projects.

Priority are given to research projects focusing on contemporary economic, social, cultural, or political issues in China, but historical or comparative studies with substantial amount of fieldwork to be conducted in China are also eligible for consideration.

Application is open in Spring each year.

For inquiries, email field.fellowship@oycf.net



OYCF-Chow Field Research Fellows & Reports

2025

Lingxiao Chen, Emory University | Everyday Nationalism in Chinese Entertainment: Cultural Governance, Celebrity Agency, and Audience Reception.

Zhuoma(Drolma) Gadou, University of Colorado | The End of Yaks? Tibetan Pastoralism at a Crossroads in a Globalized Industrial Food Regime.

Jingyi Guo, Pennsylvania State University | Homemakers of the Datafied State: Women’s Labor in Data-Driven Governance in China.

Zhaorui Lu, University of California, Irvine | Small-Feet Detectives, Gossipy Aunties: A Gendered History of Grassroots Urban Governance in China, 1949 to the Present.

Yixue Yang, University of California, San Diego | Threads of Gendered Knowledge: Silk, Soil, and Rural Women in China’s Export Economy, 1949–1980.

Andrea Zhu, University of California, Los Angeles | Greening Infrastructure Development: Transnational Environmental and Climate Finance Advocacy at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

2024

Yingru Chen, University of California, Davis
Junyi Han, Yale University | The Forgotten War, Landmines, Death, and the Borderline.
Shumeng Han, University of California, San Diego
Pamela Tsui, University of Toronto
Liubing Xie, University of California, Berkeley

2023

Niall Chithelen, University of California, San Diego
Zhuang Han, Cornell University
Hsu Huang, Brown University | Fieldwork Reflections: A Case of Sensitive Elite Research.
Xiangyi Ren, University of Chicago
Tong Xin, Boston University

2022

Ran Chen, University of Arizona
Teng Ge, University of Chicago
Yen-Ting Hsu, University of California, San Diego | Unboxing Heritage Governance in 21st Century Taipei.
Fan Li, University of Colorado
Xiaogao Zhou, University of Chicago

2021

Ke Nie, University of California, San Diego
Catherine Park, University of California, Berkeley
Danping Wang, Columbia University
Bolun Zhang, University of California, San Diego
Mengyang Zhao, University of Pennsylvania

2020

Yuan Gao, Georgetown University
Chuncheng Liu, University of California, San Diego
Tiantian Liu, Johns Hopkins University
JiangJiang Wu, University of Wisconsin–Madison

2019

Jiun-Da Lin, University of Maryland
Shang Liu, University of Southern California
Spencer Stewart, University of Chicago
Yingyi Wang, University of Washington
Fangsheng Zhu, Harvard University

2018

Jiling Duan, Indiana University
Peter Hick, Stanford University
Kevin Luo, University of Toronto
Di Wang, University of Wisconsin–Madison


Lingxiao Chen, Emory University

Zhuoma Gadou, University of Colorado | The End of Yaks? Tibetan Pastoralism at a Crossroads in a Globalized Industrial Food Regime

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