My research interest focuses on the intellectual and social history of the Middle Period of China (7th-14th century). I deal with various texts of intellectual communication in Tang and Song periods, including annotations and commentaries on traditional Classics, literati letters between scholar-officials, memorials, encyclopedias on daily life, as well as other kinds of elite and vernacular literature. In particular, I am interested in how knowledge has been produced, exchanged and transmitted in imperial China. My current writing project focuses on the correlation between the New Learning (xinxue新學) community and the Daoxue fellowship (道學) in the late Northern Song. Switching between intellectual, social and political history, my study shares the convention that ideas and conceptions of ideas play a key role in maintaining a sense of connectedness among people of different spatial and temporal horizons. The study of intellectual history, in this light, serve as a lens through which not only we examine the history of past horizons, but also reflect on our modern mentality.

My research interest focuses on the intellectual and social history of the Middle Period of China (7th-14th century).