About me

I am an assistant professor at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. I received my Ph.D. in Economic History from the Department of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2021. Before joining HKU, I was an Assistant Professor of Economic History at the School of Economics, Renmin University of China. 

My research interests centre on Chinese economic history, historical demography, and population economics, with particular emphasis on demographic change, social mobility, and human capital formation in Ming–Qing China. I am currently engaged in projects that investigate micro-demographic dynamics in traditional Chinese society using large-scale genealogical data.