Taiwan News
Date: 2019/06/02
By: Taiwan Today, Agencies

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TAIPEI (Taiwan Today) — The publishing arm of National Taiwan University in Taipei City enjoys an enviable reputation among its peers for outperformance. After upgrading to publishing house status in 1996, NTU Press started playing a bigger role in promoting academic development.

NTU Press Director Wang Tay-sheng, a professor in the school’s law college, said the move reflected the greater liberalization in society of the 1980s. It was also in line with a perceived need to protect academic works published in traditional Chinese characters for future generations, he added.

Hsiang Jieh, a professor of computer science at NTU who headed NTU Press from 2008 to 2016 concurs. “Simplified Chinese is proving all too pervasive in this important field,” he said. “Its influence must be checked by academic institutions and their publishing units as opposed to the private sector.”

Wang and Hsiang, consecutive directors of NTU Press, said books published by universities play an important role in enabling liberal arts and social sciences scholars to strengthen academic credibility.    [FULL  STORY]