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李峙皞

Charles Chih-Hao Lee

Assistant Research Fellow

Education

Ph.D., Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

Areas of Research

Modern British History, Intellectual and Social History of Modern Europe, History of Education

       I am a historian of Modern Britain, with particular interests in progressive thought and social reform in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. My current research project focuses on how Anglophone progressives drew on elements of Chinese culture to formulate a “post-Christian” social ethics in the first half of the twentieth century.
       I received my LL.B. and M.A. in history from National Taiwan University, where I completed a dissertation on the political thought of Victorian Oxford Idealist, T. H. Green, and his legacy to the New Liberalism. My doctoral study at Cambridge, fully sponsored by the Taiwanese government, led to a thesis titled “The Workers’ Educational Association and the Pursuit of Oxford Idealism, 1909-1949.” It looked at the WEA’s Idealist scheme of achieving good citizenship by providing university tutorial classes and campaigning for educational reform. I argued that from the outset the WEA struggled to realise its mission because its founding programme glossed over the irreconcilable tensions between Idealist philosophy and the professionalising aspirations embedded in universities and emerging academic disciplines, a crucial factor which contributed to the waning of the Idealist movement in the 1930s and 1940s.
       While working as a full-time Assistant Research Fellow/Professor at IHP, I also give undergraduate lectures in Modern European History and Intellectual History of Modern Europe at the National Taiwan Normal University.

