2018 laureate Prof. Owen decided to use the grant to enable free electronic availability of future volumes in the Library of Chinese Humanities.

2018 laureate Prof. Shiba decided to use part of the grant to produce a bibliographical introduction to the primary sources in the “Morrison Pamphlets” in English, in order to make these pamphlets more accessible to researchers.

2018 laureate Prof. Shiba decided to use part of the grant to improve on the first edition of A Combined Thesaurus ofChinese Words of Socioeconomic History