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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 Fellows & Reports

2025

Lingxiao Chen - Sociology, Emory University
"Everyday Nationalism in Chinese Entertainment: Cultural Governance, Celebrity Agency, and Audience Reception"

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

Jingyi Guo - Mass Communications & Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Pennsylvania State University
"Homemakers of the Datafied State: Women’s Labor in Data-Driven Governance in China"

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

Yixue Yang - History and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego
"Threads of Gendered Knowledge: Silk, Soil, and Rural Women in China’s Export Economy, 1949–1980"

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

2024

Yingru Chen - Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Davis

Junyi Han - History, Yale University
Field Report: The Forgotten War, Landmines, Death, and the Borderline.

Shumeng Han - Hisotry, University of California, San Diego

Pamela Tsui - Sociology, University of Toronto

Liubing Xie - City and Regional Planning, 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
Field Report: 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
Field Report: 中国高端养老机构的田野反思

2019

Jiun-Da Lin, University of Maryland
Field Report: 中國綠色債券標準的發展現狀] 

Shang Liu, University of Southern California
Field Report: 记中国NGO里的三个普通人

Spencer Stewart, University of Chicago
Field Report: 鲁棉一号 and the Science of Cotton Improvement

Yingyi Wang, University of Washington

Fangsheng Zhu, Harvard University
Field Report: 教育议题的博士论文田野经历

2018

Jiling Duan, Indiana University
Field Report: "But Some of Us Are Braver"

Peter Hick, Stanford University
Field Report: History, Migration and Guangdong's Siyi Region

Kevin Luo, University of Toronto
Field Report: 土地、国家与政党:以政治社会学视角重探两岸土地改革

Di Wang, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Field Report: 温润的南国有彩虹:性/别少数家庭小记

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