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Ling-Wei Kung

Assistant Research Fellow

Education

Ph.D., History & East Asian Studies, Columbia University

Areas of Research

History of Exchanges between Late Imperial China and Eurasia, History of Information, Technology, and Knowledge, Inner Asian History (Manchuria, Mongolia, Tibet, and Xinjiang), Historical Philology of Manchu, Mongolian, and Tibetan

Ling-Wei Kung is a historian of early modern/modern China and Inner Asia, with a focus on information, technology, and knowledge in international and comparative contexts. He received a B.A., summa cum laude in History from National Taiwan University (2012), and his M.A. (2015), M.Phil. (2018), and Ph.D. (2021) in History and East Asian Studies from Columbia University. His current book project, tentatively entitled “The Great Convergence: Information Circulation, International Trade, and Knowledge Transmission Between Early Modern China, Inner Asia, and Eurasia,” investigates the Eurasian integration of knowledge systems from Inner Asia, the middle ground between China, India, and Russia. Supplementing modern and classical Chinese sources with multilingual materials in Tibetan, Mongolian, Manchu, Japanese, Russian, and a range of European languages, his research goes beyond the limits of the metropole-periphery discourse by shedding light on the mobility, indigeneity, and transnationalism of Tibetan, Mongolian, and Uyghur societies in the making of the modern world. He is embarking on his second project entitled “Human Bodies and the Universe: Medicine, Environment, and Knowledge in Early Modern China and Eurasia.” Engaging in the scholarship of world history and comparative imperialism, this future project will explore how ideas of body, materiality, and religion from the Buddhist, Islamic, and Christian cultures interacted in the Mongol and Qing empires. He has published more than ten articles in academic journals, including Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, New History, and Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines.
He has held visiting fellowships at Kyoto University and Kyushu University. His research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, the Library of Congress, the Japan Foundation, the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association, Taiwan’s Ministry of Education, Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, the Donald Keene Center for Japanese Studies, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Tang Prize Foundation, and the China Times Cultural Foundation. 
 

Dissertations
  1. “The Great Convergence: Information Circulation, International Trade, and Knowledge Transmission Between China, Inner Asia, and Eurasia, 1621–1911” (PhD diss., Columbia University, 2021.6).
  2. “Falling from the Throne: The Decline of the Tibetan Monasteries in Gansu and the Rise of Their Mongolian Successors in Kokonor, 1644-1795” (MA thesis, Columbia University, 2015.5).
Peer-Reviewed Articles
  1. “Translating Sovereignty: Early Twentieth-Century Tibet Conventions between Britain and China,” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 78 (2025.6): 186-221.
  2. “In Search of the Yellow River: Geographic Expeditions, Knowledge Production, and Political Discourse in Imperial China,” The Chinese Historical Review (2025), forthcoming.
  3. “Information Circulation between Manchuria, Korea, and Japan before the Qing Conquest of China,” Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology  Academia Sinica 96.3 (2025.9), forthcoming. (In Chinese)
  4. “Information Circulation and Patron-Priest Relationship Between the Early Qing Dynasty and Tibet,”Bulletin of the Institute of Modern History Academia Sinica 129 (2025.9), forthcoming. (In Chinese)
  5. “The Issues of the Sixth Dalai Lama and the Transformation of Qing Information System on Tibet,” Religions 16(1), 31 (2025.1): pp. 1-25. 
  6. “The Development of Qing Historiography and Inner Asian Studies over the Past Century,” New History 35.4 (2024.12): 183-221. (In Chinese)
  7. Yu-Wei Zhuang & Ling-Wei Kung, “An Annotated Translation of the Chapter of the Bianfangdian (Frontier Defense) in the Tongdian (Comprehensive Institutions) 2,” Disquisitions on the Past & Present 43 (2024.12): 213-227. (In Chinese)
  8. Ling-Wei Kung & Yi-An Chiu, “Annotated Studies of Archival Sources on Philology and Inner Asian History in the Early Years of the Institute of History and Philology: Yu Daoquan (1),” Disquisitions on the Past & Present 43 (2024.12):167-211. (In Chinese)
  9. “Circulation of Information about the Qing Dynasty in Edo Japan from the Perspective of the Manchu Media,” Cheng Kung Journal of Historical Studies 66 (2024): 55-81. (In Chinese)
  10. Ling-Wei Kung & Hong-Zhe Lin, “An Annotated Translation of the Chapter of the Bianfangdian (Frontier Defense) in the Tongdian (Comprehensive Institutions) 1,” Disquisitions on the Past & Present 42 (2024.6): 209-228. (In Chinese)
  11. Ling-Wei Kung & Xiao-Jun Chen, “Textual Comparison of Pingding haikou fanglüe in Manchu and Chinese: Volume One (2),” Disquisitions on the Past & Present 42 (2024.6): 165-207. (In Chinese)
  12. “Assembling Gate: Infrastructure Construction and Information Circulation in Kalgan from the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Century,” The National Palace Museum Research Quarterly 41.1(2024.6): 89-138. (In Chinese)
