知名院士學者

王汎森院士 (Academician Fan-Sen Wang)

王汎森，歷史學家。臺灣雲林北港人。台灣大學歷史學系學士、碩士，美國普林斯頓大學博士。一九八五年起任職於中央研究院歷史語言研究所。二ＯＯ三年任史語所所長，並於二ＯＯ四年當選中央研究院院士。二ＯＯ五年獲選為英國皇家歷史學會會士。二Ｏ一Ｏ年接任中央研究院副院長。

王院士主要從事明清到中國近代的思想文化史、學術史以及史學史研究。長期關注明末清初與清末民初的兩次思想轉型、明代後期以來商業社會、城市文化與農業文明為主的思想心態之間的較勁與磨合等。此外，除了研究章太炎、梁啟超、胡適、傅斯年等近代思想巨擘外，王院士也關心因政治壓力或主流論述而被壓抑或忽略的歷史現象或思想人物。目前著有八本專書、七十多篇論文，及多本編著。

Professor Wang Fan-sen is a historian specializing in the cultural-intellectual history of early modern and modern China. He was graduated from National Taiwan University with a Master's degree in history in 1983, and received his PhD in East Asian studies from Princeton University in 1993. Professor Wang is a faculty member of National Taiwan University and National Tsing Hua University.

He joined Academia Sinica in 1985 and became the distinguished research fellow of the Institute of History and Philology in 2005 and served as director of the Institute from 2003-2009. He became an Academician in 2004 and was also the director of the Tsai Yuan-pei Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences from 2003 to 2004.

Professor Wang was appointed as one of Taiwan Academia Sinica's Vice Presidents in 2010. Since 2003, he has been a member of Committee on Academic Development, Ministry of Education and the Committee on Humanities and Social Science Development, National Science Council.

Professor Wang’s research interests include the history of intellectual thought, culture and academic scholarship from the Ming and Qing Dynasty to modern China. He was elected a fellow of UK's Royal Historical Society in 2005 and awarded the Outstanding Scholar Award from the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship from 1999 to 2004. Professor Wang has published seven books including The Rise of the Ku-shih-pien Movement, Fu Ssu-nien: A Life in Chinese History and Politics, The Capillary Effects of Power: Intellectual, Mentality and Scholarship in the Ch’ing Period.