CURRICULUM
VITAE
POSITION
Research Fellow, RCHSS, Academia Sinica,
Taipei, Taiwan.
Chairperson, Program for
Economic Development and Trade in East Asia, RCHSS, Academia
Sinica.
Adjunct Professor, National
Taiwan University.
EDUCATION
Ph.D.,
Economics, Stanford University, 1982.
M.A.,
Economics, Stanford University, 1978.
B.A.,
Economics, National Taiwan University, 1974.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Economic
Development (Development of Newly Industrializing Countries),
Industrial Policy, Industrial Organization.
EXPERIENCE
Visiting
Distinguished Professor, Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study
in Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University,
Beijing, Spring 2019.
Adjunct Research Fellow, RCHSS, Academia Sinica, Taipei,
Taiwan. 2018-.
Research Fellow, RCHSS, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
2004-2018.
Deputy Director, ISSP, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
1999-2003.
Research Fellow, ISSP, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
1991-2004.
Associate Research Fellow, ISSP, Academia Sinica, Taipei,
Taiwan. 1988-91.
Visiting Associate Professor, University of California, Los
Angeles, 1987-88.
Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame, 1983-87
Instructor, University of Notre Dame, 1981-83
OTHERS
Editorial
board member, Industry and Innovation, 1997-present.
Editorial
board member, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy,
2003-present.
Editorial
board member, Journal of World Business, 1996-98.
Editor, Taiwan: A
Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, 1993-95.
Ford Foundation
International Economics Fellowship, 1978-80.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
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Agrarian Land Reform
and Industrialization: Reexamining the Cause and
effect of Privatizing Four SOEs in Postwar
Taiwan, 2022, New Taipei City: Linking Press.
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The
Development Model of China's Industries:
Exploring the Role of Industrial Policy,
2020, Taipei: TRQSS series-21.
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Taiwan's
Unsuccessful Transformation:
Democratization and Economic Development
, 2020,
Taipei: Linking Press.
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The Origins of Taiwan's Postwar
Economic Growth: the Why and How of Late
Development
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2017/1, Academia Sinica Book Series, Taipei: Linking
Press.
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Alice H.
Amsden passed away on March 15, 2012. A day-long
Symposium hosted in MIT.  ,
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Beyond Late
Development: Taiwan's Upgrading Policies,
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT
Press, 2003/5,
(with Alice H. Amsden).
Complex-character Chinese version published by
Linking Press, Taipei, 2003 (translated by Kay
Chu). Simplified-character Chinese version
published by Peking University Press, Beijing,
2016.
Awarded the best academic book in
2016 by the Sun Yun-Suan Foundation.
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A study of
how latecomers catch up in high-tech industries
and modern services,
based on an in-depth analysis of Taiwan's
premier enterprises and government policies.
A
Persian version of this book has been
published in Tehran, Iran, in 2009.
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Beyond Late
Development: Taiwan's Upgrading Policies,
(with Alice H. Amsden),
Chinese-language edition, translated by Kay Chu,
Taipei: Linking Press, September 2003.
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A study of
how latecomers catch up in high-tech
industries and modern services, based on an
in-depth analysis of Taiwan's premier
enterprises and government policies.
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*Taiwan
in the Global Economy,
2003, Taipei: TRQSS
series-11.
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Explaining Taiwan's
postwar economic development has been the
focus of the author's studies. This is the
second of two collected volumes of the
author's works on this subject in the last
two decades. It attempts to generalize
lessons from Taiwan's experiences and
discusses globalization, industrial
policies and economic development.
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*Engine
of Growth: Studies of Taiwan's
Petrochemical and Bicycle
Industry,
2002, Taipei: TRQSS
series-10.
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This
is the first of the two volumes. It
contains mainly micro-level studies
of Taiwan's industries, particularly
petrochemicals and bicycles. It
addresses issues like the role of
the state, industrial policies and
foreign demand.
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*Alternative
Interpretations of Taiwan's
Economic Experiences,
Commonwealth Book
series #84, Commonwealth magazine
Press, 1999.
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This
book collects the column essays
the author wrote for the popular
press, mainly The
Commonwealth Magazine. The
essays provide perspectives on
Taiwan癒礎s current economic issues
different from the prevalent free
market doctrines.