  13. “Textual Comparison of Manchu and Han ‘Pingding haikou fanglüe’, Introduction,” Disquisitions on the Past & Present 41 (2023.12): 140-144. (In Chinese)
  14. Ling-Wei Kung & Xin-ping Li, “Textual Comparison of Manchu and Han ‘Pingding haikou fanglüe’ Volume One (1),” Disquisitions on the Past & Present  41 (2023.12)：173-201.  (In Chinese)
  15. “Suningga’s Wanli huijiang tu and the Qing Geographic Knowledge of Xinjiang in the Late Eighteenth Century,” Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology Academia Sinica 94.3 (2023.9)：573-651. (In Chinese)
  16. “Iuming Suez and Sino-Indian Relations during the Late Qing and Early Republican Period,” Reading (Beijing: Sanlian Press), 525 (2022.12): 134-141. (In Chinese)
  17. “Qianlong’s Imperial Manuscript Rehe Examination Kesi and the Prosperous Qing Geographical Knowledge,” Monthly Journal of the Palace Museum 476 (2022.11): 34-43. (In Chinese)
  18. “The Imperial Lama Tsultrim Zangpo Rapjampa, the Qing Mapping of Tibet and Global Circulation of Geographic Knowledge,” Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology Academia Sinica 92.3 (2021.9): 603-648. (In Chinese)
  19. “An Annotated Translation of Chahar Géshé’s Oyirad’s Royal Genealogy (O’i rod kyi rgyal rabs),” Oyirad Studies 6 (2020.12): 25-34. (In Chinese)
  20. “Tibetan Buddhist Material Culture in the Qing Court and the Religious Mentalities of the Qianlong Emperors,” Journal of Tibetology 22 (2020.6): 328-341. (In Chinese)
  21. “Chen Yinke and Oriental Philology: A Reflection on the Future of Inner Asian History and Philology,” New History 31.1 (2020.3): 53-102. (In Chinese)
  22. “Communication and Translation of Intelligence Documents Between Ladakh and the Qing Court,” China Tibetology 2019.3: 114-124. (In Chinese)
  23. “Historical Effects of Tibetan Buddhism on Torghuts’ Eastward Movement: A Study of Newfound Tibetan Manuscripts,” China Tibetology 2019.1: 125-136. (In Chinese)
  24. “A Review of the Debates on the Well-field System in the Western Zhou Dynasty since the 20th Century,” Shi-yuan 30 (2018.9): 63-81.
  25. “Eurasian Intelligence Networks Between Ladakh, Tibet, and the Qing Dynasty, 1724-1768: A Study on Qing China’s First Recognition of Mughal India,” The Qing History Journal 2018.2: 27-48. (In Chinese)
  26. “Transformation of Qing’s Geopolitics: Power Transitions Between Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries in Amdo, 1644-1795,” Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines 45 (2018.4): 110-144. (In English)
  27. “Between Statutes and Dharma: The Regulation and the Punishment of the Mongolian Monks in the Early Qing Period,” Journal of History and Anthropology 15.2 (2017.10): 187-220. (In Chinese)
  28. “The Networks Between the Oyirad-un Yeke Küriy-e, Tibet, and the Qing Dynasty: A Study on Tibetan Documents Found in Xinjiang Recently,” trans. by Nobuaki Murakami, Quaestiones Mongolorum Disputatae 13 (2017.7): 11-24. (In Japanese)
  29. (Co-authored with Oyunbilig), “The Origin and the Meanings of ‘Five Colors and Four Vassals’ in Mongolian Historiography,” Ethno-National Studies 2016.2: 85-97. (In Chinese)
  30. “The Development of Tibetan Monasteries in Amdo and the Mongolian Factors during Ming-Qing Dynasties: A Study on Tibetan Monks in the Manchu-Mongolian Routine Memorials of the Lifanyuan,” Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology Academia Sinica 86.4 (2015.12): 855-910. (In Chinese)
Book Chapters
  1. “King’s New Clothes: Fake Tribute and False Information between the Tibetan Ganden Phodrang and the Early Qing Dynasty,” Manipulating the Media: Communications and Representation of Information in China since Early Modern Times (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press),  forthcoming.
  2. “The Linguistic Legacy and Development of the Institute of History and Philology,” in Li Zhen-de, ed., Challenges and Rebirth: Commemorative Volume for the 95th Anniversary of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica (Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, 2024.6), pp. 313-336. (In Chinese)
  3. “Between the Qing and Russian Empires: Amursana and the Dzungar Khanate in the Context of Eurasian History,” in Chen Cheng-kuo, ed., 1723: Eleven Windows into World History—Encounters, Convergences, and New Beginnings through Global Historical Figures (Taipei: Linking Publishing, 2023.12), pp. 64-87. (In Chinese)
  4. “The History of Buddhism Among the Zünghars,” Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Volume Four: History (Leiden: Brill, 2023), pp. 69-74.
  5. “Outline History and Foreign Thoughts,” Returning to the Outline History (Taipei: The Commercial Press, Ltd., 2023.7), pp. 176-213. (In Chinese)
  6. “Beyond Dispersal and Colonization: Foreign Immigration in the Inner Asian Region during the Ming and Qing Dynasties,” in Shi-Xu Wu ed., Yi Wu Lv Jiang Zuo Shi Lu, Volume 1 (Shenyang: Liaohai Publishing House, 2021), pp. 257-286. (In Chinese)
  7. “The Fifth Dalai Lama’s Death and the Sino-Tibetan Economy in the Late Seventeenth Century,” in Conference Proceedings in Memory of Professor Ou-yang Wu-wei on the 30th Anniversary of His Passing (Taipei: National Chengchi University, 2021), pp. 219-234.
