A Scholar Illuminating Late Imperial China's Cultural Dynamics
Dr. Hsueh-Yi Lin serves as a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Chinese Culture at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where she specializes in the intellectual and sociocultural history of late imperial China. After earning her PhD from Princeton University, she has established herself as an expert in examining the complex interplay between ideas, institutions, and cultural traditions during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Her research focuses particularly on how cultural traditions were invented and reinvented through Buddho-Confucian interactions and the expansion of elite networks. At PolyU, she teaches courses on cultural history of travel and storytelling in premodern China. Her archival research has contributed significantly to understanding the long-term impacts on Chinese values and identity formation, examining how social and institutional changes shaped cultural development during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Through her teaching and research, she continues to illuminate the complex dynamics of cultural transmission and transformation in Chinese history.