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(Editor), Industrial
Structure and the Fair Trade Law.,
ISSP Book Series 32. Taipei, 1994.
REFEREED
PAPERS
Top
*How to Study Chinese Industry: A
Comprehensive Review of Various Theoretical
Resources, The Journal of Humanities, 2018/12,
1-8.
*The Determining Factors of the Differences
between the Large and Medium Chinese Steel
Enterprises, Journal of Social Sciences and
Philosophy, September 2018, 30(3): 435-483. (with
Chia-ling Chang)
Industry policy with Chinese characteristics: a
multi-layered model, China Economic Journal,
October 2017, 10(3): 305-318.
Inductive Method and Development Perspective:
Alice Amsden on Taiwan and beyond, Cambridge
Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, March
2017, 10: 15-34; doi: 10.1093/cjres/rsw041.
*Local Protectionism and Market Mechanism: the
Case of the Chinese Steel Industry, 2015, Economic
Essays, 43(3): 481-533, December.
Latecomer Upgrading in Taiwan, 2015, Journal of
the Asia Pacific Economy, 20(3): 369-384, August.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2015.1054165.
*Taiwan'䏭 Postwar Land Reform Reconsidered:
Introduction, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in
Social Studies, #98, March 2015, 1-9.
*Land Reform in Postwar Taiwan: Causes and
Effects, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social
Studies, #98, March 2015, 11-67.
*A Middle-of-the Road Land Reform: How Taiwan
Implemented Land-to-the Tillers Program, Taiwan: A
Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, #98, March
2015, 69-145.(with Yen-Hao Liao)
*How to Account for the Recent Rapid Growth of the
Chinese Steel Industry, World Economic Papers, #4,
August 2014, 1-19.
Entrepreneurship and bureaucratic control: the
case of the Chinese automotive industry, China
Economic Journal, 4:1, 65-80, published online
Oct. 7, 2011,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538963.2011.608507.
*Democratization and Economic Development: the
Unsuccessful Transformation of Taiwan'䏭
Developmental State, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly
in Social Studies, #84, September 2011, 243-288.
How the Chinese Government Promoted a Global
Automobile Industry, Industrial and
Corporate Change, 20(5): 1235-1276, published
online on 2011/4/6; doi: 10.1093/icc/dtr010.
Market Socialism, Chinese Style-Bringing
Development back into Economic Theory, China
Economic Journal, published online on 2011/4/26:
doi:10.1080/17538963.2010.562044.
*The First Generation of Industrial Entrepreneurs
in Postwar Taiwan, Taiwan Historical Research,
17(2):39-84, June 2010.
*A Multi-layered Industrial Policy Framework: A
Reply to Professor Bai Rangrang's Comments, China
Economic Quarterly. 9(2): 761-770.
Can Taiwan's Second Movers Upgrade via
Branding? Research Policy, 38 (2009), pp.
1054-1065.
*The China Factor in Taiwan's Economic Economic
Development, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social
Studies, #74, June 2009.
*The Chinese Model of Industrial Policy under
Catch-up Consensus: the Case of the Automobile
Industry, 2009/1, China Economic Quarterly. 8(2):
501-532.
*The Early Development of Taiwan's Cotton Textile
Industry, New History, 19(1), March 2008, 167-227.
* Inquiries into the Causes of Taiwan's Postwar
Economic Development, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly
in Social Studies, #65, March 2007, 1-33.
* Re-examination of Privatization in
Post-authoritarian Times, Taiwan: A Radical
Quarterly in Social Studies, #53, March 2004,
33-79.
* Business Groups in Taiwan's Post-Liberalization
Economy, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social
Studies, #47, September 2002, 33-79; with Chia-yu
Hung.
* Liberalization, Globalization and Taiwan's
Petrochemical Industry, Taiwan: A Radical
Quarterly in Social Studies. #44, December 2001,
13-47.
*The Effects of Taiwan's Industrial Policy: A
Preliminary Evaluation, Taiwan: A Radical
Quarterly in Social Studies. #42, June 2001,
67-117.
*Globalization and the Development Strategy of
Less Developed Countries. Taiwan: A Radical
Quarterly in Social Studies. #37, March 2000,
91-117.