  8. “The Convergence of Śūraṅgama Mantra and Sitātapatrā Dhāraṇī in Da-Zang-Quan-Zhou: A Study on the Manchu Transliteration of Tibetan Mantra and its Influence on Philology in the Qing Dynasty,” in Shen Weirong ed., Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Studies: Texts, People, Images, and History (Beijing: Chinese Tibetology Press, 2013), pp. 640-650. (In Chinese)
  9. “Comparative Research on the Manchu Translations of Diamond Sūtra: Manchu Identity and Official Translation of Buddhist Texts in the Qing Dynasty,” in Shen Weirong ed., History through Textual Criticism: Tibetan Buddhism in Central Eurasia and China Proper (Beijing: Chinese Tibetology Press, 2012), pp. 455-496. (In Chinese)
Book Editor
  1. Guest Editor: Kong Ling-wei, Bulletin of the Department of History, National Cheng Kung University: Inner Asia and Maritime History (Part II) / 50th Anniversary Special Issue (Tainan: Department of History, National Cheng Kung University, 2024.12), vol. 67. (In Chinese)
  2. Guest Editor: Kong Ling-wei, Bulletin of the Department of History, National Cheng Kung University: Inner Asia and Maritime History (Part I) / 50th Anniversary Special Issue (Tainan: Department of History, National Cheng Kung University, 2024.6), vol. 66. (In Chinese)
  3. Ling-Wei Kung & Riga Shakya eds., Waxing Moon: Journal of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies (New York: Columbia University Libraries, 2021.2), vol. 1, ISSN: 2694-6149. 
  4. Ling-Wei Kung & Riga Shakya eds., Waxing Moon: Journal of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies (New York: Columbia University Libraries,2022.9), vol. 2, ISSN: 2694-6149.
Conference Papers
  1. “Connections between Kalmykia, Russia, and China in the Making of Qing Knowledge of Eurasia,” presented at “What is China? New Perspective in New Era – an International Symposium,” Harvard-Yenching Institute and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, April 18, 2025.
  2. “Qing Geographical Knowledge of the Western Regions at the Turn of the 17th and 18th Centuries as Seen in the Yili Map,” presented at “Young Scholars Workshop on Qing Cartography,” co-hosted by the Academy of Chinese Learning and the Institute of Qing History, Renmin University of China, Beijing, April 12, 2025.  (In Chinese)
  3. “Imperial Espionage and the Religious Nature of Qing Authority in Tibet,” presented at “AAS 2025 Annual Conference,” Association of Asian Studies, Columbus, USA, March 16, 2025.
  4. “The Sixth Dalai Lama and the Transformation of Information Governance in Qing Tibet,” presented at “The Second Conference for Young Buddhist Scholars,” co-hosted by the Center for Buddhist Studies, National Taiwan University, and the Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies, Taipei, December 11, 2024. (In Chinese)
  5. “Tracing the Yellow River: Cartography, Knowledge Production, and Political Discourse in the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Empires,” presented at “International Conference Twenty Years of Cultural Exchange History: Cross-Regionalism, Plural Perspectives, and Global History,” organized by the Department of History, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei, November 30, 2024. (In Chinese)
  6. “Legal Lexicon in Manchu: Rethinking Normative Order in Early Qing China,” presented at “International Conference Academic Traditions and Paradigm Reflections on Legal Documents,” organized by the Institute for the Collation of Classical Legal Texts, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, November 24, 2024. (In Chinese)
  7. “Constructing Historical Memory of Taiwan in the Qing Empire: A Study of the Manchu and Chinese Versions of The Strategy for Pacifying the Maritime Rebels Preserved at the Institute of History and Philology,” presented at “International Conference Inland Asia and the Maritime World in the Seventeenth Century,” co-hosted by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, and the National Palace Museum, Taipei, November 14, 2024. (In Chinese)
  8. “The Fortified Settlements of Dartsedo in the Context of Qing–Tibetan Relations,” presented at “Conference on Medieval and Early Modern East Asian History from Inner Asian and Maritime Perspectives,” co-organized by the Institute of History and Philology and the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, November 7, 2024. (In Chinese)
  9. “The Development of Dartsedo under Qing-Tibetan Relations: Focusing on City Walls and Forts,” presented at “Workshop on Fortresses and Castles in Pre-modern Times,” co-hosted by the Institute of History and Philology and the Reading Group The History of Infrastructure, Academia Sinica, Taipei, October 23, 2024. (In Chinese)
  10. “Political-Religious Relations and Information Flows between Early Qing China and Tibet,” presented at “Conference  on Cultural Symbiosis and Ethnic Integration,”co-hosted by the Institute of Tibetan Studies, Sichuan University, and the Department of Chinese History and Culture, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Sichuan, September 21, 2024. (In Chinese)
  11. “Revisiting Qing Campaign History of Conquering Taiwan,” presented at “Workshop on Taiwan Studies in Transition: Sources, Theories, and Approaches,”International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University, May 2, 2024.
