48 Notable alumni of
National Cheng Kung University
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National Cheng Kung University is 660th in the world, 134th in Asia, and 10th in Taiwan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 48 notable alumni from National Cheng Kung 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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Lai Ching-te
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Lai Ching-te, also known as William Lai, is a Taiwanese politician and former physician who is currently serving as the 8th president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) since May 2024. He is the third member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to assume the office of president and the first whose predecessor was also a DPP member. He is also the third incumbent vice president to succeed to the presidency and the first to assume the office through election instead of immediate succession. He has also served as the chair of the DPP since 2023.
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Cheng Nan-jung
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Cheng Nan-jung was a Taiwanese publisher and pro-democracy activist. He was the founder of the Freedom Era Weekly. He is most known internationally for setting himself on fire in support of freedom of speech.
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Pai Hsien-yung
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai is a Chinese writer based in Taiwan who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer". He was born in Guilin, Guangxi at the cusp of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Pai's father was the Kuomintang (KMT) general Bai Chongxi (Pai Chung-hsi), whom he later described as a "stern, Confucian father" with "some soft spots in his heart." Pai was diagnosed with tuberculosis at the age of seven, during which time he would have to live in a separate house from his siblings (of which he would have a total of nine). He lived with his family in Chongqing, Shanghai, and Nanjing before moving to the British-controlled Hong Kong in 1948 as CPC forces turned the tide of the Chinese Civil War. In 1952, Pai and his family resettled in Taiwan, where the KMT had relocated the Republic of China after defeat by the Communists in 1949.
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Lung Ying-tai
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- 1970-1974 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Lung Ying-tai is a Taiwanese writer, cultural critic, and public intellectual. With more than 30 books to her credit, she not only has a large number of readers in her native Taiwan, but her works also have an impact in Chinese-language communities in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Malaysia, and North America. Lung became widely known for her criticism on the Kuomintang party's martial law regime and has since become a critic of Mainland China's increasing restrictions on press freedom and civil liberties. Her critical essays on cultural and political issues contributed to the democratization of Taiwan.
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Lin Fei-fan
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- 2008-2011 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- social activistLGBTQ rights activist
- Biography
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Lin Fei-fan is a Taiwanese politician and activist, currently serving as deputy secretary-general of Taiwan's National Security Council. Lin was one of the leaders of the Sunflower Student Movement. He joined the Democratic Progressive Party as deputy secretary-general in 2019.
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Samuel C. C. Ting
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- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Samuel Chao Chung Ting is an American physicist who, with Burton Richter, received the Nobel Prize in 1976 for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle.
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Hsu Hsin-ying
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hsu Hsin-ying is a Taiwanese politician and engineer. Prior to joining the Kuomintang (KMT) in 2009, Hsu was an independent. She left the KMT to found the Minkuotang (MKT) in 2015. In 2019, the MKT was absorbed by the Congress Party Alliance. Hsu rejoined the Kuomintang in 2022, and was reelected in the 2024 legislative election.
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Wu Po-hsiung
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 86)
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- 1958-1962 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wu Po-hsiung is a Taiwanese politician who was the chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT). He has been the Interior Minister (1984–1988), Mayor of Taipei (1988–1990), Secretary-General to the President (1991–1996), and Chairman of the KMT (2007–2009). Wu was nominated as Honorary Chairman of the Kuomintang when he was succeeded by Ma Ying-jeou as the Chairman of the Kuomintang.
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Lee Hong-yuan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lee Hong-yuan is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Minister of the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) of the Executive Yuan from 2012 to 2014.
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Ho Hsin-chun
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ho Hsin-chun is a Taiwanese politician. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party, she has served on the Legislative Yuan since 2012.
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Mao Chi-kuo
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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Mao Chi-kuo is a Taiwanese politician, who served as the Premier, the President of Executive Yuan, from 2014 to 2016.
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Lai Shyh-bao
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Lai Shyh-bao is a Taiwanese engineer and politician currently serving as a member of the Legislative Yuan. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), he has served on the party's Central Standing Committee and in the National Assembly.
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Wang Chien-shien
- Years
- 1938-.. (age 87)
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- 1957-1961 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wang Chien-shien is a Taiwanese politician who is the founder of the New Party. He was finance minister of the Republic of China from 1990 to 1992 and is the chairman of the Chinese Management Association (CMA) (since 1990). Wang was the President of the Control Yuan from August 2008 to August 2014.
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Wang Kwo-tsai
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wang Kwo-tsai is a Taiwanese politician who served as the Minister of Transportation and Communications from 2021 to 2024. He had also served as the Political Deputy Minister of Transportation and Communications between 2016 and 2021.
