Ping-Chen Hsiung#
| Membership Number: | 7107 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.cipsh.one |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7103-1029 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present UNESCO Chair in Global Asia and Humanities, McGill University
- 2020 - present Secretary General, International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH) of UNESCO
- 2019 - present CIPSH Chair in “New Humanities”, University of California, Irvine
- 2018 - present Board Member, Toynbee Prize Foundation (since 2018)
- 2010 Founding Fellow, Hong Kong Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences
- 2009 - 2011 Dean, Faculty of Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2009 - 2019 Chair Professor of History, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2005 - 2019 Member, International Advisory Board, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI)
- 2004 - 2020 Founder and President, Asian New Humanities Network
- 1983 - 2009 Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
Fields of Scholarship
- Russian cultural and intellectual history
- Gender studies and population
- History of children and pediatric medicine
- Public health, society, technology and medicine (STM)
- Comparative cultural and social history
- Late imperial and modern China
Honours and Awards
- 2019 - 2024 Establishing the CIPSH Academy in Europe with a grant from the CCK Foundation
- 2020-23 Establishing collaboration between CIPSH and Tencent with a grant from Tencent
- 2017 Keynote speech, “Discovering Childhood and Pediatrics in Chinese History: Further Considerations.” University of Göttingen, Germany, Nov. 28, 2017
- 2017 Keynote speech, “Early Education and Childhood.” The Fifth Cross-Strait Pre-school Education Forum, Fuzhou, China, Nov. 6, 2017.
- 2017 Keynote speech, “A Global Gaze from Asia.” McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Oct. 26, 2017
- 2016 Keynote speech, “Repositioning Taiwan and the Americas: Formosa to the Present.” Inaugural Nexus Taiwan Conference, Brown University, USA, April 7, 2016
- 2012 Inaugural Lecture, “Regional Logic vs. Global Humanities: Where to from Here?” Project on “Asia in the Humanities / Humanities in Asia” Asian Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, Nov. 30, 2012.
- 2012 Keynote speech, “Health and Humanities Initiative: Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Elsewhere.” Keynote at the 2nd Health and Humanities Symposium, NTU, Taipei Oct 29, 2012
- 2008 Keynote speech, the 14th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
- 2003 Wu Teh-yao Lectureship, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- 2014 - 2020 Research Grants, Research Grant Council, Hong Kong (3 grants total US$166,000)
- 2014 - 2016 Research Grant for “Medical Humanities,” Andrew Mellon Foundation (Euro $546,600)
- 2013 - 2015 Research Grant for “Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging,” Andrew Mellon Foundation (US$501,500)
- 2012 - 2014 Research Grant, CUHK¬—CCK Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies (US$46,000)
- 2012 - 2015 Research Grant, Fo Guang Shan–CUHK “Humanist Humanities” Global Concern Project (US$192,000, with HK Government matching US$20,000)
- 2007 Outstanding Scholarship Award, Ministry of Education, Taipei (US$ 20,000)
- 2005 - 2010 Outstanding Scholar Award, Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship, Taipei (US$83,000)
- 2002.4 Award for Cutting Edge Research of the Field of Asian Studies, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting
- 2001 Golden Tripod Book Award, Taipei (Childhood in the Past: A History of Chinese Children)
- 1991 Research Grant, CCK Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Taipei (US$98,000)
