Professor Kwang-Kuo Hwang

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Professor Kwang-Kuo Hwang FGCA

Life Fellow of Global China Academy

On July 30, 2023, renowned Taiwanese scholar Hwang Kwang-kuo (1945–2023), a Life Fellow of the Global China Academy, National Chair Professor (awarded by the Ministry of Education, Republic of China), and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at National Taiwan University, passed away.

Kwang-Kuo-Hwang

Educated in Hawaii and Taiwan, Kwang-Kuo Hwang (1945-2023) 黄光国教授 FGCA was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at National Taiwan University, with research interests in the philosophy of science, methodology, and indigenized personality and social psychology. He taught courses such as The Construction of Indigenous Theories in Social Sciences and Independent Research in Social Psychology. Among his many roles, he was a specially invited researcher at the National Science Council of the Republic of China (1990–2000), President of the Asian Association of Social Psychology (2003–2005), and Principal Investigator of the In Search of Excellence for Indigenous Psychological Research Project funded by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan (2000–2008). Earlier in his career, he served as lecturer and then associate professor in the Department of Psychology at National Taiwan University (1976–1981).

He received numerous awards for his research and scholarship and published widely in journals such as Journal of Social Psychology, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, and Contemporary Sociology. His books included Confucian Relationalism: Philosophical Reflection, Theoretical Construction and Empirical Research (2nd edition, in Chinese), Taipei: Psychological Publishing Co., 2014.

Rlated infomation

https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/黄光国 (in Chinese )
https://www.indigenouspsych.org/Members/Hwang,%20Kwang-Kuo/hwang_bp.html (in English)
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kwang-Kuo-Hwang
Remembering the Mentor of Social Science Indigenization and Psychology
Indigenization: Professor Kwang-Kuo Hwang (JICP14-3-01黄光国纪念文章)（Article in Chinese and English）
Prof. Kwang-Kuo Hwang on A Challenge to Individualism (speech video in English）
Professor Hwang Kwang-kuo donated his lifelong personal library to National Ilan University (Video in Chinese)

Professor Hwang Kwang-kuo, Epistemology and Methodology《知識論與方法論》(Lectures in Chinese)

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