PUBLICATION

2026. Wang Chi-mao and Kuang-chi Hung, "Living With Epidemic Plant Diseases: Colonial Plantation Regimes, the Transformation of Indigenous Foodways and De-Peasantization." Journal of Agrarian Change. 7 Janurary 2026.

2024. HUNG Kuang-chi, “Protection First: The Tennessee Valley Authority and Early Postwar Taiwanese Forestry.” New History 35(3): 189-255.

2023. HUNG Kuang-chi and Chia-hsien Chang, “The Controversy over Reconstructing Environmental Governance in Taiwan after the February 28th Incident: The Case of Forestry.” Bulletin of Academia Historica 76: 51-103. (THCI)

2023. HUNG Kuang-chi and Chia-hsien Chang, “ ‘Notoriety of the Forestry Bureau Blanketing the Island’: Forestry in Taiwan before and after February 28 Incident.” Taiwan Historical Research 30 (1): 137-185. (THCI)

2022. HUNG Kuang-chi and Jia-lun Chang, “ ‘Building a New Taiwan’: Huang Weiyan and Takeover of Forestry in Postwar Taiwan.” Taiwan Historical Research 29 (3): 149-199. (THCI)

2021. HUNG Kuang-chi, “Carl Bishop, Li Chi, and the ‘First Archaeological Expedition in China Conducted by the Chinese Themselves’.” Bulletin of Institute of History and Philosophy 92 (4): 779-846.

2020. HUNG Kuang-chi and Jia-lun Chang, “Modern Environmental Governance and Local Knowledge: A Case Study of Taiwan’s Colonial Forestry.” Taiwan Historical Research 27(2): 85-144. (THCI)

2019. HUNG Kuang-chi, “Subscribing to Specimens, Cataloging Subscribed Specimens, and Assembling the First Phytogeographical Survey in the United States.” Journal of the History of Biology. 52 (3): 391-431. (SSCI; Published in a revised form of Hung's PhD Dessertation)

2019. HUNG Kuang-chi, “Developing ‘Savages’ Land,’ Controlling ‘Savages,’ and the Performance of Ethnicity of Taiwan’s Indigeneous People: A Case Study on the Middle and Upstream of Lanyang River (B).”Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology 91：1-42。(TSSCI)

2019. HUNG Kuang-chi, Wen-chun Lo, and Aliman Istanda, “From ‘Masters of Taiwan’s Forests’ to ‘Wanderers in Their Own Lands’: The Zoning and Classification Survey of Taiwan’s Forest Management Project (1925-1935) Reconsidered.” Taiwan Historical Research 26(2): 43-111.

2019. HUNG Kuang-chi, “Developing ‘Savages’ Land,’ Controlling ‘Savages,’ and the Performance of Ethnicity of Taiwan’s Indigeneous People: A Case Study on the Middle and Upstream of Lanyang River (A).”Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology 90: 1-44.

2019. HUNG Kuang-chi Hung, “China as A Field: Carl Whiting Bishop and the Place of ‘China’ in American Academia in the Early Twentieth Century.” New History 30 (1): 117-166.

2018. HUNG Kuang-chi and Chun-yi Ho, “Governing Natural Resources and Developing Indigenous Communities: A Post-Developmentalist and Post-Humanist Review.” Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology 89: 93-141.

2018. HUNG Kuang-chi, “From ‘Shame of Taiwan’ to ‘Fastest-developing Industry’: Rethinking Industrialization of Forestry in Colonial Taiwan.”Taiwan Historical Research 25 (3): 83-140.

2018. HUNG Kuang-chi, “A Scientific Revolution Assembled: A Case Study on the First Darwinian Debate in the United States.” Historical Inquiry 61: 159-235. (THCI)

2016. HUNG Kuang-chi, “Geographical Turn in Science and Technology Studies and Its Resonances in Geography.” Journal of Geographical Science 83: 23-69.

2016. HUNG Kuang-chi, “Plants that Remind Me of Home’: Collecting, Plant Geography, and a Forgotten Expedition in the Darwinian Revolution.” Journal of the History of Biology. 50 (1): 71–132.

