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我在香港中文大學取得文學士與哲學碩士（歷史），其後於海德堡大學取得哲學博士（漢學），並在同校擔任博士後，至2024年加入中文學院。我的研究聚焦於中國古代社會、政治、制度史，中國古代史學以及前近代中國書寫（尤其是寫本）文化，相關論文已發表於《通報》（T’oung Pao）、《泰東》（Asia Major）、《亞洲學刊》（Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques）、《新史學》等期刊。

我最近出版了兩部著作。其一為專著State Power and Governance in Early Imperial China: The Collapse of the Qin Empire, 221–207 BCE（早期帝制中國的國家力量與治理：秦帝國的崩潰；紐約州立大學出版社，2024），嘗試利用新出土行政、法律文書重探秦帝國之治理、國家力量及其崩潰，藉此揭示秦帝國時期發生的社會結構重整。其二為開放取用的論文集 Keeping Record: The Materiality of Rulership and Administration in Early China and Medieval Europe （記錄：早期中國與中世紀歐洲統治權與行政的物質性；德古意特出版社，2024），當中提倡透過「物質性進路」，探討行政文書文字以外的物質特徵（如書寫材質、載體、形制、視覺設計等）與古代中國和中世紀歐洲統治者政治權威的關係。

I studied history at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for my BA and MPhil degrees and received a PhD in Sinology from Heidelberg University, where I served as a postdoc before joining the School of Chinese in 2024. My research primarily focuses on social, political and institutional history in early China, early Chinese historiography, as well as writing—especially manuscript—culture in premodern China; works on these subjects appear in journals such as T’oung Pao, Asia Major, and Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques.

My recent works include two books. The first one is the monograph, State Power and Governance in Early Imperial China: The Collapse of the Qin Empire, 221–207 BCE (SUNY, 2024), which revisits the governance, state power, and collapse of China’s Qin Empire by using newly unearthed administrative and legal manuscripts, thereby unveiling the social configurations during the imperial Qin period. The second book is an open-access volume titled Keeping Record: The Materiality of Rulership and Administration in Early China and Medieval Europe (De Gruyter, 2024) that I co-edited with European medievalists. In it we advocate a “material approach” to examine the interplay between non-textual material attributes (e.g., writing substrates, supports, dimension, layout) of administrative documents and the political authority of early Chinese and medieval European rulers.