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EDUCATION

University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2015 – 2018)

  • PhD., School of Chinese

  • Thesis Title: Redefining Heresy: Governance of Muslims and Christians in the Qing Empire, from the eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2013 – 2015)

  • Master of Philosophy in Religious Studies

  • Thesis Title: Mid19th Century Confucians’ Understanding of Christianity ─ Yao Ying and Wei Yuan

  • [十九世紀中葉儒者對基督宗教之理解──以 姚瑩及魏源為中心]

  • Bachelor of Art with Honours, First Class, Major in Religious Studies,

    Minor in History

  • Thesis Title: The Cross and White Lotus: “Heresy Image” of Christianity in late Qing Confucians’ Vision

  • [十字與白蓮:晚清儒士視域中基督宗教「邪教形象」考]

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2026 – 2027

Visiting Researcher, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden University, Netherlands (December 2026 – January 2027, scheduled)

 

2026

Visiting Scholar, European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT), University of Tubingen, Germany (November – December 2026, scheduled)

 

2024 – Present

Assistant Professor, The Waseda Institute for Advanced Study of Waseda University, Japan

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2021 – 2026

Editor-in-Chief, 1841 Press

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2024 (Jan – Mar)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology of National Taiwan University, Taiwan

 

2023 (Feb – Dec)

Research Fellow, Center for the Advancement of the Humanities and Social Sciences of National Taiwan University, Taiwan

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2022(Trinity Term)

Academic Visitor, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies of The Oxford University

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2021 – 2022

Research Fellow, International Centre for Taiwan and Hong Kong Studies, National Sun Yat-sen University

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2019 – 2022

Research Fellow (Non-Resident), The King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ​

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2019 – 2022

Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for the Study of Islamic Culture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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2019 – 2021

Lecturer (Part-Time), Faculty of Humanities (FHM) of The Education University of Hong Kong

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2019 – 2021

Lecturer (Part-Time), Faculty of Arts of The University of Hong Kong

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​2019 (Apr – May)

Visiting Fellow, Institute of History and Philosophy of Academia Sinica, Taiwan

 

​2016 – 2017

Visiting Fellow, Institute of Modern History of Academia Sinica, Taiwan

 

2018 – 2022

Research Director, GLOS

 

2017 – 2019

​Research Associate (Non-Resident), Education Policy Research Centre of Hong Kong Policy Research Institute

 

2015 – 2018

​Research Fellow; Administration Commissioner, Roundtable Education and Global Development Unit

 

​2011 – 2023

Founding Director, Mansyun Association Ltd.

SCHOLARLY INTERESTS

  • Historical Anthropology of Religion and Coexistence in East and Southeast Asia

  • Maritime Port-Cities, Diaspora Networks, and Cold War Diaspora Politics

  • Religious Governance and State-Religion Relations in Late Imperial and Modern China

  • Minority Cultural Heritage, Indigenisation, and Participatory Diversity

  • Interactions among Islam, Christianity, and Chinese Religions

  • Public History, Community-Led Heritage Curation, and Knowledge Exchange

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