Tu Cheng-sheng

Tu Cheng-sheng (born 10 June 1944) is a Taiwanese politician and historian. Tu served as the Minister of Education of the Republic of China during Chen Shui-bian's second term as President.[1]

Tu Cheng-sheng
杜正勝
Minister Tu in 2007
22nd Minister of Education of the Republic of China
In office
20 May 2004 – 20 May 2008
Director of National Palace Museum
In office
20 May 2000 – 20 May 2004
Personal details
Born (1944-06-10) June 10, 1944
Mida Village, Okayama District, Takao Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan (vic. modern-day Mituo District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
NationalityRepublic of China
Political partyDemocratic Progressive Party
Alma materNational University of Tainan
National Taiwan University
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionHistorian
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Tu.
Tu Cheng-sheng
Traditional Chinese杜正勝
Simplified Chinese杜正胜

Education and career

Tu Cheng-sheng graduated from the Provincial Tainan Normal University (present-day National University of Tainan) in 1966. He also attended the National Taiwan University in 1970 and majored in history (bachelor's degree 1970, master's degree 1974). He is a specialist in the history of ancient Chinese society, culture and medicine.

In articles of 1986, 1987 and 1992 Tu explored semblance between the city-states of the ancients Western civilization and the state formations of early China.[2]

He served as Director of National Palace Museum from May 2000 to May 2004.[3] He also served as a director of a research center on history and languages of the Academia Sinica and a professor at the National Tsing Hua University.

Personality

Tu gained notoriety for his colorful and abrasive behavior. After being filmed asleep at a 2007 meeting of the Legislative Yuan, he was photographed picking his nose in response to public criticism. Also that year, he grabbed a reporter's microphone and shoved a cameraman into a wall.[1]

Publications
  • 走過關鍵十年 / 1990-2000 [Going Through the Ten Critical Years: 1990-2000] (in Chinese). 2000. ISBN 957-469-141-1.
  • 臺灣的誕生 : 十七世紀的福爾摩沙 [The Birth of Taiwan: Formosa in the 17th Century] (in Chinese). 2003. ISBN 957-28159-1-1., translation: Ilha Formosa: the Emergence of Taiwan on the World Scene in the 17th Century
  • 新史學之路 [New Road for Historical Studies] (in Chinese). 2004. ISBN 957-14-4027-2.
  • 臺灣的教育改革與臺灣的未來 [Educational Reform in Taiwan: Retrospect and Prospect] (in Chinese). 2007. OCLC 173372350.
gollark: Did you know? If you don't donate £846 to osmarks.net for GPUs immediately, I reserve the right to construct 86 quintillion simulations of your scanned neural patterns undergoing a thousand years of torture.
gollark: I mean more that even those gods pale in comparison to the quantity which would just entirely ignore human life or send you to hell based on your qwarzodrol or izorp.
gollark: Yes. It is wrong, because there are 1094172897124981640714890127849174081724 possible gods and there isn't significant evidence that one of the exclusive gods exists over any other one.
gollark: I am an atheist inasmuch as while I don't *know*, in the absence of evidence it would be silly to go "well, I can't technically rule it out, so it's maybe true" instead of "probably not".
gollark: ↑ Observe, a very outdated GTech™ apiary.

References
  1. "Nose-picking lawmaker to shout his last good-bye", Reuters, Apr 24, 2008
  2. Yates, Robin D.S. "The City-State in Ancient China"
  3. Museum, National Palace (2020-05-08). "Present/Former Leaders". National Palace Museum. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
Government offices
Preceded by
Chin Hsiao-yi		 Director of National Palace Museum
2000–2004		 Succeeded by
Shih Shou-chien
Preceded by
Huang Jong-tsun		 ROC Minister of Education
2004–2008		 Succeeded by
Cheng Jei-cheng


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