About - LIU Yi-chang

Liu Yi-chang 蕠益昌 is currently Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Director of the NCKU Center for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, and Adjunct Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, from which he retired as a Research Fellow in 2019. His main research interests are 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 goal 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.