*Industrial Policy and Ladder-Climbing: A Study of
Taiwan's Plastic Material Industry. Taiwan: A
Radical Quarterly in Social Studies. #32, December
1998, 83-124; with Chiu-yen Huang.
Causes of Growth: A Study of Taiwan's Bicycle
Industry, Cambridge Journal of Economics, January
1997, 21(1): 55-72.
*Demonstration Effects and Industrial Policy: The
Birth of Taiwan's Petrochemical Industry. Taiwan:
A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies. #27,
September 1997, 97-138. (Updated and translated
into Japanese, Review of Economics, Kyushu Sangyo
University, August 2002, 7(1): 79-109.)
Growth and Industrial Organization: A Comparative
Study of the Bicycle Industry in Taiwan and South
Korea. Journal of Industry Study, June 1996,
3(1):35-52; with Jia-jing Li.
*The State and Taiwan's Economic Development: A
Review of Party-State Capitalism. Taiwan: A
Radical Quarterly in Social Studies. #20, August
1995, 151-75.
Import-Substitution and Export-Led Growth: A Case
Study of Taiwan's Petrochemical Industry, World
Development, May 1994, 22(5): 781-794.
The General Trading Company as a Risk-Bearer for
the Upstream Firms, Taiwan Economic Review,
September 1990, 18(3): 281-295.
*The Effect of Exchange Rate Fluctuations on
Taiwan's Trade Structure, Taiwan Economic Review,
March 1990, 18(1):65-98; with An-chi Tung.
Determinants of Marketing Channel Choice: Extent
of Demand, Differential Costs and Entry Threats,
Southern Economic Journal, October 1989, 56(2):
349-62.
The Impact of Voluntary Export Restraints on the
Competitive Exporting Firm, Journal of Social
Sciences and Philosophy, 1989, 1(2): 43-56.
*Market Mechanism and Economic Development.
Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies,
1989, 2(3/4): 131-46.
The Effect of Learning on Market Structure,
Southern Economic Journal, July 1988, 55(1):
196-201.
Export-Led Growth and Import Dependence: the Case
of aiwan, 1969-1981, Journal of Development
Economics, 1988, 28, 265-276.
CHAPTERS
IN BOOKS
Top
How Indigenous
Industrialization Began in Postwar Taiwan,
in Gee San and Patarapong Intarakumnerd
(eds.), 2021, Industrial Development of
Taiwan: Past Achievement and Future
Challenges beyond 2020, Routledge, 16-33.
How Taiwan Managed to Grow: Structural
Transformation and Industrial Policy, in
Justin Yifu Lin and Celestin Monga (eds.),
2019, Oxford Handbook of Structural
Transformation, Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 571-590.
Catch-up and Learning in Taiwan: The Role of
Industrial Policy, in Kenichi Ohno and
Arkebe Oqubay (eds.), 2019, How Nations
Learn, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
107-124.
Challenges for the Maturing Taiwan Economy,
in Larry Diamond and Gi-Wook Shin (eds.),
2014, New Challenges for Maturing
Democracies in Korea and Taiwan, Stanford,
CA: Stanford University Press, 216-249.
Modifying Economic Theory from a Development
Perspective: Alice Amsden on Taiwan,
forthcoming, in MIT DUSP (ed.), Memory
of Alice Amsden, MIT Press.
The Postwar Taiwan Economy,in Anis Chowdhury
and I. Islam (eds.), 2007, Handbook on the
Northeast and Southeast Asian Economies,
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Getting the Structure Right: Upscaling in a
Prime Latecomer, in A.K. Dutt and J. Ros
(eds.), 2003, Development Economics and
Structuralist Macroeconomics: Essays in
Honor of Lance Taylor. Pp. 263-81,
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. (with Alice H.
Amsden)
石油化學產業の產業政策, in Liu Shinkei and Asamoto
Teruo (eds.), 2003,『台湾の産業政策』, pp. 177-207,
Tokyo: Keisoshobo. (in Japanese)
Upscaling: Recasting Old Theories to Suit
Late Industrializers, in Peter C.Y. Chow
(ed.), 2002, Taiwan in the Global Economy:
From an Agrarian Economy to an Exporter of
High-Tech Products. Pp. 23-38, Westport, CT:
Praeger. (with Alice H. Amsden)
The Development Pattern of the Bicycle
Industry in Taiwan, in L. Cheng and H.
