Brief Introduction Top

Education:

2004         Ph.D.          Harvard University

1997         MA              National University of Singapore

1995         BA (Hons)   National University of Singapore

Work Experiences:

2004-            Assistant Professor    Department of Chinese Studies, NUS

1999-2004    Senior Tutor               Department of Chinese Studies, NUS

1997-1999    Teaching Assistant     Department of Chinese Studies, NUS

1995              Journalist                   Lianhe Zaobao, Singapore Press Holdings

Awards:

2006-2007    Faculty Excellent Teacher Award

1999-2004    Overseas Graduate Scholarship, National University of Singapore

1995-1997    Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore

Teaching Areas Top

1) Chinese Tradition 中國傳統導論

2) History of Civil Examination in Later and Late Imperial China 科舉史

3) Daoxue Neo-Confucianism 宋明理學

4）Women in Chinese History, 960-1840 中國女性史, 960-1840

5) Intellectual History of Modern China 中國近現代思想

6) Introduction to Chinese Studies 漢學導論

7) Chinese Local History 中國地方史

Current Research Top

1) Sociocultural History of Shaanxi Province 陝西社會文化史

2) Military History of Song China (960-1279) 宋代軍事史

Research Interests Top

1) Intellectual History of Later and Late Imperial China 中國思想史：宋至清

2) Military History of Later Imperial China 宋元明軍事史

3) Local History 地方史

Publications Top

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

• Men of Letters within the Passes: Guanzhong Literati in Chinese History, 907-1911, (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008), 325pp.
   
  

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

• 〈从“遗迹”到“文献”：宋明时期的陕西方志〉，收录于陈平原、王德威、陈学超编：《西安：都市想象与文化记忆》，（北京：北京大学出版社，2009），页74-88。此文亦收录于陈学超主编：《国际汉学集刊》第二辑，（北京：中国社会科学出版社，2008），页34-49。
   
  
• 〈关学编与明清陕西士大夫的集体记忆〉，何国忠主编：《文化记忆与华人社会》，（吉隆坡：马来亚大学中国研究所，2008），页167-178。
   
  

ARTICLES IN JOURNAL

• “明初南北之爭的癥結”，《明清史集刊》, 9(2007), 頁27-48.
   
  
• "The Principles are Many: Wang Tingxiang and Intellectual Transition in Mid-Ming China", Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 66:2(2006), pp. 461-493.
   
  
• “‘求同’與‘存異’：張載與王廷相氣論之比較”，《漢學研究》, 23:2(2005), 頁133-159。
   
  
• "Zhang Zai's Legacy and the Construction of Guanxue in Ming China", Ming Studies, 51-52(2005), pp. 58-93.
  
   
  
• "We are One Family: Guanxue Vision in the Northern Song", Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies, 35(2005), pp. 29-57.
   
  
• "'Which West are You Talking about?': Critical Reivew: A Unique Mode of Conservatism in Modern China", Humanitas, 17:1&2(2004), pp. 69-82.
   
  
• “李二曲調和朱子與陸王的方法”，《孔子研究》，6（2000），頁87-97.
  
   
  
• “姜白石《疏影》詞意臆説”，《中國韻文學刊》，2(1999)，頁43-48。
   
  
• “陳乾初《大學辨》對朱子的駁難”，《鵝湖月刊》，6（1999），頁8-14。
   
  
• "On Wu Mi's Conservatism", Humanitas, 12:1(1999), pp. 42-55.
   
  

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• （與許齊雄合著）“清代福建水師與閩南地區玄天上帝信仰”，宣讀于浙江省社會科學聯合會、復旦大學長三角研究院、哈佛大學東亞系等主辦《中國東南地區文化》國際學術研討會，2009年11月6-8日，溫州。
   
  
• "Different Views on the Political Geography of the Empire in the 11th-Century: Debates over Military Affairs between Wang Anshi and Sima Guang", paper presented at the International Conference on‘Ideas: Networks: Places: Rethinking Chinese History of the Middle Period', Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA, July 7-8, 2009.
   
  
• "Regional Administration, Military Organizations and the New Policies in Northern Song Shaanxi", paper presented at the International Conference on‘Translocal and Transregional Dynamics in Chinese History, 960-1911', The National University of Singapore, Singapore, May 12-14, 2008.
   
  
• "The Zhe (She) Military Family in the Northern Song", paper presented at the Workshop on‘Prosopography of Middle Period China: Using the Database', University of Warwick, The United Kingdom, December 13-16, 2007.
  
   
  
• “五四時期梁啟超的中西文化觀”，宣讀于香港大學中文學院主辦《東西方研究》國際學術研討會，2007年10月5-7日，香港。
  
   
  
• “明代陝西的族譜書寫”，宣讀于臺灣明史研究會、東吳大學、暨南大學聯辦《全球化下明史研究之新視野》國際學術研討會，2007年10月27-30日，臺北。
   
  
• “從‘遺跡’到‘文獻’：宋明時期的陝西方志”，宣讀于哈佛大學、哥倫比亞大學、陝西師範大學、西安市委聯辦《西安：歷史記憶與城市文化》國際學術研討會，2006年11月2-3日，西安。
   
  
• "Building a New Chinese State from the Northwest: The Proposal of Liu Guangfen (1843-1903), paper presented at the Biennial Conference of Historical Society for Twentieth Century China ("Chinese Nation, Chinese State: 1850-2000"), The National University of Singapore, June 26-28, 2006.
   
  
• “《關學編》與晚明陝西思想界的集體記憶”，宣讀於新加坡國立大學中文系與馬來亞大學中國研究中心主辦《文化記憶與華人社會》國際學術研討會，2006年4月2日，吉隆坡。
   
  
• “The ‘Evidential Research’ Movement and its Northwestern Critics:
  Guanxue and the Regionalization of Scholarship in Qing China, paper presented at the International Conference on The Qing Episteme: Culture, Thought, and Society, The National University of Singapore, 4 Jan 2006.
   
  

• “The ‘Problematic’ South in Ming Politics, 1368-1464”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Chicago, USA， 2005.

  
   
  
• “Kinship and Elite Dominance in North and Northwest China in the Song-Yuan Period: A Comparison”, paper presented at the New England Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, Cambridge MA, USA, 2003
   
  
• “Which West are You Talking About?: 'Critical Review' as a Unique Mode of Conservatism in Modern China”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. San Francisco, USA, 2001.
   
  

THESES/DISSERTATIONS

• Men of Letters within the Passes: Guanzhong Literati from the Tenth to the Eighteenth Centuries, (Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 2004), 381pp.
   
  

NON-ACADEMIC WRITINGS

• 《偽斯文書》，（新加坡：青年書局，2007）。