我的研究興趣是早期中華帝國時期的軍事與社會史，以朝代劃分相當於秦漢魏晉南北朝。我的研究重點在戰爭與社會和文化的關係、暴力史、想像與現實的邊界的形成、以及族類觀與地域文化認同等幾個方向。

我的專業領域雖在古代中國，但我的教學興趣廣泛。我希望透過教學與討論，引導學生從東亞史，以至歐亞史的角度來認識中國歷史與文化。

• 歷史上的暴力
• 戰爭史
• 邊界的形成
• 地域文化與認同
• 政治文化

專著

• The Collapse of China’s Later Han Dynasty, 25–220 CE: The Northwest Borderlands and the Edge of Empire (London: Routledge, 2018).

論文及書籍文章

• “Early Imperial China.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies. Ed. Tim Wright. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
  DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199920082-0192.
• 〈亂世中的曙光——錢穆對中古早期歷史的一些看法〉(Ch’ien Mu’s view of early medieval China)，載李帆、黃兆強、區志堅主編《重訪錢穆》(Revisiting Ch’ien Mu) (臺北：秀威資訊科技股份有限公司, 2021), pp. 203-212.
• “Opportunism in Foreign Affairs in First Century BCE China: Chen Tang, His Fellows, and Their Patrons.” T’oung Pao 107 (2021): 233-261.
  DOI:10.1163/15685322-10703010.
• 〈在理想與現實之間：《大學衍義補》所見丘濬的軍事觀 〉(Between Ideal and Reality: Qiu Jun’s View of Military Affairs in the Daxue yanyi bu) 《明史研究論叢》 18(2021): 37-46.
• “Violence and Warfare in Early Imperial China,” in The Cambridge World History of Violence, Volume I: The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds, edited by Garrett G. Fagan, Linda Fibiger, Mark Hudson and Matthew Trundle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 277-295.
• 〈漢帝國緣邊與內部的「游離群體」―—兼論秦漢帝國天下觀的想像與現實〉(A preliminary survey of the free-floating elements in early imperial China). 동서인문 (東西人文) Journal of East-West Humanities vol. 12 (2019): 45-65.
•  “Fabricating Legitimacy in a Peripheral Regime: Imperial Loyalism and Regionalism in the Northwestern Borderlands under the Rule of the Former Liang (301-376).” Early Medieval China 24 (2018): 108-130.
• “The Latter Han Empire and the End of Antiquity,” in the Routledge Handbook of Early Chinese History, edited by Paul Goldin (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 180-196.
•  “Warfare,” in the Routledge Handbook of Early Chinese History, edited by Paul Goldin (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 319-335.
•  “Cutting the Enemy’s Line of Supply: The Rise of the Tactic and Its Use in Early Chinese Warfare.” Journal of Chinese Military History 6.2 (2017): 131-156.
• 〈何謂「中古」？——「中古」一詞及其指涉時段在中國史學中的模塑〉，載《中國中古史集刊》（第二輯），北京：商務印書館，2016，頁 3-19。
• 〈漢宣帝一朝的大戰略取向及其決策原因試探 〉，載黎明釗編 《漢帝國的制度與社會秩序》香港：牛津大學出版社，2012，頁185-206。
• 〈論漢高帝一朝的北境動亂〉， 《漢學研究 》25.1 (2007): 31-58。
• 〈長平之戰(前260): 大戰略失調所導致的軍事災難〉，《中國文化研究所學報 》45 (2005): 1-22。
• 〈「正統」、「德運」與「漢化」──略論北魏的推定德運〉， 收入黎明釗、李廣健、范家偉主編：《史學傳薪：社會、學術、文化的探索》，香港：中華書局， 頁131-153。
• 〈孫吳彈性外交述論〉，《漢學研究 》22.1 (2004): 21-46。
• 〈高歡「功臣集團」的形成與東魏的政治衝突〉，《中國文化研究所學報》 新11期 (2002): 85-118.

書評

• “Review of Yuri Pines, The Book of Lord Shang: Apologetics of State Power in Early China.” Journal of Chinese Military History 8 (2019): 107-109.
• “Review of Rafe de Crespigny, Fire over Luoyang: A History of the Later Han Dynasty, 23-220 AD.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Series 3, 2017. doi:10.1017/S1356186317000074
• “Review of K. E. Brashier, Public Memory in Early China,” Frontiers of History in China 1.1 (2016): 163-166.
• “Review of Military Culture in Imperial China, edited by Nicola Di Cosmo,” Frontiers of History in China 6.3 (2011): 463-466
• “Review of Mark Edward Lewis, China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties.” (in Chinese) 漢學研究 (Chinese Studies) 28.1 (March 2010): 389-396.
• “Review of David A. Graff, Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900.” (in Chinese) 漢學研究 (Chinese Studies) 20.2 (Dec 2002): 431-438.
• “Review of Li Ping, Bei Wei Pingcheng shidai (The Pingcheng Era of the Northern Wei Dynasty, 386-534 CE)” 評李憑《北魏平城時代》. 新史學 (New History) Vol. XI, no. 4 (Dec 2000): 123-129.