Chun-chieh Huang (PhD) is Distinguished Professor of History and Dean of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University. He is also Research Fellow at Academia Sinica, Taipei. Prof. Huang has written many books on East Asian Confucianisms, especially on Mencius and Confucius. His recent works include Mencian Hermeneutics: A History of Interpretations in China (2001), New Perspectives in the History of East Asian Confucianisms (in Chinese, 2004), Taiwan in Transformation 1895-2005 (2006), and Tokugawa Japan's Interpretation of the Analects (in Chinese, 2006).