Hsiung Ping-chen

Prof. Hsiung is the Secretary General of International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH), founder and the president of Asian New Humanities Net (ANHN) (Since 2004) ,member of the International Advisory Board, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) (since 2005) ,executive Committee Member of the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH) (since 2016), board Member of Toynbee Prize Foundation,distinguished Professor in Hangzhou Normal University, distinguished Professor in Residence and Director of Global Humanities Initiative at Hang Seng University of Hong Kong,Senior Visiting Fellow in Asian Pacific Centre, University of California( Los Angeles),member, of Advisory Board Council, UNESCO chair on Humanities Cultural Landscape Management at Polytechnic Institute of Tomar.  

Research Areas: History of Children, History of Children's Education, Pediatric History of Chinese Medicine, Intellectual History

Major Academic Achievements

Research Projects：

2018-2020　General Research Fund (Project ID. 14600117) “Male Medicine and Reproduction in Late Imperial China”. Grant: HK$ 388,000 (Research Grant Council, Hong Kong)

2016-2017 General Research Fund (Project ID. 14605615) “Aging in Late Imperial China: Advice and Practice” Grant: HK$ 432,000 (Research Grant Council, Hong Kong)

2014-2016　“Principles of Cultural Dynamics” by the Dahlem Humanities Center at Berlin Free

University, Germany (Deutscher Akadamischer Austausch Dienst, Germany)

2014-2016 CHCI-Mellon Project “Medical Humanities”. USD$75,000 (A. W. Mellon Foundation)

2014-2015 General Research Fund (Project ID. 443913) “Records of a Local Pediatrician（The Life and Practice of Dr. Hsü Yü-ho (1724-1805) of the She District in Hui-chou during Ch’ien-lung Era” Grant: HK$ 476,900 (Research Grant Council, Hong Kong)

2013-2015 CHCI-Mellon Project “Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging” Grant: USD$70,000 (A. W. Mellon Foundation)

2012-2015 “Fo Guang Shan—CUHK “Humanist Humanities’ Global Concern Project” Grant:1,000,000 (Hong Kong Fo Guang Vihara)

2012-2014 “Health and History” (CUHK—CCK Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies)

2012-2014 “Taiwan Research” (CUHK—CCK Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies)

Publications:

English Publications:

A Tender Voyage: Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005.

Charlotte Furth, Judith T. Zeitlin, and Ping-chen Hsiung, eds., Thinking with Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007)

Dissetations:

“Aging Over the Longue Durée :Wisdom from Early Modern China”. Oosterbeek, Doutor Luiz eds., Sustainability and Sociocultural Matrices (vol. II of Apheleia – DearCultural Integrated Landscape Management for Sustainable Development andGlobal Understanding). (Potugal: ITM, 2017), pp. 157-169.

“In Mutual Gaze–Woman and History via English Words or through the Chinese Window.” Levy, Katja (Hrsg.), Geschichte und Gesellschaft des modernen China. Kritik - Empirie - Theorie. Festschrift für Mechthild Leutner (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016), pp.173-184.

“The Evolution of Chinese Humanities.” American Historical Review Vol.120, no.4 (Oxford University Press, 2015), pp.1267-1282.

“Children’s Medicine.” In Linda L. Barnes and T. J. Hinrichs eds., Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2013), pp.145-150.

“In the Beginning: Searching for Childhood in Chinese History and Philosophy.” In Wong Sin Kiong ed. Confucianism, Chinese History and Society (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2012), pp.171-220.

“From a Singing Bird to a Fighting Bug: Cricket-Fight and the Cultural Rhetoric in Late Imperial China,” In Paolo Santangelo ed., Ming Qing Studies 2011. (Rome: Aracne Editrice, 2011), pp.111-134.

“More or Less: Marital Fertility and Physical Management in Late Imperial China,” Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology 74 (June, 2011):119–168. Taipei: National Taiwan University.

“Flickering Fire: Retrospective Adoption and the Creation of Family Memory in Late Imperial China.” In Lee Cheuk-yin and Hsiung Ping-chen, eds., Evolving Cultural Memory in China and her Neighbours (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Educational Publishing Co., 2008), pp.20-62.

“Treading a Different Path?: Thoughts on Childhood Studies in Chinese History.” In Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 1 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press), no.1. (2008), pp.77-85.