EDUCATION

Princeton University

Ph.D. in East Asian Studies. May 2025.

      Dissertation: The Unlikely Birth of the First Big Book in China, 294 pp.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

M.Phil. in Chinese Language and Literature. 2019

B.A. (First Class Honours) in Chinese Language and Literature. 2016

PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming

• “Was It Easy to Create the First Big Bamboo Book?” In Dao Companion to the Philosophy of the Lüshi Chunqiu 吕氏春秋: Political Thought, Metaphysics, and the Ethics of Leadership in Ancient China, ed. Marcin Jacoby and James D. Sellmann. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
• “Huainanzi.” In The Oxford Handbook of Daoism, ed. James Miller, Robin Wang, and Jingcheng Xu. New York: Oxford University Press.  

2025

• Review of Robert L. Chard, Recovering Confucian Authority: The Field of Ritual Learning in Early Imperial China 9 to 316 CE, Journal of the American Oriental Society (2025). 

2024

• “Inventing the Spring and Autumn Period: How Numerology Shaped History and Historiography in Ancient China,” Journal of Asian Studies 83.3 (2024): 553–572.

2022

• "The Soundscape of the Huainanzi 淮南子: Poetry, Performance, Philosophy, and Praxis in Early China," Early China 45 (2022): 515–539.
• 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.
• Review of Yuri Pines, Zhou History Unearthed: The Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography. Journal of Asian Studies 81.1 (2022): 179–180.

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.
  • _{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 (SELECTION)

Elected a Fellow (Title A) of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, 2025

Presidential Assistant Professorship 香港城市大學校長助理教授席, City University of Hong Kong, 2025

Young Scholar Award 青年學者獎, China Times Cultural Foundation 中國時報文化基金會, 2024

Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Honorific Fellowship, Princeton University, 2024–2025