Curriculum Vitae

Cho-ying Li

 

Position: Professor, Institute of History, National Tsing Hua University

 

Education:

（1）      PhD. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 2007

（2）      MA, Graduate Institute of History, National Taiwan University, 1994

（3）      BA, Department of History, National Taiwan University, 1990

 

Academic Positions:

（1）      Chair, Institute of History, National Tsing Hua University, 2012.11.22.-present

（2）      Associate Professor, Institute of History, National Tsing Hua University, 2012-present

（3）      Assistant Professor, Institute of History, National Tsing Hua University, 2008-2012

（4）      Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore, 2007-2008

（5）      Lecturer and Post-Doctoral Research Scholar, Department of East Asian Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York , 2003-2005

（6）      Senior Tutor and Junior Tutor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 2001-2003

（7）      Teaching Fellow, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 2001

 

Academic Interests:

        （1）Intellectual History

        （2）Social History

        （3）Local History

        （4）Chinese History, 10th to 17th century

        （5）History of Hydraulic Management in China

 

Academic Awards

2014  Co-director, Benchmark Research Project, “Literati and Socio-cultural Change in Early Modern China, 1100-1500,” awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan

2013　National Tsing Hua University Award for Excellence in Research

2012　 National Tsing Hua University Award for Excellence in Research

2011-2014　Grant for Excellent Junior Researcher, awarded by the National Science Council

2011   Zhu Kezhen Award, awarded by International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine

2011　AAS-CIAC Small Grant, awarded by Association for Asian Studies and China and Inner Asia Council

2009-2011　National Science Council Grant

2009-2011　National Tsing Hua University Research Enhancement Grant

2011　National Tsing Hua University Award for Excellent Teacher

2011　National Tsing Hua University Award for Excellent in Research

2006-2007　Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Fellowship

2006-2007　Graduate Society Dissertation Completion Fellowship, GSAS, Harvard University

1997-2000　Harvard-Yenching Institute Fellowship, Harvard University

1997-1999　Fulbright Scholarship

 

Publications: 

〈人文學科在大學中的位置――紀念梅貽琦校長〉，國立清華大學教務處編，《梅貽琦校長逝世五十週年紀念會論文集》，新竹：清大出版社，2013。

“Beneficiary Pays: Forging Reciprocal Connections between Private Profit and Public Good in Hydraulic Reform in the Lower Yangzi Delta, 1520s-1640s,” T'oung Pao 98 (2012), 385-438.

“Primary Sources for Song History in the Collected Works of Wu Ne," (written with Charles Hartman), The Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 41 (2012), 295-341.

〈聖人復作、水歸其壑：夏原吉治水江南與永樂政權正當性之建立〉，《新史學》 22:4 (2011), 55-108.

〈新近面世之秦檜碑記及其在宋代道學史中的意義〉，（與Charles Hartman教授合著），《宋史研究論叢》12 (2011:12): 1-57.

〈地方性與跨地域性：從「子游傳統」之論述與實踐看蘇州在地文化與理學之競合〉，《中央研究院歷史語言研究所集刊》82:2 (2011): 325-398.

 “A Newly Discovered Inscription by Qin Gui: Its Implications for the History of Song Daoxue,” (written with Charles Hartman), Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 70:2 (2010): 387-448.

〈新方案與十五世紀晚期江南水利改革〉，《明代研究》15 (2010), 1-35.

 “Contending Strategies, Collaboration among Local Specialists and Officials, and Hydrological Reform in the Late-Fifteenth-Century Lower Yangzi Delta,” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 4:2 (2010): 229-253.

 

Academic Activities:

        （1）Keynote Remarks

2010/01/16     “地方性與跨地方性：從個案研究來看中國地方史研究的方法與框架之反省”，        2010「社會‧經濟‧觀念史視野中的古代中國」國際會議，Tsing Hua University, Beijing

        （2）Invited Speech

2014/6/23       「地域社會與民間文化座談會」，擔任趙世瑜教授演講之與談人，Academic Sinica, Taipei

2013/11/22     「首屆珠三角地區歷史學家學術交流研討會」，University of Macau, Macua

2012/12/14     “As a Sage-king Re-emerges, All Water Returns to Its Proper Path: Xia Yuanji’s Water Management in the Establishment of the Legitimacy of the Yongle Reign” presented at the Templeton International Workshop “Science and Confucian Statecraft in East Asia,” Souel, Korea

 

2012/11/23    「國家與地方社會：明代江南水利研究的幾點反思」，新竹清華日在浙江，Hangzhou

2011/11/18     “How and Why “Profit” Mattered in Chinese Hydraulic Reform in the 16th and Early 17th Centuries,” 34th International Conference of “History of Technology: Water Supply”, Eisenbibliothek, Schaffhausen, Switzerland

        （3）Conferences

2013/12/5       參加「明清研究國際研討會」，擔任 “The Public Face of the Ming Imperial Clan” 論文發表小組之主席與講評人，Taipei

2013/10/24    “‘As a Sage-king Re-emerges, All Water Returns to Its Proper Path’:　Xia Yuanji’s Water Management and the Legitimisation of the Yongle Reign”，在 “East Asian Environmental History” 國際會議上發表，National Dong Hwa University, Hualien

2011/06/08     參加韓國首爾大學 “Governance and Political Leadership in East Asia: Advancing Research in Comparative Political Theory Governance and Political Leadership in East Asia” 國際會議，擔任牛津大學Peter Ditmanson教授的講評人

2011/05/28     “地方性與跨地方性：從 ‘子游傳統’ 之論述與實踐看蘇州在地文化與理學之競合”，在「第七屆科舉至與科舉學國際學術研討會：東亞的書院與科舉」上發表, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu

2011/04/03     “The Principle of Benefit: Ethical Aspect of Hydrological Reform in Mid- and Late-Ming China,” presented at 2011 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Hawaii

2010/11/12     “新方案與十五世紀晚期江南水利改革”， 在「明清以來的環境變遷與水利社會國際學術研討會」上發表，Xiamen

2010/06/18　　“Systematic Local Knowledge as Strategy to Induce State’s Active Involvement in Water Management,” presented at the Biennial Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia, Singapore

2009/07/07      “Defining New Order through Scholarship: 11th-Century Water Management under Scrutiny in the 15th Century for Hydrological Reform,” presented at the “International Conference: Ideas, Networks, Places: Rethinking Chinese History of the Middle Period,” Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2009/06/19     “Scrutiny of Contending Schemes and the Redefinition of Hydrological Management in Late Fifteenth-Century Lower Yangzi Delta,” presented at “The Third EASTS International Journal Conference: Traditions, Knowledges, and Technologies,” Yangming University, Taipei

 

Services:

(1)   Committees

Research and Development Committee, National Tsing Hua University, 2014-present

University Development Committee, National Tsing Hua University, 2014-present

Committee on University Affairs, National Tsing Hua University, 2013-present

Committee on STS Scholarship, National Tsing Hua University, 2013-present

Committee on Master’s Program, International Institute for Cultural Studies, University System of Taiwan, 2012-present

Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, National Tsing Hua University, 2012-present

Division of Learning Support and Research Planning, Center for Teaching and Learning Development, National Tsing Hua University, 2012

Association for Ming Studies, Taiwan, 2010-present

(2)                Editorial Board

《明代研究》, 2014-present

Asian Social Studies, 2013-present

《文化研究》, 2011-present

《新史學》社員 (2010-present)