Faculty

Director



Position:
Professor, Dean of College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Name:
Wen Chen-hua
Mail:
tfwen@mail.cjcu.edu.tw
Education:
Ph.D. (History), Taiwan Normal University
Specialization:
Taiwan’s regional history; history of Taiwanese aborigines

CV:Prof. Wen received his Ph.D. from the Department of History, National Taiwan Normal University. His academic experience includes: Professor of Department of History at National Taiwan Normal University, Director of Humanistic Education Research Center, Director of Institute of Taiwan History Preparatory, and Director of the Graduate Institute of Taiwan History at National Taiwan Normal University. He also served as the Academic Development Commission member of the Council for Hakka Affairs.


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Position:
Associate Professor
Name:
Yoshihisa Amae
Mail:
amaeyoshi@gmail.com
Education
Ph.D. (Political Science), University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Specialization:
Postcolonial and cultural studies, international relations and comparative politics

CV:Yoshihisa Amae is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies at Chang Jung Christian University since August 2007. He received a Ph.D. in political science from University of Hawaii in 2007. His research interests include religion and national identity formation in Taiwan, Japan-Taiwan colonial and postcolonial relations, and transitional justice issues in Taiwan. His recent publications are “Pro-colonial or Postcolonial? Appropriation of Japanese Colonial Heritage in Present-day Taiwan” in Journal of Current Chinese Affairs (March 2011); “Europeans and the Formation of a Presbyterian Enterprise: A Prototype of a Civic Taiwanese Nation?” in Jens Damm and Paul Lim (eds.), European Perspective on Taiwan (VS Publisher, 2012); and “Pioneers in Taiwan’s Human Rights and Democracy: The Role of the Foreign Missionaries of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan” in Linda Gail Arrigo and Lynn Miles (eds.) A Borrowed Voice: Taiwan Human Rights through International Networks, 1960-1980 (Social Empowerment Alliance, 2008). See also E-Portfolio (including publications).




Position:
Associate Professor
Name:
Jens Damm
Mail:
jens.damm@fu-berlin.de
Education:
Ph.D. (history and cultural studies), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Specialization:
Social history (gender, ethnicity, diaspora), social-cultural anthropology (media anthropology, gender)

CV:Prof. Damm received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, in 2004. He is also an Associate Fellow at the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT) at Tübingen University and a board member of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS). His research is mainly focused on discourses on gender and ethnicity-related issues in Taiwan, Greater China including the PRC, and on the impact of new communication technologies. Before he came to Chang Jung, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Institute for East Asian Studies, Sinology, Freie Universität Berlin.He is currently leading an international research project on China's Cultural Diplomacy. Regionalization and the Role of Non-State Actors as a non-resident fellow with the Oriental Institute, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, financed by the Czech Science Foundation, GACR, 2015-1207. See also E-Portfolio (including publications).



Position:
Assistant Professor
Name:
Chuang Hui-Tun
Mail:
autumnchuang@gmail.com
Education:
Ph.D. in Sociology, New School for Social Research, New York, NY, USA
Specialization:
Sociology of culture, colonial culture, political economy, social and cultural construction of consumer society, critical theory, comparative historical sociology, methodological approaches include political semiosis, discourse analysis, hermeneutics.  Migration and culinary practice in global society; Japanese colonization in Asia; Taiwanese history, society and food culture. See also E-Portfolio (including publications)





Position:
Assistant Professor
Name:
Lo Yung-ching
Mail:
loyungching@gmail.com
Education:
Ph.D. in Leiden, Anthropology
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Position:
Emeritus Professor
Name:
Chuang Wan-shou
Mail:
chuangnt@ms6.hinet.net
Education:
M.A. (National Literature), National Taiwan Normal University
Specialization:
History of Taiwanese spirit; Taiwan gazetteers; history of Taiwanese culture; comparative culture of China and Taiwan

CV:Prof. Chuang received his MA from the Department of Chinese, National Taiwan Normal University. He was born in Lukang in 1939 and moved with his parents to Taipei in 1946. His father influenced his interest in socialist and classical literature, later on to a critic of Confucianism. During the last decade, his research has focused on Taiwanese culture. He published more than ten books, and has been actively promoting to break with the cultural hegemony of China. He was the President of the Taiwan Association of University Professors.



Position:
Distinguished Professor
Name:
Tu Cheng-sheng
Mail:
tucs@mail.ihp.sinica.edu.tw
Education:
M.A. (History), National Taiwan University
Specialization:
Contemporary education in Taiwan; theory and methods in historical research; ancient Chinese history

CV:Prof. Tu, MA of History, National Taiwan University, studied also at the LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science). He was a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, an Adjunct Professor at the Department of History, National Taiwan University, and at National Tsinghua University; the Director of the Institute of History and Philology at the Academia Sinica, and an Adjunct Professor of National University of Tainan. He has also served as President of the National Palace Museum and as Taiwan’s Minister of Education, 2004-2008.



Position:
Professor
Name:
Cheng Jui-ming
Mail:
jmcheng@mail.cjcu.edu.tw
Education:
M.A. (History), National Taiwan Normal University
Specialization:
Southeast Asian history, Southeast Asian maritime relations: early maritime history of Taiwan

CV:Prof. Cheng's research focuses mainly on Taiwan's early maritime history in East and Southeast Asia. He had spent three years in Japan and in the Netherlands for research on this topic. He has recently co-edited the Local History of Wufeng (新修霧峰鄉志), 2009.

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Position:
Professor
Name:
Chien Chiung-jen
Mail:
cjchien@pu.edu.tw
Education
M.A. (Political Science), National Taiwan University
Specialization:
Ethnic Relations in Taiwan, Taiwan’s developmental history



Position:
Professor
Name:
Lee Hsiao-feng
Mail:
jimlee228@hotmail.com
Education:
M.A. (History), National Taiwan Normal University
Specialization:
Taiwanese history; history of the democratic movement in Taiwan, Taiwan’s modern and contemporary history




Position:
Visiting Professor
Name:
Tung Fang-yuan
Education:
Ph.D. (Theology), Southeast Asia Graduate School of Theology
Specialization:
Religious studies, Taiwanese folk Religion, theology

CV:Prof. Tong’s parents were devout adherents of Taiwanese folk religion. After the death of his parents, Prof. Tong converted to Christianity. He received his Ph.D. from the Southeast Asia Graduate School of Theology.


Position:
Professor
Name:
Chang Yuan-hsien
Mail:
yh1947@gmail.com
Education:
Ph.D. (Literature), Tokyo University
Specialization:
Modern and contemporary Taiwanese history




Position:
Assistant Professor
Name:
Chiang Hsu-pen
Education:
Ph.D. (Ecnomics), Meiji University (Japan)
Specialization:
Economics, public economics, finance theory, theory of industrial organization

CV:Prof. Chiang carried out his doctoral research in political economy at the Meiji University, Tokyo, and was Assistant Professor at Takushoku University, Tokyo.


Dual Appointment / Part Time
Position:
Professor
Name:
Mail:
shane@mail.cjcu.edu.tw
Education
Ph.D. (Political Science), University of North Texas, USA
Specialization:
Taiwanese politics, public and international law,
English-Chinese translation and interpretation