Biography

Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, 2025.11–present

Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, 2021.8–2025.11

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 (China, India, and Russia)

JSPS International Research Fellow, Toyo Bunko (The Oriental Library), Tokyo, 2026.9–2027.9

Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, Sun Yat-sen University, 2026.3–2026.6

Visiting Scholar, Department of History, National University of Mongolia, 2025.7–2025.11

Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study in 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, 2019.5–2019.9

Visiting Researcher, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, 2019.4–2019.5

Guest Research Associate, Oriental History, Kyoto University, 2018.7–2019.4

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)

1. Faculty Advisor, Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP), Academia Sinica: “East Asia and the Making of the Modern World,” 2026.9–present
2. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of History, National Chengchi University: “Readings in Sources on Sino-Foreign Relations in the Yuan, Ming, and Qing,” Fall 2023
3. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of History, National Chengchi University: “The Qing and Central Eurasia,” Fall 2022

1. Editor-in-Chief, Asia Major (ISSN 0004-4482), 2026.11–
2. Editorial Board Member (2026.1–2026.12) and Standing Member (2022.2–), New History (ISSN 1023-2249)
3. Board Member, Taiwan Society for Inner Asia Studies, 2024.8–
4. Advisory Committee Member, Buddhist Library, National Taiwan University, 2024.1–
5. Guest Editor, Cheng Kung Journal of Historical Studies (ISSN 1683-9749), nos. 66–67, 2024.1–2024.12
6. Convener, Tongdian Reading Group, Academia Sinica, 2023.11–
7. Convener, Reading Group on Chinese and Western Archives, Committee on Ming and Qing Studies, Academia Sinica, 2023.1–2025.12
8. Member, Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS), 2022.12–
9. Chair, Management Committee of the Dormitory for Newly Appointed Scholars, Academia Sinica, 2022.10–2023.11
10. Member, Taiwan Society for Inner Asia Studies, 2022.8–
11. Judge, Openbook Book Awards, Taiwan Reading Promotion Association, 2022.6–2023.9
12. Member, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, 2022.4–
13. Advisory Committee Member, Qing Archives Retrieval System, National Palace Museum, 2022.2–2022.12
14. Advisory Committee Member, “The Great Qing Empire” Exhibition, National Palace Museum, 2022.1–2022.12
15. Editorial Committee Member, Ming-Qing Studies Newsletter, Academia Sinica; Executive Editor of nos. 93, 95, 102, 104, and 106, and Editor of no. 110, 2022.1–
16. Member, Association for Asian Studies, 2021.8–

