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Hsiang-Ke Chao is professor in the Department of Economics, professor in the Interdisciplinary Program of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Director of the Center for Economic Research on Globalization at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Amsterdam and has been a visiting scholar at Duke University, the London School of Economics, Stanford University, and the University of California, Davis. He is a historian and philosopher of economics focusing on model-based reasoning and knowledge transmission in science and policy. He is the author of Representation and Structure in Economics: The Methodology of Econometric Models of the Consumption Function (2009) and co-editor of Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics (2013) and Philosophy of Science in Practice: Nancy Cartwright and the Nature of Scientific Reasoning (2017).

• Recent Publications

Lin, Hsiao-ting, Hsiang-Ke Chao, and Hsien-chun Wang (2020). US-Taiwan Relations during the Cold War: The “Mainland Counteroffensive” Reassessed. Rivista Italiana di Storia Internazionale 3(1), pp. 3-40.

Chao, Hsiang-Ke (2020). Representation and Idealization: Diagrammatic Models in the Early Studies of the Spatial Structure of Periodic Markets in Rural China. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 14(2), pp. 253-277. 

Chao, Hsiang-Ke (2019). Inference to the Best Model of the Consumption Function. History of Political Economy 51(3), pp. 493-513. 

Chao, Hsiang-Ke (2018). Shaping Space through Diagrams: The Case of the History of Location Theory. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 36B, pp. 59-72. 

Chao, Hsiang-Ke and Julian Reiss (Eds.) (2017). Philosophy of Science in Practice: Nancy Cartwright and the Natural of Scientific Reasoning, Cham, Switzerland: Springer. 

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I am an Assistant Professor of economics at National Taipei University. I hold a PhD in Economic History from the London School of Economics. My research interests are history and methodology of economics and economic history of Taiwan. My PhD thesis reconstructs a history of microeconometrics between 1920 and 1960 and explores how different communities of econometricians constructed empirical knowledge under their materialistic and intellectual constraints. My current research projects include the computerization of empirical economics, a network analysis on communities of econometricians, and the growth of agricultural economy of Taiwan before and after the World War II.

• Recent Publications

 Cheng, Chung-Tang (2021), The Microeconometrics of Household Behaviour: Building the Foundations, 1920-1960. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cheng, Chung-Tang (2020), “Guy H. Orcutt's Engineering Microsimulation to Reengineer Society”, History of Political Economy 52 (Supplement).

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Li Ling-Fan is associate professor in the Department of Economics at National Tsing Hua University. My research interests lie primarily in the area of cliometrics and European financial history. The current MOST project is to explore the issue of insider trading in the transaction of 17th century English sovereign debt. Other working projects include the geography of international credit in pre-industrial Europe, the interest-rate spread between public borrowing and commercial credit in 18th century Europe, and the impact of the Great Debasement on English cloth exports. Recently, I extended my research to Taiwan’s economic history, examining the role of information networks and transportation infrastructure in Taiwanese economic development.

• Recent publications　

Li, Ling-Fan (2019). International Credit Market Integration in North‐western Europe in the 1670s. Financial History Review, 26 (2), pp. 127-145.

Li, Ling-Fan (2019). The Stop of the Exchequer and the Secondary Market for English Sovereign Debt, 1677–1705. Journal of Economic History, 79 (1), pp. 176-200.

Li, Ling-Fan (2017). Arbitrage, communication and market integration at the time of Datini. European Review of Economic History, 21 (4), pp. 414-433.

Li, Ling-Fan (2015). Information Asymmetry and the speed of adjustment: monetary alterations in the mid‐sixteenth century. Economic History Review, 68 (4), pp. 1203-1225.

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Hsiao-ting Lin is a research fellow and curator of the East Asia collection at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, for which he collects material on China and Taiwan, as well as China-related materials in other East Asian countries.  He received his DPhil in oriental studies in 2003 from the University of Oxford. In 2003–4, Lin was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley. In 2004, he was awarded the Kiriyama Distinguished Fellowship by the Center for the Pacific Rim, University of San Francisco. In April 2008, Lin was elected a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland for his contributions to the studies of modern China’s history.

