Help from President Lee Teng-hui

Cheng Few Lee

Chapter 5 in From East to West:Memoirs of a Finance Professor on Academia, Practice, and Policy, 2017, pp 42-53 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: At the end of the Sino-Japanese War, Mr. Lee Teng-hui came back to Taiwan in 1946 from Kyoto Imperial University, Japan and studied at the Department of Agricultural Economics at National Taiwan University (NTU), in Taipei. Three years later, he received his bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics, after which he remained as a teaching assistant at the university. In 1951, Mr. Lee was awarded a scholarship from the Sino-American Fund for Economic and Social Development, and traveled to Iowa State University in the United States to do research in agricultural economics. He returned to Taiwan in 1953, resumed his teaching job as an instructor at the Department of Agricultural Economics, NTU, accepted a post as a specialist and section chief at the Taiwan Provincial Department of Agricultural and Forestry, and also took the post of research fellow at Taiwan Provincial Cooperative Bank. Being an agricultural economist, he was also appointed as a specialist in the U.S.–R.O.C. Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction (JCRR)…

Keywords: Cheng-Few Lee; Memoirs; Finance Professor; Teaching Method and Educational Philosophy; Training PhD Students in Finance and Accounting; Innovative Approach to Teaching Finance; Democratic Organizations and Movements; Contributions to Taiwan's Economic and Financial Policy; Contributions to Management of Education in Taiwan; Challenging and Rewarding Academic Career (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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