Chu Yun-han (; 3 February 1956 – 5 February 2023) was a Taiwanese political scholar, and an academician of the

Academia Sinica Academia Sinica (AS, la, 1=Academia Sinica, 3=Chinese Academy; ), headquartered in Nangang, Taipei, is the national academy of Taiwan. Founded in Nanking, the academy supports research activities in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from ...

Biography

Chu was born in

Taipei Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northe ...

, on 3 February 1956, while his

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is in

Zhuji Zhuji () is a county-level city under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Shaoxing, in north-central Zhejiang province, China, located about south of Hangzhou. It has with a population of 1,218,072 inhabitants at the 2020 census e ...

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. He attended the

Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University The Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University (HSNU; Traditional Chinese: 國立臺灣師範大學附屬高級中學, 附中, 師大附中) is a Taiwanese senior high school (or "high school," as opposed to "middle schoo ...

. After completing his master's degree in political science from

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

in 1979, he entered the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

where he obtained his doctoral degree in political science in 1987. After university, Chu became a specially-appointed research fellow of the Institute of Political Science,

. He was also a professor of the Department of Politics, National Taiwan University. Chu and his NTU colleague,

Hu Fo Hu Fo or Hu Fu (; 14 May 1932 – 10 September 2018) was a Chinese political scientist in Taiwan, legal scholar, and political activist. He was a prominent advocate for political freedom and democracy during the martial law era, but was also adam ...

, established the Taiwan-based Asian Barometer Survey in 2000. In 2004, the cross-national survey project helped start the Global Barometer Survey alongside four other regional survey programs. At the time of Chu's death, the ABS was carried out in nineteen Asia-Pacific nations. Chu was elected a member of

in 2012, and a fellow of

The World Academy of Sciences The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) is a merit-based science academy established for developing countries, uniting 1,000 scientists in some 70 countries. Its principal aim is to promote scientific capacity and excellence for sustainable deve ...

in 2016. He was a 2014 recipient of the

University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts The University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts (CLA) is the largest college of the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. Established in 1868, the College of Liberal Arts offers more than 65 majors and 70 minors to its more t ...

Outstanding Achievement Award, as well. Chu died of

rectal cancer Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine). Signs and symptoms may include blood in the stool, a change in bowel m ...

at home in Taipei, on 5 February 2023, at the age of 67. When he died, Chu was serving as president of the

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (CCKF; ) is a private nonprofit organization located in Taipei, Taiwan, that provides support for research grants on Chinese studies in the humanities and social sciences at ove ...

. The organization scheduled a memorial at the Chiang Ching-kuo Presidential Library for 30 April 2023. Following his death, ''Taiwan Insight'', a publication of the

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Taiwan studies Taiwan studies, or Taiwanese studies, is a multi-disciplinary academic division of area studies (a part of East Asian studies) focused on studying Taiwan and the people on/in/of Taiwan both on its own and in comparison with other world areas. Academ ...

program, published a special issue.

Publications

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References

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