DISTINGUISHED CORNELL ALUMNI (TAIWAN)

Hu Shih '14, leader of the vernacular literature movement, advocator of science and democracy. Wartime Chinese ambassador to the U.S., president of Peking University, president of Academia Sinica. Historian, philologist, writer.

Yuen Ren Chao '14, also a leader of the vernacular literature movement, composer, the father of modern linguistics in Chinese. President of Linguistic Society of America; member, Academia Sinica.

Shen Tsung-han Ph.D. '28, plant breeding, father of modern agriculture in Taiwan; chief commissioner, JCRR. Founder of the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center in Taiwan.

Loo Tong-hui Ph.D. '68, JCRR 1957-65. He came to Cornell in 1965. 1970 head of agricultural economics division, JCRR, until 1972 when he became a consultant to JCRR.

Robert Lee Ph.D., '62, Veterinary School, JCRR, 1950- , chairman, Council for Agricultural Planning and Development (the successor of JCRR), 1979-81.

Liu Ta-chung Ph.D. economics, 1940, 1958-75, Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics, Cornell. Architect of the Taiwan economic miracle. 1968-1970, chairman, Commission on Tax and Tariff Reform, ROC.

Tsiang Sho-chieh, professor of economics, 1968- . (1918-1993), Ph.D., London School of Economics, 1945. Together with Liu Ta-chung, Tsiang Sho-chieh proposed a series of economic reforms in the '50s and '60s which led to the Taiwan economic miracle. Founding director, Taiwan Economics Research Institute. President, Chung-Hwa Institute of Economic Research, 1985- .

Liu Tai-ying Ph.D., economics, 1974. He was a staff member of the Commission of Tax and Tariff Reform, working under this thesis advisor at Cornell, Liu Ta-chung. Then deputy director of Taiwan Institute of Economic Research, and eventually director.

Huang Ta-chou Ph.D. '71, rural sociology, mayor of Taipei, 1990-1995.

Huang Hui '30, electrical engineering, general manager, Taiwan Electric Co.