Vice President Ts'ui-jung Liu

Ts¡¦ui-jung Liu was appointed one of Academia Sinica¡¦s Vice President on October 17, 2003 by President Yuan-tseh Lee and again on October 17, 2006 by President Chi-huey Wong. She is also Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, since October 2001.

Her career as a researcher in history began from 1966 after she got a M.A. from the National Taiwan University and was appointed an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. In 1968, she went to study at Harvard University and earned a Ph.D. in 1974. After returning from Harvard to Academia Sinica she worked at the Institute of American Culture as Associate Research Fellow. In 1976-77 she went to University of Pennsylvania as a Post-doctoral Fellow at Population Studies Center. In 1978 she moved to the Institute of Economics and in 1979, she became a Research Fellow until 1998 when she was appointed Director of the Institute of Taiwan History (Preparatory Office). She spent most of her research years at Academia Sinica doing economic history, population history and environmental history.         

She also taught at the Graduate Institute of History, National Taiwan University (1977-80, part-time; 1980-2006 joint appointment). She also taught shortly at the Graduate Institute of Economics, Soochow University (part-time, 1978/1-7 & 1979/1-7) and at the Graduate Institute of History, National Taiwan Normal University (part-time, 1977-79).

She had been invited as Visiting Professor at Centre Chine, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (November 1980), as Fulbright Fellow and Professorial Lecturer in Economic History, Georgetown University (January-December 1984), as Visiting Professor at the Department of History, University of California-Los Angeles (April-June 1989), and as Visiting Fellow at St. John¡¦s College, University of Cambridge (April-June 2003).

She was elected an Academian of Academia Sinica in 1996.

Born at Changhua in central Taiwan, Dr. Liu earned a B.A. (1963) and a M.A. (1966) in history from the National Taiwan University, a M.A. in East Asia Regional Study (1970) and a Ph.D. in East Asian History and Languages (1974) from Harvard University. She keeps doing research even with heavy administrative duty. She has published 3 books and about 60 articles in journals and symposiums.