Tu Cheng-sheng
| Tu Cheng-sheng 杜正勝 |
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Minister Tu in 2007
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| 22nd Minister of Education of the Republic of China | |
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In office 20 May 2004 – 20 May 2008 |
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| Director of National Palace Museum | |
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In office 20 May 2000 – 20 May 2004 |
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| Born |
June 10, 1944 Mida Village, Okayama District, Takao Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan (vic. modern-day Mituo District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan) |
| Nationality | Republic of China |
| Political party | Democratic Progressive Party |
| Alma mater |
National University of Tainan National Taiwan University |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Historian |
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| Traditional Chinese | 杜正勝 | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Dù Zhèngshèng |
| Wade–Giles | Tu4 Cheng4-sheng4 |
| IPA | [tû ʈʂə̂ŋʂə̂ŋ] |
Tu Cheng-sheng (Chinese: 杜正勝; pinyin: Dù Zhèngshèng) is a Taiwanese politician and historian. Tu served as the Minister of Education of the Republic of China during Chen Shui-bian's second term as President.
Tu Cheng-sheng graduated from the Provincial Tainan Normal University (present-day National University of Tainan) in 1966. He also attended the National Taiwan University in 1970 and majored in history (bachelor's degree 1970, master's degree 1974). He is a specialist in the history of ancient Chinese society, culture and medicine.
He used to be the director of the National Palace Museum and a research center on history and languages of the Academia Sinica, professor of the National Tsing Hua University.
In articles of 1986, 1987 and 1992 Tu explored semblance between the city-states of the ancients Western civilization and the state formations of early China.
Tu gained notoriety for his colorful and abrasive behavior. After being filmed asleep at a 2007 meeting of the Legislative Yuan, he was photographed picking his nose in response to public criticism. Also that year, he grabbed a reporter's microphone and shoved a cameraman into a wall.
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