Democratic Progressive Party "legislators" Fan Yun, Wu Lihua, and Lai Pinyu made a temporary proposal on the 23rd, requiring Taiwan's "Academia Sinica" to conduct a nationality check on the academician selection system to ensure that only Taiwanese can be elected, and others can only become "honorary academicians" ". However, as soon as this proposal was announced, many academicians immediately worried that this would only worsen the "isolated island" mentality and isolate themselves from the international academic community.
It is understood that the academician of "Academia Sinica" is an honorary title. Although it is the highest academic honor in Taiwan, it does not hold any position or receive substantial remuneration, and must attend the annual academician meeting. Most academicians are elected while serving as researchers. , there are also non-Taiwanese among them, such as Nobel Prize winners, Chinese Americans Yang Chenning, Lee Tsung-dao, etc., who are all academicians of the Academia Sinica.
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Huang Yinong, an academician of Academia Sinica, believes that academicians actually have no power over academic affairs, let alone any academic secrets. If the "legislators" are worried that there are too few Taiwanese academicians, they can stipulate a certain proportion instead of rigidly " "Nationality" classification will actually make Taiwan "self-isolate" in the international academic community; another academician Chen Peizhe also said that doing so will make Taiwan's "isolated island mentality" worse. Even the American Academy of Sciences has hired foreign academicians. , do the "legislators" want "Academia Sinica" to be more closed or more open? Moreover, if it is really for the sake of safety, the dean who "holds decision-making power" should be regulated.
Chen Peizhe mentioned that the "nationality" of deans should be regulated, which has caused controversy in the past. Li Yuanzhe, the former president of Academia Sinica who won the Nobel Prize, gave up his American citizenship when he returned to Taiwan in 1994. At that time, he mentioned that there were many researchers with "dual nationality". After all, it was very convenient; later in 2006 In October, Weng Qihui took over as the dean. Because the Nationality Law was amended in January of the same year, he did not need to give up his American citizenship, which caused a huge quarrel among all walks of life. In the end, Chen Shui-bian, the leader of the Taiwan region, came forward to support him, which allowed the whole society to The incident is temporarily over.
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