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The Recent Work of Chun-chieh Huang,
the Second President of the Society
Professor Chun-chieh Huang 黄俊傑 served for nine years as the Dean of theInstitute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences of National
Taiwan University (hereafter NTU). In January 2017, he retired from NTU
after teaching there for nearly a half century. On the day of his retirement, theUniversity contracted him as a Distinguished Chair Professor. In his postretirement, Professor Huang continues his life mission of teaching andacademic research work at Wen-de Academy, established for him by a dearfriend.
The founder and director-in-chief of Wen-de
Academy is Zhu Maonan (朱茂男), who warmly
invited Professor Chun-chieh Huang to serve as
the Academy Dean. Mr. Zhu Maonan is a thirtiethgeneration descendent of the Song
Neo-Confucian master, Zhu Xi. For many years,
Mr. Zhu has promoted and supported research on
Zhu Xi’s learning. Professor Huang suggested
naming the academy “Wen-de,” which signifies“culture and virtue.” Since 2017, many academic
activities have been held at Wen-de, including“International Conference on the History ofIntellectual Exchange in East Asia” (2019;
cohosted by the Institute for Advanced Research of Nagoya University),“Symposium on General Education” (2018), “Roundtable Forum of Domestic
Liberal Arts College Deans” (2017), and other activities. Professor Huang
receives a continuous stream of renowned visiting scholars from around theworld. Domestic university professors and students fill chartered buses fromall around Taiwan to attend Professor Huang’s lectures at Wen-de Academy.
Additionally, Wen-de Academy cohosts a series of Confucian Entrepreneur
Forums with the Taiwan Association of Confucian Entrepreneur Culture.
Invited speakers have included Dr. Sun Chen, former president of NTU; Dr.
Liu Chao-shiuan, former Premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan); Dr. Lee
Si-chen, former president of NTU; and Professor Tao Demin of Kansai
University, to deliver lectures in the Confucian Entrepreneur Forum series.
Over the past quarter of century, Professor Huang has been promoting thestudy of “East Asian Confucianisms” from a transcultural perspective. After

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Professor Huang retired from NTU, many of his books continue to be translated and published in foreign languages. In the last two years, several of hisbooks appeared in Japanese, including Shisoshi no kanten kara mita Higashi
Ajia (Tokyo: Fukyosha, 2018) translated by Fujii Michiaki (藤井倫明訳《思想2018年), and Jukyo to Kakumei no
史的観点からみた東アジア》東京：風響社，
aida: Higashi Ajia ni okeru Jo Fuku-kan (Fukuoka: Shukosha, 2018) by Ogata
Yasushi (緒形康譯：《儒教と革命の間―東アジアにおける徐復観》)(福岡：集広舎，2018年). As to English, Diana Arghirescu translated his Xu Fuguan in theContext of East Asian Confucianisms（Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press,2019）. Many of Professor Huang’s books were also translated into French,
German, Slovenian, Spanish, Korean, and Vietnamese, signifying his farreaching international academic influence.
As to instruction, the sound of Professor Huang’s lectures fill the classroom
without cease. On the day of his retirement from NTU, he announced hiswish to be a volunteer for NTU, politely declining to be paid for any futureteaching in appreciation to his beloved alma mater. After retirement, hedesigned and offered several new university level general education classes,including “Inquiry into Confucius and Mencius” and “Confucianism andBuddhism in Comparison.” For the general public, he offered a classics
seminar on “Confucianism and Buddhism: Mutual Comprehension.”
For his scholarly achievements of several decades, Professor Huang mounted
another peak of academic recognition in August 2019 when he had the honorof being named “Member of Academia Europaea.” Academia Europaea wasfirst proposed in 1985 by the British Royal Society, a venerable organization
with a four-hundred-year history. National scientific academies in otherEuropean countries immediately rose up in support, and Academia Europaea
was formally established in 1988. The Academy embraces every field of thenatural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences, and is a truly worldclass academic organization. The Academy has posted Professor Chun-chieh
Huang’s webpage.
URL https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Huang_Chun-Chieh（Prepared by De-min Tao; translated by Kirill Thompson, worked with Dr.

Huang as Associate Dean of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities
and Social Sciences of NTU）