  12. “Imperial Ideas and Political Religion: Qianlong’s Views through Tibetan Buddhist Material Culture in the Qing Court,” presented at “Online Symposium Multiple Dimensions of Tibetan Identity Construction,” organized by the Graduate Institute of Musicology, Taipei National University of the Arts, April 2, 2024. (In Chinese)
  13. “Translating Sovereignty: The Tibet Conventions between Britain and China, 1904–1906,” presented at “Conference on New Trends in the International History of Twentieth-Century China and East Asia,” organized under the Academia Sinica Breakthrough Project Reconstructing Historical Memory and Ethnic Identity of Taiwan under the Qing Empire, Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, March 7, 2024. 
  14. “The Source of the Yellow River: Territorial Expansions, Power Discourse, and Knowledge Construction in Late Imperial China,” presented at “Workshop on Cross-Border Contagions of Knowledge: A History of Knowledge Workshop, under the thematic session Economic Entities at the Imperial Margins: Property, Environment, and Ethnicity,” co-organized by the Cultural and Intellectual History Division and the Division of World History at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, and the Academia Sinica Key Breakthrough Program Reconstructing Qing Historical Memory and Ethnic Identity of the Ming-Zheng Taiwan Regime: A Study of the Manchu and Chinese Texts of the Pingding Haikou Fanglüe, Taipei, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, December 19, 2023.
  15. “Borders, Bribes, and Bridge: Qing–Tibetan Debates over Dartsédo,” presented at “2023 International Conference on Ming and Qing Studies,” hosted by the Committee on Ming and Qing Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, December 13-15, 2023.
  16. “Zunghar Historical Memory as Seen in Chahar Geshe’s Genealogy of the Oirat Kings,” presented at “International Conference on Ethnicity and National Identity-Building in Modern China in International Context,” co-organized by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, and the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Taipei, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, November 29-30, 2023. (In Chinese)
  17. “White Umbrellas and the Śūraṅgama Sūtra: On the Political and Religious Relations between China and Inner Asia from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period as Seen through Multilingual Buddhist Texts,” presented at “Workshop  on Establishing the Dharma Realm: Buddhist Culture and the Relationship between Religion and Politics in East Asia,” co-organized by the Academia Sinica Thematic Project Urban Writing in the Context of East Asian Cultural Exchange, the Sheng Yen Education Foundation Project Four Hundred Years of Chinese Buddhism, and the Academia Sinica–National Taiwan University Joint Project Politics and Religion between Premodern China and Eurasia, Taipei, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, November 24-25, 2023. (In Chinese)
  18. “Political-Religious Relations between the Early Qing Court and the Tibetan Government through the Lens of Dartsédo,” presented at the “International Conference on Thought, Culture, and Religion in the Context of East Asian Cultural Exchange,” organized by the Department of Chinese Thought and Culture, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo, November 17-18, 2023. (In Chinese)
  19. “Postal Routes, Geographic Knowledge, and Historical Memory: Central Asia in Qing Cartography,” presented at “Conference on Postal Routes from China to Central Asia from the Yuan to the Qing Dynasties,” University of Bonn, November 10-13, 2023.
  20. “The Death of the Fifth Dalai Lama: Inner Asian Religious–Political Circles and the Qing Empire’s Tibetan Information Crisis,” presented at “19th International Conference on Cultural Exchange History: Collisions and Misunderstandings in Cultural Encounters,” hosted by the Department of History, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Fu Jen Catholic University, November 3, 2023. (In Chinese)
  21. “A Historiographical Review of Qing and Inner Asian Studies in the Past Century,” presented at “Conference on The Past, Present, and Future of New Chinese Historiography: In Commemoration of the 150th Birthday of Liang Qichao,” hosted by the Institute of Qing History, Renmin University of China, Beijing, Renmin University, October 21-22, 2023. (In Chinese)
  22. “The Linguistic and Philological Legacy of the Institute of History and Philology,” presented at “Academic Conference on Challenges and Renewal: Celebrating the 95th Anniversary of the Institute of History and Philology,” hosted by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, October 17-18, 2023. (In Chinese)
  23. “Beyond the Tianxia: Political and Religious Relations between the Qing Empire and Tibet,” presented at “Tianxia’: dialogue between contemporary Chinese philosophy, history and IR studies,” East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts, University of Tokyo, September 28, 2023.
  24. “Information Circulation of Eurasian Knowledge between Kalmykia, Tibet, and the Qing Empire,” presented at “13th Academic Colloquium of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica,” Taipei, September 18, 2023.
  25. “The Ming–Mongol–Manchu Relationship through the Seventeenth-Century Information Network of Zhangjiakou,” presented at “International Conference on Multilingual Sources and the History of Northern China’s Borderland Peoples,” hosted by Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, September 1–5, 2023. (In Chinese)
  26. “Assembling Gate: Information Circulation between Manchus, Mongols, and the Ming Dynasty in Kalgan,” presented at “Conference on Border-Crossing in the Ming,” Columbia University, August 18-20, 2023.
  27. “Amursanaa and Central Euraisa in the Eighteenth Century,” organized by the Italian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, presented at “The 16th Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) — Antiquity and the Shaping of the Future in the Age of Enlightenment,” panel: The World in 1723 and thereafter: Conversations of Microhistory and the World History (roundtable), Sapienza University of Rome, July 3-7, 2023.