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C. Y. Lee
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Architecture
- Occupations
- artistarchitect
- Biography
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Chu-yuan Lee (Chinese: 李祖原; pinyin: Lǐ Zǔyuán; Wade–Giles: Li Tsu-yuan; born 30 December 1938) is a Taiwanese architect born in Guangdong, Republic of China. He received his bachelor's degree from National Cheng Kung University (Tainan) and his master's from Princeton University in the US. He directed the design of Taipei 101, the world's tallest skyscraper at the time of completion, in 2004.
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Wu Maw-kuen
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Maw-Kuen Wu is a Taiwanese physicist specializing in superconductivity, low-temperature physics, and high-pressure physics. He was a professor of physics at University of Alabama in Huntsville, Columbia University, and National Tsing Hua University, the Director of the Institute of Physics at Academia Sinica, the President of National Dong Hwa University, and is currently a distinguished research fellow of the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, and international member of National Academy of Sciences.
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Lin I-chin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lin I-chin is a Taiwanese politician.
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Tsay Ting-kuei
- Occupations
- civil servantsocial activist
- Biography
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Tsay Ting-kuei is a Taiwanese civil engineering professor, political activist, and former government official. A professor at National Taiwan University in Taipei, he has conducted research in areas including coastal engineering and computational hydraulics. In politics, he served in various positions in the Chen Shui-bian administration in the mid-2000s, and rose to greater prominence for his protests in support of the Taiwan independence movement.
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Yu Wo
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writermanhuajia
- Biography
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Yu Wo, born Chen Wenxuan (陳玟瑄), is a Taiwanese light novelist, best known for creating 1/2 Prince.
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Kuo Kuo-wen
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kuo Kuo-wen, also known by the English name Robert Kuo, is a Taiwanese politician. He has served as secretary-general of the Taiwan Confederation of Trade Unions and Taiwan Labor Front, as well as a member of the Tainan City Council. He was appointed deputy minister of labor in 2016, and left the position in 2017. He was elected to the Legislative Yuan in March 2019.
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Chen Liang-gee
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chen Liang-gee is a Taiwanese engineer and politician who served as Minister of Science and Technology from 8 February 2017 to 20 May 2020.
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Chu Ching-wu
- Occupations
- justice of the peacephysicist
- Biography
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Paul Ching Wu Chu is a Taiwanese-American physicist specializing in superconductivity, magnetism, and dielectrics. He is a professor of physics and T.L.L. Temple Chair of Science in the Physics Department at the University of Houston College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. He was the president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2001 to 2009. In 1987, he was one of the first scientists to demonstrate high-temperature superconductivity.
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Lin Hsin-i
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Lin Hsin-i is a Taiwanese businessman and politician. He served in the Democratic Progressive Party administration as Minister of Economic Affairs between 2000 and 2002, then as Vice Premier between 2002 and 2004.
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Su Nan-cheng
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- 1936-2014 (aged 78)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Su Nan-cheng was a Taiwanese politician and Senior Advisor to ROC President Chen Shui-bian. He was a mayor of Tainan, serving from 1977 to 1985, and an appointed mayor of Kaohsiung, serving from 1985 to 1990. He was the speaker of the ROC National Assembly in 1999. Su was in the Kuomintang and was part of the faction that supported the Taiwanese localization movement. He was expelled from the KMT twice: first in 1972 for violating a party resolution and running for Tainan City Mayor as an independent; second in 1999 for forwarding a term-extension amendment in the National Assembly against party orders. In 2003, Su openly supported DPP candidate Chen Shui-bian in the 2004 presidential election.
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Jason Chen
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Jason Chen is the current chairman and CEO of Taiwan-based Acer Inc.
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Teng Chia-chi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Teng Chia-chi is a Taiwanese politician.
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Chen Hsiung-wen
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Chen Hsiung-wen or Sherman Chen is a Taiwanese engineer and politician. He was the Minister of Labor from 20 August 2014 until 20 May 2016.
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Cheng Tzu-tsai
- Years
- 1936-.. (age 89)
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politicianpainterpolitical activist
- Biography
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Cheng Tzu-tsai is a Taiwan-born architect and dissident who conspired with others in the 1970 assassination attempt of Chiang Ching-kuo, the son of Chiang Kai-shek, in New York City.
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Chang Chia-juch
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chang Chia-juch is a Taiwanese politician who was the Minister of Economic Affairs of Taiwan from 2013 to 2014.
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Ou Chin-der
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 81)
- Occupations
- civil engineer
- Biography
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Ou Chin-der is a Taiwanese civil engineer.
