My interests lie in British intellectual history, particularly that of the Scottish Enlightenment. I am as much interested in individual thinkers, including Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, among others, of the Enlightenment as in the interplays between the intellectual movement and British empire-building and colonization.
Apart from the history of Britain, I also work on transmissions and receptions of the Enlightenment in China. Hopefully my researches in both British and Chinese histories will mount to a comparative study of the two societies.
Education:
Ph.D., The University of Edinburgh
Current Positions:
2017.12.8- , Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
2023.3- , Deputy Director, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
2018- , Adjunct Professor, National Taiwan University
Previous Positions:
2018.3-2021.8, Deputy Director, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
2018.3-2021.2, Acting Chairperson of Philology Department, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
2008.11-2017.12, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
2002-2008, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
2000-2002, Assistant Professor, History Department, Catholic Fu Jen University
Concurrent Assistant Professor, National Tsing Hua University
Adjunct Assistant Professor, National Chung Yang University
Adjunct Associate Professor, National Yangming University
Adjunct Associate Professor, National Taiwan University
2014.7-2015.12 , Chief Editor for the Intellectual History
2010, Chief Editor for The New History
2001, 2005, 2008, 2009, Editor for The New History
2008.8-2009.7, Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute
2006.2-2006.6, Visiting Scholar, Boston University
2019, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, United Kingdom
2021-2022, Senior Research Grants, The Fulbright Program
2023, Dr. Hu Shih Memorial Chair Professorship in Academia Sinica