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Dr. CHANG Wei-ling
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Dr. CHANG Wei-ling

Assistant Professor

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

Education and 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)

Academic and Professional Experience

  • 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.

Research Interests

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

Research Output

  • From “Heavenly Text” to the Guwen Movement: Political Process in the Early Northern Song Dynasty 从天书时代到古文运动︰北宋前期的政治过程. Shanghai: Shanghai guji Press, 2023.09.
  • From “Heavenly Text” to the Guwen Movement: Political Process in the Early Northern Song Dynasty 從天書時代到古文運動︰北宋前期的政治過程. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2021.12.

book review 1 劉復生,評《從天書時代到古文運動》︱對北宋前期政治文化的新探索
book review 2 Charles Hartman, Cong Tianshu shidai dao guwen yundong: Bei Song qianqi de zhengzhi guocheng by Chang Wei-ling 張維玲 (review), Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, Volume 52, 2023, pp. 201-212.

  • 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.
  • “Power Relationships among Local Officials, Literati, and Society: An Analysis of Yuan Dynasty Inscriptions from Puyang, Fujian,” Stuck in the Middle? The Third Middle Period China Humanities Conference (220-1600), Yale University, New Haven, 2023, 06.
  • “Between Locality and State: Changing Local Narratives of Puyang Literati from the Late Tang to the Early Song,” Conference on Tang-Song Transitions, Princeton University, Princeton, 2022.06.
  • “From Eulogizing the Locality to Admiring the Court: the Changing Local Narratives of Puyang Literati from the Late Tang to the Early Song”, The Wudai History Conference, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, May 2021.
  • “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.
  • Neo-Confucianism and Political Culture in the Mid-Southern Song Dynasty, General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, The Hong Kong SAR Government (Grant received: 06/2023)
  • The Changing Relationship between Local Literati and the State: A Case Study of Puyang, Fujian from the Tenth to Twelfth Century,” General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, The Hong Kong SAR Government (Grant received: 06/2021)
  • “Local Politics and Historical Narratives: The Evolving History of the Mulan Weir in the Putain Plain during the Song-Yuan-Ming Transition,” University’s Start–up Fund for New Recruits, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Grant received: 04/2021)

Esteem Measures

Fellowship and Grant

  • The Faculty Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research and Scholarly Activities: Outstanding Young Researcher (Individual), 2022, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • 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

Academic Activity

  • CBDB workshop, held by Professor Peter Bol, 2018-2020.
  • Digital Humanities workshop in Xiamen, Jul.2018.
  • 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.
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From “Heavenly Text” to the Guwen Movement: Political Process in the Early Northern Song Dynasty 從天書時代到古文運動︰北宋前期的政治過程. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2021.12.

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From “Heavenly Text” to the Guwen Movement: Political Process in the Early Northern Song Dynasty 《从天书时代到古文运动:北宋前期的政治过程》。上海︰上海古籍,2023.09

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