  28. “In Search of the Yellow River: Imperial Expeditions, Knowledge Production, and Political Discourse in the Qing Empire,” presented at “2023 AAS in Asia / The 8th AAS in Asia Conference,” panel: Land and Water: Knowledge and People in Motion on Two Frontiers of Qing China, Kyungpook National University (KNU), Daegu, Korea, June 24, 2023.
  29. “The Role of the Manchu Language in Information Circulation between the Qing Empire and Japan,” presented at “Workshop on Revisiting Ming–Qing China from the Perspectives of Inner Asia and the Maritime World,” organized by the Academia Sinica Key Breakthrough Program Reconstructing Qing Historical Memory and Ethnic Identity of the Ming-Zheng Taiwan Regime: A Study of the Manchu and Chinese Texts of the Pingding Haikou Fanglüe, Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, June 7, 2023. (In Chinese)
  30. “The Gate of Assembly: Infrastructure and Sino–Mongol–Manchu Information Circulation in Zhangjiakou, 15th–17th Centuries,” presented at “International Conference on Border-Crossing in the Ming,” co-organized by the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation Program The Society for Ming Studies, and the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, June 1, 2023. (In Chinese)
  31. “New Trends in the Study of Buddhism in Early Modern China and Inner Asia,” presented at “Conference on New Directions in Asian History and Culture: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Collaboration between EFEO Taipei and Academia Sinica,” co-organized by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica and the École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO) Taipei Center, Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, May 18, 2023. (In Chinese)
  32. “Thirty Years of Qing and Inner Asian Historiography (1993–2023),” presented at “Academic Conference on Thirty Years of Historical Research at National Central University: Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Institute of History and the Study of Early Modern Taiwan,” organized by the Institute of History, National Central University, co-sponsored by the China Medical Research and Development Foundation, Taoyuan: Institute of History, National Central University, May 11, 2023. (In Chinese)
  33. “Migration between Ming–Qing China and Central Eurasia and Its Historical Significance,” presented at “Roundtable on Inner Asia, the Ocean, and Global History,” organized by the Academia Sinica Key Breakthrough Program Reconstructing Qing Historical Memory and Ethnic Identity of the Ming-Zheng Taiwan Regime: A Study of the Manchu and Chinese Texts of the Pingding Haikou Fanglüe, Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, April 24, 2023. (In Chinese)
  34. “A Reexamination of the Four-Language Versions (Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian, Tibetan) of the Qianlong Emperor’s On the Lamas (Lama Shuo), with a Focus on Rubbings Preserved at the Institute of History and Philology,” presented at “International Conference on the Qianlong Emperor and the Golden Urn Lot-Drawing System,” hosted by the Institute of Tibetan Studies, Sichuan University, February 26, 2023. (In Chinese)
  35. “Political-Religious Relations and Information Gathering between the Early Qing and Tibet,” presented at “International Conference on Inner Asia and the Ocean: Central Archives, Local Documents, and Foreign Sources in Ming–Qing Studies,” co-organized by the Ming–Qing Studies Promotion Committee and the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Kyushu University, the National Museum of Taiwan History, and the Department of History, National Cheng Kung University, Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, December 3, 2022. (In Chinese)
  36. “Religious Law, State Law, and Method: Manchu Legal Terminology and Normative Knowledge in the Qing Empire,” presented at “Conference on Diversity and Uniformity in Qing Law,” organized by the Interdisciplinary Platform for Chinese Culture and History and the Institute of Qing History, Renmin University of China, and the editorial board of Qing History Studies (online), September 24, 2022. (In Chinese)
  37. “Religious Law, State Law, and Method: Manchu Legal Vocabulary and Normative Order in the Qing Empire,” presented at “Workshop on Manchu Keywords and Key Concepts: Linguistic Formation and Cultural Reproduction in the Qing Empire,” organized by the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, March 25, 2022. (In Chinese)
  38. “Mapping the Ganges: Buddhist Monks, Imperial Cartography, and Global Knowledge,” presented at “2022 AHA virtual workshop of Knowledge Formation, State Building, and Transregional Integration: Modern China’s Understandings of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa,” American Historical Association (AHA), February 25, 2022.
  39. “Suningga’s Illustrated Map of the Return Journey from Xinjiang (Wanli Huijiang Tu) and Qing Geographical Knowledge of Xinjiang in the Late Eighteenth Century,” presented at “2021 International Conference on Ming–Qing Studies,” hosted by the Ming–Qing Studies Promotion Committee and the Institute of Taiwan History, and co-organized by the Institute of History and Philology, Institute of Modern History, and Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taipei: Academia Sinica, December 15-17, 2021. (In Chinese)
  40. “The Fifth Dalai Lama’s Death and the Sino-Tibetan Economy in the Late Seventeenth Century,” presented at “Conference on Commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of Professor Ou-yang Wu-wei’s Passing,” co-organized by the Ministry of Culture, the Academia Historica, and the Department of Ethnology, National Chengchi University (held online via Cisco WebEx), October 9, 2021.
  41. “Between Imperiality and Locality: Imperial Envoy Lama Tsultrim Zangpo Rapjampa and Geographical Knowledge of the Himalayas in Qing China and the World,” presented at “the Workshop of Locality and Geographical Knowledge,” Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Department III, July 1, 2020.
