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...wife become directly linked to illegal activities, notes Sheng, which might cause a critical mass of DPP members to join calls for his ouster. "The DPP can tolerate poor government performance, but it can't tolerate corruption within the First Family," says Hei-yuan Chiu, a sociologist at Academia Sinica, a state-funded research institute...
...chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He climbed the academic ladder. Eventually, he won a Nobel Prize. Then earlier this year, at the peak of his career, the 57-year- old chemist made a sweeping U-turn and headed back home to run Taiwan's prestigious Academia Sinica, a burgeoning collection of 21 research institutes...
...thousand other imponderables influence the decision to return. The recent wave of corporate downsizing and research cutbacks in the U.S. has also tipped the scales. A generous retirement package helped persuade Lee to leave his comfortable sinecure in Berkeley and take on the challenge of leading Academia Sinica. "Taiwan needs me," says Lee, "while to the University of California, it doesn't make that much difference whether I'm there...
...merit of competing proposals. Automatic promotions, still typical at many academic institutions, are also coming under attack, and some brave souls have even mounted an assault on the Confucian ethos -- particularly its stultifying worship of professors and its reluctance to question authority. Wen Chang, a young researcher at Academia Sinica, politely but firmly objects to being addressed as Teacher Chang. "I tell students that there is no authority in science," she says. "Everything can be overthrown the very next...
...United Nations and on lecture platforms everywhere, Hu Shih spoke boldly and forcefully against Red tyranny. Frequent ill health inclined Hu Shih to nine years of scholarly retirement in New York and Princeton, but in 1958 he again returned to Formosa to serve as president of the Academia Sinica, Nationalist China's renowned research institute. He also worked out a complex interpretive system of population analysis, which convinced him that the current estimates of some 700 million mainland Chinese were wrong and that 300 million was a closer approximation of the actual figure...