The National Library is pleased to announce the six recipients of the 2022 Asia Study Grants.

The Asia Study Grants program offers academics a four-week residency at the Library in 2022, with privileged access to our Asian language and Asia-related collections. Recipients will also receive an honorarium of $5000 for use as a stipend, travel and accommodation support.

2022 Asia Study Grants recipients and their projects are listed below.

Recipients

Supported by the Harold S. Williams Trust

● Dr Annisa R Beta – A genealogy of modern Indonesian girls

● Mr Tyler Gleason – The cultural construction of HIV and AIDS in China’s provincial and local newspapers in the 1980s

● Ms Younghye Whitney – Transnational intellectual networks and social movements in South Korea 1970s - 1980s

● Dr Mei-fen Kuo – Documenting Chinese Australian community in the context of Cold War

● Mr Jayson Jimenez – Archipelagic migration and climate change: revisiting the Beyer archive

Supported by Professor Kent Anderson

● Dr Warren Sun – The honest bloke who turned China around – a chronicle of Chairman Hua Guofeng’s Political Career (1971-1981)

Thank you

The National Library would like to thank the Harold S. Williams Trust and Professor Kent Anderson for their ongoing support of the Asia Study Grants program.

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The Asia Study Grants program offers researchers and PhD students the opportunity to engage with the National Library of Australia's Asian language and Asia-related collections.

These grants offer a four-week period of intensive research, where scholars have special and supported access to the Library’s materials, facilities and staff.