  42. “Lama, Spy, and Cartographer: Formation of Qing Intelligence System in Tibet and Globalization of Himalayan Geographic Knowledge,” presented at “the Harvard-Yenching Workshop of Frontier and the (Un)Making of China,” Chiang Mai University, January 24, 2020.
  43. “Manchu Studies and Internal Exchanges of Knowledge in Japan and Germany during the 18th Century,” presented at “the Fourth International Conference of Japanese Studies in East Asia,” National Taiwan University, November 2, 2019.
  44. “Cross-Lingual Networks between Ladakh, Tibet, and Qing China in the 18th Century,” presented at “the ACLS-Chicago Workshop of Literary Culture across Eurasia: East Asian International Literary History,” University of Chicago, October 19, 2019.
  45. “Eurasian Intelligence Networks between Ladakh, Tibet, and the Qing Court, 1724-1768: A Study on Qing China’s First Recognition of Mughal India,” presented at “the 15th IATS Seminar,” Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, July 11, 2019.
  46. “Iuming Suez and Modern Sino-Tibetan Relationships,” presented at “Symposium in Memory of Iuming Suez: Modernizing China through Diplomatic and Missionary Pursuits and Overseas Education,” Columbia University, November 30, 2018.
  47. “Intelligence Competitions and Religious Propaganda between Imperial Japan and Republican China in Inner Mongolia, 1931-1945,” presented at “the Third International Conference of Japanese Studies in East Asia,” Kyoto University, October 28, 2018.
  48. “Chen Yinke and the Study of Inner Asian History: Reflections on the Future of Philology,” presented at “Academic Conference on Rethinking Studies on Nationality, Ethnicity, and Community,” organized by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, September 7, 2018. (In Chinese)
  49. “Manchu Tripitakas and Cross-Cultural Interactions between Tibetan, Mongolian, and Manchu Buddhism,” Center for Eurasian Cultural Studies (Haneda Memorial Hall), Kyoto University, July 30, 2018.
  50. “Translating Sovereignty: The Tibet Conventions between Britain and China, 1904-1906,” presented at “China’s Quest for Sovereignty: International Law in China in a Historical Perspective,” Princeton University, May 29, 2018.
  51. “The Secret History of Tibet: The Mindstream Transference from the Fifth to the Sixth Dalai Lamas and its Manchu-Mongolian Translations in the Qing Archives,” presented at “Beyond Empire and Borders: The Third International Conference on the Qing Dynasty and Inner Asia,” Columbia University, October 6, 2017.
  52. “Translingual Networking between Ladakh the Qing Dynasty,” presented at “Manchu in Global,” University of Göttingen, September 21, 2017.
  53. “Networks between the Oyirad Küriye, Tibet, and the Qing Dynasty in the 18th Century,” presented at “the 54th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Altaic Studies Society,” Nakano, July 16, 2017.
  54. “Mapping Tibetan Monasteries: Geographic Information Science and Quantitative Methods in Tibetan Studies,” presented at “Data Science Day,” Columbia University, April 6, 2016.
Book Reviews
  1. “Review: Common Ground: Tibetan Buddhist Expansion and Qing China's Inner Asia. By Lan Wu. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. XVI, 248 pp. ISBN: 9780231206174,” The Journal of Asian Studies 84.2 (2025): 553-556. 
  2. “Viewing the World from Chaoshan”: A Review of Melissa Macauley DISTANT SHORES: Colonial Encounters on China’ s Maritime Frontier,” Taipei: China Times Publishing Co. (In Chinese)
  3. “[Book Reviews] Manuel Perez-Garcia. Global History with Chinese Characteristics: Autocratic States along with Silk Road in the Decline of the Spanish and Qing Empire,” China and Asia 4 (2023.1): 325-328.
