Letter to Scholars at Risk

Robert Quinn
Director
Scholars at Risk Network
http://scholarsatrisk.uchicago.edu

c/o Human Rights Program
University of Chicago, Pick 124
5828 South University Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
tel: 773-834-4408
fax: 773-702-9286
e-mail: rquinn@uchicago.edu

29 September 2000

Dear Professor Quinn,
The following attachments relate to incidents at the Department of
Foreign Languages and Literature that go back to 1992. I attach them to
establish a larger context of abuses in terms of both chronology and
pattern.
The incident related in these attached pages involved
alleged intimidation of foreign faculty from attending meetings
convened for the election of the next departmental chairman. Since
the then current chairman, a candidate for re-election, was
unpopular with foreign faculty,
he allegedly intimidated foreign faculty from casting a vote,
and thus having a voice in the outcome of the election. The
alleged intimidation is only euphemistically referred to in
this attached document.
These documents indicate the long-standing problems at
National National Cheng Kung University and suggest a
pattern of official indifference to them. The Chairman at the
time, for example, was, regardless of these documented abuses,
appointed to a second term as Chair and has, since that time,
flagrantly engaged in a continued pattern of abuses against
foreign faculty to this very day (he is frequently referred to in
previous documents sent).
NOTE: The Department of Foreign Languages and Literature,
sometimes abbreviated as FLLD is, in these attachments, abbreviated as
D.F.L.L.
Sincerely,
Richard de Canio.