Four students selected as Lee Teng-hui Fellows for the 1995-96 academic year
Cornell University has established the Lee Teng-hui Fellowship in World Affairs. The fellowship, named for President Lee Teng-hui of Taiwan, is dedicated to the recognition and support of high academic achievement in international studies throughout the humanities.
The Fellowship honors Lee, who was elected president of Taiwan in 1988. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1968.
Cornell students selected as Lee Teng-hui Fellows will receive up to two semesters of support.
Students selected as Lee Teng-hui Fellows for the 1995-96 academic year are:
- Byoung-Hoon Lee of Kwachun-shi, South Korea, a doctoral student in the Department of Collective Bargaining. Lee holds an undergraduate degree from Seoul National University and a master's degree from Cornell. His academic interests focus primarily on the transformation of work systems in the manufacturing workplace under conditions of global competition. In particular, his doctoral research compares work systems and shop-floor labor relations in U.S. and Korean auto-stamping plants. He has conducted research at an Ohio Ford plant and will begin a similar study at a Hyundai plant in Ulsan City, South Korea.
- Yuchen Li of Yuanlin, Taiwan, a master's/doctoral student in the Department of Asian Studies. Li holds a master's degree from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. As a follow-up to her thesis on Buddhist nuns during the T'ang Dynasty, Li is studying female religious leaders in contemporary Taiwan. Li's future research plans concern the transformation of Buddhism in Yunnan during the Ming Dynasty.
- Matthew C. J. Rudolph of Chicago, Ill., a doctoral student in the Department of Government. A graduate of Swarthmore College, Rudolph is a seasoned traveler and researcher, having worked and studied in South Asia for five years. He spent a year in France investigating European defense and conducted research in Washington, D.C. at the Stimson Center. Rudolph's research and academic interest lie with South Asian and Chinese political and military issues.
- Setsu Shigematsu of Point Claire, Quebec, a doctoral student in Japanese literature. Shigematsu holds a master's degree from Cornell and a bachelor's degree from McGill University in Montreal. She currently is conducting research on the history and legacy of Imperial Japan's "comfort women" system, treating it as a case study in the impact on women of imperialism and war. She also will study the transnational Asian women's movement that over the past decade has formed to protest that system.
The Lee Teng-hui Fellowships are administered by the East Asia Program. Founded in 1950 as the China Program, it became the China-Japan Program in 1972 and, with the incorporation of Korean studies, the East Asia Program in 1988.
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