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Dr. CHANG Wei-ling PhD (NTU) Research Assistant Professor

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Biographical Sketch

Dr. Chang Wei-ling has joined the Department of Chinese Culture as Research Assistant Professor since August 2020. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of History at National Taiwan University. She did her postdoctoral research in the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. After that, she worked at Harvard University as a visiting scholar first in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and thereafter in the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

Her research covers two different topics. The first one is political culture in the Song dynasty. Her M.A. thesis analyzes the political factions in Emperor Xiaozong’s reign in the Southern Song Dynasty, featuring the conflicts between the Daoxue political alliances and those “favorites” whom the emperor relied on. Her Ph.D. dissertation discerns the varied but integrated intellectual resources, including Confucian Classics and Daoism, of “The Auspicious Talisman of Great Centrality”大中祥符（1008-1017）in Song Zhenzong’s rule and demonstrates how the scholar-officials in Renzong’s time aimed to deconstruct Zhenzong’s legacy and thus started what is now known as the“Guwen Movement” and the “Qingli Reform”. Her dissertation will soon be published by National Taiwan University Press.

Her second academic topic discusses the history of local communities from the late Tang to early Ming era, focusing on the literati in Puyang莆陽, Fujian福建. The first subject of this research is to explore how the literati, during specific periods, constructed their local learning, and how their intellectual discourse intersected and intertwined with Neo-Confucianism. Accordingly, she illustrates how their local narratives were blended into or excluded from the overall picture of the lineages of Neo-Confucianism. Another subject of this research proposal is to analyze the changing relationship between local literati and the political powers from late Tang to early Ming. She argues that the very position and participation of Puyang literati in the Imperial Court of Southern Song did not contradict their growing localism; on the contrary, their promising political careers intensified their bond with their local folks. This research aims to open a conversation with the famous hypothesis “localist turn” and will offer more complex aspects to this hypothesis.

Academic Qualifications

• PhD, National Taiwan University, Department of History (2015)
• M.A., National Taiwan University, Department of History (2009)
• B.A., National Taiwan University, Department of History (2006)

Current Position

• Research Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Culture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University of Hong Kong

Previous Position

• Visiting scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, August 2019–July 2020.
• Visiting scholar, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, August 2018–August 2019.
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, February 2016–June2018.

Specialization and Research Interests

• Political culture in the Song dynasty.
• Local history in the middle period of China.
• Digital humanities.

Fellowship and Grant

• Fulbright Research Grant, Fulbright Taiwan Foundation for Scholarly Exchange. (August 2018-August 2019.)
• Postdoctoral Research Grant, Ministry of Science and Technology, R.O.C. (August 2018-July 2019.)
• Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Ministry of Science and Technology, R.O.C., 2014- 2015.
• Doctoral Candidate Fellowship, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, 2013- 2014.
• Fu Sinian Scholarship傅斯年獎學金, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, 2012.

Publication

Monograph

1. From the “Heavenly Text” to the Guwen Movement: The Political Process in the Northern Song (960-1063) 從「天書」到古文運動:北宋前期的政治過程. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, in progress.
2. The Changing Attitude toward “Recovery” among Daoxue Style Officials Viewed from the Perspective of their Political Struggles against the ‘Favorites’ during the Middle Period of the Southern Song 從南宋中期的反近習政爭看道學型士大夫對「恢復」態度的轉變. Taipei: Hua Mulan Press, 2010.

Refereed Article

• “The Power Relationship between Local Officials, Literati, and Monks: An Analysis of the Inscriptions in Puyang, Fujian in the Southern Song”. New History新史學, 31:4, (2020): 143-202.
• “Interplay between Official Careers and Local Identity among Puyang Literati in Late Southern Song China.” Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, Volume 48, 2019, 103-137.
• “The Fading Trace: Chen Mi and His Disciples in Puyang, Fujian during the Song-Yuan-Ming Transition.” Chinese Studies漢學研究, 37:2, Jun.2019, 175-211.
• “The Development of Neo-Confucian Genealogy and Local Narratives between Song-Yuan Dynasties: Focusing on the Literati Discourse on Lin Guangchao in Puyang Fujian.” New History新史學, 28:3, Sep.2017, 93-137.
• “The Interaction of North and South Literati and the Rise of Southern Literati during the Early Song: An Investigation of Xu Xuan and His Disciples.” Taida Wenshizhe Xuebao臺大文史哲學報, 85, Nov.2016, 175-217.
• “To Achieve Great Peace: The Feng and Shan Sacrifices and the Song Emperors Taizong and Zhenzong.” Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies清華學報, 43:3, Sep.2013, 481-524.
• “Wait-listing and Wait-listed Students at the Imperial University during the Southern Song”, Zhonghau Wenshih Luncong中華文史論叢, 108, Dec.2012, 89-121.

Conference Paper

• “The Unsuccessful School of Neo-Confucianism: the Disciples of Chen Mi and Pan Bing in Puyang from Late Song to Early Ming China,” The Eighteenth Annual Meeting on Song History Research in China第十八屆宋史年會, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, Aug. 2018.
  
• “Interplay between Official Careers and Local Identity among Puyang Literati in Late Southern Song China,” The Middle Period Chinese Studies Conference, Leiden University, Leiden, Sept. 2017.
  
• “The Development of Neo-Confucian Genealogy and Local Narratives between Song-Yuan Dynasties: Focusing on the Literati Discourse on Lin Guangchao in Puyang Fujian,” The First Meeting of Young Chinese and Japanese Scholars of Song-Liao-Jin-Yuan History 首屆中日青年學者宋遼西夏金元史研討會, Fudan University, Shanghai, Sept. 2016.
  
• “The Relationship between Social Networks and the Daoist Thought of Xu Xuan and the Characteristics of the Era of the ‘Auspicious Talisman of Great Centrality’,” Conference on New Viewpoints in Song Dynasty Political History宋代政治史研究的新視野學術研討會, Peking University, Beijing, Sept. 2013.
  
• “The Transition in Zhen Dexiu’s Scholarship Viewed from the Vantage Point of the Decline of Literary Studies and the Rise of the Learning of the Way Movement,” The Fifteenth Annual Meeting on Song History Research in China第十五屆宋史年會, Henan University, Kaifeng, Aug. 2012.
  
• “To Achieve Great Peace: The Feng and Shan Sacrifices and the Song Emperors Taizong and Zhenzong,” The Second Cross-straits Conference on Song Dynasty Social and Cultural History第二屆海峽兩岸宋代社會文化史研討會, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, April, 2011.

Digital Humanities

• CBDB workshop, held by Professor Peter Bol, 2018-2020.
• Digital Humanities workshop in Xiamen, Jul.2018.

Other Academic Activity

• Organizer, Songshi symposium, 2013-2018.
• Song materials study group, held by Professor Liang Gengyao, 2008-2018.
• Southern Song collected works study group, held by Professor Huang Kuanchong, 2010-2018.