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Ting-chih Wu

Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Ting-chih Wu is a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica (Taiwan). His research centers on borderland spaces in middle-period and pre-modern China, spanning from the 10th to the 17th centuries. His research encompasses a wide range of topics, including political institutions, military conflicts, environmental transformations, and the application of digital humanities methodologies.

He is now working on his book project, titled "Farmlands, Pasturelands, and Deserts: Environment, Empire, and Border Communities in China's Farming-Pastoral Ecotones, 1368–1644." This project examines the environmental dimensions of the Ming empire’s (1368– 1644) large-scale border-making efforts in strategic positions in northwest China. It argues through four case studies that the Ming empire’s border-making was an enterprise that involved dimensions of human-nature relations, including local officers’ fortification of fertile lands, local soldier- farmers’ cultivation practices, local horse-rearing soldiers’ animal husbandry and local non-Chinese civilians’ animal husbandry. His research benefits from interdisciplinary approaches to examine national and local bureaucratic documents, stone epigraphs, and GIS maps.

Ting-chih Wu received his PhD in History at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to that, he completed his MA and BA degrees in History at National Taiwan University.

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