2010. HUNG Kuang-chi, “ ‘The Place that ‘Offers the Greatest Interest’: Northeast Asia and the Making of Asa Gray's Disjunction Thesis.” Harvard Papers in Botany. 15 (2): 231-276.  

2009. HUNG Kuang-chi, “Alien Science, Indigenous Thought and Foreign Religion: Reconsidering the Reception of Darwinism in Japan.” Intellectual History Review. 19 (2): 231-250.

2004. HUNG Kuang-chi, “Modern Forestry, Capitalism and the Governmence Frontier: Some Reconsideration of the Investigation and Arrangement of Rinya in Taiwan during the Japanese Colonial Period.” Taiwan Historical Research 11 (2): 77-144.

2004. HUNG Kuang-chi and Chun-chiang Lin, “Tourism Landscape, Qalang and Nagsal: A Study of the Relationships between Culture and Common-pool Resource Management at Smangus, Hsin-Chu.” Journal of Geographical Science 37: 51-97.

2003. HUNG Kuang-chi, Chin-long Zheng and Huai-ju Yang, “Meanings of Resource-Dependent Communities to Forest Management across Different Levels: A Case Study of Wu-Fung Township in Hsin-Chu County and Tai-An Township in Miaoli County.” Taiwanese Journal of Rural Studies 2: 1-50.

2002. HUNG Kuang-chi (Goang-jih Horng), “Problems of Taiwan's National Forest Management in the Early Post-War Period: A Case Study on the Institutions Regulating Lumbering in National Forests (1945-1956).” Taiwan Historical Research 9 (1): 55-105.

2001. HUNG Kuang-chi (Goang-jih Horng) and Chin-long Zheng, “Development and Delimma of a Local Tourism Management: A Case Study of Smangus Indigenous Settlement in Hsin-chu.” Quarterly Journal of Chinese Forestry 34(2): 229-239.

Chapter in an Edited Book

2025. HUNG Kuang-chi, “When the Green Archipelago Encountered Formosa: Forestry in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule (1895–1945).” In Human Texture of Taiwan: Man–Land Relations Manifested in Culture, Settlement, Economy, Landscape, and Disaster Reduction. New Taipei: Yeren, pp.96-149.

2023. HUNG Kuang-chi, “Sbalay: A Historical Anthropology.” In Towards An Anthropology of Governance and Worlding: Comparative Austronesian Perspectives, eds. Patricia Pei-Yi Kuo and Wei-ning Cheng. Taipei: Academia Sinica, pp. 105-183.

2015a. HUNG Kuang-chi, “Within the Lungs, the Stomach, and the Mind: Convergence and Divergences in Medical and Natural Histories of Ginkgo biloba.” In Historical Epistemology and the Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, ed. Howard Chiang. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 41-79. 

2015b. HUNG Kuang-chi, “When the Green Archipelago Encountered Formosa: The Making of Modern Forestry in Taiwan under Japan’s Colonial Rule （1895-1945）.” In Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the Present, eds. Philip C. Brown and Bruce Batten. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, pp. 174-193.

Book Reviews

2019. HUNG Kuang-chi, “Paired Reviews: Ronald Scott Vasile. William Stimpson and the Golden Age of American Natural History. x + 300 pp., notes, bibl., index. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2018. $29 (paper). ISBN 9780875807843; Christopher Kemp. The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums. xxi + 250 pp., illus., notes, index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2017. $30 (cloth). ISBN 9780226386218.” Isis. 

2017. HUNG Kuang-chi, “Review of Ershi shiji houbanye Taiwan yanhuaxue pujizhishi de siweiyangshi 20世紀後半葉台灣演化學普及知識的思維樣式 [The Thought Styles in Popular Evolutionary Knowledge in Taiwan in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century].” East Asian Science, Technology and Society. 11 (3): 459-462. 

2016. HUNG Kuang-chi, “Book Review: Empire's Doctor: Sir Patrick Manson and the Establishment of British Tropical medicine by Shang-jen Li.” Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine 22: 275-284.

2015. HUNG Kuang-chi, “Imagining Chinese Modernity: Review of Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China, Grace Yen Shen, University of Chicago Press, 2013.” Endeavour. 39 (1): 4-5.

Degree Paper

2013. Finding Patterns in Nature: Asa Gray's Plant Geography and Collecting Networks (1830s-1860s). Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.

