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Dr. Chang King-yuh

Dr. Chang was born in Xiangtan county, Hunan Province, China. He obtained his

bachelor's degree in law from National Taiwan University, master’s degree in diplomacy
from National Chengchi University, master's degree in comparative law and doctoral
degree from Columbia University in the United States.

In 1984, he served as Director-General of the Government Information Office of the
Republic of China. In 1987, he served as Director of the Institute of International
Relations of National Chengchi University. From 1989 to 1994, Dr. Chang was President

of National Chengchi University.

In March 1994, Dr. Chang was appointed Administrative Council Member of the
Executive Yuan. From 1998 onwards, Dr. Chang served as National Policy Advisor to the
President.

Dr. Chang is currently Chinese People’s Federation for World Peace First Rotating
President of the World Headquarters, Chinese People’s Federation for World
Peace-Taiwan Chairman and Honorary President of Chinese Education, Culture and

Economy Promotion Association.

Last Look: Remembering Mother

Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of my Mother's Death

My late mother, Ms. Huang Xizhen of the Provincial Yilan Hospital in Yilan

from Xiangtan, died suddenly in Yilan, City, Taiwan Province, in June 1963.
Taiwan on November 21, 1972.
In 1962 I received the Chinese
My mother was born in 1914. When Kuomintang Zhongshan Scholarship,

she married my father in 1929, she was and decided to study at Columbia
not yet sixteen. My elder brother was University in New York. I resigned from
born in 1931 and I was born in April, my position at the Foreign Ministry and

1937, by the lunar calendar, just on the planned to leave in June, 1963.
verge of the Anti-Japanese War. As my Unfortunately, my father suffered a
father’s military unit had to move, we stroke in May of that year, and remained

finally settled in a place called Gao Jian unconscious. I wanted to take care of
in November. My earliest memories my father for a while, but my mother
include the voice and appearance of my insisted that she would take good care

mother, and the name Gao Jian. I waved of him at the hospital, and told me not
goodbye to my mother in front of the gate to give up the precious opportunity to

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