| Hsu Hsueh-chi | |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Birth Place: | Penghu County, Taiwan |
| Nationality: | Republic of China |
| Alma Mater: | National Taiwan University |
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| Office: | Director of the, Academia Sinica |
| Predecessor: | Hsieh Kuo-hsing |
| Term Start: | 1 September 2017 |
| Term Start1: | 1 September 2005 |
| Term End1: | 31 August 2011 |
| Predecessor1: | Chuang Ying-chang |
| Successor1: | Hsieh Kuo-hsing |
Hsu Hsueh-chi (; born 1953) is a Taiwanese historian. She is a distinguished research fellow of the Academia Sinica and holds an adjunct professorship within National Taiwan Normal University's Graduate Institute of Taiwan History.[1] [2]
A native of Penghu County, Hsu earned a doctorate in history from National Taiwan University. She specializes in the 228 incident of 1947 and ensuing White Terror period.[3] In 1991, the Executive Yuan convened a committee to investigate the 228 incident, and asked her to contribute.[4] [5] Hsu provided oral histories to what became the Research Report on the 228 Incident.[6] [7] Throughout her career, Hsu has asked for continued transparency regarding historical documents relating to the 228 incident.[8] She was invited to discuss an upcoming exhibition at the 228 Memorial Museum that eventually opened to visitors in 2011.[9] Hsu served as the director of Academia Sinica's from 2005 to 2011, and was reappointed in 2017.[10] While Hsu was director in 2011, the institute set up an exhibition titled "Her History in Taiwan," focusing on the role of women in Taiwan from 1795 to 1950.[11] In 2014, Hsu lent support to a petition against revisions to high school history textbooks backed by the Ministry of Education, stating of the Ma Ying-jeou presidential administration, "They just do whatever they want. Their intention and anxiety to incorporate Taiwan into China is easy to see."[12] The next year, she set up an exhibition titled "A Jail Beyond the Prison Walls" at Jing-Mei White Terror Memorial Park, focusing on women and their family members jailed or executed during the White Terror.[13] Hsu was nominated to serve on the Transitional Justice Commission in April 2018.[14] [15] In materials written for review by the Legislative Yuan, she opined that the National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall should remain standing to serve as a reminder of past authoritarianism, with its statue of Chiang Kai-shek moved to the Cihu Memorial Sculpture Park, suggesting an arts library or human rights museum in its place.[16] Hsu's nomination was approved in May 2018.[17] [18]
Hsu's book The Compilation of Historical Data from the Secrecy Bureau on the 228 Incident, meant to "unveil the truth" about the uprising, has not yet been released.[19] Her completed work includes a biography of Chuang Shu-chi,[20] a book about the in Chiayi,[21] and the foreword to the 2015 edition of Lin Hsien-tang's Travel Writings from around the Globe.[22]