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.
Selected Publications
- 2026
“Polyglot Lexicons and Encyclopedic Works in Late Imperial China.”
Encyclopedia 6, no. 1 (2026): 5.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2025
Revue d’Études Tibétaines 78 (2025): 186–221.
- 2025
“The Issues of the Sixth Dalai Lama and the Transformation of Qing Information System on Tibet.”
Religions 16, no. 1 (2025): 31.
News & Talks
- 2026.10.28
“Triangulating Empire: The Manchus, Chosŏn Korea, and Edo Japan in the Information Order of Seventeenth-Century Northeast Asia.”
Lecture, Hanyang University, Seoul
- 2026.09.26
“The Kangxi-Era Map of Ili and Qing Geographical Knowledge of the Western Regions.”
International research meeting, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
- 2026.09.01–02
Paper and panel chair, Ninth International Conference on Tibetan Archaeology and Art.
Sichuan University, Chengdu
- 2026.08.12
Workshop: The IHP and the Making of Modern Chinese Historiography (convener).
Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
- 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