1A welfare-state researcher. After completing my PhD in the United Kingdom, I brought a comparative welfare-regime lens back to Taiwan and East Asia. My long-standing concerns are pensions, social investment, welfare attitudes, and inequality.
2My work moves between comparative and institutional analysis. I want the prose to be hard and the vision soft — data should be verifiable, yet society always holds one more layer than the model.
3Recent interests run to welfare markets, the financialisation of welfare, and the rise of the regulatory welfare state. I am also asking how social policy should answer to a Taiwan that keeps shrinking, ageing, and growing more unequal.
比較東亞福利國家
年金政策
社會投資
福利態度
貧窮與生命歷程
社會研究方法
| 2010–14 | PhD ・ Sociology & Social PolicyUniversity of Southampton, UKPublic-Private Pension Mix in East Asia |
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| 2003–06 | MA ・ Social WelfareNational Chung Cheng University |
| 1999–03 | BA ・ Social Policy & Social WorkNational Chi Nan University |
| 2024– | ProfessorDept. of Sociology, Soochow University |
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| 2024–25 | Visiting ScholarNagoya University |
| 2020–24 | Associate ProfessorDept. of Sociology, Soochow University |
| 2018–20 | Assistant ProfessorDept. of Sociology, Soochow University |
| 2017–18 | Assistant ProfessorDept. of Social Work, Asia University |
| 2015–17 | Postdoctoral FellowRCHSS, Academia Sinica |
| 2015 | Project Manager, CRPD OfficeMinistry of Health and Welfare |
| 2025 | Research ExcellenceSoochow University |
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| 2024 | Research Excellence ・ Course Reduction4 credits ・ three consecutive years ・ Soochow University |
| 2023 | Soochow University Rether AwardYoung Scholar Award |
| 2023 | Research ExcellenceSoochow University |
| 2021 | Research ExcellenceSoochow University |
| 2019 | MOST New Faculty Research AwardMinistry of Science and Technology |
| 2013–14 | CCK Foundation FellowshipDoctoral Dissertation Fellowship (overseas) |
| 2010–13 | MOE Government ScholarshipGovernment Scholarship for Overseas Study, ROC |
| 2026–29 | Multidimensional Pension Policy Preferences: Information, Political Exchange, and Public Preferences for Pension Reform in East AsiaNSTC 115-2410-H-031-023-SS3 |
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| 2025–26 | Building Welfare Markets: Comparing East Asian Welfare StatesNSTC 114-2410-H-031-090 |
| 2023–25 | Marketisation and Financialisation of Pension Systems and the Rise of the Regulatory Welfare State in East Asian Welfare StatesNSTC 112-2410-H-031-039-MY2 |
| 2021–23 | Shaping and Managing Pension Politics: East Asian Welfare States in International ComparisonMOST 110-2410-H-031-052-MY2 |
| 2020–21 | Female Labour Force Participation Rate and Family Policy: A Social Investment PerspectiveMOST 109-2410-H-194-024 ・ Co-PI |
| 2019–21 | The Micro-Foundation of the Transformation from Passive Protection to Activation: A Comparative Study of East Asian Welfare StatesMOST 108-2410-H-031-069-MY2 |
| 2018 | From Productivist to Social Investment: The Transformation of Comparative East Asian Welfare StatesMOST 107-2410-H-031-065 |