1. “The Sixth Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatso and the Evolution of Early Qing Information Mechanisms on Tibet,” School of History and Culture, Sichuan University, Chengdu, June 24, 2026. (In Chinese)
2. “From Imagined Holy Land to Political-Religious Reality: Reconstructing Qing Knowledge of Tibet before and after the Conquest,” School of History and Culture, Sichuan University, Chengdu, June 23, 2026. (In Chinese)
3. “Buddhism and Chinese–Manchu–Mongolian–Tibetan Cultural Exchange in the Yuan, Ming, and Qing as Seen through the Diamond Sūtra,” Special Exhibition Lecture, National Palace Museum (Northern Branch), Taipei, June 18, 2026. (In Chinese)
4. “Was Qing China Closed Off? Information Exchange between Early Modern China and Eurasia in World-Historical Perspective,” Sinology Lecture Series, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Taipei, June 17, 2026. (In Chinese)
5. “A Eurasian Bridge between Qing China and Tsarist Russia: Transregional Information Networks of the Oirat Yeke Küriye, the Torghuts, and Tibet,” Workshop on Mobile Peoples, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, May 29, 2026. (In Chinese)
6. “Maritime East Asian Networks before the Qing Conquest: Information Circulation among Manchuria, Korea, and Japan,” Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, May 25, 2026. (In Chinese)
7. “The Institute of History and Philology, Sun Yat-sen University, and the Formation of Modern Chinese Academic Institutions,” Lianjie Salon, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, May 20, 2026. (In Chinese)
8. “How Did the Qing Empire Know the World? The Making of ‘China’ in Eurasian Perspective,” course lecture for “Dimensions of Chinese History: Space, Thought, and Social Structure,” Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, April 16, 2026. (In Chinese)
9. “Manchu Media, Qing Information Transmission, and the Formation of Early Modern East Asian Knowledge Networks,” Lecture Series on Manchu Documents and Qing History, no. 5, Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University (Zhuhai Campus), Zhuhai, April 3, 2026. (In Chinese)
10. “Frontiers and Trends in International Qing Studies,” Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University (Zhuhai Campus), Zhuhai, April 3, 2026. (In Chinese)
11. “The Philological Practice of the Institute of History and Philology and Modern Chinese Historiography,” “Information Circulation among Manchuria, Korea, and Japan before the Qing Conquest,” and “Information Circulation between the Early Qing and Tibet,” Eurasian Classical Studies Lecture Series, nos. 37–39, Institute of Western Regions History and Philology, Renmin University of China, Beijing, March 5–9, 2026. (In Chinese)
12. “Frontiers, Borderlands, and Empire: Ming-Qing China, Inner Asia, and the World-Historical Turn in Geographic Knowledge,” Early-Career Investigator Research Achievement Award Presentation, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, February 24, 2026. (In Chinese)
13. “Imperial Cartography, Infrastructure Construction, and Eurasian Knowledge Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Qing Xinjiang,” Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, November 21, 2025.
14. “Frontier as Method: Redefining the Core of Chinese History from a Eurasian Perspective,” Workshop “Doing Chinese History in Taiwan and around the World, 1985–2025,” Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, November 11, 2025. (In Chinese)
15. “Amursana at the Crossroads of Qing and Russian Empires: The Dzungar Khanate in Eurasian Perspective,” Department of History, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, October 17, 2025.
16. “Climate Changes and Geopolitical Shocks: Reflections on the Shifting Relations among the Khalkha, Zunghar, Tibet, and the Qing Empire, 1686–1690,” American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS), Ulaanbaatar, September 30, 2025.
17. “Qing Cartography of Tibet and Its Global-Historical Significance,” Department of the History of Science, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University, Beijing, September 18, 2025. (In Chinese)
18. “Information Circulation among Manchuria, Korea, and Japan in the Global Early Modern,” Global and International History Lecture Series, School of History, Capital Normal University, Beijing, September 17, 2025. (In Chinese)
19. “Early Qing Tea-Horse Trade and Yunnan–Tibet Regional Interaction: Wu Sangui and the Fifth Dalai Lama in Multilingual Sources,” Ethnic History Lecture Series, School of History and Archives, Yunnan University, Kunming, September 11, 2025. (In Chinese)
20. “The Qing Empire’s Reconstruction of the Historical Memory and Ethnic Identity of Ming-Zheng Taiwan: The Manchu and Chinese Texts of the Pingding haikou fanglüe at the IHP,” Academia Sinica Grand Challenge Program Results Meeting, Taipei, August 11, 2025. (In Chinese)
21. “The Philological Tradition of the Institute of History and Philology and Its Prospects,” Lecture Series on Classical Legal Texts, Institute for the Collation of Classical Legal Texts, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, June 26, 2025. (In Chinese)
22. “Geographic Information and World Knowledge in Qing Xinjiang as Seen in the Wanli huijiang tu,” School of History and Culture, Minzu University of China, Beijing, June 25, 2025. (In Chinese)
23. “Why Do I Study Yuan-Ming-Qing China and Central Eurasian History?” Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, June 19, 2025. (In Chinese)
24. “Chinese and International Scholarship on Qing History and Its Multilingual Sources since the Twentieth Century,” Lecture Series on Important Overseas Manchu Archives, School of Ethnology and Anthropology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, May 29, 2025. (In Chinese)
