Frank Muyard 梅豪方
Frank Muyard is Associate Professor & Head, Taipei Center, French School of Asian Studies (EFEO). His main research fields are Taiwan and China’s history, sociology, and archaeology, as well as Austronesian prehistory. His work focuses on the issues of national and cultural identity, comparative nationalism, and the questions of modernity, state, and nation in East Asian and Western societies. He is currently researching the history of Taiwanese archaeology and its interactions with state nationalism and indigenous peoples.
Frank Muyard received his PhD in Sociology at the University of Montreal in Canada, after being trained in Modern Chinese History and Sinology (BA), and in International Relations and Political Economy (MA) at the French National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) in Paris. He was Director of the French Center for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) Taipei Office from 2004 to 2009, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Asian Studies, University of Colorado Boulder (2010-2012), 2013 Taiwan Fellowship Scholar at the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (RCHSS), Academia Sinica, Associate Professor, National Central University, Taiwan (2013-2022), and Adjunct Researcher and Head, Taipei Center, French School of Asian Studies (2016-2022).
Recent publications include:
- Taiwan Maritime Landscapes from Neolithic to Early Modern Times, edited with Paola Calanca & Liu Yi-chang, Paris, EFEO, 2022.
- "Taiwan’s Place in East Asian Archaeological Studies," in Taiwan Maritime Landscapes from Neolithic to Early Modern Times, Paris, EFEO, 2022, p. 21-46.
- "The Role of Democracy in the Rise of the Taiwanese National Identity," in Jonathan Sullivan & Chun-yi Lee, eds., A New Era in Democratic Taiwan: Trajectories and Turning Points in Politics and Cross-Strait Relations, London, Routledge, 2018, 35-62.
- “Taiwan Archaeology and Indigenous Peoples: Cross-perspectives on Indigenous Archaeology and Interactions between Archaeologists and Indigenous Communities,” in L. Hung, ed., Archaeology, History and Indigenous Peoples: New Perspectives on the Ethnic Relations of Taiwan, Taipei, Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines, 2016, 195-262.
- “Comparativism and Taiwan Studies: Analyzing Taiwan in/out of context, or Taiwan as an East Asian New World Society,” in Shu-mei Shih & Ping-hui Liao, eds., Comparatizing Taiwan, London, Routledge, 2015, 13-32.
Frank Muyard received his PhD in Sociology at the University of Montreal in Canada, after being trained in Modern Chinese History and Sinology (BA), and in International Relations and Political Economy (MA) at the French National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) in Paris. He was Director of the French Center for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) Taipei Office from 2004 to 2009, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Asian Studies, University of Colorado Boulder (2010-2012), 2013 Taiwan Fellowship Scholar at the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (RCHSS), Academia Sinica, Associate Professor, National Central University, Taiwan (2013-2022), and Adjunct Researcher and Head, Taipei Center, French School of Asian Studies (2016-2022).
Recent publications include:
- Taiwan Maritime Landscapes from Neolithic to Early Modern Times, edited with Paola Calanca & Liu Yi-chang, Paris, EFEO, 2022.
- "Taiwan’s Place in East Asian Archaeological Studies," in Taiwan Maritime Landscapes from Neolithic to Early Modern Times, Paris, EFEO, 2022, p. 21-46.
- "The Role of Democracy in the Rise of the Taiwanese National Identity," in Jonathan Sullivan & Chun-yi Lee, eds., A New Era in Democratic Taiwan: Trajectories and Turning Points in Politics and Cross-Strait Relations, London, Routledge, 2018, 35-62.
- “Taiwan Archaeology and Indigenous Peoples: Cross-perspectives on Indigenous Archaeology and Interactions between Archaeologists and Indigenous Communities,” in L. Hung, ed., Archaeology, History and Indigenous Peoples: New Perspectives on the Ethnic Relations of Taiwan, Taipei, Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines, 2016, 195-262.
- “Comparativism and Taiwan Studies: Analyzing Taiwan in/out of context, or Taiwan as an East Asian New World Society,” in Shu-mei Shih & Ping-hui Liao, eds., Comparatizing Taiwan, London, Routledge, 2015, 13-32.