Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica

    I am an intellectual and social historian, with particular interests in progressive thought and social reform in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. I have written on Oxford Idealism and the emergence of the ‘New Liberalism’, Idealist philosophy and the university adult education movement, the tension between the ideal of participatory democracy and professionalism, etc.

    More recently, my research has broadened to explore the evolution and impacts of Anglophone progressivist thought on a global scale. I am currently working on three interrelated projects: first, the British left’s admiration for Chinese culture and discourses on China’s modernisation between 1900 and 1960; second, the approach taken by British liberal internationalists in handling the Manchurian crisis; third, Cold-war liberalism and its implications on the study of intellectual history in post-war Taiwan.

    My works have appeared in Modern Intellectual History, Global Intellectual History, and History of Education. Before taking up my current position at IHP in 2021, I was an assistant professor at the National Taiwan Normal University, where I continue to give undergraduate lectures and seminar courses.

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. “R.H. Tawney and China’s Unique Path towards Modernisation: A Global Intellectual History,” English Historical Review (accepted, Feb. 2024).
2. “The New Liberals and Chinese Civilization: Idealist Philosophy, Evolutionary Sociology, and the Quest for a Humanitarian Ethics in Edwardian Britain,” Modern Intellectual History 20.4 (2023): 1142-1164.
   [https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244323000112]
3. “Idealism, Professionalism and the Origins of the Workers’ Educational Association: Revisiting the Oxford Report of 1908,” History of Education 50.5 (2021): 587-604.
   [https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2020.1833992]
4. 〈格林與十九世紀晚期自由主義的轉型〉，《史學研究》24 (2011)：83-108。

Book Chapters

1. 〈從新文化到新文化史：史語所文化思想史研究的淵源、變遷與展望〉，收入李貞德主編，《挑戰與新生：中央研究院歷史語言研究所九十五周年所慶論文集》（臺北：中央研究院歷史語言研究所，2024.6），頁141-178。
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》（北京商務印書館，2022），第2輯，頁174-197。

Conference Papers

1. “A Great Mismatch: Cambridge Humanists in Dialogue with Revolutionary China, 1900 1921,” War and Civilization: The East Asian–European Encounter, 1870–1930 Conference, RCHSS, Academia Sinica, November 27, 2025.
2. 〈中國若海堅：燕卜蓀、李約瑟與作為全球民主及科學前哨站的中國，1937-1949 (The Sea is the Most Solid Ground’: William Empson, Joseph Needham, and China as an Outpost in the Global Struggle for Democracy and Science, 1937-49)〉，發表於中央研究院歷史語言研究所114年度第十五次學術講論會，臺北：中央研究院歷史語言研究所，2025年10月27日。
3. “Channeling Cosmopolitan Feelings: Eileen Power, William Empson, and BBC Broadcasts on China, 1933-1945,” International Symposium on New Media and Representations of Intercultural elations in the Production of Knowledge, IHP, Academia Sinica, August 18, 2025.
4. “In Search of Technocracy with a Human Face: Joseph Needham and the Debates on Chinese Bureaucratism across the Cold-War Divide,” Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Stanford University, March 29, 2025.
5. “Searching Compassionate Future in the Far East: The Cambridge Humanists on Chinese Culture and its Modernisation, 1912-1921,” Conference on Diasporas, Diplomacy, Dreams of Modernity in Turn-of-the-Century East Asia, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, December 9, 2024.
6. 〈作為參照標準的全球史視野： 19世紀中至20世紀的世界思潮與人群流動〉，發表於國立臺灣師範大學臺灣史研究所、國立政治大學臺灣史研究所、中央研究院臺灣史研究所、國立臺灣歷史博物館主辦，「2022-2023臺灣史研究的回顧與展望學術研討會」，臺北：國立臺灣師範大學圖書館國際會議廳，2024年12月6日。（線上發表）
7. “To ‘Grow a New Emotion’: China, Universal Desires, and Eileen Power’s Quest for World History in Interwar England,” Women Historians around the World 1860-1960 Workshop, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, September 3, 2024.
8. “Seeking the Universal in the Particular: British Socialists, the ‘Needham Question’, and China’s Place in the Modern World, 1900-1950,” Conference on the Socialist Ideas of Europe in the World, 1871-1968 , Department of International History, London School of Economics, June 14, 2024.
9. “To ‘Grow a New Emotion’: Cosmopolitanism, Chinese Poetry, and Eileen Power's Teaching of World History, 1920-1940”，發表於中央研究院歷史語言研究所文化思想史研究室、世界史研究室及中央研究院種子計畫「清帝國對明鄭臺灣歷史記憶與族群認同的重構」主辦，「知識的跨境與感染：知識史」工作坊，臺北：中央研究院歷史語言研究所，2023年12月19日。
10. 〈R.H. Tawney與中國現代化之辯：一個全球思想史的嘗試〉，發表於輔仁大學歷史學系主辦，第19文化交流史：「文化的碰撞與誤解」國際學術研討會，臺北：輔仁大學，2023年11月3日。
11. 〈世界公民怎麼教？——英國史家Eileen Power與BBC中學歷史廣播課程〉，發表於國立中正大學教育學研究所主辦，「中正教育史哲線上seminar (9)」，2023年10月21日。（線上會議）
12. 〈從新文化到新文化史：史語所思想文化史研究的淵源、變遷與展望〉，發表於中央研究院歷史語言研究所主辦，「挑戰與新生——歷史語言研究所慶祝九十五周年學術研討會」，臺北：中央研究院歷史語言研究所，2023年10月17日。
13. “Positivism, Historicism and the Crisis of the Chinese Nation: The Historiographical Thought of Fu Sinian (1896-1950) in Global History,” International Society for Intellectual History Conference 2023, University of Edinburgh, UK, September 6, 2023.
14. “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, April 18, 2023. (invited; online)
15. “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。
16. “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.
17. “‘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)
18. “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.
19. “‘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.
20. 〈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。
21. “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。
22. 〈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。
23. 〈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，2020年11月21日。（線上會議）

Other Writings

1. 〈從輝格史學到英國工人運動史研究：劍橋大學Alastair J. Reid博士的教學與研究歷程〉，《成大歷史學報》（預計於2026年刊登）。
2. 〈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 10.1 (2025): 78-83.
   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
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
2022.1-2024.7, Convener, Centre for Cultural and Intellectual History, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
2024.8-2025.5, Visting Scholar, History Department, University of California, Berkeley (2024-25)

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
2024-2025, Junior Researchers Overseas Visiting Scholarship, Academia Sinica (2024-25)