Norman Smith, University of Guelph

Research

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Latest funding

Translating the Japanese occupation of China: a documentary approach
SSHRC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$22,800
Cultivating morality in Manchukuo, 1932-45
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
$113,943
Manchurian environment: natural resources, climate and disease
SSHRC · 2012 · Principal investigator
$35,355

All 6 grants and awards

No publications available.

Translating the Japanese occupation of China: a documentary approach

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Smith, Norman D.

Keywords: colonialism; imperialism; collaboration; resistance; literature; translation; history; China; Japan; Manchukuo; Korea; occupation; commemoration; memory

$22,800

Cultivating morality in Manchukuo, 1932-45

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Smith, Norman D.

Keywords: China; Japan; Manchuria; colonialism; morality; education; religion; science; modernity

$113,943

Manchurian environment: natural resources, climate and disease

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Smith, Norman D.

Keywords: environmental history; medical history; farming history; China; Manchuria; Japan; Russia; Korea

$35,355

Winter health: consumer culture, science and modernity in China's northeast

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Smith, Norman D.

Keywords: history; China; north; winter; health; science; modernity

$75,000

Global Approaches

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Smith, Norman D.

Keywords: alcohol; drugs; globalization; communities; trade; medicine; health; addiction; youth; regulation

$10,000

Addiction on the Northern Frontier: narratives of alcohol and opium addiction in Manchuria, 1900-1950

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Smith, Norman D.

Keywords: China; Japan; Manchuria; history; popular culture; addiction; gender

$75,015

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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