25. “Revisiting the Shes bya rab gsal: Tibetan–Mongolian–Chinese Buddhist Translation in the Yuan and the Shaping of Indo-Tibetan-Mongol Royal Genealogies,” New Voices Forum, Institute for Advanced Study of Ethnic Classics, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, May 28, 2025. (In Chinese)
26. “Zhangjiakou and Chinese–Mongol–Manchu Exchanges in the Ming-Qing Transition,” Lecture Series of the Center for Ming History Studies, School of History, Nanjing University, Nanjing, May 26, 2025. (In Chinese)
27. “The Survey of the Tibetan Plateau for the Huangyu quanlan tu and Qing Intelligence Gathering on the Western Frontier,” Western Frontier Forum, Institute of China’s Western Frontier Studies, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, May 19, 2025. (In Chinese)
28. “Rethinking ‘Great Unity’: Tracing the Source of the Yellow River, Geographic Knowledge, and Political Discourse in the Qing,” Institute of Qing History, Renmin University of China, Beijing, May 14, 2025. (In Chinese)
29. “Beyond ‘Isolationism’: Information Circulation and Knowledge Exchange between the Qing Empire and the Eurasian World,” Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, May 13, 2025. (In Chinese)
30. “The Diamond Sūtra and Chinese–Manchu–Mongolian–Tibetan Buddhist Cultural Exchange in the Ming and Qing,” Religious Studies Lecture Series, School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China, Beijing, May 9, 2025. (In Chinese)
31. “Manchu Information Media and Edo Japan’s Knowledge of the Qing in the Context of Northeast Asian Transregional Exchange,” Institute of Legal History, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, April 14, 2025. (In Chinese)
32. “The Oirat Yeke Küriye, the Torghuts, Tibet, and the Qing,” School of Chinese Ethnic Minority Languages and Literatures, Minzu University of China, Beijing, April 8, 2025. (In Chinese)
33. “The Qing Eurasian Information Network and Qing Knowledge of the Outside World,” Department of History, Fudan University, Shanghai, March 28, 2025. (In Chinese)
34. “Qing History and Inner Asian Studies over the Past Century,” School of Chinese Classics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, March 17, 2025. (In Chinese)
35. “The Northeast Asian Intelligence Network before the Qing Conquest: Interactions among Manchuria, Korea, and Japan,” Lecture on Chinese and East Asian History, High School History Subject Center, K-12 Education Administration, Ministry of Education, National Chiayi Girls’ Senior High School, Chiayi, February 26, 2025. (In Chinese)
36. “Tracing the Yellow River: Geographical Exploration, Knowledge Production, and Political Ideology in Imperial China,” I. M. Suez Lecture Series in Chinese and Tibetan Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, February 19, 2025.
37. “Steppe Empire or Central Plains Dynasty? What Is ‘China’ in Light of the Nature of the Qing State,” 28th History Workshop, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, January 15, 2025. (In Chinese)
38. “Yu Daoquan and Early Tibetan Studies at the IHP,” Roundtable on the Historical Context and Scholarly Pursuits of the Early IHP, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, January 10, 2025. (In Chinese)
39. “Information Circulation among Manchuria, Korea, and Japan before the Qing Conquest,” IHP Colloquium, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, January 6, 2025. (In Chinese)
40. “Embassies among Manchuria, Korea, and Japan in the Seventeenth Century,” International Roundtable on Urban Writing in the Context of East Asian Envoy Exchanges, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taipei, December 18, 2024. (In Chinese)
41. “The Circulation of Manchu Information in Edo Japan from the Perspective of Maritime East Asia,” course lecture for “History of Monsoon Asia,” National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, December 13, 2024. (In Chinese)
42. “Modern Western Exploration of the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayan Region,” course lecture for “History of Modern Western Thought,” National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, November 29, 2024. (In Chinese)
43. “Between State Law and Dharma: Qing Legal Regulation of Mongol Monks,” School of Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, November 27, 2024. (In Chinese)
44. “Xiongnu Studies in the Context of Chinese and Central Eurasian History,” Department of History, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, October 25, 2024. (In Chinese)
45. “Was Qing China ‘Closed Off’? The Qing Eurasian Intelligence Network in World-Historical Perspective,” Academia Sinica Open House, Institute of History and Philology, Taipei, October 19, 2024. (In Chinese)
46. “The Diplomatic Life of Iuming Suez and Sino-Tibetan Relations in the Making of Modern China,” Inaugural I. M. Suez Lecture in Tibetan Studies, Modern Tibetan Studies Program, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, New York, October 4, 2024.
47. “Cultural Exchange as Seen in the Tibetan, Mongolian, and Chinese Versions of the Shes bya rab gsal,” School of History and Culture, Minzu University of China, Beijing, June 14, 2024. (In Chinese)
48. “Infrastructure in Zhangjiakou and Chinese–Mongol–Manchu Exchanges, Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries,” School of Chinese Classics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, June 12, 2024. (In Chinese)
49. “Changing Relations between Tibet and the Qing in the Era of the Fifth and Sixth Dalai Lamas: Desi Sangye Gyatso’s Account of the Succession in Tibetan, Mongolian, and Manchu,” Department of Religion and Culture, Hsuan Chuang University, Hsinchu, May 28, 2024. (In Chinese)
50. “Chen Yinke’s Thought on History and Philology,” General Education Lecture Series on Chao Yuen Ren and Chen Yinke, Center for General Education, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, April 25, 2024. (In Chinese)
51. “Chen Yinke and Oriental Philology: Prospects for Inner Asian History and Philology,” Introduction to Inner Eurasia Lecture Series, National Chengchi University, Taipei, April 24, 2024. (In Chinese)