Oral History

*The following articles and books are the collective work of Hong Kuang-chi's research team and the commissioned editor. All articles and books are available for download and viewing.

2025. Yaio, Jo-Chieh (interview and primary author), Kuang-Chi Hung (guest editor), The Road of Science: Oral History Interviews with Faculty of the NTU College of Science. Taipei: National Taiwan University.

2024. HUNG Kuang-chi's research team, Stories of the Forestry You've not Heard Before: The Oral History Collection of Forestry in Taoyuan, Hsinchu and Miaoli [你所不知道的人森事：桃竹苗地區林業訪談集]. Hsinchu: Hsinchu Branch of Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency.

2024. HUNG Kuang-chi and Chin-chiang Wen interveiwed; Sheng-cing Li recorded , “The Last Generation of ‘Naozhang’ (Director of Champhor Manufacturing) : An Interview Record with Mr. Wen Nengda [末代腦長：溫能達先生訪問紀錄].” Histories as Recorded in Personal Voices: Annual of Taiwan Oral History Society 15 (Revised Edition, Issue 9): 1-36.

2024. HUANG Kuang-chi, Tjuku Ruljigaljig, Yi-chiang Hsieh, Ya-mien Chang interviewed; Yi-jung Tsai, Ya-mien Chang, Hsieh Yi-chiang recorded, “Workshop as a Tribe: An Interview Record with Ms. Chen Chao-yun (Liavare Laibang), Reforestation Team Leader [工寮即部落：造林帶班陳招雲（Liavare Laibang）女士訪問紀錄].” Histories as Recorded in Personal Voices: Annual of Taiwan Oral History Society 15 (Revised Edition, Issue 9): 37-66.

2023. HSIEH Yi-chiang, Ya-mien Chang interviewed; Ya-mien Chang recorded, “The Eyes of A Journalist: An Interview Record with Mr. Tsai Ming-te [記者之眼——蔡明德先生訪問紀錄].” Histories as Recorded in Personal Voices: Annual of Taiwan Oral History Society 14 (Revised Edition, Issue 8): 105-164.

2023. HSIEH Yi-chiang, Chang Ya-mien, Kao, Tzu-chien, “A Living History of Eastern Forestry: An Interview Record with Mr. Yu Xiang-qing [東部林業活歷史——余相清先生訪問紀錄].”  Journal of Eastern Taiwan Studies 30: 83-106.

2022. CHEN Ruei-ci, “Forestry Craftsman in Zhudong: An Interview Record with Mr. Huang Ji-xing [竹東的林業職人：黃吉星先生訪問紀錄].” The Hsin-Chu Journal of History 75: 100-108.

2022. HUNG Kuang-chi, Jia-lun Chang, Yi-chiao Ho, Ya-mien Chang interviewed; Ruei-ci Chen recorded, “In the Company of Forests: An Interview Record with Mr. Zhang Yu-yin [與林為伍——張玉印先生訪問紀錄].” The Taiwan Folkways 72(2): 189-220.

2021. HUNG Kuang-chi, Pei-chen Li, Ruei-ci Chen, Hui-chen Kuo interviewed; Hui-chen Kuo recorded, “ A Recollation of Tamsui's Forestry Giant Li Hao-sheng: An Interview Record with Ms. Li Zhihui [回顧淡水林業鉅子李好生：李智慧女士訪問紀錄].” The Taiwan Folkways 71(3): 163-192.

2021. CHEN Ruei-ci, Ya-mien Chang, ; Ruei-chi Chen recorded, “ [劉桂仁先生訪問紀錄，紀錄聲音的歷史]” Histories as Recorded in Personal Voices: Annual of Taiwan Oral History Society 12 (Revised Edition, Issue 6): 43-76. 顏翊卉

2020. HUNG Kaung-chi, Jia-lun Chang, Yi-chiao Ho, Ya-mien Chang, Chia-hsien Chang, Yi-Hui Yen interviewed; Ruei-chi Chen recorded, “ A Lifetime Forester: An Interview Record with Mr. Li Yuan-qin [一輩子的林業人——李遠欽先生訪問紀錄].” The Taiwan Folkways 70(3): 149-182.