  4. “A Review of Legal History of China by Terada Hiroaki: The Outlook of Legal Pluralism and Cross-Cultural Comparative Legal History from Inner Asian Perspectives,” Journal of Chinese Ancient Legal Literature Studies 12 (2018.12): 668-681. (In Chinese)
Other Writings
  1. “Introduction to the Special Issue on ‘Inner Asia and Maritime History’,” Bulletin of the Department of History, National Cheng Kung University 66 (2024.6):  xix–xxii. (In Chinese)
  2. “Introduction: Disease, Climate, and Civilization—Micro and Macro Perspectives in World History,” in Hasebe Fumihiko et al., trans. by Chen Hsien-jo, Turning Points in History Vol. 5: 1348—Climate Turmoil and the Crisis of Survival (New Taipei City: The Commercial Press Taiwan,  2024.4), pp. 7-10. (In Chinese)
  3. “Introduction: Rethinking ‘China’ through the Lens of Political Thought,” in Kim Youngmin, trans. by Chen Mu-chien, A Political Scientist’s History of China for Everyone (New Taipei City: The Commercial Press Taiwan, 2023.12), pp. 12-15. (In Chinese)
  4. “Introduction: Your Xinjiang, My Hometown”, in Eric Schluessel, trans. by Yuan Mo, Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia (New Taipei City: Horizon Publishing, 2023.12), pp. 9-12. (In Chinese)
  5. “How Did Local Qing Officials Acquire Geographic Knowledge of Xinjiang?—A Discussion on Su Ning’ a ’s Ten-Thousand-Li Map of Hui Jiang,” Historical Study Grocery Store [歷史學柑仔店], September 29, 2023. (In Chinese)
  6. “Introduction: Beyond the Myth of ‘Coolie’—The Struggles and Global Politics of Chinese Migrant Workers during the Gold Rush”, in Mae Ngai, trans. by Huang Zhongxian, The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (Taipei: China Times Publishing House, 2023.3.14), pp. 12-17. (In Chinese)
  7. “Foreword: The Dialectics of Empire”, in Krishan Kumar, trans. by Hu Xunzhun, Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World (Taipei: Linking Publishing Company, 2023.3.2), 9-12. (In Chinese)
  8. “The Curator’s Lounge at the NTHU Museum: An Atypical Historian’s Journey—Who Was Naitō Konan? feat. Kung Ling-wei,” podcast episode, NTHU Museum Podcast, March 2, 2023. (In Chinese)
  9. “The Rehe kao Imperial Kesi Tapestry and the Geography of the High Qing,” National Palace Museum Monthly Online, January 18, 2023. (In Chinese)
  10. “Imperial Envoy Lama Chökyi Tsangpo Lhamo Jampa, Qing Cartography in Tibet, and the Transmission of World Geographic Knowledge,” in Research Highlights of Academia Sinica 2021 (Taipei: Academia Sinica, 2022.12.6), p. 66. (In Chinese)
  11. “State, Capital, and Economic Institutions: A Pivotal Moment in the Rise of Europe and the Great Divergence,” in Patrick Wyman, trans. by Wu Weisheng, The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World (Taipei: Peace Culture Publishing, 2022.10), pp. 3-5. (In Chinese)
  12. “Introduction: Challenging Western Empires through an Indo-Pacific Maritime Perspective,” in Sujit Sivasundaram, trans. by Yeh Pin-tsen, Waves Across the South (Taipei: China Times Publishing Company, 2022.7), pp. 4-9. (In Chinese)
  13. “Who Were the ‘False Lamas’? Qing-Era Restrictions on Mongol and Tibetan Monastics,” published on the social media platform of the Ming-Qing Archives Workshop, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, May 30, 2022. (In Chinese)
  14. “Foreword: Reversing Core and Periphery—A Recommendation for Empires of the Silk Road,” in Christopher Beckwith, trans. by Yuan Mo, Empires of the Silk Road (Taipei: Linking Publishing Company, 2022.5), pp. 5-8. (In Chinese)
  15. “Why Does Tibet Matter? Intelligence Gathering on Tibet, the Himalayas, and India in the Qing Empire,” Research Walks column, Academia Sinica Newsletter, February 24, 2022. (In Chinese)
  16. “High Lamas from Afar: Tibetan Buddhist Clergy in the Grand Secretariat Archives of the Ming and Qing Dynasties,” published on the social media platform of the Ming-Qing Archives Workshop, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, January 27, 2022. (In Chinese)
  17. “Revisiting the Origins of Globalization—Review of Valerie Hansen’s The Year 1000,” China Times Literary Supplement (Taipei: China Times Publishing Company, 2022). (In Chinese)
  18. “Naval Rivalries in an Age of Globalization—Review of Geoffrey F. Gresh’s To Rule Eurasia’s Waves,” China Times Literary Supplement (Taipei: China Times Publishing Company, 2022). (In Chinese)
  19. “What Is ‘China’? Reflections on the Plurality of the Term through Peter C. Perdue’s China Marches West,” in Peter C. Perdue, trans. by Yeh Pin-tsen, Tsai Wei-chieh, and Lin Wen-kai, China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Taipei: Acropolis Publishing, 2021.1), pp. 11-14. (In Chinese)
  20. “Review of From Marco Polo to Macartney: Three Bridges between Yuan and Qing Histories,” The Paper – Shanghai Review of Books website, September 16, 2020. (In Chinese)
  21. “How Should We Understand the Historiography of China’s Frontiers in American Scholarship?” The Observer [Guancha.cn], November 28, 2019. (In Chinese)
  22. “Manchu Studies in Japanese and German Scholarship and Early Modern Eurasia,” Dushu (Beijing: Sanlian Publishing), vol. 5 (2019.5.1, issue no. 482): 160-170. (In Chinese)
  23. “Beyond Eurocentrism and Sinocentrism: What Central Eurasian History Can Offer to Taiwan — A Review of The Birth of the Steppe Empire,” The News Lens – Story Studio, April 18, 2019. (In Chinese)
