Date: 5/25/08, Sunday, 2pm
Speaker: Yu-Hsiu Tchen

Outline:
1. Geological Aspects and Multi-Ethnic Cultures.
2. History of Taiwan.
3. Diamond Taiwan
4. Special Lecture
5. Modern Taiwan: Hardwares and softwares constructions
6. Innovations of Taiwan.
7. Beauties of Taiwan
8. International aspects of Taiwan

Ms. Tchen received music degrees in both piano (1972) and chamber music (1975) from Paris Music Academy. She was Dean of College of Fine and Applied Arts of Taiwan Normal University, and was appointed the chief of the Taiwan’s Council for cultural affairs from 2000 to 2004. Currently, she is the director of Cultural Center at Taiwan.

6/14/08
Sat
11:30am

What:
In an effort to share our working-life experiences as young professionals, the San Diego Taiwanese-American Association (SDTAA) will be hosting a series of “career mentoring” seminars at our Taiwan Center starting in February 2008. Our goal is to help the next generation of young professionals get a head start by learning the path, risks and rewards of pursing “traditional careers.” For example, careers in law, medicine, engineering, business and education. Once a month, two professionals in each field will host a 1.5 hr. seminar at the Taiwan Center to introducing their educational path, daily work experience and their views on the industry’s long-term outlook. A networking session will be available at the end of the seminar.

Who:
While every Taiwan-Center member is invited to our seminars, our target audience is aspiring professional who is currently in high school or college (17 to 25 years old).

Topic & When:
(Time: 11:30am-1:00pm)
Medicine - Saturday, 06/14/08

Richard C. Kagan is professor emeritus in history at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He holds a Ph.D. in Asian history
from the University of Pennsylvania. He has written about human rights in North Korea, China, Japan, and Taiwan. In 2003, Prof. Kagan received a human rights award in Taiwan.

This biography is a study of Lee’s character, how it was formed, and how it allowed him to become the father of democracy in Taiwan. Kagan also describes in rich detail Lee’s struggle to reinvent Taiwan’s culture and political system by advocating an independent sovereign nation with universal values of human rights, democracy, freedom, and economic justice. He defines Lee’s life as a beacon for people looking for new ways to promote democracy and sovereignty.

Fukuyama is Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University. He has written widely on political and economic development. In this book, the author explains why the US, particularly the Bush administration, has made such a mess of things in Iraq.

Topic: Chronic Hepatitis B: a Silent Epidemic in Taiwanese American Community

Speaker: Naoky Chih-Su Tsai, MD

Dr. Tsai was from Taipei, Taiwan. He received his M.D. from Taipei Medical University in 1974. He came to Yale University in 1976 for his internship and residency training in internal medicine.

Currently Dr. Tsai is a Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Section of Hepatobiliary Disease in the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii.

Topic: A Dialog with the Scarecrow: On Children’s Education of Life

Speaker: Hwang Chun-ming

Hwang Ch’un-ming, born in 1939 at Lotung, Ilan County, and graduated from Pingtung Normal School, is renowned as Taiwan’s living treasure in literature and one of the most important contemporary writers in Taiwan. He has received the Wu San-lien Prize in Literature (1980) and was the recipient of the Literature Award from the ROC National Culture and Arts Foundation (1998). He has been an elementary schoolteacher, a journalist, a playwright, a director, a producer, a torn-paper collage artist, an advertising designer, and a radio and TV anchorman. He was a teacher at Kuanghsing Elementary School in Llan, a lecturer in the Advertisement Department, Chinese Culture University, an instructor of arts in the Drama Department, National College of the Arts, and a Writer in Residence at National Central University. Currently, he is visiting the University of California at Santa Barbara on the Taiwan Writers in Residence Program sponsored by the UCSB Center for Taiwan Studies.