Expectations for TACPS: TACPS will keep exploring the inexhaustible potential of culture with the dynamics of democracy.
Jerry C Y Liu is a Professor of Graduate School of Arts Management and Cultural Policy at the National Taiwan University of Arts. He is the President of Taiwan Association of Cultural Policy Studies 2015-2021. Liu is invited as the ENCATC International Correspondence Board Member between 2015 and 2021, and advisory board member of ANCER. Liu is the author and editor of Taiwan’s International Cultural Relations: Culture as the Method (2022 forthcoming, in Chinese), ReOrient: An East Asian Approach on Cultural Policy and Cultural Governance (2018, in Chinese), The Mapping of Cultural Rights in Taiwan (2015, in Chinese) and Global Cities, Cultural Governance and Cultural Strategies: Art-Cultural Events, Festivals and Cultural Images (2013, in Chinese). He is an International Scientific Committee Member of the Journal Cultural Management: Science and Education and Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Cultural Policy (in Korea). Liu has been the project organizer and co-organizer of “2021-2022 Cultural Sustainability and Innovative Practices of Cultural Districts”, “2020-2021 Asian Network of Cultural Intermediaries”, “2017 Project of Cultural Congress and Cultural White Paper by the Ministry of Culture in Taiwan”, “A Preliminary Study on the Policy of Cultural Impact Assessment of Ministry of Culture” for the Ministry of Culture. Currently, he is preparing for the launching of a new Journal of Culture: Policy, Management and Entrepreneurship (in Chinese and English).
Expectations for TACPS: What is needed in Taiwanese society at present is probably a “gestalt-switch,” a fundamental change of worldview, mind-set, or an informing spirit of core values for an active reform of cultural governance. The founding of TACPS represents the rise of an independent, professional, yet grassroots, think-tank of the third sector for Taiwan’s cultural policy research. Driven by the principles of autonomy, flexibility, inclusiveness, and plurality, the TACPS strives to bring about an emerging model of cultural policy with Taiwanese characteristics. It expects to connect Taiwanese cultural policy studies with the East Asian, American, European, and global networks.
Dr. Hsiao-Ling CHUNG | Associate Prof. Institute of Creative Industries Design |
College of Planning and Design, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan |
⦁ Ph.D. in Creative Industries, MA. in Creative and Media Enterprises, University of Warwick, UK,
⦁ Research interests: cultural creative industries policies, creative talent and enterprises networks, regional CCI ecology in the contexts of cities and Asia.
⦁ Contact: hlchung@mail.ncku.edu.tw
Expectations for TACPS: Connecting local and international cultural policy research resources, facilitating a platform for diverse, informed and intellectual cultural policy dialogue.
Expectations for TACPS：I hope to focus on cultural policy, and lead the discuss, to influence cultural policy.