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Chih-Yen Huang

Academia Sinica, Taiwan

DEBBY CHIH-YEN HUANG is a postdoctoral fellow at Academia Sinica. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from East Asian Languages and Civilizations of University of Pennsylvania in 2021. Being trained as a historian of pre-modern China with a focus on gender and women’s history, her dissertation engages significant recent trends in scholarship on the Chinese gendered division of space, ritual and social norms, and identity and social connections in traditional Chinese society. It examines elite men's networking strategies, elite women's participation in the men's networking, and the conceptualization and the use of the idea of closeness when they establish connections beyond the domain of kinship from the third to the seventh centuries. She was the recipient of the prize for best graduate student paper this year from the China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies in 2021. She was also awarded the 2020 China Times Young Scholar Award. Debby co-translated the historiographical paper published by Kyoto University Press in 2021, “The Family in the Tang Period”. Her monograph investigating the political capital of princesses in early medieval China is scheduled to be published in Simplified Chinese later in 2021.

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