Huang Fu-san is a Taiwanese historian.

Career

Huang Fu-san earned his master's degree specializing in the

history of Taiwan The history of the island of Taiwan dates back tens of thousands of years to the earliest known evidence of human habitation. The sudden appearance of a culture based on agriculture around 3000 BC is believed to reflect the arrival of the ances ...

from

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1928 during Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imperial University and served d ...

, supervised by . With Huang's aid, Chen Chi-lu organized the first Seminars on Taiwan Studies at NTU from 1965 to 1967. The seminars were sponsored by the

Harvard–Yenching Institute The Harvard–Yenching Institute is an independent foundation dedicated to advancing higher education in Asia in the humanities and social sciences, with special attention to the study of Asian culture. It traditionally had close ties to Harvard ...

and ended when Huang won a scholarship provided by the

Ministry of Education An education ministry is a national or subnational government agency politically responsible for education. Various other names are commonly used to identify such agencies, such as Ministry of Education, Department of Education, and Ministry of Pub ...

to pursue a doctorate at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

. Huang completed his dissertation, ''The Role of the Female Workers in the Textile Industry during the British Industrial Revolution'', in 1972, and returned to NTU as a lecturer on western history. Huang's adviser Yang persuaded him to focus on Taiwanese history, and he began lecturing on the subject in 1975. Huang reestablished the Seminars on Taiwan Studies with funding from the Lim Pen-Yuan Cultural and Educational Foundation, founded in 1977. Between September 1986 and June 1987, Huang was an associate of the Harvard–Yenching Institute. Huang stated in 1994 that his university studies on Taiwanese history covered

Koxinga Zheng Chenggong, Prince of Yanping (; 27 August 1624 – 23 June 1662), better known internationally as Koxinga (), was a Ming loyalist general who resisted the Qing conquest of China in the 17th century, fighting them on China's southeastern ...

and the

Kingdom of Tungning The Kingdom of Tungning (), also known as Tywan by the British at the time, was a dynastic maritime state that ruled part of southwestern Taiwan and the Penghu islands between 1661 and 1683. It is the first predominantly Han Chinese state in ...

, but did not include the period of Japanese rule. When he began teaching, Huang worked to incorporate the start of Japanese authority over Taiwan in 1895 into his courses. In 1993, Huang accepted

Kwang-chih Chang Kwang-chih Chang (15 April, 1931 – January 3, 2001), commonly known as K. C. Chang, was a Chinese / Taiwanese-American archaeologist and sinologist. He was the John E. Hudson Professor of archaeology at Harvard University, Vice-President of the ...

's invitation to serve as the first director of the preparatory office that became the , a division of Academia Sinica. Huang has also worked for Academia Sinica as an adjunct research fellow. Additionally, Huang has served on the Cultural Assets Review Committee convened by the

Taipei City Government The Taipei City Government (TCG) is the municipal government of Taipei. History The Taihoku City Government was founded on 10 October 1920 in Taihoku Prefecture during Japanese colonial rule. The original city hall was located at the site o ...

. Huang retired from the Institute of Taiwan History in 2010. Huang has offered commentary on the

Dutch Formosa The island of Taiwan, also commonly known as ''Formosa'', was partly under colonial rule by the Dutch Republic from 1624 to 1662 and from 1664 to 1668. In the context of the Age of Discovery, the Dutch East India Company established its presence ...

period, as well as

Taiwan under Japanese rule The Geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, together with the Penghu, Penghu Islands, became a Dependent territory, dependency of Empire of Japan, Japan in 1895, when the Qing dynasty ceded Taiwan Province, Fujian-Taiwan Province in the Treaty ...

. Huang has also discussed Japan–Taiwan relations, and a frequent topic of his published research, the .

Publications

Huang book ''The Female Workers and the Industrialization in Post-war Taiwan'' was published in 1977, and translated to Japanese in 2006. He and Hsu Hsueh-chi were two of five historians invited by the Taiwanese government in 1991 to compile what became ''A Research Report on 228 Incident'', published in 1993. In 2006, Huang wrote ''A Brief History of Taiwan--A Sparrow Transformed into a Phoenix'', an e-book published online by the

Government Information Office The Government Information Office, Executive Yuan (GIO; ) was a cabinet-level agency of the Executive Yuan of Taiwan (the Republic of China) in charge of promoting government policies and regulating domestic media. History In April 1947, the ...

References

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