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Han Pao-teh
- Years
- 1934-2014 (aged 80)
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- In 1958 graduated with bachelor's degree in architectural engineering
- Occupations
- artistarchitect
- Biography
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Han Pao-teh was a Taiwanese architect, educator, scholar, writer, museum curator and calligrapher.
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Chang Chun-Yen
- Occupations
- electrical engineer
- Biography
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Chang Chun-yen was a Taiwanese academic administrator and electrical engineer who served as President of National Chiao Tung University (NCTU).
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Mike Frerichs
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michael W. Frerichs is an American politician serving his third term as the State Treasurer of Illinois, after taking office on January 12, 2015. Before being elected treasurer, he was a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 52nd District from 2007 until 2015. The district, located in Champaign and Vermilion counties, includes all or parts of Champaign, Danville, Georgetown, Gifford, Rantoul, Thomasboro, and Urbana.
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Hsu Jan-yau
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hsu Jan-yau is a Taiwanese politician and current chairman of the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
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Chen Wei-zen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chen Wei-zen or Chen Wei-jen, is a Taiwanese architect who was the Minister of the Interior from 2014 to 2016.
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Hwung Hwung-hweng
- Years
- 1946-2019 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- hydraulic engineer
- Biography
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Hwung Hwung-hweng was a Taiwanese hydraulic engineer, university president, and political administrator.
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Lin Hung-chih
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lin Hung-chih is a Taiwanese politician.
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Jimmy Kuo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jimmy Kuo is a Taiwanese politician.
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Chu Fong-chi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chu Fong-chi is a Taiwanese politician who served in the Legislative Yuan from 1990 to 2012.
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Hsu Ching-yuan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hsu Ching-yuan is a former Taiwanese politician. Huang served as a member of the Taitung County Council. During his career he ran as a Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) representative, an independent, and a People First Party (PFP) candidate while also forming an alliance with and campaigning for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). He rose to become Taitung County Magistrate from 2001-2005 before quitting in the middle of his reelection campaign in 2005 and disappearing from public life. It is believed he left Taiwan to live in Canada.
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Chang Tzi-chin
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chang Tzi-chin is a Taiwanese politician. He served as the Minister of the Environmental Protection Administration from 14 January 2019 to 21 August 2023.
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Li Wo-shi
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Lee Wo-shih is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Magistrate of Kinmen County from 20 December 2009 until 25 December 2014.
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Kang L. Wang
- Years
- 1941-.. (age 84)
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- In 1964 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- engineerphysicistresearcher
- Biography
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Kang Lung Wang is recognized as the discoverer of chiral Majorana fermions by IUPAP. Born in Lukang, Changhua, Taiwan, in 1941, Wang received his BS degree from National Cheng Kung University and his MS (1966) and PhD (1970) degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1970 to 1972 he was the Assistant Professor at MIT. From 1972 to 1979, he worked at the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center as a physicist/engineer. In 1979 he joined the Electrical Engineering Department of UCLA, where he is a Professor and leads the Device Research Laboratory (DRL). He served as Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at UCLA from 1993 to 1996. His research activities include semiconductor nano devices, and nanotechnology; self-assembly growth of quantum structures and cooperative assembly of quantum dot arrays Si-based Molecular Beam Epitaxy, quantum structures and devices; Nano-epitaxy of hetero-structures; Spintronics materials and devices; Electron spin and coherence properties of SiGe and InAs quantum structures for implementation of spin-based quantum information; microwave devices. He was the inventor of strained layer MOSFET, quantum SRAM cell, and band-aligned superlattices. He holds 45 patents and published over 700 papers. He is a passionate teacher and has mentored hundreds of students, including MS and PhD candidates. Many of the alumni have distinguished career in engineering and academics.
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Chen Yen-po
- Occupations
- official
- Biography
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Chen Yen-po is a Taiwanese politician who has served as the deputy minister of Transportation and Communications since 2024 and acts as minister from August to September 2024.
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Chang Yu-hern
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- traffic researcher
- Biography
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Chang Yu-hern is a Taiwanese engineer and educator. He served as Chairman of the Aviation Safety Council between 2010 and 2015.
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Chen Chieh-ju
- Years
- 1937-.. (age 88)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chen Chieh-ju is a Taiwanese politician.
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Chuang Yin-ching
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- epidemiologist
- Biography
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Kenneth Chuang Yin-ching is a Taiwanese epidemiologist. As of January 2020, he leads the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (TCDC) Communicable Disease Control Medical Network.
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Mark Li
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Mark Li is a Taiwanese politician. A member of the Kuomintang, he served in the Legislative Yuan from 2008 to 2012.
