Chin-Shing Huang

Chin-Shing Huang
黃進興
Official portrait, 2016
Vice President of Academia Sinica
In office
1 September 2016 – September 19, 2024
Serving with Mei-Yin Chou and Tang K. Tang
PresidentJames C. Liao
Preceded byWang Fan-sen
Personal details
Born1958 (age 67–68)
EducationNational Taiwan University
(BA, MA)
Harvard University (PhD)

Chin-Shing Huang (Chinese: 黃進興; born 1950) is a Taiwanese historian who was vice president of the Academia Sinica from 2016 to 2024.

Education

Huang graduated from National Taiwan University with a B.A. in history in 1973 and an M.A. in history in 1975. He then earned his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1983 under historian Yu Ying-shih.[1] His doctoral dissertation was titled, "The Lu-Wang school in the Ch'ing dynasty: Li Mu-t'ang".[2]

Career

After receiving his doctorate, Huang began working as a research fellow at Academia Sinica soon after graduation. He has held adjunct and honorary professorships and chairs at several universities in Taiwan, among them National Taiwan University, National Tsing Hua University, Taipei Medical University, and National Sun Yat-sen University. Huang was elected to membership within Academia Sinica in 2008.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ "院士簡歷". academicians.sinica.edu.tw. Retrieved 2025-02-17.
  2. ^ "The Lu-Wang school in the Ch'ing dynasty: Li Mu-t'ang" (PhD Thesis). Proquest. 1983. Retrieved 5 October 2025.
  3. ^ "Chin-shing Huang". Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  4. ^ "Vice President Chin-shing Huang". Academia Sinica. Retrieved 6 January 2019.