In the Media
Press coverage, interviews, podcasts, and videos featuring Ling-Wei Kung’s research.
Featured research & recent video
2026 · Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Sinology Lecture
Crossing Boundaries in Chinese Studies: Inner Asian Empires, Maritime Networks, and Borderland Narratives (17 June 2026, Chiang Ching-kuo Presidential Library, Taipei).
Organized by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, this event brought together speakers Ling-Wei Kung and Cheng-Heng Lu, with David Der-wei Wang as discussant, to explore Chinese studies across regional and disciplinary boundaries. Kung’s lecture, “Was Qing China Closed? Information Exchange between Early Modern China and Eurasia,” examined information circulation between China and the wider Eurasian world.
Watch the lecture · Sinology Lecture YouTube playlist
2025 · Museum of the IHP: Stories of Relics
Tibet and the Qing Empire as Seen in a Memorial from the Seventh Dalai Lama to the Yongzheng Emperor (21 February 2025).
Watch the museum video · Explore research on Qing–Tibetan information circulation
Podcast · Qing Eurasian intelligence networks
Listen to Left-Right Podcast, Ep. 307 · How information crossed borders · Qing intelligence on Tibet
Press & Interviews
Podcasts & Video
Does Tsing Hua Have Artifacts? Podcast
EP17 The Curator’s Lounge at the NTHU Museum: An Atypical Historian’s Journey—Who Was Naitō Konan? feat. Ling-Wei Kung
The Rise and Fall of the Qing Eurasian Intelligence Network
Left-Right Podcast, Ep. 307: Ling-Wei Kung on the Rise and Fall of the Qing Eurasian Intelligence Network
UFO Breakfast: Time with Tang Hsiang-Lung
On Youngmin Kim’s A Political Scientist’s History of China for Everyone (2024.2.26)
NCCU Short Talks | Taiwan Society for Inner Eurasian Studies
The Oirat Ikh Khüree, Tibet, and the Qing Information Network (2023.7.2)
NCCU Short Talks | Taiwan Society for Inner Eurasian Studies
The Qing Dynasty Intelligence Network and the 1717 Cartographic Survey of Tibet (2023.7.2)
Museum of the IHP: Stories of Relics
Tibet and the Qing Empire as Seen in a Memorial from the Seventh Dalai Lama to the Yongzheng Emperor (2025.2.21)