Lin’s academic interests include ethnopolitics and minority issues in greater China, border strategies and defenses in modern China, political institutions and the bureaucratic system of the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang), and US-Taiwan military and political relations during the Cold War. He has published extensively on modern Chinese and Taiwanese politics, history, and ethnic minorities, including Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan (Harvard University Press, 2016); Modern China’s Ethnic Frontiers: A Journey to the West (Routledge, 2011); Breaking with the Past: The Kuomintang Central Reform Committee on Taiwan, 1950–52 (Hoover Press, 2007); Tibet and Nationalist China’s Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928–49 (UBC Press, 2006),  and over a hundred journal articles, book chapters, edited volumes, reviews, opinion pieces, and translations. He is currently at work on a manuscript that reevaluates Taiwan’s relations with China and the United States during the presidency of Harry Truman to that of Jimmy Carter.

• Recent publications　

Taiwan, the United States, and the Hidden History of the Cold War in Asia (London and New York: Routledge, 2022)

“Fissures in the Terrain: Revisiting the Cold War in East Asia in the Hoover Archives,” in Jidong Yang ed., Beyond the Book: Unique and Rare Primary Sources for East Asia Studies Collected in North America (Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 2021), pp. 307-322.

Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016)

Taiwan’s Cold War in Southeast Asia, The Woodrow Wilson Center Cold War International History Project e-Dossier, No. 70 (Washington DC: The Woodrow Wilson Center, 2016). 

“Chiang Kai-shek and the Cairo Summit,” in Joseph W. Esherick and Matthew T. Combs eds., 1943: China at the Crossroads (Ithaca: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2015), pp. 426-458. 

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https://www.hoover.org/profiles/hsiao-ting-lin

Philip Hsiaopong Liu earned his PhD in History from the University of Chicago in 2006. His used to serve as a desk officer in the Department of African Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan. He also served as a research associate in the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington DC), an adjunct lecturer in both Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) and San Xavier University (Chicago, Illinois), an assistant professor in Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University and an associate professor in Taiwan’s Tamkang University. In Chengchi University, he was the Director of the International Master’s Program in Asia-Pacific Studies as well as the Graduate Institute of Development Studies, and is now a professor of this Institute. His studies focus on racism, diplomatic history, and development assistance. His Chinese monograph is UN Chinese Representation in Racial Perspectives: America, Africa, and Taiwan’s Agricultural Assistance, 1961-1971. His Chinese articles published in journals such as Taiwan Historical Research, Bulletin of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, wenti yu yenjiu, Mainland China Studies, and Taiwan Democracy Quarterly, and English articles published in journals such as Issues and Studies, China: An International Journal, African Spectrum, and The China Quarterly. 

• Recent publications 

Philip Hsiaopong Liu, 2020.06, 'Love the Tree, Love the Branch: Beijing's Friendship with Lee Kuan Yew, 1954–1965, ' The China Quarterly, Vol.242, pp.550-572.(SSCI)

Philip HP Liu, 2018, 'Finding the Baoding Villages: Reviewing Chinese Conceptualisation of Sino-African Agricultural Cooperation, ' Africa Spectrum, Vol.53, No.2, pp.91-118.(SSCI)

Philip Hsiaopong Liu, 2013.04,“Petty Annoyances? Revisiting John Emmanuel Hevi’s An African Student in China after 50 years,”China: An International Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp.131-145.(SSCI)

劉曉鵬*, 2012.03, 〈農技援助之外：小中國對非洲的大想像〉(Beyond Agricultural Assistance: Little China’s Big African Illusion)，《臺灣史研究》(Taiwan Historical Research), 19卷1期，頁141-171.(THCI)

Philip Hsiaopong Liu, 2009.06, “Planting Rice on the Roof of the UN Building: Analyzing Taiwan’s Chinese Techniques in Africa, 1961-present,”, The China Quarterly, Vol. 198, pp. 381-400.(SSCI)

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Sheng-hsiung Su received his historical education in Taiwan, receiving his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of History at National Taiwan University.

