Publications

“In Search of the Yellow River: Geographic Expeditions, Knowledge Production, and Political Discourse in Imperial China.” The Chinese Historical Review (2025), forthcoming.

“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, forthcoming.

“The ‘Eight Steeds’ and Tribute Horse Paintings: Political Culture of the High Tang.” Meishu Daguan (Art Review), no. 3 (2026): 39–43. [in Chinese]

Ling-Wei KUNG and Cheng-Xing 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.

Jui-Ying CHIEN and 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.

“Polyglot Lexicon and Encyclopedic Works in Late Imperial China.” Encyclopedia 2026, 6.1 (2025.12): 5.

“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]

“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]

“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]

“The Historical and Philological Thought of Chen Yinke,” in NTHU General Education Lecture Series: Liang Qichao, Wang Guowei, Chen Yinke, Zhao Yuanren (Hsinchu: Center for General Education, National Tsing Hua University, 2025.9), pp. 138–159. [in Chinese]

“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]

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 (2025.6):145–196. [in Chinese]

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 (2025.6):197–211. [in Chinese]

“The Issues of the Sixth Dalai Lama and the Transformation of Qing Information System on Tibet.” Religions, 16(1), 31 (2025.1), pp. 1–25.

“Translating Sovereignty: Early Twentieth-Century Tibet Conventions between Britain and China.” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 78 (2025.6): 186–221.

“Review of Lan Wu, Common Ground: Tibetan Buddhist Expansion and Qing China’s Inner Asia (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022).” The Journal of Asian Studies 84.2 (2025): 553–556.

“The Development of Qing Historiography and Inner Asian Studies over the Past Century.” New History 35.4 (2024.12): 183–221. [in Chinese]

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]

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 44 (2024.12):213–227. [in Chinese]

Guest editor, Bulletin of the Department of History, National Cheng Kung University: Inner Asia and Maritime History (Part II) / 50th Anniversary Special Issue, vol. 67 (Tainan: Department of History, National Cheng Kung University, 2024.12). [in Chinese]

“Assembling Gate: Infrastructure Construction and Information Circulation in Kalgan from the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Century.” The National Palace Museum Research Quarterly 41.1 (2024):89–138. [in Chinese]

“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]

Ling-Wei Kung & Xiao-Jun Chen, “Textual Comparison of Pingding haikou fanglüe in Manchu and Chinese: Volume One (2).” Disquisitions on the Past & Present 42 (2024): 165-207. [in Chinese]

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): 209–228. [in Chinese]

“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]

Guest editor, Bulletin of the Department of History, National Cheng Kung University: Inner Asia and Maritime History (Part I) / 50th Anniversary Special Issue, vol. 66 (Tainan: Department of History, National Cheng Kung University, 2024.6). [in Chinese]

“Textual Comparison of Pingding haikou fanglüe in Manchu and Chinese: Introduction.” Disquisitions on the Past & Present 41 (2023.12): 140–144. [in Chinese]

Ling-Wei Kung & Xin-Ping Li, “Textual Comparison of Pingding haikou fanglüe in Manchu and Chinese: Volume One (1).” Disquisitions on the Past & Present 41 (2023.12): 173–201. [in Chinese]

“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]

“Viewing the World from Chaoshan: A Review of Melissa Macauley, Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China’s Maritime Frontier.” Want Daily (Taipei), 2023.10.30. [in Chinese]

“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]

“Outline of Chinese History by Ch’ien Mu and Foreign Thoughts,” Returning to the Outline History (Taipei: The Commercial Press, Ltd., 2023), pp. 176–213. [in Chinese]

“Buddhism Among the Zünghars.” Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Volume Four: History, Leiden: Brill, 69–74.

“Manuel Perez-Garcia. Global History with Chinese Characteristics: Autocratic States along with Silk Road in the Decline of the Spanish and Qing Empires.” China and Asia, 2023(4): 325–332.

“The Qianlong Emperor’s Inscribed ‘Rehe Kao’ Kesi Tapestry and Geographic Knowledge in the High Qing.” Monthly Journal of the Palace Museum, 476 (2022.11): 34–43. [in Chinese]

Ling-Wei Kung & Riga Shakya eds., Waxing Moon: Journal of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, vol. 1, pp. 164, New York: Columbia University Libraries, February 2021, ISSN: 2694-6149.

“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 (2021): 603–648. [in Chinese]

Ling-Wei Kung & Riga Shakya eds., Waxing Moon: Journal of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, vol. 2, pp. 129, New York: Columbia University Libraries, September 2022, ISSN: 2694-6149.

“Beyond Discontinuity and Colonialism: Foreign Immigrants in Inner Asia During the Ming and Qing Periods.” In Wu Shixu ed., Yi Wu Lv Jiang Zuo Shi Lu (Shenyang: Liaohai Publishing House, 2021), Volume 1, 257–286. [in Chinese]

“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.

“An Annotated Translation of Chahar Géshé’s Oyirad’s Royal Genealogy (O’i rod kyi rgyal rabs).” Oyirad Studies 6: 25–34. [in Chinese]

“Tibetan Buddhist Material Culture in the Qing Court and the Religious Mentalities of the Qianlong Emperors.” Journal of Tibetology 22 (2020): 328–341. [in Chinese]

“Chen Yinke and Oriental Philology: A Reflection on the Future of Inner Asian History and Philology.” New History 31.1 (2020): 53–102. [in Chinese]

“Communication and Translation of Intelligence Documents Between Ladakh and the Qing Court.” China Tibetology 3 (2019): 114–124. [in Chinese]

“Historical Effects of Tibetan Buddhism on Torghuts’ Eastward Movement: A Study of Newfound Tibetan Manuscripts.” China Tibetology 1 (2019): 125–136. [in Chinese]

“A Review of Legal History of China by 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): 668–681. [in Chinese]

“A Review of the Debates on the Well-field System in the Western Zhou Dynasty since the 20th Century.” Shih Yuan 30 (2018): 63–81. [in Chinese]

“Transformation of Qing’s Geopolitics: Power Transitions Between Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries in Amdo, 1644–1795.” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, 45 (2018): 110–144.

“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 2 (2018): 27–48. [in Chinese]

“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): 187–220. [in Chinese]

“The Networks Between the Oyirad-un Yeke Küriy-e, Tibet, and the Qing Dynasty: A Study on Tibetan Documents Found in Xinjiang Recently.” Translated by Nobuaki Murakami. Quaestiones Mongolorum Disputatae 13 (2017): 11–24. [in Japanese]

(Co-authored with Oyunbilig). “The Origin and the Meanings of ‘Five Colors and Four Vassals’ in Mongolian Historiography.” Ethno-National Studies 2 (2016): 85–97. [in Chinese]

“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): 855–910. [in Chinese]

“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), 640–650. [in Chinese]

“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), 455–496. [in Chinese]