Tunghai University

Tunghai University

東海大學
Motto	求眞 篤信 力行[1]
Motto in English	Truth, Faith, Deeds[1]
Type	Private
Established	1955
President	Ming-Jer Tang
Location	Xitun, Taichung, Republic of China (Taiwan) 24°10′41″N 120°36′13″E / 24.1779605°N 120.6036615°E / 24.1779605; 120.6036615Coordinates: 24°10′41″N 120°36′13″E / 24.1779605°N 120.6036615°E / 24.1779605; 120.6036615
Campus	Urban
Mascot	None
Affiliations	Association of Christian Universities and Colleges in Asia
Website	www.thu.edu.tw

The Luce Memorial Chapel is a Christian chapel on the campus of Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan. It was designed by the architect and artist Chen Chi-Kwan in collaboration with the firm of noted architect I. M. Pei, and named in honor of the Rev. Henry W. Luce, an American missionary in China in the late 19th century and father of publisher Henry Luce.

Tunghai University (THU; Chinese: 東海大學) was founded by Methodist missionaries in 1955 as a comprehensive university, the first private university and the second oldest university in Taiwan. The university is located in Xitun District, Taichung, Taiwan, an urbanized area. On the grounds, the Luce Memorial Chapel (designed by noted architect I. M. Pei) is a local landmark. The logo of the university contains a cross in reference to the statement in the founding documents that it was "founded in the love of Jesus," and the three linked circles refer to the Holy Trinity as well as the motto, "Truth, Faith, Deeds".^[1]

The name "Tunghai" is the Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese characters 東海 (Dōnghǎi in pinyin), literally meaning "the east coast of the Taiwan Strait".

History

Tunghai University was founded on the Dadu Plateau, west of Taichung City, in 1955 by Methodist missionaries.^[2] The school was named "Tunghai" ("east sea") based on its position east of the Taiwan Strait.^[3]

List of presidents

• Beauson Tseng, 1953-1958
• Teh-Yao Wu, 1958-1972
• Ming-Shan Hsieh, 1972-1978
• Mei Ko-wan, 1978-1992
• Ta-Nien Ruan, 1992-1995
• Kang-Pei Wang, 1995-2004
• Haydn Chen, 2004–2012
• Ming-Jer Tang, 2013-

Academics

Tunghai University is organized into nine colleges of agriculture, engineering, fine arts & creative design, humanities (called the "College of Arts"), international studies, law, management, science, and social science, which contain 34 academic departments.^[4]

Chinese Language Center

Established in 1970,^[5] Tunghai's CLC was the first language training center in central Taiwan.

Library

The Tunghai University Library

The Tunghai University Main Library is located at the end of the Campus Mall. Library holdings include, approximately, 600,000 volumes, 6,515 current serials, 21,523 electronic serials, nonprint formats, and rare books.^[6]

Student societies

Wei-Mei Climbing Wall

Tunghai has more than one hundred student societies.

The Wei-Mei Climbing Wall was completed in 2004, in memory of Wei-Mei Lin, a leader of the Mountain Climbing Club, who died in a mountain accident in 2001. It is 12 meters high and 9 meters wide. In 2007, the wall burned down. It is now being rebuilt.

Notable alumni

• Pan Shih-wei, Minister of Labor (2014)
• Tsai Chi-chang, Vice President of Legislative Yuan
• Chun-fang Yu (1959), Sheng Yen Professor Emerita of Chinese Buddhism, Columbia University
• Tu Weiming (1961), ethicist and New Confucian, Harvard-Yenching Professor Emeritus of Chinese History and Philosophy, Harvard University
• Kris Yao (1975), architect
• Ping-hui Liao (1976), professor of Taiwan studies
• Yu Shyi-kun (1985), Democratic Progressive Party politician
• Tien Hung-mao, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Kevin Tsai (1985), television host on Kangxi Lai Le
• TC Lin (1988 exchange student), filmmaker, photographer, and writer^[7]
• Ben Wang, professor of materials engineering^[8]
• Yang Mu, poet
• Yu Chun-fang, Sheng Yen Professor Emerita of Chinese Buddhism, Columbia University
• Chiu Ching-chun, Magistrate of Hsinchu County
• Ho Ping, film director.

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tunghai University.

• Education in the Republic of China

References

External links

• Tunghai University, English is selectable
• Tunghai University Library, English is selectable
• Association Of Christian Universities and Colleges in Asia, ACUCA
• United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia

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