Awards & Recognitions

“The Early Modern Economy at the Two Ends of Eurasia: A Comparative Study of the GDP of the Yangzi Delta and the Netherlands in the Early Nineteenth Century” Project Awarded $302,000 by the Research Grants Council’s General Research Fund

Second class, Awards for Research Excellence in Natural Sciences, Ministry of Education

Franklin Prize for Excellence in Teaching

Named Kellogg-HKUST EMBA Professor of the Year by students for the fourth time

Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Selected to join the National Science and Technology Programmes Expert Database

Franklin Prize for Excellence in Teaching

Second Class, State Natural Science Award

“Identity Formation and Social Interdependency Based on the Bazi System: A Historical Anthropology Perspective on Social Construction between Mountains and Basins in the Zhaozhou Area, Western Yunnan Frontier, Southwest China” Project Granted $377,894 by the Research Grants Council’s General Research Fund

Allan N Nash Award for Distinguished Doctoral Graduate from the University of Maryland