The Graduate Student Travel Grant was first established in 2012. The 2012 CHUS Board wrote, “this new award, ‘the graduate travel grant,’ will give graduate students more chance for their academic development and for their establishing an academic network. We hope that through awarding this grant, our organization would have a sustainable growth.” The first grant went to Mr. Yi Guolin, who was a PhD Candidate from the Department of History, Wayne State University.
In 2022, the incumbent CHUS Board reinstated the grant after a multi-year hiatus. The James Gao Memorial Fund has been used to provide one Graduate Student Research Travel Grant up to 500 US dollars annually.
Therefore, CHUS remains committed to our student members’ academic development throughout our organization’s decades-long growth.
2024 Graduate Student Research Travel Grant
The 2024 Graduate Student Research Travel Grant goes to Song Hong, third-year doctoral student at Stanford University.
Dissertation: “The Insect Matters: White Wax, Environment, and the Society in Qing Southern Sichuan”
Song Hong’s project examines the importance of insect wax in understanding the social and economic lives in Qing-era southern Sichuan, a frontier region characterized by transregional trade and/or transnational exchanges of labor, knowledge, and profit. Hong’ proposal isdetailed and thoughtful, containing information on the relevant historiography, methodology, and significance of his study as well as the justification for the need to conduct further archival research in Beijing and Sichuan.
2012 Graduate Student Research Travel Grant
The 2012 Grant went to Yi Guolin, PhD Candidate from the Department of History, Wayne State University, for his attending the AHA, in which he presents a paper “’Here Come the Americans’: ‘Propaganda State’ and Nixon’s Visit to China.”