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Chairman Yih-yuan Li

　Professor Yih-yuan Li was the first President of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, and served from its establishment in January 1989 until he was elected Chairman of the Board in May of 2001. Born in 1931 in Fukien Province in China, he came to Taiwan as a student at National Taiwan University.

　After his graduation from Harvard University in anthropology in 1960, he returned to Taiwan and has worked since then as a research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology in the Academia Sinica. He served as Director of the Institute from 1971 to 1977 and was elected an academician of the Academia Sinica in 1984. During 1980-81, he was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Professor Li also taught at National Taiwan University from 1968 to 1984, and served as Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at National Tsinghua University from 1984-1990. Currently, he is the Yu Kuo-hwa Professor Emeritus at Tsinghua University and serves as Chairman of the Board of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange.

　Between 1955 and 1984, Professor Li devoted most of his time to field studies and research, particularly among Taiwan's aboriginal peoples and the overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia. His methods and theories of anthropological research have profoundly influenced the study of anthropology in Taiwan. Many of his students from National Taiwan University have carried his teachings to a new generation of students in the field. Several of Professor Li's publications are considered classics in anthropology.

　Professor Li has received numerous awards for his professional achievements, including: the Distinguished Service Medal from the Presidential Office in 1970; the Distinguished Service Professor Award from National Taiwan University in 1984; the Outstanding Research Award from the National Science Council in 1985-1988; the Distinguished Professor Award from National Tsing-hua University in 1990; the University Medal of Charles University of the Czech Republic in 1994; and the University Medal of the University of Heidelberg in Germany in 1996. In 1999, he was awarded the National Culture Award by the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China. He was awarded honorary doctoral degrees by University of Paris 4-Sorbonne and Griffith University of Australia in 2001.

　

President Yun-han Chu

　 　Professor Yun-han Chu became President of the Foundation in June 2001, after having served as vice-president of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation since April 1999. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1987, and in his distinguished research and teaching career since then has focused on the political economy of East Asian newly-industrialized countries (NIC's), democratization, and comparative mass political behavior. Before taking his post at the Foundation, Prof. Chu served for eleven years as Director of Programs at the Institute for National Policy Research in Taipei, and from 1994 until 1997 was Coordinator of the Political Science section of the National Science Council. He currently holds a joint appointment as Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, and Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University.

　 Professor Chu is an eight-time recipient of the National Science Council's Annual Research Award, and three times has been awarded the prestigious Outstanding Research Award, the highest honor the Council bestows on individual professors. Publications to Prof. Chu's credit include more than forty journal articles and edited volume chapters, as well as numerous books and collaborative volumes, most recently Crafting Democracy in Taiwan (Taipei: Institute for National Policy Research, 1992) and the edited volumes Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Trends and Challenges (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) and China Under Jiang Zemin (Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2000). Prof. Chu is also a current editorial board member for several major research journals, including Journal of Democracy, Journal of East Asian Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, and China Perspective. His professional affiliations include the Chinese Association of Political Science and the National Science Council, for which he is a member of the advisory of board for Social Sciences and Humanities.

Vice-President Gang Shyy

Dr. Gang Shyy, Professor of Finance Managemenet at National Central University, obtained his doctorate in Economics from City University of New York in 1986. Before joining the faculty at National Central University, he held positions at IBM and City University of New York.

Vice-President Ayling Wang

Ayling Wang graduated from the Chinese Literature Department of National Taiwan University in 1979. She obtained her doctoral degree at the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures of Yale University. She became an assistant research fellow at the Academia Sinica, Taipei, in 1993. Since then, she has also been visiting professor at Charles University of Prague, City University of Hong Kong and Wuhan University. From 2005-2006, she was acting director of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica. At present she is a research fellow and deputy director of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica.

Professor Wang has been awarded the prestigious Outstanding Research Award, the highest honor the Council bestows on individual professors. She has also been awarded the Outstanding Young Scholar Research Award by the Academia Sinica. Her main interests are in traditional Chinese drama, literary theory and Ming Qing literature. She has published two books on Ming-Qing drama, and many articles in Chinese, English and Japanese on her areas of interest.

Program Director Paul R. Katz

Paul R. Katz, Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, obtained his doctorate from the Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University. A specialist in the history of Chinese religion and society, his leading publications include:Demon Hordes and Burning Boats: The Cult of Marshal Wen in Late Imperial Chekiang, The Cult of the Royal Lords in Taiwan(in Chinese), Images of the Immortal. The Cult of Lü Dongbin at the Palace of Eternal Joy, and When Valleys Turned Blood Red: The Ta-pa-ni Incident in Colonial Taiwan.

　

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