NDEA Title VI Undergraduate Award in Chinese, 1964 (Columbia)

NDEA Title VI Graduate Fellowships in Chinese, 1965-1971; Teaching Fellowship in General Education, 1969 (Harvard)

Great Lakes Colleges Association Faculty Development Grant (1974)

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, International Philosophers' Conference on Chu Hsi, University of Hawaii, 1982

Institute of Asian Studies Grant; for seminar "China in Transition," Beijing (PRC), 1995