Bulletin No. 2, 2009

Our Humanities Scholars   Professor Hsiung holds a BA in History from National Taiwan University, and a PhD from Brown University. After her doctoral studies, she returned to Taiwan to work for Academia Sinica. Driven by an intense interest in the history of medicine and biology, she went to the US again in the early 1990s where she later obtained an SM in Population Studies and International Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Professor Hsiung’s research interest lies in the areas of women’s and children’s health, gender and family relations, and the intellectual and social history of early-modern and modern China and Europe. Over the years, she has held visiting professorships at many leading academic institutions around the world. From 2004 to 2007, she served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Central University. In 2009, she became dean of the Faculty of Arts of CUHK. Professor Hsiung has authored many popular and highly acclaimed books, including A Tender Voyage: Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China and a number of Chinese titles. In academia as in elsewhere, following the ruts left by others is easy, but treading a different path requires courage and determination. Professor Hsiung has discarded the shackles of academic conventions, letting her intellectual curiosity be her guide in her intellectual pursuits. An innate sense of justice has also driven her to speak up for the forgotten souls in history.