Faculty

Current Position

2022-Present Associate Professor, School of Medicine & Institute of Public Health, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University 
2015-2022 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong
2013-2015 Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National 
University

Office

Room 402,  2nd Medical Building

 

Academic Degrees

2013 Ph.D. in Social Anthropology (with a particular emphasis on Medical Anthropology), Harvard University
2003 M.D. National Taiwan University

Experience

2003-2004 Resident, Taoyuan Mental Hospital, Ministry of Health (merged training program directed by the Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital)
2004-2006 Resident, Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital
2008-2009 Fellow, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and Society

Research Interests

Medical and psychiatric anthropology, contemporary China, history of psychiatry, psychotherapy research, digital mental health, and mental health policy

Selected Publications

• Refereed Journal Articles

forthcoming “End of an Era or a Moment of Reshuffling: Fragmentation of Entry-Level Training 
in China’s Psycho-Boom,” History of Psychiatry

2022 

Chung, Ho-Fung., Andersson, Ewa, Hsuan-Ying Huang, Ganesh Acharya, Simone 
Swchwank. “Self-reported mental health status of pregnant women in Sweden 
during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional survey.” BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 22, 260 (2022). doi: 10.1186/s12884-022-04553-x

2020 

Schwank, Simone, Ho-Fung Chung, Mandy Hsu, Shih-Chien Fu, Li Du, Liping Zhu, 
Hsuan-Ying Huang, Andersson Ewa, Ganesh Acharya. “Mental Health of Urban Mothers (MUM) Study: A multi-center randomized controlled trial, a study protocol.” BMJ Open 10(11). doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041133

Huang, Hauan-Ying and Douglas Kirsner. “The History of Psychoanalysis in China.” Psychoanalytic Inquiry 40(1): 1-13.

2018 

Huang, Hsuan-Ying. “Untamed Jianghu or Emerging Profession: Diagnosing the 
Psycho-Boom amid China’s Mental Health Legislation.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 42 (2): 371-400.

2017 

Huang, Hsuan-Ying. “Therapy Made Easy: E-Commerce and Infrastructure in China’s Psycho-Boom.” China Perspectives (2017/4): 29-38.

(French translation: Huang, Hsuan-Ying. 2017. "Rendre la Thérapie Facile: commerce en ligne et infrastructure du « boom de la psychologie » en Chine." Perspectives Chinoises (2017/4): 33-44.)

2015 

Huang, Hsuan-Ying. “From Psychotherapy to Psycho-Boom: A Historical Overview 
of Psychotherapy in China.” Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China 1 (1): 1-30.

2010 

Wang, Xiao-Ping, Wei-Feng Zhang, Hsuan-Ying Huang, and Maurice Preter. “Neurology in the People’s Republic of China—An Update.” European Neurology 64 (6): 320-324.

• Refereed Book Chapters

2021 

Huang, Hsuan-Ying. “Psychiatry and Mental Health in Post-Reform China.” In 
Mental Health in China and the Chinese Diaspora in Asia and the Pacific: 
Historical and Cultural Perspectives, edited by Harry Minas. 57-68. Cham, 
Switzerland: Springer. 

2019 

Wang, Wen-Ji, and Hsuan-Ying Huang. “Mental Health.” In The Making of the 
Human Sciences in China: Historical and Conceptual Foundations, edited by 
Howard Chiang, 460-488. Leiden and Boston: Brill.

2014 

Huang, Hsuan-Ying. “The Emergence of the Psycho-Boom in Contemporary Urban 
China.” In Psychiatry and Chinese History, edited by Howard Chiang, 183-204. London: Pickering & Chatto.

(Chinese translation: 黃宣穎. 2018. "當代中國都會心理熱的出現." In 精神科學與近代東亞 (Psy-Sciences and Modern East Asia), edited by 王文基 (Wang Wen-Ji) and 巫毓荃 (Wu Yu-Chuan), 中央研究院人文講座叢書 (Academia Sinica Humanities Lecture Series), 421-459. 台北: 聯經.)

2014 

Huang, Hsuan-Ying. “The Religious Context of Urban China’s Psycho-Boom.” In Psychoanalysis in China, edited by David Scharff and Sverre Varvin, 45-53. London: Karnac Books.

2013 

Huang, Hsuan-Ying, and Ming-Min Yang. “Shame and Losing Face in Taiwanese Culture.” In Psychoanalysis in Asia: China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, edited by Alf Gerlach, Maria Teresa Hooke and Sverre Varvin, 237-246. London: Karnac Books.

• Book Reviews

2021 

Huang, Hsuan-Ying. “Review of Mental Health in China: Change, Tradition, and 
Therapeutic Governance, by Jie Yang. Cambridge: Polity Press.” Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China 4(2): 293-295.   

2020 

Huang, Hsuan-Ying. “Review of Abnormal People: Psychiatry and the Governance of Modernity in Taiwan, Edited by Tsai Yu-Yueh and Chen Jia-Shin. Taipei: Linking Publishing.” East Asian Science, Technology, and Society: An International Journal 14 (1): 187-189.

2019 

Huang, Hsuan-Ying. “Review of The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China. By Emily Baum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.” China Review International 24 (3): 179-183.

2015 

Huang, Hsuan-Ying. “Review of Unknotting the Heart: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China, by Yang Jie. Ithaca and London: ILR Press: an Imprint of Cornell University Press.” Pacific Affairs 90 (1): 120-122.

• GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

2019    

Yu Ying-Shih Prize in Humanities Research (for book manuscript writing) 余英時先

生人文研究獎 專書寫作獎, Tang Prize Foundation and the institute of History and 
Philology, Academia Sinica, 360,000 NTD

2018 

Early Career Scheme, Hong Kong Government’s University Grants Committee, 

“When the Psycho-Boom Meets the Startup Frenzy: An Ethnographic Study of the 
Psy-Startups in China,” 545,084 HKD, 2019 – 2021.