Kierzkowski (eds.), 2001, Global Production
and Trade in East Asia. Pp. 295-304, Mass.:
Kluwer Academic Press.
Linkage and Uneven Growth: A Study of
Taiwan's Man-Made Fiber Industry, in G.
Ranis, S.C. Hu, and Y. P. Chu (eds.), 1999,
The Economics and Political Economy of
Development in Taiwan into the 21st Century,
109-30, London: Edward Elgar (with Ming-chu
Tsai).
*Patterns of Development: A Study of
Taiwan癒礎s Man-Made-Fiber Material Industry,
in Tsao, Yang and Lai (eds.), 1999, Economic
Growth, Income Distribution and
Institutional Change, ISSP book series #46,
Pp.109-147, Academia Sinica, Taipei.
*Utilization of Water Resources and Taiwan's
Petrochemical Industry, in Taiwan Research
Fund (ed.), 1994, Environmental Protection
and Industrial Policy, Taipei: Taiwan
Research Fund, 39-53.
CONFERENCE
PAPERS
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Market Socialism, Chinese
Style: Bringing Development back into
Economic Theory, the 6th Beijing Forum,
Financial Crisis: Challenges and Responses
Panel, 2009/11/6~8, Peking University,
Beijing.
The China Factor in Taiwan's Economic
Miracle, Conference on Current
Intellectual Predicament, 2008/9/27-28,
Shihsin University Taishe International
Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
Why did China's Automobile Industry Grow
So Fast?, Conference on China's model of
economic development II, 2008/5/29-30,
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
China's Industrial Policy: A Case Study of
the Automobile Industry, Conference on
China's model of economic development I,
2007/6/28-9, Academia Sinica, Taipei,
Taiwan.
Knowledge Production in a Latecomer:
Reproducing Economics in Taiwan,
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference,
2005/7/22-4, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
Association, KNUA, Seoul, Korea.
Latecomer Upgrading in Taiwan,
International Conference on Technological
Innovation and Development: Lessons from
Taiwan, 2004/6/3-4, Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Mass.
National Innovation Systems of Developed
Asian Economies: Lessons for Others,
Seminar on Innovation Systems in Asian
Economies, National Science and Technology
Development Agency, Thailand,
2003/9/3-6, Bangkok, Thailand.
Taiwan's Petrochemical Industry
since Economic Liberalization, Conference
on The Global Chemical Industry since the
Petrochemical Revolution, October 19-21,
2000, Milan, Italy, Association for
History and Study on Enterprise and
Bocconi Univeristy.
Taiwan's Industrial Upgrading Policy,
Cross-strait Conference on Enterprise
Reform and Economic Development, August
14-15, 2000, Harbin, Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences and Chung-hua Institute
for Economic Research.
The OEM Model of Development: Can the East
Asian NIC Catch Up?, Conference on
Nationalism: the East Asian Experience,
May 25-27, 1999, Academia Sinica, Taipei.
Industrial Growth and Small and
Medium-Sized Enterprises: the Case of
Taiwan, Conference on Transitional
Societies in Comparison: East Central
Europe versus Taiwan, May 27-29, 1999,
Prague.
Productivity Growth and Industrial
Structure: the Case of Taiwan, Pacific
Economic Outlook meetings, March 17-18,
1999, Osaka, Japan.
*Market Mechanism and Social Justice,
Conference on Social Equality and Justice.
Taipei, November 1993.
Sustainability of Monopoly:
Learning-by-Doing of Marketing vs. Using
the General Trading Company, Southern
Economic Association meetings in Dallas,
Texas, Nov. 24-6, 1985.
OTHER
PUBLICATIONS
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*Reflection
on Industrialization and Economic
Development, Beijing Cultural Review,
2021/8, 96-106.
*Reflection on Learning Western Knowledge
in Developing Country, Beijing Cultural
Review, 2018/10, 45-57.
*A Multi-level Model: Industrial Policy
with Special Chinese Characters, Beijing
Cultural Review, 2018/4, 76-89.
