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Wei Wang

PhD Candidate
Department of International History

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Wei Wang is a full-time PhD/MPhil student in International History at LSE. His research focuses on the interplay between imperial systems and local society in Ming-Qing China, with a particular interest in Qing Taiwan history. He examines the transformation of Qing governance over Taiwan from the end of the eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century. He attempts to demonstrate how the changes in social order and political dynamics in Taiwan could be understood in the context of the transition moment of the nineteenth century. Wei's doctoral work is supported by the LSE PhD Studentship

Before joining LSE, Wei Wang earned his undergraduate and master's degrees at National Taiwan University, Taipei. With a particular interest in the combination of fieldwork and historical materials, he specialized in the local social history of Qing Taiwan. His master's thesis explores the interaction of social order, economic dynamics, and political structure in central Taiwan in the Late Qing period, with the broader aim of reconsidering the narrative of Late Qing society.

In the future, he aims to explore the potential of Qing Taiwan's case by comparing it with other Inner Asian frontiers of the Qing Empire and exploring island connections with the wider world. With this aim, he is also strongly interested in the Qing Empire's conquests and governance of Central Asia. Also, he would like to explore the connections of Taiwanese migration and activities with the Chinese diaspora around the world.

PhD Topic: The Transformation of the Qing Empire's governance of Taiwan in the early nineteenth century.

Supervisor: Dr Ron C. Po

Expertise Details: Late Imperial China (Ming-Qing Empire from the fourteenth to nineteenth century), Qing Taiwan, Qing Inner Asia, local history

Research Cluster: Pre-Modern East and West

Publications:

Wei Wang. (2023) The Political Process and Its Impacts on the Land Tax System in Kavalan Subprefecture during the Jiaqing-Daoguang Period of the Qing Dynasty. The Taiwan Folkways, 73(3): 15-62. (In Chinese)

Wei Wang. (2023) Militias, Civilized Indigenes, and Border Defense in 18th Century Qing Taiwan. Taiwan Historical Materials Studies, 61: 49-65. (In Chinese)