52. “Continuity, Change, and Comparison between the Mongol-Yuan and Qing Empires: Focusing on Political-Religious Relations,” course lecture for “Politics and Religion in East Asian History,” National Taiwan University, Taipei, April 23, 2024. (In Chinese)
53. “Qing Cartography of the Western Regions and the Transmission of Geographic Knowledge,” Introduction to Inner Eurasia Lecture Series, National Chengchi University, Taipei, April 17, 2024. (In Chinese)
54. “Revisiting the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Empires through Information Circulation and Cultural Exchange,” Lecture on Chinese and East Asian History, High School History Subject Center, K-12 Education Administration, Ministry of Education, National Chiayi Girls’ Senior High School, Chiayi, January 17, 2024. (In Chinese)
55. “The Qianlong Emperor’s ‘Examination of Rehe’ and the Construction of Qing Geographic Knowledge,” Center for Ming and Qing Studies, National Central University, Taoyuan, November 2, 2023. (In Chinese)
56. “Rewriting General Chinese History from Central Eurasia: Foreign Thought in the Outline of National History,” NTU History Camp, July 26, 2023. (In Chinese)
57. “Revisiting the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Empires from a Central Eurasian Perspective,” National Palace Museum (Northern Branch), Taipei, May 10, 2023. (In Chinese)
58. “The Early Qing’s Understanding of Tibet,” Institute of East Asian Studies, Leipzig University (online), April 24, 2023.
59. “New Trends in Ming Border-Crossing History from a Central Eurasian Perspective,” Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, April 15, 2023. (In Chinese)
60. “The Yuan, Ming, and Qing Empires and Central Eurasia in World-Historical Perspective,” “Empire and Knowledge” Discussion, World History Study Group, March 17, 2023. (In Chinese)
61. “Mapping Xinjiang: A Mongol-Banner Cartographer and the Qing Geographic Knowledge of Central Eurasia in the Late Eighteenth Century,” Washington University in St. Louis (online), March 3, 2023.
62. “Inner Asian Political-Religious Concepts and Historical Writing in the Tibetan, Mongolian, and Chinese Versions of the Shes bya rab gsal,” School of History and Culture, Sichuan University, Chengdu, February 26, 2023. (In Chinese)
63. “The Tibetan, Mongolian, and Chinese Versions of the Shes bya rab gsal and Inner Asian Political-Religious Concepts,” Workshop “The World of Buddhist Treatises,” Department of Philosophy and Sheng Yen Center for Chinese Buddhist Studies, National Chengchi University, Taipei, February 18, 2023. (In Chinese)
64. “Naitō Konan’s Expeditions in Manchuria,” Museum Curatorial Reading Group, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, February 17, 2023. (In Chinese)
65. “Reading Peter Perdue’s China Marches West and Matthew Mosca’s From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy,” Lecture Series on Sinology in Global Perspective (II), Graduate Institute of History and Center for Ming and Qing Studies, National Central University, Taoyuan, December 21, 2022. (In Chinese)
66. “Sinology and ‘Barbarian Studies’: Retrospect and Prospect of Early Modern Chinese and Inner Asian History,” Lecture Series on Sinology in Global Perspective (II), Graduate Institute of History and Center for Ming and Qing Studies, National Central University, Taoyuan, December 10, 2022. (In Chinese)
67. “New Trends in the Study of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Empires and Central Eurasia,” Department of History, National Taiwan University, Taipei, November 17, 2022. (In Chinese)
68. “The Yuan, Ming, and Qing Empires and Central Eurasia in World-Historical Perspective,” Department of History, Soochow University, Taipei, November 8, 2022. (In Chinese)
69. “Expert Dialogue: Steppe Empires and Nomadic Peoples,” digital course A History of China for Everyone, Linking Publishing, August 26, 2022. (In Chinese)
70. “Early Qing Knowledge of Tibet and Its Informational Limits,” August Forum of the Taiwan Society for Inner Asia Studies, National Chengchi University, Taipei, August 10, 2022. (In Chinese)
71. “The Diamond Sūtra in Qing Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian, and Tibetan Buddhism,” Center for Buddhist Studies, National Taiwan University, Taipei, July 22, 2022. (In Chinese)
72. “The Outline of National History and Foreign Thought,” Lecture Series “Returning to the Outline of National History,” The Commercial Press Taiwan, Taipei World Trade Center, June 25, 2022. (In Chinese)
73. “The Tibetan, Mongolian, and Chinese Versions of the Shes bya rab gsal and Inner Asian Buddhist Historiography since the Mongol-Yuan,” Graduate Institute of Religious Studies, National Chengchi University, Taipei, June 8, 2022. (In Chinese)
74. “Political and Economic Relations between the Early Qing and the Ganden Phodrang as Seen from Dartsedo,” School of History and Culture, Sichuan University (online), May 25, 2022. (In Chinese)
75. “Xinjiang Infrastructure in Qing Manuscript Maps: Historical GIS and the Reconstruction of Transport Routes,” Department of History, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, April 21, 2022. (In Chinese)
76. “The Torghuts, Tibet, and the Qing: Perspectives from Todo Script and Tibetan Sources,” School of Chinese Classics, Renmin University of China (online), April 13, 2022. (In Chinese)
77. “Qing Geographic Knowledge and Landscape Construction in Xinjiang as Seen in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Maps of the Western Regions,” School of History, Nanjing University (online), April 12, 2022. (In Chinese)
78. “Imperial Expansion and the Making of Frontiers,” Department of History, National Chengchi University, Taipei, November 17, 2021. (In Chinese)
79. “Qing Cartography and Intelligence Gathering in Tibet in the Early Eighteenth Century: A Lama between Western Learning and China,” Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, November 3, 2021. (In Chinese)