During his doctoral studies, he joined the Academia Historica, where he was involved in academic administration and organising the publication of historical materials from post-war Taiwan. He later moved to the Academia Sinica. His main areas of research include modern Chinese and Taiwanese political and military history, and Cold War history. He has received research grants from the National Science and Technology Council as an outstanding young scholar and grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology for outstanding talents.

• Recent publications

蘇聖雄，2013，《奸黨煽惑——蔣中正對二二八事件的態度及處置》，共122頁

，臺北：花木蘭文化出版社。

蘇聖雄，2023，〈戰爭論：蔣中正與西方兵學在臺灣的發展〉，《漢學研究

》，第41卷2期，頁209-256。（THCI）

蘇聖雄，2017，〈陳誠與蔣中正之關係——以辭任行政院長為中心（1962-

1965）〉，收入黃克武主編，《1960年代的臺灣》，臺北：國立中正紀念堂管

理處，頁173-212。

蘇聖雄，2014，〈從「五大疑案」看嚴家淦的答詢風格〉，收入吳淑鳳、陳中

禹編，《轉型關鍵：嚴家淦先生與臺灣經濟發展》，臺北：國史館，頁531-

581。

蘇聖雄，2014，〈蔣中正與遷臺初期之立法院——以電力加價案為核心的討論

〉，收入黃克武主編，《同舟共濟：蔣中正與1950年代的臺灣》，臺北：國立

中正紀念堂管理處，頁129-205。

蘇聖雄，2013，〈蔣中正與臺灣土地改革初探（1949-1956）〉，收入黃克武主

編，《重起爐灶：蔣中正與1950年代的臺灣》，臺北：國立中正紀念堂管理處

，頁293-334。

• Website

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I am interested in the history of the interaction between technology and society. I mainly work on the history of images as a tool of transmitting technical knowledge, the introduction of steam-engine technology into China in the nineteenth century, and Taiwan’s experience in the introduction of energy technology after 1949. I put the technology and scientific knowledge in the heart of my research. I also study institutional changes that allowed the development of science and technology.     

• Recent publications

Wang, Hsien-Chun (2021). Contested Tracks to Modernity: Negotiating Narratives At Taiwan's Railway Department Park. Technology and Culture 62:2 , pp.573-583.

Wang, Hsien-Chun (2010). Western Technology and China’s Industrial Development: Steamship Building in Nineteenth-Century China, 1828-1895. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, forthcoming.

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Hsiu-yun Wang received her PhD in History of Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a minor in women’s studies and is now chair and professor in the Department of Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, School of Medicine at National Cheng Kung University, where she teaches medical history and gender and biology. Her research areas include history of modern medicine in China and gender and medicine in post-WWII Taiwan.  Her current projects are history of nuclear medicine in post WWII Taiwan and history of Chia-Yi Christian Hospital. She served as the editor of the Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine in 2015–16.

• Recent publications

Hsiu-yun Wang, “The Making of the ‘Useless and Pathological’ Uterus in Taiwan, 1960s-1990s,” Medical History, 65 (2021): 46-69.

 Hsiu-yun Wang, “Neither Man nor Woman”: The Gender Politics of Long-haired Men in Taiwan, 1960s-1970s,” Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, 112(2019): 99-146. (in Chinese)

Yi-Ching Wu, Hsiu-yun Wang, “Gender, Bodily Labor and the State: “Shangzhan Xiaojie” (Business Fair Promotion Girls) in Taiwan,” in Chin-fen Chang and Meihua Chen eds., Embodiment in Work: Performing Gender and Labor at the Workplace in Taiwan, 1950s-1960s (New Taipei City: Chuliu Publishing, 2019).

Hsiu-yun Wang, "Postcolonial Knowledge from Empires: The Beginnings of Menstrual Education in Taiwan, 1950s–1980s," East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 11.4(2017):1-22.

Hsiu-yun Wang, “From Surprise to Anticipation: Girls’ Experiences with First Menstruation in Taiwan, 1950s-2000s,” Journal of Women’s and Gender Studies, 39(2016): 111-163 (in Chinese)

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https://researchoutput.ncku.edu.tw/zh/persons/hsiuyun-wang