Hsu Cheng-kuang
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Hsu Cheng-kuang | |
|---|---|
| 徐正光 | |
| Minister of Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission of the Republic of China | |
| In office 20 May 2000 – January 2002 | |
| Preceded by | Kao Koong-lian |
| Succeeded by | Hsu Chih-hsiung |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 February 1943 (age 83) |
| Education | National Taiwan University (BA) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (MA) Brown University (PhD) |
Hsu Cheng-kuang (Chinese: 徐正光; pinyin: Xú Zhèngguāng; born 16 February 1943) is a Taiwanese sociologist. He was the Minister of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission (MTAC) of the Executive Yuan in 2000–2002.[1]
Hsu graduated from National Taiwan University with a Bachelor of Arts in sociology in 1965. Hsu then was awarded a scholarship by the Ministry of Education to pursue graduate studies in the United States, where he earned a Master of Arts in sociology from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1972 and his Ph.D. in sociology from Brown University in 1981. His doctoral dissertation, completed under Professor Robert M. Marsh, was titled, "Foreign interests, state and gentry-merchant class: railway development in early modern China, 1895-1911".[2]