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. “In Search of the Yellow River: Geographic Expeditions, Knowledge Production, and Political Discourse in Imperial China,” The Chinese Historical Review (2027), forthcoming.
2. “The ‘Eight Steeds’ and Tribute Horse Paintings: Political Culture of the High Tang,” Meishu Daguan (Art Review) 2026.3 (2026.7): 39–43. (In Chinese)
3. Ling-Wei Kung & Cheng-Hsing Wu, “Annotated Studies of Archival Sources on Philology and Inner Asian History in the Early Years of the Institute of History and Philology: Yu Daoquan (3),” Disquisitions on the Past & Present 46 (2026.6): 163–231. (In Chinese)
4. Jui-Ying Chien & Ling-Wei Kung, “An Annotated Translation of the Chapter of the Bianfangdian (Frontier Defense) in the Tongdian (Comprehensive Institutions) (4),” Disquisitions on the Past & Present 46 (2026.6): 233–253. (In Chinese)
5. “Polyglot Lexicons and Encyclopedic Works in Late Imperial China,” Encyclopedia 6(1), 5 (2026): 1–11.
6. “Normative Order Before and After the Qing Entry into the Pass: A Study Based on the Manchu Lexicon for ‘Law’,” Studies on Ancient Chinese Legal Documents 21 (2025.12): 111–129. (In Chinese)
7. “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): 1–54. (In Chinese)