*Reply: How to explain Taiwan's Postwar
Economic Development, 2017, Taiwan: A
Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, #107,
227-232.
*How to Evaluate'Progress' in Our Local
Social Science Community, March 2016,
Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social
Studies, #102, 195-202.
*On the Discourse of the Sunflower Student
Movement: Anti-Globalization and
Anti-China, March 2015, Taiwan: A Radical
Quarterly in Social Studies, #98, 349-361.
Book review of The Origins of the
Developmental State in Taiwan: Science
Policy and the Quest for Modernization, by
J. Megan Greene, Harvard University Press,
2008, China Information, vol. 23 no. 3,
November 2009, 511-513.
Knowledge Production in a Latecomer:
Reproducing Economics in Taiwan,
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, June 2009,
10(2): 275-281.
*Taiwan's Postwar Economic Development and
Democracy Movement, Taiwan: A Radical
Quarterly in Social Studies, #65, March
2007, 183-89.
*How to Evaluate the Effect of Foreign
Direct Investment, Dushu(Reading), #314,
May 2005, 13-22, Beijing.
*Competition, Monopoly and Economic
Development, Dushu, #295, October 2003,
133-141, Beijing.
Industrialization and the State: The
Changing Role of the Taiwan Government in
the Economy, 1945-1998, A Book Review, The
China Journal, July 2003, #50, 214-216.
*The Scale of the Enterprise, Dushu, #290,
May 2003, 143-150, Beijing.
*China's Entry into the WTO: An
Alternative View, Dushu, #276, March 2002,
36-44, Beijing.
*What Does Anti-Globalization Mean? A
Comment on "Against Neoliberal
Globalization, Why and How". Taiwan: A
Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, #45,
March 2002, 247-60.
*Alternative Interpretations of Taiwan's
Economic Experiences, Commonwealth Book
series #84, Commonwealth Magazine Press,
1999.
Industrial Policy in Taiwan's
Post-Liberalization Economy, mimeograph,
Academia Sinica, Taipei, 1999.
The "East Asian Miracle" and the
Theoretical Analysis of Industrial Policy:
A Review. Mimeograph, Academia Sinica,
Taipei, 1997.
*A Comment on "The Imperialist Eye".
Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social
Studies, #18, March 1995, 257-63.
*et al. 1991. The Impact of the Megasteel
Project on Taiwan's Steel Industry.
Taipei, CIER.
*The Impact of Exchange Rate Fluctuations
on Taiwan's Industrial Development. CEPD,
Taipei, 1990, with An-chi Tung,.
Voluntary Export Restraints and Production
Efficiency, NDCRB research paper series
06-86, 1989.
Japanese General Trading Company in
Taiwan, working paper series 90-3. ISSP,
Academia Sinica, 1989.
Cournot's Work in a Historical
Perspective, with Special Reference to His
Monopoly Theory, working paper series
90-2. ISSP, Academia Sinica, 1989.
How Open Is the U.S. Economy ? A Book
Review, Southern Economic Journal, October
1987, 497-8.
WORKING
PAPERS
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Research methods for late industrialization: in memory of Alice Amsden
The Unsuccessful Transformation of Taiwan’s Economy
Globalization
and Economic Development
"Reflections on
academic evaluation and academic
production: Taking economics as an example"
(News),
2004-12-01, Taiwan News, Forum,
"Re-examination of
Privatization in Post-authoritarian Times",
2003-12-03, Taiwan News, Forum.
Taiwan's
Petrochemical Industry since Economic
Liberalization, International
conference on The Global Chemical Industry
since the Petrochemical Revolution,
10/19-21, 2000, Association for History
and Studies on Enterprise and the Economic
History Institute of Bocconi University,
Milan, Italy.
Industrial
Growth and Small and Medium-Sized
Enterprises: the Case of Taiwan,
Conference on Transitional Societies in
Comparison: East Central Europe versus
Taiwan, May 27-29, 1999, Prague.
Productivity
Growth and Industrial Structure: the
Case of Taiwan, Pacific Economic
Outlook meeting, March 17-18, 1999, Osaka,
Japan.
The
"East Asian Miracle" and the Theoretical
Analysis of Industrial Policy: A Review.
mimeograph, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 1997.
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Chinese.)
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