Ling-Wei Kung
Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica

Ling-Wei Kung

  • Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
  • JSPS International Research Fellow, Toyo Bunko Museum (2026–27)

I am a historian of early modern/modern China and Inner Asia, with a focus on information, technology, and knowledge in international and comparative contexts.

Page from the Qing Pentaglot Dictionary, with Manchu, Tibetan, Mongolian, Chaghatai and Chinese entries
From the Qing Pentaglot Dictionary

Selected Publications

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Manchu translation of a 1639 letter from the lord of Tsushima to the Chosŏn Ministry of Rites, Grand Secretariat Archives, Institute of History and Philology

Featured article · 2025

“Information Circulation between Manchuria, Korea, and Japan before the Qing Conquest of China” [in Chinese].

Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology 96, no. 3 (2025): 499–566.

Manchu translation of a 1639 letter from the lord of Tsushima to the Chosŏn Ministry of Rites (detail). Grand Secretariat Archives, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica.

  1. 2026
  2. 2025

    “Information Circulation and Patron-Priest Relationship between the Early Qing Dynasty and Tibet” [in Chinese].

    Bulletin of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica 129 (2025): 1–54.

  3. 2025
  4. 2025

News & Talks

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Poster for the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Lectures on Chinese Studies, 17 June 2026

Featured lecture · 2026.06.17

“Was Qing China Closed? Information Exchange between Early Modern China and Eurasia.”

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Sinology Lecture, Chiang Ching-kuo Presidential Library, Taipei

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