About - LIU Yi-chang

Liu Yi-chang is currently Professor and Director of the Institute of Archaeology at National Cheng Kung University and Adjunct Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, from which he retired in 2019 as Research Fellow. His main research interest is Taiwan and the South China Sea periphery, focusing mainly on Taiwan prehistory, indigenous archaeology, historical archaeology, archaeology of Southeast Asia, cultural heritage studies, and the history of Taiwan archaeology. His research objective is to comprehensively understand the history of human development in Taiwan in linking the Austronesian-dominant prehistory with the Han culture-dominant history since the 17th century by means of integrating archaeology, ethnology, early historical archives, and the oral history of the indigenous peoples.