2017            As a main contributor from a third party member (University Witten/Herdecke) together with about 20 other universities won Horizon 2020 project “Trivalent” on the narrative of terrorism (directly assisting the coordinator at University Rome Three)

2014                Invitation by Ministry of Culture, China, to participate in Young Sinologists Workshop

2012                Lecture series trip grant to Taiwan by the National Science Foundation Taiwan, no. 101-2912-I-194-516

2011-2013     Several internal grants for engaged learning (ELLA, GEL) and research stays in China and Germany

2011                “Research Fellowship 2011-2012”, a conference participation grant to Berlin and a partnership exploration grant to China (Hefei, Nanking)

2011                Conference participation grant, Chengdu, China by Southwest Jiaotong University

2011                Research stay grant, Shanghai, China, by Tongji University

2010                Research project grant "Western translations of the Dream of the Red Chamber" in China, by the Hanban, Ministry of Education, PR China