Kuan-Chung Huang

Kuan-Chung Huang, born in 1949 in Yilan, Taiwan, received his B.A. in Literature from National Chung Hsing University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in History from National Taiwan University. He has also been a visiting scholar at Princeton University, the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and Seoul National University. His research focuses on Song dynasty history.

His major monographs include Court Disputes of National Policies in Late Song: Battle for Peace, Frontier Defense and Migrants during Emperor Li-tsung’s Reign, The Scholarly and Bureaucratic Career of Sun Yingshi: A Neo-Confucian Follower’s Response to the Political Changes in the mid-Southern Song, and Living Locally, Thinking Nationally: The Life and Ideals of Liu Zai, a Local Literatus of the Southern Song. He is also the chief editor of Research Bibliography of Chinese Writings on Sino-Korean Relations. More than one hundred of his articles have been collected into volumes such as Collected Studies on Southern Song History, Explorations in Southern Song Military Affairs and Documents, Series on Song History, and Historical Events, Documents, and Figures: Collected Studies on Song History.

He has served as Research Fellow and Director of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Professor and Director of the Institute of History at National Tsing Hua University, Vice President of National Chung Hsing University, Director-General of the National Central Library, and Chair Professor at Chang Gung University. He is currently an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, and an Overseas Honorary Research Fellow at the Tōyō Bunko (Oriental Library) in Japan. His honors include the Outstanding Scholarship Award from the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship and the Outstanding Research Award from the National Science Council.