Prof. Hsiung

Professor Hsiung Ping-chen is the Secretary General of International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH) (since 2020), CIPSH Chair in New Humanities of University of California at Irvine (since 2019), Director of Taiwan Research Centre of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (since 2016.8), Founder and President of Asian New Humanities Net (ANHN) (Since 2004) . board Member of Toynbee Prize Foundation (since 2018).She was Professor of History from 2009 to 2019 and served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts at The Chinese University of Hong Kong( from 2009 to 2011), and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Taiwan Central University (from 2004 to 2007). She also served as Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei (from 1990 to 2009).

She holds a B.A. in History from Taiwan University, an M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Brown University, and an S.M. in Population Studies and International Health from the School of Public Health at Harvard University.

Her research interest lies in the areas of women’s studies and children’s health, gender and family relations, and intellectual and social history of early modern/modern China and Europe.

Over the years, Professor Hsiung has held visiting professorships at many leading academic institutions in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, including University of California, Los Angeles, Cornell University, University of Michigan, Free University of Berlin, and Keio University, Japan.

Her works includes Paediatrics and Early Education: A History of Reproductive Strategies of Chinese Society (Chinese; Taipei: Linking, 2018), A Tender Voyage: Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China (English; Stanford University Press: 2005) and Childhood in the Past: A History of Chinese Children (Chinese; Taipei: Rye-Field Publishing, 2000; Publication Grant for Outstanding Scholarly Work, Government Information Office, Taiwan, 2000; Readers’ Choice of the Year, Taiwan, 2000; Golden Tripod Book Award, Taiwan, 2000). She also co-edited Thinking with Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History (Honolulu: Hawaii University Press, 2007).