Tunghai University-News--Years through the Sun - Exhibition of Kang-i Sun's Writings and Commemorative Exhibition of Her Father Professor Paul Sun's Manuscripts

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Years through the Sun - Exhibition of Kang-i Sun's Writings and Commemorative Exhibition of Her Father Professor Paul Sun's Manuscripts

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Date : 2020-04-18

In conjunction with the 2020 World Reading Day, the exhibition named "Years through the Sun – Exhibition of Academician Kang-i Sun's Writings and Commemorative Exhibition of Her Father Professor Paul Sun's Manuscripts" is held in Tunghai library from April 13th until May 25th. The opening ceremony was hosted by Library Director Chao-Tung Yang, with President Mao-Jiun Wang, College of Arts Dean Stano Kong, and former Political Science Department Professor Yu-sheng Chang attending as honorable guests. Academician Sun and her husband, Professor Chin-Tsi Chang, joined the ceremony through video live connection. Their plan to travel to Taiwan for the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Academician Kang-i Sun and her husband, Professor Chin-Tsi Chang, joined the ceremony through live connection

Professor Sun graduated from Tunghai University in 1966 with a BA degree. She is a Distinguished Honorary Chair Professor of College of Arts of Tunghai University, an Academician of Academia Sinica, a lifelong Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Chair Professor of Yale University. An internationally well-known sinologist, Sun’s research field spans classical Chinese literature, comparative poetics, literary criticism, and gender studies. She has published dozens of Chinese and English papers, over 100 essays, and books in Chinese and in English. Her father, Professor Paul Sun, taught in the Law School of Peking University before the family moved to Taiwan in 1946. In 1950, he was framed by the "white terror" and put in prison for ten years. This period of white terror has a profound influence on the Sun father and daughter. However, the Sun family has lived through the darkness of life and shined in their respective fields of academic achievements.

THU President Mao-Jiun Wang

College of Arts Dean Stano Kong(Left),Library Director Chao-Tung Yang welcomes guests(right)

THU President Mao-Jiun Wang congratulated Academician Sun for her research achievements and thanks her for providing abundant publications in the exhibition, from which the students and faculty could learn and experience her academic journey. Dean Stano Kong says that the College of Arts is honored to have an outstanding alumna like Sun and hopes that the exhibition will inspire the young students of Tunghai University.

(from left) President Mao-Jiun Wang, Library Director Chao-Tung Yang, Dean of College of Arts Dean Stano Kong, Prof. Yu-Sheng Chang

Although unable to attend in person, Academician Sun joined the event online late at night from the United States. She thanked Tunghai University for organizing the exhibition for her and her father. She also thanked former library director, Huai-Chen Peng, who personally brought back calligraphy works and manuscripts of Professor Paul Sun from Yale University in 2019, and the current library director Chao-Tung Yang for making the event come true despite the global pandemic. Academician Sun also expressed particular appreciation of the theme "Years through the Sun," echoing both her father’s video files "from darkness to light" and the family name Sun. Academician Sun said that she was especially grateful for her father and Tunghai University for bringing Christian education to her. The exhibition reflects her life journey from Tunghai University to Yale University, glorifying God
and her alma mater.

Library Director Chao-Tung Yang welcomes guests

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