National Taiwan University (NTU) on Friday inaugurated the Yu Ying-shih (余英時) International Sinology Research Center dedicated to international Sinological research.
NTU and Academia Sinica are to collaborate to make Taiwan an essential center of research for international Sinology, NTU president Chen Wen-chang (陳文章) said at a ceremony marking the inauguration.
Thin Chang Corp president Teng Chuang-hsin (鄧傳馨), one of the center’s major donors, said he was honored to be part of the effort that brought the center to life.
Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
He also urged NTU and Academia Sinica to collaborate closely with other academics in Asia to make the center renowned internationally.
He said he hoped that a decade from now, at least 40 of the top 100 renowned Sinologists would have visited the center.
Academia Sinica president James Liao (廖俊智) said that Academia Sinica and NTU are renowned centers for Sinology research and that Academia Sinica had always supported the founding of such a center.
Liao said he had the honor of meeting Yu in 2019, on the verge of the centennial anniversary of the May Fourth Movement, which made him realize that a historian’s perspective of an incident should always be focused on the underlying significance.
Liao said that the center would undoubtedly take up the mantle of Yu’s teachings and, under the leadership of the center director and NTU Department of History professor Chen Jo-shui (陳弱水), would take the lead in Sinology research worldwide.
Academia Sinica vice president Huang Chin-shing (黃進興), having learned from Yu personally, said Yu was against the idolization of individuals, and it was significant that Sinology has taken root in and seen further development in a democratic Taiwan.
Yu (1930-2021) was professor emeritus at Princeton University, an academician at Academia Sinica and was a recipient of the prestigious Kluge and Tang prizes. He was a lifelong supporter of democracy and liberty.
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