CCS News and Activities(Vol.39 No.4)

CCS Visiting Scholars Attend National Day Banquet The ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) held a banquet at the Taipei Guest House in celebration of the 2008 National Day. In order to strengthen international academic and cultural exchanges, the National Central Library made arrangements with MOFA to invite visiting scholars at the Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) to join the grand event. The invitation also gave the visitors a rare chance to see the Taipei Guest House, a grade one historic site normally closed to the public. The visiting scholars attending the banquet were Prof. David Holm of the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia; Prof. Jon Eugene von Kowallis, head of the Department of Chinese and Indonesian Studies at the University of New South Wales; Associate Professor Martin Svensson Ekstrom of the Department of Oriental Languages at Stockholm University, Sweden; and Ms. Sigrid Winkler, a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for European Studies in Brussels, Belgium. The visitors were accompanied by Ms. Keng Li-chun, director of the Liaison Division at the CCS, and CCS Assistant Editor Liau Jane.