8.  “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): 499–566. (In Chinese)

9. Ling-Wei Kung & Jui-Ying CHIEN, “Annotated Studies of Archival Sources on Philology and Inner Asian History in the Early Years of the Institute of History and Philology: Yu Daoquan (2).” Disquisitions on the Past & Present 44 (2025.06):145–196. (In Chinese)

10. Giap Siong TEO & Ling-Wei Kung, “An Annotated Translation of the Chapter of the Bianfangdian (Frontier Defense) in the Tongdian (Comprehensive Institutions) (3).” Disquisitions on the Past & Present 44 (2025.06):197–211. (In Chinese)

11. “Translating Sovereignty: The Tibet Conventions between Britain and China in the Early Twentieth Century,” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 78 (2025.6): 186–221.
12. “The Issues of the Sixth Dalai Lama and the Transformation of Qing Information System on Tibet,” Religions 16(1), 31 (2025.1): 1–25.
13. “The Development of Qing Historiography and Inner Asian Studies over the Past Century,” New History 35.4 (2024.12): 183–221. (In Chinese)
14. 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)
15. 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)
16. “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)
17. 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)
18. Ling-Wei Kung & Xiao-Jun Chen, “The Critical Edition of Qing Campaign History of Conquering Taiwan (Pingding haikou fanglue) in Manchu and Chinese, Volume 1 (2),” Disquisitions on the Past & Present 42 (2024.6): 165–207. (In Chinese)
19. “Assembling Gate: Infrastructure Construction and Information Circulation in Kalgan from the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Century,” The National Palace Museum Research Quarterly 41.4 (2024.6): 89–138. (In Chinese)
20. “The Critical Edition of Qing Campaign History of Conquering Taiwan (Pingding haikou fanglue) in Manchu and Chinese, Introduction,” Disquisitions on the Past & Present 41 (2023.12): 140–144. (In Chinese)
21. Ling-Wei Kung & Xin-ping Li, “The Critical Edition of Qing Campaign History of Conquering Taiwan (Pingding haikou fanglue) in Manchu and Chinese , Volume 1 (1),” Disquisitions on the Past & Present 41 (2023.12): 173–201. (In Chinese)
22. “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)
23. “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)

24. “The Qing Diarchy: Steppe Empire or Sedentary Dynasty?”Sociology of Ethnicity Newsletter 359 (2022): 25–30. (In Chinese)

