Completed Projects
This project surveys unpublished Qing maps of the Western Regions held in collections in Taiwan and abroad, tracing how cartography and geographical knowledge of the Western Regions developed before and after the Qing conquest of the Zunghars in the mid-eighteenth century.
A study of the Manchu and Chinese texts of the Pingding haikou fanglüe 平定海寇方略 held by the Institute of History and Philology. Reading Manchu sources through global-historical perspectives and digital-humanities methods, the project offers new and plural perspectives on the relationship between the Qing and Taiwan.
This project promotes long-term, cross-regional comparative research on the relationship between politics and religion, fostering exchange at the frontiers of humanities scholarship in Taiwan and of international East Asian studies.
Workshop-style conference to foster discussion about border-crossing over the longue durée history of late imperial China. Sponsored by James P. Geiss & Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation.
Scholars in Taiwan and abroad have increasingly turned to Inner Asian and maritime history, placing Chinese and Taiwanese history in global context, while Taiwan’s “New History” has emphasized bottom-up social history, the history of medicine, and gender history. The movements of peoples between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries profoundly shaped East Asia and leave much still to explore.