Dissertations
  1. 〈「自由」的再詮釋:格林思想及其時代〉(臺北:國立臺灣大學歷史學研究所碩士論文,2012)。
  2. “The Workers’ Educational Association and the Pursuit of Oxford Idealism, 1909-1949” (PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018). 
Journal Articles
  1. “Idealism, Professionalism and the Origins of the Workers’ Educational Association: Revisiting the Oxford Report of 1908,” History of Education 50.5 (2021): 587-604. (SSCI) [https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2020.1833992]
  2. 〈牛津觀念論與英國社會改革——以工人教育協會為例〉,《政治思想評論》第2輯(北京商務印書館,2022),頁174-197。 
  3. “The New Liberals and Chinese Civilization: Idealist Philosophy, Evolutionary Sociology, and the Quest for a Humanitarian Ethics in Edwardian Britain,” Modern Intellectual History (2023). [first view: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244323000112]
Conference Papers
  1. “Idealism, Professionalism and Workers’ Educational Association Tutorial Classes, 1909-39,” Modern British History Research Seminar, University of Cambridge, April 21, 2016. (Invited)
  2. “A Workers’ University? Democracy, Professionalism, and WEA Tutorial Classes, 1909-39,” Before the Welfare State: New Perspectives on Welfare in Britain 1800-1940 Workshop, University of Leicester, April 30, 2016.
  3. “The Workers’ Educational Association, Oxford and the State, 1919-39,” Voluntary Action History 25th Anniversary Conference, University of Liverpool, July 14, 2016.
  4. “Idealism, Professionalism and the Workers’ Educational Association Tutorial Classes, 1909-45,” Anglo-Taiwanese History Conference, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, September 2, 2016.
  5. “The Workers’ Educational Association and the State: Professionalisation and the Decline of the Idealist Spirit, 1919-45,” Voluntary Action History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, October 3, 2016. (Nominated for the Pollard Prize for the best paper presented at an IHR seminar by a postgraduate student.)
  6. “Democracy, Professionalism and University Reform: Revisiting the '1908 Report', Oxford and Working-class Education,” the International Centre for Historical Research in Education Seminar, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, January 19, 2017. (Invited)
  7. “Elites and the Democratic Movement: The Case of the Workers’ Educational Association, c. 1919-39,” European Democracies Workshop: Origins, Evolutions, Challenges, German Historical Institute, London, March 24, 2018.
  8. “In Pursuit of the 'Constructive Teaching' for Citizenship: Idealists, Positivists and the Workers’ Educational Association, c. 1934-39,” Centre for Modern British Studies PGR/ECR Conference 2018, University of Birmingham, July 6, 2018.
  9. 〈追尋公民情操:牛津唯心論運動與英國工人教育協會的成立,1900-1914〉,發表於輔仁大學歷史學系主辦,世界史學術座談會——「2019年度:宗教、理性與激情」,2019年4月24日。
  10. 〈思想的實踐與思潮的更迭:論工人教育協會與英國唯心論的興衰,1900-1940〉,發表於葉聖陶研究會和復旦大學聯合主辦,第四屆「兩岸學者共話‧世界史」論壇,線上會議,2020年11月21日。
  11. 〈比較倫理學與後基督教社會倫理的摸索:L. T. Hobhouse(1864-1929)論中國倫理〉,發表於「台灣世界史討論會第五十一回年度學術研討會」,臺北:國立臺灣大學文學院,2021年3月26日。
  12. “The New Liberals and Chinese Civilization: Idealist Philosophy, Evolutionary Sociology, and the Quest for a Humanitarian Ethics in Edwardian Britain,” 發表於中央研究院歷史語言研究所世界史研究室主辦,「世界史研究室討論會」,臺北:中央研究院歷史語言研究所,2021年10月26日。
  13. 〈思想的典範轉移是如何發生的?——從工人教育協會教學法之爭看英國唯心論的式微,1919-39〉,發表於中央研究院歷史語言研究所歷史學門、文化思想史研究室合辦,「作為論述與行動的教育:教育史研究的新取徑與新課題」工作坊,臺北:中央研究院歷史語言研究所,2021年11月26日。
  14. “ 'A Miracle of Western Scholarship on China': R. H. Tawney and China's Road to Modernization,” Britain and the World Conference 2022, University of Plymouth, UK, June 17, 2022.
  15. “British Imperial Sceptics and the Scientific Study of Chinese Society, c. 1900-1949,” International Society for Intellectual History Conference 2022, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy, September 15, 2022.
  16. “ 'A Miracle of Western Scholarship on China': R.H. Tawney and China's Road to Modernization,” “R. H. Tawney- Life and Legacy”: an online symposium to mark the centenary of the Scott Holland Lectures, Durham University, November 4, 2022. (online)
  17. “R. H. Tawney's Passage to China: A Global Intellectual History,” North American Conference on British Studies, The Sheraton Grand, Chicago, November 10-13, 2022.
  18. “R. H. Tawney's Curious Passion for China: A Global Intellectual History,” 發表於中央研究院歷史語言研究所112年度第六次學術講論會,臺北:中央研究院歷史語言研究所,2023年4月10日。
  19. “Ways of Serving the Nation: Democracy, Professionalism, and the Origins of Oxford Extramural Movement, c. 1878-1908,” New Research on English Universities in the 19th & 20th Centuries: A Roundtable Discussion, History of Universities Seminar, Humboldt University of Berlin, 18 April 2023. (invited; online)
Other Writings
  1. 〈帝國反攻:新帝國主義對歐洲社會的影響——以英國為例〉,《玩轉歷史力》34 (2021.11):2-13。
Book Reviews
  1. Review Article: ‘Towards a Universal History of Democracy: A Cultural History of Democracy, 6 vols., edited by Eugenio F. Biagini, London, Bloomsbury, 2021, 2016 pp., £440.00 (Hardback), ISBN: 9781350042933’, Global Intellectual History (2023): 1-6. (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23801883.2023.2183882)

Education:
Ph.D., Faculty of History, University of Cambridge (2019)
M.A., Departement of History, National Taiwan University (2012)
LL.B., Departement of Law, National Taiwan University (2008)

Current Position:
2021.2.1- , Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
2022.2- , Convener, Centre for Cultural and Intellectual History, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
2021.2- , Adjunct Assistant Professor, Departement of History, National Tawian Normal Univevrsity

Previous Position:
2019.8-2021.1, Assistant Professor, Departement of History, National Tawian Normal Univevrsity

2013-2016, Taiwanese Government Scholarship for Overseas Study
2016, Stanley Baldwin Studentship, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
2021-2026,Early-career member of the Royal Historical Society, UK

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