Feng Ming-chu (born 22 July 1950) is a

Taiwanese Taiwanese may refer to: * Taiwanese language, another name for Taiwanese Hokkien * Something from or related to Taiwan ( Formosa) * Taiwanese aborigines, the indigenous people of Taiwan * Han Taiwanese, the Han people of Taiwan * Taiwanese people, ...

historian who served as

Director of National Palace Museum The National Palace Museum (; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Kwet-li̍p kù-kiung pok-vu̍t-yèn), is a museum in Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan). It has a permanent collection of nearly 700,000 pieces of Chinese artifacts and artworks, many of which wer ...

from September 2012 to 20 May 2016. She is also the director general of the

Chinese Association of Museums The Chinese Association of Museums (CAM; ) is a professional association organized by Taiwanese museums and museum professionals. There are 134 institutional members and over 200 individual members. The president is Hsiao Tsung-huang, deputy min ...

and a researcher for the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission. She is an expert on the history of the Qing dynasty and Tibet.

Early life

Feng was born in Tiu Keng Leng in

British Hong Kong Hong Kong was a colony and later a dependent territory of the British Empire from 1841 to 1997, apart from a period of occupation under the Japanese Empire from 1941 to 1945 during the Pacific War. The colonial period began with the Briti ...

in 1950, with her ancestral home in

Huangpi Huangpi District () is one of 13 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, China, situated on the northern (left) bank of the Yangtze River. The Sheshui enters the Yangtze at Huangpi. The district is ...

, Hubei. In 1974 she was accepted to the National Taiwan University, where she studied history under Li Shouli.

Career

After graduation, she began working in National Palace Museum in 1978. She rose up through the ranks and served as its Deputy Director from May 2008 to September 2012, after which she replaced

Chou Kung-shin Chou Kung-shin (; born 14 April 1947) is a Taiwanese scholar, writer, historian and archaeologist. She served as Director of National Palace Museum from May 2008 till July 2012. Life and career Chou Kung-shin was born in Zhejiang on April 14, 194 ...

as Director of the Museum. Upon retirement from the position of the museum director, Feng announced her plan of accepting the position of an adviser for the

Palace Museum The Palace Museum () is a huge national museum complex housed in the Forbidden City at the core of Beijing, China. With , the museum inherited the imperial royal palaces from the Ming and Qing dynasties of China and opened to the public in 192 ...

in Beijing.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Feng, Ming-chu 1950 births Living people National Taiwan University alumni Hong Kong emigrants to Taiwan 20th-century Taiwanese women writers Taiwanese women historians Directors of National Palace Museum Women museum directors 21st-century Taiwanese historians