Book Guide

HUNG Kaung-chi, “For the Wild Life, We Will Never Surrender – A Review of Reigniting the Embers of Life [為了荒野生命，我們永不投降──讀《重燃生之燼火》],” The Reporter, published on November 10, 2024.

HUNG Kaung-chi, “A (Dark) Bedtime Story for Adults: A Guide to A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth [給成年人的（黑暗）床邊故事：《地球生命簡史》導讀],” Openbook, published on May 31, 2024.

HUNG Kaung-chi, “You Should": A Guide to Earth's Deep History: How It Was Discovered And Why It Matters [You should：《地球深歷史：一段被忽略的地質學革命，一部地球萬物的歷史》導讀],” Bulletin of the Geographical Society of China website, published on March 27, 2021.

HUNG Kaung-chi, “Herstory of Nature: A Guide to Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium [「她的」博物學（Herstory of Nature）：《蘇利南昆蟲之變態》導讀],” Bulletin of the Geographical Society of China website, published on February 6, 2020.

Other

HUNG Kuang-chi. "To Control Water, Must We First Control the Mountains? — A Case Study of the Daan River Basin" (治水必先治山？──以大安溪流域為例), Ti-Chih 44(3-4), December 2025年, pp. 95-102。

HUNG Kuang-chi. "Revisiting the Sanrinka: Tracing a Century of Forestry in Taiwan" (重訪山林課：回望臺灣百年林業), Harvest 76(1), Janurary 2026, pp.32-37.

HUNG Kuang-chi, Shih-han Chen, Lu-feng Li, 艾德嘉, Chungyuan Chiang, Zhe-yi Jin, San-tsun Yang, murmur, Layers of Caoshan: Exploring the Architectural Flavors of Yangmingshan (草山千層派：品嚐陽明山建築的時代更迭味), Taipei: Uli Books & Culture LTD., December 2025.

HUNG Kuang-chi. 0km: Revisiting the Sanrinka Exhibition Guide (0km：重訪山林課 展覽手冊), Taipei: Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency, Ministry of Agriculture, November 2025.

HUNG Kuang-chi. “Is Nature Depicted on the Page ‘Real’? — Objectivity in Scientific Illustration from the Perspective of the History of Science” (筆下的自然是「真實」的嗎？──從科學史看繪圖中的客觀性), Science Monthly No. 671, November 2025, pp. 10–15.

HUNG Kuang-chi, Yvonne Kennedy translated, Rediscovering Taiwan: Chen Cheng-po’s 120th Birthday Anniversary Exploratory Notes, Tapei: National Taiwan Museum, Chen Cheng-po Cultural Foundation, 2025. 

HUNG Kaung-chi, “Plants, Weather and Empire: Let's Start with Looking Fowards to Chiayi ” (植物、氣候與帝國：從《展望諸羅城》談起 I ), Artco Monthly & Investment No. 389, Feburary 2025, pp. 52-59.

HUNG Kaung-chi,  “Behind the Exhibition Uncultivated Lands: Where Powers Meet” (「林野：力的交界」幕後告白),  Humanities and Social Sciences Newsletter Quarterly 25(3), June 2024, pp. 92-95.

HUNG Kaung-chi, “Creative Works Rooted in Love: Hung Kaung-chi Talks to Luo Yis-han, Director of After the Snowmelt [根植於愛的創作：洪廣冀談《雪水消融的季節》導演羅苡珊],” UDN 500, published on December 4, 2024.

HUNG Kaung-chi and Jia-lun Chang, “The History of the Forestry Bureau: A Retrospective”(話說從頭的林務局歷史進程), Taiwan Forestry Journal 49(3), June 2023, pp.5-12.

HUNG Kaung-chi and Ming-Yen Hsi, “Forest Planning Enterprises: The Origins of Taiwan's Modern Forestry System” (森林計畫事業：臺灣近代林業體系起源), Taiwan Forestry Journal 49(3), June 2023, pp. 13-20.

HUNG Kaung-chi, “When We No Longer See Giants: Discussing the ‘Environment’ in Wu Ming-yi's The Sea Breeze Club [當我們眼裡不再有巨人：談吳明益《海風酒店》中的「環境」],” Openbook, published on June 12, 2023.