Huang Pi-twan
{{Short description|Taiwanese academic (born 1945)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Huang Pi-twan
| native_name = {{nobold|黃碧端}}
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| nationality = Republic of China
| office1 = Political Deputy Minister of Education of the Republic of China
| minister1 = Wu Se-hwa
Chiang Wei-ling
| 1blankname1 = Administrative Deputy
| 1namedata1 = Chen Der-hwa
Lin Shu-chen
| term_start1 = 2013
| term_end1 = 2014
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| office2 = Minister of the Council for Cultural Affairs of the Republic of China
| deputy2 = Chang Yui-tan
| term_start2 = 20 May 2008
| term_end2 = 15 November 2009
| predecessor2 = Wang Tuoh
| successor2 = Emile Sheng
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|11|14|df=y}}
| birth_place = Hui'an, Fujian
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| education = {{no wrap|National Taiwan University}} (BA, MA)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (PhD)
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Huang Pi-twan ({{zh|c=黃碧端|p=Huáng Bìduān}}; born 14 November 1945) is a Taiwanese academic. She was the political deputy minister of the Ministry of Education from 2013 to 2014.{{Cite web|url=http://english.moe.gov.tw/content.asp?CuItem=15466|title = Ministry of Education Republic of China (Taiwan)|date = 25 December 2019}} Previously, she had served as minister of the Council for Cultural Affairs between 2008 and 2009.
Education
Huang obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from National Taiwan University in 1968 and 1971, respectively, and earned her Ph.D. in literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the United States in 1980.
Academic career
After completing graduate school, Huang returned to Taiwan to become an associate professor and then chairperson at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature of National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung City from 1980 to 1992. From 1992 to 1995, she was the deputy director of National Chiang Kai-shek Cultural Center in Taipei City. From 1995 to 1997, she served as the chairperson of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature of National Chi Nan University (NCNU) in Nantou County. From 1997 to 2000, she headed the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education. In 2000, she became the dean of the College of Humanities of NCNU. Huang served a six-year term as president of Tainan National University of the Arts in Tainan County from 2000 to 2006. From 2006 to 2007, she was a department chair Shih Chien University in Taipei City. After a promotion to Political Deputy Minister for 2013–2014, Huang left the Ministry of Education and was named the leader of PEN International's Taipei Chinese Center.{{cite news|last1=Chang|first1=S.C.|title=Former culture official takes over as PEN Taipei Center head|url=http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aedu/201412180025.aspx|accessdate=19 December 2014|agency=Central News Agency|date=18 December 2014}}
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Category:National Taiwan University alumni
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Category:21st-century Taiwanese women writers
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Category:Women government ministers of Taiwan
Category:Academic staff of the National Sun Yat-sen University
Category:Academic staff of the National Chi Nan University
Category:Academic staff of Shih Chien University
Category:Ministers of culture of Taiwan
Category:Taiwanese people from Fujian
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