This Scholarship is set to encourage and stimulate domestic and international doctoral and master students who are interested in Chinese dietary culture. In addition, to encourage who are interested in getting into an extensive and systematic research on this subject, also, able to share their valuable academic research and thesis with the rest of the world.

All domestic and international doctoral and master students are included. However, graduate students in Mainland China and students who have received other scholarships or financial aids are excluded from filing an application.

• 1. Chinese Dietary Literature, History, Anthropology, Sociology, Archaeology, & Arts.
• 2. Food & Nutrition, Food & Health, Restaurant Management etc.
• 3. Applied Science of Living, History of Food Technology.

• 1. Application form
• 2. Research proposal, including

• A. title

  B. motivation & purpose

  C. literature reviews

  D. research method

  E. research structure

  F. research field and limitation

  G. research schedule

  H. references

• 3. A CD-R disk with PDF files of the application form and research proposal.

Specialists and scholars will be invited by the organizer to form a peer-review group for the evaluation of applications.

• 1. The deadline for application is by 31 October every year.
• 2. The evaluation will be conducted in November extensively and the result will be announced in December.
• 3. The doctoral thesis should be completed in three years, and the master thesis has to be completed in two years after the result has been announced.

Each qualified doctoral student will be awarded NT$120,000, and master student will be awarded NT$70,000. The scholarship will be granted to qualified students when the foundation is informed of the successful completion of the thesis.

The deadline for presenting the thesis to the organizer can be extended for six to twelve months once. The recipient should inform the Foundation two months before the deadline.

• 1. The wording "This Thesis is Accomplished with the Assistance of the Foundation of Chinese Dietary Culture" must be affixed to the thesis prepared.
• 2. Three hard-bound copies and digital copy are required.

The grants are provided to encourage and stimulate domestic and international individuals for making in-depth research and the publication of substantial studies and academic works on Chinese Culinary arts and dietary culture.

• 1. All domestic and international individuals may apply for subsidies for the publication of academic works related to the relevant category. However, people in Mainland China and individuals who have received other scholarship or grant are excluded.
• 2. Applications will be accepted for specific completed book manuscripts, but not for books to be published in a series.
• 3. Applications should be the first edition publication of academic works. The prose, novel, script, poem, satirical thesis, briefing and cookbook are not included.

• 1. Chinese Dietary Literature, History, Anthropology, Sociology, Archaeology, & Arts.
• 2. Food Nutrition, Food Health, Restaurant Management, etc.
• 3. Applied Science of Living, Food Technology (restricted to the research on Chinese Dietary Technology)

• 1. All applicants are requested to use the forms available below for downloading:
  http://www.fcdc.org.tw/english/grant/applylaw3.aspx
• 2. All applications must include the following items:
  a. An application form.
  b. A printed draft of the literature.
  c. A CD-R disk with PDF files of the application form and the draft.
• 3. Applications should be posted to the Foundation of Chinese Dietary Culture. (Don’t send applications by fax or e-mail.)
  Foundation of Chinese Dietary Culture
  145, Chien Kuo N. Rd, Sec. 2,
  Taipei, Taiwan

The deadline for applications is at the end of October (by the date of postal seal) every year.

• 1. Specialists and scholars will be invited by the organizer to form a peer-review group for the evaluation of applications.
• The evaluation will be conducted during November and December extensively and the results will be announced by the end of December.
• The grant is offered for maximum four applicants by the FCDC once per year.

The amount of publication grants is decided in accordance with the actual development, but the maximum amount of each award is NT$100,000.

• 1. Publications must be added the following line on the title page: “Sponsored by the Foundation of Chinese Dietary Culture” while the authors received the grants from the FCDC.
• 2. Three copies of each application are required.
• 3. The grants receivers in Taiwan are required to give a presentation at the seminar held by the FCDC.
• 4. No plagiarism is acceptable. Otherwise the grants will be retrieved and the applicant will be disqualified.