Academic Research

Research & Teaching Interests

early modern and modern Japan, modern China and Taiwan, global food history, science and technology studies, gender studies, material culture, comparative empire, history of capitalism, historical memory, historical fiction

Selected Honors & Fellowships

The D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia Dissertation Fellowship, Fulbright Hays DDRA Fellowship, KCC-JEE Graduate Fellowship, Academia Sinica Fellowship, AAS Northeast Asia Council Best Graduate Student Paper Prize, Foundation of Chinese Dietary Culture Ph.D. and Master Thesis Scholarships

Journal Article

“The Empire’s Sweet Tooth: The Making of Western-Style Confectionery in Colonial Taiwan” in Gastronomica (2024)

“Feminising the ‘Modern’ Sweetness: Gender and Western-style Confectionery in Interwar Japan” in Gender & History (2022)

Book Chapter

“The Paradise of Gourmets: Representing Taiwanese Cuisine in Japanese Tourist Media (1964~)” in Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context: Being and Becoming edited by Chang Bi-yu and Lin Pei-yin. New York and London: Routledge, 2019.

Public History Writing

“Tokyo Miracle: How did the Olympics lead Tokyo to its Future?” in The Invention of Modern Japan edited by Story Studio. (Taipei: Linking Publishing), 2018. (in Chinese)

A Book of Small Things: 15 “mono”gatari (stories) on Modern Japan (Taipei: Showwe Information Co.), 2017. (In Chinese)