About Us

Introduction of President :

Professor Hsiung Ping-chen is CIPSH (International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies ) Chair in New Humanities, University of California, Irvine, Adjunct Professor of Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and President of Asian New Humanities Net (ANHN). Professor Hsiung was Professor of History from 2009 to 2019 and served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts at The Chinese University of Hong Kong from 2009 to 2011, and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Taiwan Central University from 2004 to 2007. She also served as Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei from 1990 to 2009. She holds a B.A. in History from Taiwan University, an M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Brown University, and an S.M. in Population Studies and International Health from the School of Public Health at Harvard University. Her research interest lies in the areas of women's studies and children's health, gender and family relations, and intellectual and social history of early modern/modern China and Europe. Over the years, Professor Hsiung has held visiting professorships at many leading academic institutions in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, including University of California, Los Angeles, Cornell University, University of Michigan, Free University of Berlin, and Keio University, Japan. Her works includes Paediatrics and Early Education: A History of Reproductive Strategies of Chinese Society (Chinese; Taipei: Linking, 2018), A Tender Voyage: Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China (English; Stanford University Press: 2005) and Childhood in the Past: A History of Chinese Children (Chinese; Taipei: Rye-Field Publishing, 2000; Publication Grant for Outstanding Scholarly Work, Government Information Office, Taiwan, 2000; Readers' Choice of the Year, Taiwan, 2000; Golden Tripod Book Award, Taiwan, 2000). She also co-edited Thinking with Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History (Honolulu: Hawaii University Press, 2007).

1. Mission

Initiated by Professor Hsiung Ping-chen, currently Director of Taiwan Research Centre at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Asian New Humanities Net (ANHN) was established in 2004 to serve as a regional network for the sharing of humanities resources in Asia. It also aims at enhancing academic and research excellence in humanities through the promotion of cooperation among Asian universities and research institutes. As an evolving forum, the ANHN has become a driving force in the incubation and nurturing of the development of humanities in Asia.

2. Memberships

ANHN is the one of the CIPSH members.

CIPSH is a non-governmental organisation within UNESCO, which federates hundreds of different learned societies in the field of philosophy, human sciences and related subjects. It aims at improving the communication among specialists from different disicplines, enforcing a better knowledge of cultures and of the different social, individual and collective behaviours and bringing to the fore the richness of each culture and their fruitful diversity. For further information, please refer to the website of CIPSH at: http://www.cipsh.net/htm/

Institutional Membership for ANHN is open to humanities centers and institutions affiliated with universities and research institutions in Asian countries. Individual membership is open to humanities scholars in Asian and Non-Asian countries who are interested in contributing to the cause of promoting humanities in various disciplines. Interested parties should register with the ANHN Secretariat to become a member.

3. Secretariat

The ANHN Secretariat is located at the center/institution where the President of ANHN is the director of the center/institution. The Secretariat carries out daily operation and communication with the Steering Committee and helps organize the Annual Meeting.

4. President

Prof. Hsiung Ping-chen is currently the president of ANHN.
The president is elected by the Steering Committee of ANHN for a period of no more than two terms, each term is four years. The duty of the president is to lead the Steering Committee and plan for the program of the Annual Meeting.

5. Steering Committee

The steering committee shall consist of not less than nine nor more than fifteen members (including the President), each to serve no more than two terms, each term for four years. The duty of the Steering Committee is to oversee the operation and planning for the development of ANHN. (See the Guideline for the Steering Committee for details)

6. Annual Meeting

The President and the Steering Committee will organize annual meetings, to be hosted by selected centers/institutes, who will usually be a member of the Steering Committee. The cost of the Annual Meeting shall be shared by the host and the participants. Except for special cases, the participants to the Annual Meeting usually will pay their own cost to participate.

7. Finance

The President will raise funds together with the Steering Committee to maintain the operation of the Secretariat and the ANHN webpage. Financial report shall be delivered to the Steering Committee during the Annual Meeting.