Chia-Chiun Shih Chen
陳嘉君
2024-25 Visiting Fellow of Practice; Chairperson, Shih Ming-Te Cultural Foundation
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Bio
Chia-Chiun Shih Chen (陳嘉君) is the chairperson of Shih Ming-Te Cultural Foundation. Her research project examines how the widespread systematic deployment of informants and secret police during the Taiwanese White Terror Period (1949-1991) affected Taiwanese democratization and political culture
Research interests: Democratization on Taiwan; political philosophy; totalitarianism; Taiwanese politics