Editorial work, research communities, and international scholarly exchange form an important part of my academic service. This page brings together selected roles and the public records of the work associated with them. The full record appears in my biography and CV.
Editorial Service
- Incoming Editor-in-Chief, Asia Major — from November 2026.
- Editorial board member, New History, volume 37. Journal editorial board.
- Co-editor, Waxing Moon, inaugural volume (2021). An interdisciplinary journal of Tibetan and Himalayan studies. Volume 1 and editorial credits.
My service record also includes editorial committee work and individual issue responsibilities for the Ming-Qing Studies Newsletter. The full CV distinguishes these editorial roles and their respective dates.
Research Communities
Chief Coordinator, History of the IHP Research Group, Academia Sinica. The group connects research on the Institute’s history with historical records, archives, reading groups, and preparations for its centennial. Research group and activities.
Reading Seminar on Chinese and Western Archives, January 2023–December 2025. I co-convened the seminar with Hui-min Lai in 2023 and served as convener in 2024–2025. The completed seminar provided a setting for collective reading and discussion of historical sources. Seminar records.
International Scholarly Exchange
Workshops on border crossing in the Ming world, 2023. Lan Wu and I co-convened workshops at the Institute of History and Philology in June and at Columbia University in August. Four papers subsequently appeared in a special issue of Asia Major, volume 37, part 2. Special-issue introduction.
Further Reading
Current reading groups · Research collaboration and public engagement · Ming-Qing Studies Newsletter