Ministry of Culture

When Liu Feng-shueh first arrived in Taiwan, she taught briefly at the Hualien Normal School and gathered information about the times and places of many indigenous ceremonies and festivities through the indigenous students at the school. Her first time experiencing Taiwanese indigenous dance first-hand was during the Amis harvest festival of Ilisin in Fenglin Township, where she danced to the rhythm and songs of the festival. The emotionally charged rituals also prompted her to reflect on Han ritual culture, which indirectly led to her interest in studying Confucian ritual dance.

Chang Kun-chen's research can be categorized into three themes: first, interdisciplinary discourse on the culture of built environments; second, historical and theoretical explorations of traditional architecture; and third, historical study of cultural heritage. He has headed up an interdisciplinary research project at Academia Sinica entitled "Sustainable Development in Anthropocene: Changing Urban Life in Taiwan," including the sub-project "Research on the Urbanized Variation of Sacred Space: Comparative Study between Mazu Temple and Earth-God Temple of some Settlements in the Tamsui River Basin" (2015-2017).