Education

- 1999, Ph.D. University of Minnesota (economics)
- 1990, A.B. University of California at Berkeley (mathematics)

 * Languages     - English (native)
                          - Chinese (fluent)
                          - Japanese (basic – intermediate)

Research Fields

- China’s political economic history
- Japan’s political economic history
- Military history

Work Experience

1999 – 2003     Post-Doctorate Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
2002 – 2004     Instructor, Taipei University
Nov. 2003       Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2003 – 2004     Visiting Scholar, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
2004 – 2009     Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Tamkang University
Summer 2005   Visiting Scholar, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Center for Maritime History, Academia Sinica
Summers 2006-09   Visiting Scholar, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica
2009 – present  Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Tamkang University
Summer 2011  Visiting Scholar, Department of History, Peking University
Nov. 2013        Visiting Scholar, Toyo Bunko – Tokyo, Japan
Summer 2014  Visiting Scholar, Asian History Department, Osaka University
Summer 2023 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Hokkaido University

Professional Associations

  - American Historical Association
  - American Political Science Association
  - Association of Chinese Political Studies (中國政治研究學會)
  - Chinese Economic History Society (中国经济史学会)
  - Chinese Economist Society (中国留美经济学会)
  - Chinese Historians in the United States (中国留美历史学会)
  - Chinese Military History Society (中國軍事史會)
  - International Committee of Military History
  - Japanese Economic Association (日本経済学会)
  - Japanese Society for Historical Studies (日本史研究会)
  - Society for Military History
  - Socio-Economic History Society of Japan (社会経済史学会)
  - Song History Association of Japan (宋代史研究会)