Clement Qiang Huang

PhD student in the History of Science, studying nineteenth-century Sino-French encounters in the field of natural history.

Based at York University, Toronto, Canada, I have broad interests in the global cross-pollination between epistemic traditions of science, art, and religion. I am an avid language learner, always curious about the experiences and motivations of beings that moved, or were moved, across borders.

My doctoral research is supported by a Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral (CGRS-D) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

What’s New

August 2026
My paper presented at the 50th Annual Conference of the French Colonial Historical Society in Maynooth received an Honourable Mention for the W. J. Eccles Prize.
Jul 2026
I presented my paper at the 2026 ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting in the panel “Imperial Botany in Asia.”

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My Research

My dissertation project, Redefining Chinoiserie: Chinese–French Encounters in Natural Knowledge, 1830–1870, examines the bidirectional yet asymmetrical flows of natural knowledge between France and China, entangled with missionary expansion and the treaty-port system. Read more →

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Contact

clemh@yorku.ca

Department of History, York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada