Research Related Prizes & Awards
- Fellow, Linnean Society, London.
- Germany-Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme, "The European Appropriation of Chinese Nature: Transfer of Botanical Knowledge during the Enlightenment", Research Grants Council, Hong Kong (HK023/08), 2009-10
- Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research and Louis Cha Fund, "Early-Modern European Appropriations of Chinese Nature and Natural Knowledge", University of Hong Kong, 2007-10
- General Research Fund, "Jean-Jacques Rousseau and botany: the salutary science", Research Grants Council, Hong Kong (HKU743307H), 2007-10
- University of Hong Kong research grants: 2002-2003, 2003-2005, 2005-07
- Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, May-August 2001
- Australian National University, Humanities Research Centre, January-April 2001
- National Endowment for the Humanities Full-year Research grant 2001
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend 1999
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Harvard University 1997
- American Philosophical Society Grant 1994
- Mellon Dissertation Fellowship 1992-1993