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Ching-Ping Tang, a Ph.D. from USC, is now a Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Vice President for International Cooperation, and Director of the University Outreach Office at National ChengChi University (in Taiwan). As a public intellectual, he has long trained public officers at different levels of government, served in ad hoc governmental committees for independent decisions, and offered consultation opinions for non-governmental or civil organizations. As a scholar, he transgressed disciplinary boundaries to get innovative ideas for theory building and published works in rigorous journals of different fields, including sociological/anthropological, environmental, developmental, and political Journals. In recent years, he adventured in the engaged scholarship in which he trained students and local entrepreneurs to promote just development in the neighboring communities of the campus. This led to his engagement in innovations and experiments in liberal arts education.