15 Notable alumni of
National Central University
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National Central University is 1150th in the world, 247th in Asia, and 19th in Taiwan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 15 notable alumni from National Central University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Janine Chang
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Janine Chang Chun-ning is a Taiwanese actress and film producer. Chang attended National Taipei University and obtained a bachelor's degree in law. In June 2010, Chang graduated from the Institute of Industrial Economics at National Central University with a master's degree.
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Chris Wang
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- writertelevision actorsingerfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Chris Wang or Wang You-sheng is a Taiwanese actor, model, singer and writer. He previously went by the stage name Wang Yu-xiang (王郁翔). He got his start in show business when hosting the popular Taiwanese travel show The King of Adventure.
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Lucifer Chu
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- writerliterary criticradio personalitytranslatorpundit
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Lucifer Chu graduated from Taiwan's National Central University in 1998 with a BS degree in electrical engineering. He dedicated himself to promoting fantasy literature because of his passion for video games and fantasy fiction. He translated J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings into Chinese. He also translated Dragonlance Chronicle, published in 1998. He has translated 30 fantasy novels into Chinese.
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Kwoh-Ting Li
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- economistfinance ministerpoliticianminister
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Li Kwoh-ting was a Taiwanese economist and politician best known as the "Father of Taiwan's Economic Miracle" and referred to by the New York Times as the "Godfather of Technology" in Taiwan for his work in transforming Taiwan's economy from an agrarian-based system into one of the world's leading producers of information and telecommunications technology.
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Wu Mingyi
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- university teacherartistwriter
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Wu Ming-yi is a multidisciplinary Taiwanese artist, author, Professor of Sinophone literature at National Dong Hwa University and environmental activist. His ecological parable The Man with the Compound Eyes (2011) was published in English in 2013.
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Fang Xianjue
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- politician
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Fang Xianjue November 22, 1903 – March 3, 1983) was a Republic of China general who fought in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Under his command, the Chinese 10th Army defended Hengyang for 48 days in 1944.
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Chen Xue
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- writer
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Chen Xue, in Chinese: 陳雪 is a Taiwanese writer. She is the author of Enü shu (Chinese: 惡女書; lit. “Book of a Demon”), a collection of short stories published in 1995 that has become considered a classic of tongzhi literature recognising the lives of Taiwanese LGBTQ+ communities.
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Wu Tze-cheng
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- politician
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Wu Tze-cheng, sometimes transliterated Wu Ze-Cheng, is a Taiwanese politician who currently serve as the minister without portfolio of the executive yuan and the minister of the Public Construction Commission. He had also served as the acting Magistrate of Yilan County and the last governor of the Taiwan provincial government.
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Chen Lai Su-mei
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- 1964-.. (age 60)
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- politician
- Biography
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Chen Lai Su-mei is a Taiwanese politician.
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Shih Yi-fang
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- politician
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Shih Yi-fang is a Taiwanese engineer and politician who had served as the member of the Legislative Yuan from 2016 to 2020.
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Chen Mengjia
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- archaeologistanthropologistpoet
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Chen Mengjia was a Chinese scholar, poet, paleographer and archaeologist. He was considered the foremost authority on oracle bones and was Professor of Chinese at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
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Hualing Nieh Engle
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- novelist
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Hualing Nieh Engle, née Nieh Hua-ling (Chinese: 聶華苓; pinyin: Niè Huálíng; Wade–Giles: Nieh Hua-ling), is a Chinese novelist, fiction writer, and poet. She is a professor emerita at the University of Iowa.
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Wu Liangyong
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- architecturban planner
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Wu Liangyong is a Chinese architect and urban planner. He was a former professor in urban planning, architecture, and design. In preparation to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he was leading the team that studied the buildings of the games. He is considered the most influential architect and urban planner in China.
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Liu Yizheng
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- historiancalligrapherlibrarian
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Liu Yizheng was a Chinese historian, calligrapher, librarian, cultural scholar, educator, and academic leader. He is known for his personal charisma, spirit and eruditeness. In modern Chinese academic field, it is said that the number of famous experts in various fields including in literature, history, geography, philosophy and even natural science he educated and enlighted was the most. Liu Yizheng and Wang Bohang were honorifically called Nanyong Double Pillars (Two pillars of Nanjing University) during the early period of the Republic of China.
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Liu Xiao
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- 1908-1988 (aged 80)
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
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Liu Xiao was a Chinese diplomat. He was born in Hunan. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1926. He was Ambassador of China to the Soviet Union (1955–1962) and Albania (April–September 1967).