25. “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)
26. “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)
27. “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)
28. “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)
29. “Communication and Translation of Intelligence Documents Between Ladakh and the Qing Court,” China Tibetology (2019.3): 114–124. (In Chinese)
30. “Historical Effects of Tibetan Buddhism on Torghuts’ Eastward Movement: A Study of Newfound Tibetan Manuscripts,” China Tibetology (2019.1): 125–136. (In Chinese)
31. “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.
32. “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)
33. “Transformation of Qing’s Geopolitics: Power Transitions Between Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries in Amdo, 1644–1795,” Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines 45 (2018.4): 110–144.
34. “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)
35. “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)
36. (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)
37. “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. “Chen Yinke’s Thought on History and Philology,” in Tsing Hua General Education Lecture Series: Liang Qichao, Wang Guowei, Chen Yinke, and Chao Yuen Ren (Hsinchu: Center for General Education, National Tsing Hua University, 2025.9), pp. 138–159. (In Chinese)
3. “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)
4. “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)
5. “The History of Buddhism Among the Zünghars,” Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Volume Four: History (Leiden: Brill, 2023), pp. 69–74.
6. “Outline of Chinese History by Ch’ien Mu and Foreign Thoughts,” Returning to the Outline History (Taipei: The Commercial Press, Ltd., 2023.7), pp. 176–213. (In Chinese)
7. “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)
8. “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.
9. “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)
10. “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. “Multilingual Texts, Visual Art, and Material Culture: Chinese–Tibetan–Mongolian–Manchu Buddhist Cultural Exchange in the Yuan, Ming, and Qing as Seen through the Diamond Sūtra,” presented at “The Ninth International Conference on Tibetan Archaeology and Art,” Sichuan University, Chengdu, September 2, 2026. (In Chinese)
2. “Eurasian Networks between the Torghuts, the Qing Empire, and the Ganden Phodrang,” presented at “17th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies,” Kathmandu (held online), August 25, 2026.
3. “Reincarnation: The Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism, and the Making of Late Imperial China,” presented at “2026 Buddhist Studies Retreat Manuscript Development Workshop,” University of California, Los Angeles, July 19–23, 2026.
4. “Geopolitical Frontier as Information Metropole: Qing Inner Asia in the Re-Making of China,” presented at “Beijing Forum Global at Cambridge: The Making and Remaking of States,” University of Cambridge, April 22–24, 2026.
5. “Chen Yinke, Yu Daoquan, and the IHP: The Formation and Transformation of Philology as a Vocation in Modern China,” presented at “Conference on Mongolian and Oriental Studies in China,” co-organized by the Chinese Association for Mongolian Studies and the Center for Oriental Literature Studies, Peking University, Beijing, March 20–21, 2026. (In Chinese)
6. “Beyond the Qing Diarchy: Frontier Entanglement and the Translational Making of Empire,” presented at “The Great Entanglement: Reframing East Eurasian Histories in the Longue Durée,” University of British Columbia, Vancouver, March 11–12, 2026.
7. “The Tibetan, Mongolian, and Chinese Versions of the Shes bya rab gsal and Inner Asian Buddhist Historiography since the Mongol-Yuan,” presented at “Workshop on Liao, Jin, and Yuan Buddhism,” co-organized by the Institute of History and Philology and the AS–NTU Joint Project Spatiotemporal Knowledge in Imperial China, Taipei, February 3, 2026. (In Chinese)
8. “The Kangxi-Era Yili Map and Qing Geographic Knowledge of the Western Regions at the Turn of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” presented at “International Conference on New Trends in Inner Eurasian Studies in Taiwan and Korea,” co-organized by the Institute of History and Philology, the Taiwan Society for Inner Asia Studies, and the Korean Association for Central Asian Studies, Taipei, January 5, 2026. (In Chinese)
9. “Iuming Suez and the Transformation of Sino-Tibetan-Indian Relations: Diplomacy, Sovereignty, and the Formation of Modern China,” presented at “Imagining the State: International Law and Political Concepts in Early Twentieth Century Tibet and Mongolia,” École française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris, December 4–5, 2025.
10. “Pre-Conquest Qing Knowledge of Japan as Seen in Manchu and Chinese Sources,” presented at “The First Conference on Manchu Documents and Qing History,” Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, November 15–16, 2025. (In Chinese)
11. “From the Source of the River to All under Heaven: Ethnic Space and Cultural Order in Yuan–Ming–Qing Surveys of the Yellow River’s Source,” presented at “The Second Conference on Cultural Symbiosis and Ethnic Integration,” co-organized by the Department of Chinese History and Culture and the Research Centre for Chinese History and Culture, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the Institute of Tibetan Studies, Sichuan University, Hong Kong, November 7–8, 2025. (In Chinese)

12. “South Asian Merchants and Travelers between Tibet and the Plateau Silk Road during the Qing period,” presented at“The Second International Conference on the History and Culture along the Plateau Silk Road ,” organized by the Institute of Tibetology and College of Literature, Sichuan University, Chengdu, September 5–6, 2025.

13. “Yu Daoquan, the Institute of History and Philology, and Tibetan Studies in Modern China,” presented at “Conference on Tibetan Texts and the History of Multicultural Exchange, in Commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of Mr. Wang Yao’s Passing,” organized by the Center for Ethnic and Frontier Studies of Nanjing University and the Center for Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Studies of Tsinghua University, Nanjing, May 24–25, 2025.

14. “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.
15. “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)
16. “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.
17. “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)
18. “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)
19. “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)
20. “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 Preservedat 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)
21. “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)
22. “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)
23. “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)
24. “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.
25. “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)
26. “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. 
27. “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.
28. “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.
29. “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)
30. “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)
31. “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)
32. “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.
33. “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)
34. “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)
35. “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)
36. “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.
37. “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.
38. “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)
39. “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.
40. “Amursanaa and Central Eurasia 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.
41. “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.
42. “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)
43. “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)
44. “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)
45. “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)
46. “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)
47. “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)
48. “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)
49. “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)
50. “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)
51. “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.
52. “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)
53. “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.
54. “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.
55. “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.
56. “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.
57. “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.
58. “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.
59. “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.
60. “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.
61. “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)
62. “Manchu Tripitakasand Cross-Cultural Interactions between Tibetan, Mongolian, and Manchu Buddhism,” Center for Eurasian Cultural Studies (Haneda Memorial Hall), Kyoto University, July 30, 2018.
63. “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.
64. “The Secret History of Tibet: The Mindstream Transference from the Fifth to the Sixth Dalai Lamasand 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.
65. “Translingual Networking between Ladakh and the Qing Dynasty,”presented at “Manchu in Global: A Research Language for Qing Historians,” University of Göttingen, September 21, 2017.
66. “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,” Nagano, July 16, 2017.
67. “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. “Buddhist Historical Perspectives and the Plural ‘China’: Review of Buddhist Historiography in China by John Kieschnick.” Newsletter for Research in Chinese Studies 44.3 (2025.8): 13–16. (In Chinese)

