On August 15, 2026, the Presidential Office announced the appointment of National Taiwan University History Professor Chen Tsui-lien as Director of Academia Historica, taking office on September 14. The move immediately triggered fierce criticism from opposition parties and academic historians. Critics cited Chen's track record of controversies—including her rejection by the PTS board review for inciting ethnic division, her role as a partisan operative during the Guan incident, and her ideological smears against revered former president Fu Ssu-nien. Handing the top state historical archives to an activist scholar is widely condemned as an effort to weaponize historical institutions for DPP ideological orthodoxy and historical revisionism.
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Lai Administration Appoints Controversial Scholar Chen Tsui-lien to Head Academia Historica, Prompting Accusations of Partisan Historical Cleansing
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