People

Yuen-Gen Liang (Ph.D., Princeton University) is an associate professor in the History Department at National Taiwan University and previously associate professor at Wheaton College, Massachusetts. He teaches courses on Islamic, Middle Eastern, and Spanish histories. His research focuses on the medieval and early modern Mediterranean world. Liang is author of Family and Empire: The Fernández de Córdoba and the Spanish Realm (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) and co-editor of three volumes of essays including Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Routledge, 2017). He is the founder of the Spain-North Africa Project, co-founder of the Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities, and is on the founding boards of the Asian Federation of Mediterranean Studies Institutes and The Medieval Globe. Liang is particularly interested in how the humanities contribute to public interest and entrepreneurship, and the "Taida at Night" developed out of his graduate course “History, the Public, and the Market.” Liang has lived in the United States, Syria, and Spain, and recently returned to his birthplace of Taiwan.

Hu Hsu

Ph.D student,

Department of History National Taiwan University

Hu Hsu is a Ph.D student in the Department of History at National Taiwan University. His academic interest focuses on Chinese intellectual history from pre-modern to modern times. His master’s thesis explores the worldview of pre-modern Chinese intellectuals by analyzing the thought of Zhu Xi, one of the most significant Neo-Confucians in Song China. This thesis provides him with a solid foundation essential to his future research on the modern transformation of Chinese Confucianism, especially the revival of Wang Yangming’s learning in late-Qing and early-Republican China. In addition to academic research, Hu also devotes himself to contemporary Chinese poetry and even hopes to apply the methodology derived from the field of poetic interpretation to his historical research in the future.

Professor Yuen-Gen Liang

Creators

Three students are in charge of creating this project. We are from Taiwan, the United States, and Japan. We think it is meaningful to reach out as many freshmen and international students as possible therefore, we provide English, Chinese, and Japanese language version of Taida At Night in our website.

Lucita Villarreal
Undergraduate student,

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University

Lucita Villarreal is an exchange undergraduate student at National Taiwan University. Her home institution is California State University at Long Beach in the United States, and she will be continuing her studies in Library and Archival Sciences after graduation. Her goal is to become a librarian and archivist in order to professionally assist researchers, students, and citizens interested in public and personal histories. Villarreal has assisted in genealogy and local history research on various topics and projects, including fraudulent cemetery creation, barrio development, photographic mural composition, and so on. She has been trained to handle and preserve archival collections and worked in archival databases, organization systems, and digital restoration. With past experience in local museums, she has assisted in planning and executing museum displays, presented research proposals, and designed marketing materials. Villarreal’s professional goals are geared towards engaging communities with local history and to preserve that history for future researchers and citizens.

Yu Fukuhara
Undergraduate student,
Department of Political Science National Taiwan University

Yu Fukuhara is an exchange undergraduate student at National Taiwan University. Her home institution is Kwasein Gakuin Univesity in Japan. Her major is international relations of East Asia. Her research interest is on Chinese foreign policy in Asia and beyond. Since Yu’s first study abroad experience in the United States during her middle and high school years, she has been interested in working in a multicultural environment. She gained meaningful experience on this project by working with two other students from Taiwan and the United States.