2. “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. 
3. “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)
4. “[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.
5. “A Review of Legal History of Chinaby 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’ (Part II),” Bulletin of the Department of History, National Cheng Kung University 67 (2024.12): i–iii. (In Chinese)
2. “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)
3. “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)
4. “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)
5. “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)
6. “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)
7. “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)
8. “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), pp. 9–12. (In Chinese)
9. “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)
10. “The Rehe kao Imperial Kesi Tapestry and the Geography of the High Qing,”National Palace Museum Monthly Online, January 18, 2023. (In Chinese)
11. “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)
12. “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)
13. “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)
14. “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)
15. “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)
16. “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)
17. “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)
18. “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)
19. “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)
20. “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)
21. “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)
22. “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)
23. “How Should We Understand the Historiography of China’s Frontiers in American Scholarship?”The Observer [Guancha.cn], November 28, 2019. (In Chinese)
24. “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)
25. “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)
26. “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)
27. “The Central Plain, Inner Asia, and Beyond: New Trends in Ming–Qing Studies in 2017,”Shiyuan Forum, June 12, 2018. (In Chinese)
28. “Ladakh and the Formation of the Qing Eurasian Intelligence Network,”Dushu (Beijing: Sanlian Publishing), vol. 7 (2017.7.15): 132–139. (In Chinese)
29. “Reframing Qing History through Inner Asia and the Oceans,”The Paper – Shanghai Review of Books, February 6, 2017. (In Chinese)
30. “‘Routes’: Seafaring and Steppe Peoples in Continuous Motion,”The Paper – Shanghai Review of Books, December 25, 2016. (In Chinese)
31. “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)
32. “Why Did the Image of the ‘Mongol Doctor’ Decline So Sharply?”The Paper – Shanghai Review of Books, September 10, 2016. (In Chinese)
33. “The Dual Identity of the Qing: Steppe Empire or Central Plain Dynasty?”The Paper – Shanghai Review of Books, July 25, 2016. (In Chinese)
34. “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. “Tibet and the Qing Empire as Seen in a Memorial from the Seventh Dalai Lama to the Yongzheng Emperor,” Stories of Relics video series, Museum of the IHP, February 21, 2025. (In Chinese)
2. “Ling Wei-Kung on the Rise and Fall of the Qing Dynasty Intelligence Network,” Left-Right podcast 307, February 27, 2024. (In Chinese)
3. “On A History of Political Thought by Youngmin Kim,” UFO Breakfast: Time with Tang Hsiang-Lung YouTube channel, UFO Network, February 26, 2024.
4. “Oyiradiin Ikh Khüree, Tibet, and Qing Dynasty Information Networks,” Inner Eurasia Forum Series, Taiwan Society for Inner Asia Studies, July 2, 2023. (In Chinese)
5. “The Qing Dynasty Intelligence Network and the 1717 Cartographic Survey of Tibet,” Inner Eurasia Forum Series, Taiwan Society for Inner Asia Studies, July 2, 2023. (In Chinese)
6. “NTHU Heritage Museum: The Unconventional Path of a Historian—Who Was Naitō Konan? Feat. Ling Wei-Kung,” Does Tsing Hua Have Artifacts? PODCAST, March 2, 2023. (In Chinese)
7. “Historical GIS of the Wanli Huijiang Tu (Illustrated Atlas of Xinjiang during the Qing Period),” with Hsiung-Ming Liao, Center for GIS, RCSS, Academia Sinica, last accessed November 18, 2021. (In Chinese)