EDUCATION
Princeton University
Ph.D. in Chinese Literature and History. Expected May 2025.
Dissertation: The Unlikely Rise of the Big Book in Early China
Committee: Martin Kern (co-adviser), Anthony Grafton (co-adviser),
Trenton Wilson, Wai-yee Li (Harvard University)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
M.Phil. in Chinese Language and Literature. 2016–2019
Thesis:《淮南子》篇章結構考 [On the Compositional Structure of the Huainanzi], 133 pp.
Supervisor: Ho Che Wah 何志華, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Chinese Language and Literature
B.A. (First Class Honours) in Chinese Language and Literature. 2012–2016
PUBLICATIONS
In Preparation
- “Was It Easy to Create the First Big Bamboo Book in China?” In Dao Companion to the Philosophy of the Lüshi Chunqiu, ed. Marcin Jacoby and James D. Sellmann. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. In preparation.
2024
- “Inventing the Spring and Autumn Period: How Numerology Shaped History and Historiography in Ancient China,” The Journal of Asian Studies 83.3 (2024): forthcoming.
- “Huainanzi.” In The Oxford Handbook of Daoism, ed. James Miller, Robin Wang, and Jingcheng Xu. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024.
2022
- "The Soundscape of the Huainanzi 淮南子: Poetry, Performance, Philosophy, and Praxis in Early China," Early China 45 (2022): 515–539.
- Review of Yuri Pines, Zhou History Unearthed: The Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography. Journal of Asian Studies 81.1 (2022): 179–80.
- 論“天民” "大人”之際：《孟子．盡心上．有事君人者》章新詮 [On the Differences between "Tianmin" and "Daren" in Mencius 7A:19] Sino-Humanitas 人文中國學報 34 (2022): 41–70.
- The leading sinological journal in Hong Kong, published by Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House 上海古籍出版社 and Hong Kong Baptist University
2021
- 「不動心」的本質是甚麼？—《孟子》〈知言養氣章〉的文理與義理 [What is the Nature of "the Unperturbed Mind-heart" in Mencius 2A:2?] Chinese Studies 漢學研究 39.2 (June 2021): 1–37.
- Taiwan's flagship sinological journal, published by Center for Chinese Studies 漢學研究中心
- The findings of this paper have been incorporated into the latest edition of The History of the Thought of Mencius《孟學思想史論》（卷二增訂新版）by Chun-chieh Huang 黃俊傑 (Taipei: Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica 中央研究院中國文哲研究所, 2022), 194.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Honorific Fellowship, Princeton University, 2024–2025
- Established in 1912, this university-wide competitive fellowship recognizes “outstanding performance and professional promise” and represents “high commendation from the Princeton University Graduate School”
Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) and East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University, 2024
Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) and East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University, 2023
The Mabel Wu So S *71 and Ronald M.C. So, PhD *71 Fellowship in Chinese Studies, Princeton University, 2021–2022
Summer Language Study Fellowship (Intermediate Japanese), Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) and East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University, 2020
Entrance Top-up Scholarship for the First Year of Study, East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University, 2019–2020
University Fellowship, Princeton University, 2019–2024
Ch'ien Mu Postgraduate Scholarship 錢穆先生研究生獎學金, New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2017, 2019
M.Phil. Fellowship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016–2018
Chan Kin Leung Memorial Scholarship for Outstanding Research in Chinese Classics 陳建樑博士傑出經學論文紀念獎, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016
P. C. Ho and C. W. Ng Classical Chinese Poetry Writing Scholarship 何竹平吳肖穎伉儷古典詩詞創作獎學金, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014
Hong Kong Youth Historian Award 香港青年史學家年獎, 2012
PRESENTATIONS
“From Failure to Reinvention: The Cross-Referencing System of the First Chinese Big Book.” Textual Culture Workshop: “Ink in One’s Veins—Mapping the World of Texts in Early and Medieval China,” Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania, March 2024.
“《左傳》中的逸詩與劣詩” [Noncanonical Poems as Inferior Poems in Zuozhuan]. Research Seminar, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, January 2024.
“古代中國的詩歌表演與哲學實踐” [Textual Performance and Philosophical Praxis in Ancient China]. 語境化文學研究青年研討會 [Young Scholars Conference on Contextualized Literary Studies], School of International Chinese Studies, East China Normal University 華東師範大學國際漢語文化學院, November 2023.
"西漢的滅亡與春秋時期的誕生——古代中國的經學實踐、數術預測與歷史分期" [The Demise of the Western Han and the Birth of the Spring and Autumn Period: Classical Studies, Numerology, and Periodization in Ancient China]. Research Seminar, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, September 2022.
"Beyond Confucius: How Wang Mang Reinvented the Chinese Classical Tradition." The Society for the Study of Early China 10th Annual Conference. June 2022.
"Reading Huainanzi, Becoming Xunzi: Reading, Intertextuality, and Praxis in Early China." The Annual Conference of Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2021, Virtual Meeting, March 2021.
"《左傳》的本質是甚麼？" Research Seminar, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, September 2020.
"Becoming Xunzi: Reading, Intertextuality, and Praxis in Early China." The Annual Conference of Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2020, Boston, MA (canceled)
TEACHING
Preceptor, Princeton University, 2024 Spring
- EAS 279 / HIS 276: The Qin Dynasty and the Beginnings of Empire in China
Tutor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2017
- Zhuangzi 莊子 (2017 Fall)
- Hanshu 漢書 (2017 Spring)
MANUSCRIPT REVIEW
- Early China (Cambridge University Press)