Guest Speaker:
Dr Parris Chang
President, Taiwan Inst. For Political, Economic and Strategic Studies (TIPESS)
Event Date: Monday 11th April 2016
Event Time: 5:30 pm-7:00 pm
Event Location:
Russell McVeagh
Level 24, Vodafone on the Quay, 157 Lambton Quay, Wellington, 6011.
Please note no building access after 6pm.
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Parris H. Chang
Educational Background
Graduated from National Taiwan University in 1959,
M.A. from the University of Washington in 1963,
Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1969.
Career Highlights
2012-14 Professor, Center for General Education, Toko University
2008 Representative of Trade Mission of Taiwan to the Kingdom of Bahrain; Deputy Secretary General, National Security Council
1993-04 a member of Legislative Yuan in Taiwan (4 terms)
1997 Appointed Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University
1995-98 Director of DPP (Democratic Progressive Party) Mission to the U.S.
1993- President of Steering Committee, Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)
1992 Received the “Outstanding Professional Achievement Award for Asia American”
1970-97 Assoc. & Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center, the Pennsylvania State University
1984 Listed in “Who’s Who in America”
1982-87 Columnist for Newsweek
Publications
Radical and Radical Ideology in China’s Cultural Revolution (1973), Power and Policy in China, third and enlarged edition (1990), Elite Conflict in the Post-Mao China (1983), co-author & co-editor, If China Crosses the Taiwan Strait(1993), and scores of book chapters and articles.