  24. “How Did the Qing Empire First Come to Know India? Exploring Intelligence from the Southern Slopes of the Himalayas,” The News Lens – Story Studio, March 25, 2019. (In Chinese)
  25. “The Central Plain, Inner Asia, and Beyond: New Trends in Ming–Qing Studies in 2017,” Shiyuan Forum, June 12, 2018. (In Chinese)
  26. “Ladakh and the Formation of the Qing Eurasian Intelligence Network,” Dushu (Beijing: Sanlian Publishing), vol. 7 (2017.7.15): 132-139. (In Chinese)
  27. “Reframing Qing History through Inner Asia and the Oceans,” The Paper – Shanghai Review of Books, February 6, 2017. (In Chinese)
  28. “‘Routes’: Seafaring and Steppe Peoples in Continuous Motion,” The Paper – Shanghai Review of Books, December 25, 2016. (In Chinese)
  29. “The Qing Empire Revisited by a Doctoral Student Abroad: The Illusion of Isolation and the Reality of Circulation,” The Paper – Shanghai Review of Books, December 25, 2016. (In Chinese)
  30. “Why Did the Image of the ‘Mongol Doctor’ Decline So Sharply?” The Paper – Shanghai Review of Books, September 10, 2016. (In Chinese)
  31. “The Dual Identity of the Qing: Steppe Empire or Central Plain Dynasty?” The Paper – Shanghai Review of Books, July 25, 2016. (In Chinese)
  32. “Who Is Okada Hidehiro, the Scholar Mentioned by Wang Qishan?” The Paper – Shanghai Review of Books, May 18, 2015. (In Chinese)
     
Translations
  1. Frances Wood, “Marco Polo and His Readers: The Problem of Manuscript Complexity,” in Selected Essays on Marco Polo Studies (Foreign Language Volume), ed. Rong Xinjiang and Dang Baohai (Shanghai: Zhongxi Publishing House, 2023), pp. 69-78. (In Chinese)
Digital
  1. 中央研究院歷史文物陳列館「文物裡的故事」系列影片：「從〈第七輩達賴喇嘛上雍正皇帝書〉所見西藏與清之間的關係」，2025年2月21日，網址：https://museum.sinica.edu.tw/multimedia/item/100/。
  2. 〈孔令偉談清朝歐亞情報網的興衰〉，載於《忽左忽右》電台節目第307集，2024年2月27日，網址：https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/65ddca9a2e0f97da8d0624c7?s=eyJ1IjoiNjA3Mm VmNWRlMGY1ZTcyM2JiZDgzNWQwIiwiZCI6MX0%3D。
  3. 「談金英敏《政治學家寫給所有人的中國史》」，載於飛碟聯播網《飛碟早餐 唐湘龍時間》，2024年2月26日，網址：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InSPaosBLBI&ab_channel=%E9%A3%9B%E7%A2 %9F%E8%81%AF%E6%92%AD%E7%B6%B2。
  4. 臺灣內陸歐亞學會內陸歐亞論壇系列，政大短講：「衛拉特大庫倫、西藏與清朝資訊網」，2023年7月2日，網址：https://youtu.be/XfvIlLnHtro?si=-kFpZLR4IJiTXira。
  5. 臺灣內陸歐亞學會內陸歐亞論壇系列，政大短講：「清朝情報網與1717年西藏地圖測繪」，2023年7月2日，網址：https://youtu.be/3LtJfS59Rpk?si=JPhpGiUflYLuuo3W。
  6. 〈清大文物館會客室：非典型史學家之路，內藤湖南是誰？ feat.孔令偉〉podcast，載於《清大有文物？PODCAST》，2023年3月2日，網址：https://open.firstory.me/story/clepqp3gb007n01ua6uv15hhl。
  7. 孔令偉、廖泫銘，「《萬里回疆圖》」歷史地理資訊系統」，檢索網址：https://gis.sinica.edu.tw/prj/xinjiang/（檢索日期：2021/11/18）。

Education:
Ph.D., History & East Asian Studies, Columbia University (2021)
M.Phil., History & East Asian Studies, Columbia University (2018)
M.A., History & East Asian Studies, Columbia University (2015)
B.A., History, National Taiwan University (2012)

Current Position:
2021.8- , Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica

Previous Positions:
Visiting Scholar, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Peking University, 2025.3-2025.6
Visiting Scholar, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, 2024.10
Junior Visiting Scholar, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, 2019
Visiting Researcher, Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, 2019
Guest Research Associate, Oriental History, Kyoto University, 2018-2019

  1. 2025, The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Early Career Research Fellowships in Buddhist Studies, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
  2. 2025, Julian Suez Endowment Lecture in Chinese and Tibetan History, University of Texas at Austin
  3. 2022-2025, Research Awards from the National Science and Technology Council for 2022, 2023, and 2024
  4. 2024, The Inaugural I. M. Suez Lecture in Tibetan Studies, Columbia University
  5. 2022, Li Foundation Heritage Prize
  6. 2022, Research Highlights of Academia Sinica 2021
  7. 2022, Representative of the Awardees of 2021 Taiwanese Overseas Pioneers Grants, Ministry of Science and Technology
  8. 2021, New History Outstanding Article Award
  9. 2020, Yu Chi-Chung Award for Chinese Studies, China Times Cultural Foundation
  10. 2020, Taiwanese Overseas Pioneers Grants, Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology
  11. 2020, Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship, Library of Congress
  12. 2020, Mellon Humanities International Travel Fellowship, GSAS, Columbia University
  13. 2019, Yu Ying-Shih Prize for Humanities Research (Ph.D. candidates writing doctoral theses), Tang Prize Foundation
  14. 2019, International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council
  15. 2018-2019, Japanese Studies Fellowship, Japan Foundation
  16. 2018, Fellowship of Humanities & Social Science, Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association
  17. 2016, Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants, Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies Program in China Studies
  18. 2015-2019, The First Taiwan-Columbia Ph.D. Scholarship, Taiwan Ministry of Education
  19. 2015, M.A. Thesis Award, Mongolian & Tibetan Affairs Commission, Taiwan
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