Arts Appreciation and Creation

Responsible unit:Center for General Education and Core Curriculum

Contact info:(02)26215656#2126(I802 office)

Office email:atax@oa.tku.edu.tw

【Full-Time Teacher】

Pei-Yee Lee, Professor

Office_Number:I712
Office Phone Number:3129
E-mail:peiyee@mail.tku.edu.tw
Personal Website:http://mail.tku.edu.tw/peiyee/
Professional Field:Piano performance music education piano pedagogy, art history

A full-time professor at Tamkang University, began piano at age six and won Taiwan’s National Music Competition at thirteen. She holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music, Yale University, and earned dual doctorates from Stony Brook University (Piano Performance) and Columbia University (Music Education). Lee studied with renowned pianists including Arkady Aronov, Yoheved Kaplinsky, and Claude Frank. A two-time recipient of the Chi Mei Cultural Foundation Award, she has performed concertos with the Jacksonville Symphony and appeared at Lincoln Center and Town Hall. Her performances have aired on NPR and WQXR. She is an active competition juror and speaker for numerous seminars. She has served as the chair of the General Education and Core Curriculum Center of Tamkang University, and was selected as the Outstanding Teacher and recipient of the Teacher Evaluation Award.

Yung-Ying Gan, Professor

Office_Number:I713
Office Phone Number:3128
E-mail:ganchris@hotmail.com
Personal Website:http://teacher.tku.edu.tw/PsnProfile.aspx?u=t906001
Professional Field:Oboe performance, chamber music and music related courses.

Dr. Yung-Ying Gan earned her Master’s degree in Oboe Performance from the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University and her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Maryland. During her years abroad, she was invited on numerous occasions to perform with renowned orchestras. She was twice invited to perform Mozart’s and Richard Strauss’s Oboe Concertos with the National Symphony Orchestra of South Africa. She also performed Mozart’s and Albinoni’s Oboe Concertos in collaboration with the Natal Philharmonic Orchestra, the University of the Witwatersrand, and the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra. In 1998, she was admitted with distinction to the Peabody Institute, where she pursued both a Master’s degree in Oboe Performance and a Master’s degree in Recording Arts. While pursuing her doctoral studies at the University of Maryland, Dr. Gan served as a graduate teaching assistant. In 2000 and 2001, she was invited for two consecutive years to perform Mozart’s and Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertantes with the London Symphony Orchestra. During the same period, she collaborated with Jane Marvine, Principal English Horn of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and Linda Harwell, Principal Bassoon of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, in a chamber music performance at the Peabody Institute.

Chia-Jwu Tai, Associate Professor

Office_Number:I708
Office Phone Number:2658
E-mail:caroltai@mail.tku.edu.tw
Personal Website:http://teacher.tku.edu.tw/PsnProfile.aspx?u=t989701
Professional Field:Visual Art Creation & Criticism、Western Art History、The Renaissance、Christian art

Hui-Yun Chen, Associate Professor

Office_Number:I716
Office Phone Number:2347
E-mail:cloudcarol@gms.tku.edu.tw
Personal Website:http://teacher.tku.edu.tw/PsnProfile.aspx?u=t966415
Professional Field:Introduction to Performing Arts、Table director practice、Taiwan Theater History、post-colonial theatre theory、intercultural theatre theory、Psychophysical actor training

Wen-Chi Wu,Associate Professor

Office_Number:I701
Office Phone Number:2900
E-mail:wenchiwu@mail.tku.edu.tw
Personal Website:http://teacher.tku.edu.tw/PsnProfile.aspx?u=t961532
Professional Field:Contemporary Dance, Choreographic Process, Dance Appreciation, Dance Aesthetics, Dance Education, Dance Pedagogy. Education • Ed.D. in Dance, Temple University, USA • M.F.A. in Dance (Performance and Choreography), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA • B.F.A. in Dance, National Institute of the Arts (now Taipei National University of the Arts), Taiwan Previous Academic Appointments • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Dance, State University of New York at Potsdam, USA • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Dance, Utah Valley University, USA • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre Design and Technology, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan

Professor Wen-Chi Wu is among the few dance scholars trained at the highest levels in both dance performance and choreography (M.F.A.) and dance education (Ed.D.). She is also the first dance doctoral graduate in Taiwan to create and perform a series of solo dance productions. Her doctoral dissertation, Spirit-Dancing Through Qi-Body (2005), is recognized as one of the earliest philosophical and practice-based studies of Qi-Dance in international dance scholarship. Since returning to Taiwan, Professor Wu has integrated artistic creation, general education, and social engagement through both creative work and innovative pedagogy. She created and performed three solo dance productions: Mirror of Mind (2017), Everlasting Vitality (2018), and Roots (2020). From 2022 to 2024, she initiated and led interdisciplinary arts projects in collaboration with National Taiwan University and the Houtong Miners and Historical Museum. Together with Tamkang University students, she co-created The Miner’s Music and Dance Trilogy, using artistic practice to revitalize local memory, promote cultural heritage, and foster educational innovation. Professor Wu has received multiple honors for excellence in teaching, general education, and community engagement at Tamkang University, including the Outstanding Teaching Award (2018-2019), Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty Award (2022-2023), and Outstanding General Education Faculty Award (2024-2025). She has also received international conference travel grants from Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) to present her research in the United States. Her career exemplifies the integration of artistic creativity and performance, scholarly inquiry, and educational practice. Teaching Areas: Developing Nonverbal Expression Through Dancing Arts, Performing Arts—Contemporary Dance Appreciation and Experience, Exploring Dance as Nonverbal Communication Through Environments, Introduction to World Dance and Practice, Arts and Humanities Research Interests: Phenomenology of the Body, Daoist Philosophy and Embodied Cultivation, Contemporary Dance and Creative Practice, Dance Pedagogy and Transformative Learning.

【Adjunct Teacher】

Philip Shieh, Associate Professor

E-mail:webcast@mail.tku.edu.tw
Personal Website:http://teacher.tku.edu.tw/PsnProfile.aspx?u=t997941
Professional Field:Music composition, multimedia production, web broadcasting.

Su-Yiau Wang, Lecturer

E-mail:117483@mail.tku.edu.tw
Personal Website:http://teacher.tku.edu.tw/PsnPastCourse.aspx?u=t994618
Professional Field:Vocal Teaching、Vocal Performance 、 Western Art Songs 、Appreciation of Opera 、Sacred Music、Choir Conducting、Italian Diction .

Shiang-Yeu Lin, Lecturer

E-mail:regen0728@gmail.com
Personal Website:https://teacher.tku.edu.tw/PsnProfile.aspx?u=t933551
Professional Field:The study and performing of the Western Opera, Western Music History, Music Theory : The  Basic , Stage Performing Arts, The Appreciation of the Western Classic Music.

Chun-Sen Yang, Lecturer

E-mail:chunsen.yang@msa.hinet.net
Personal Website:https://teacher.tku.edu.tw/PsnProfile.aspx?u=t963661
Professional Field:Drawing, Public Art, Environmental Art, Stone Sculpture, Metal Sculpture, Clay Sculpture.

WEI-HONG WENG, Assistant Professor

Professional Field:History of Taiwanese traditional opera theater, Beiguan gongs and drums and traditional music performance, opera anthropology and fieldwork, ritual theater, contemporary survival of traditional opera.

XIU-QING CAI, Assistant Professor

E-mail:150421@o365.tku.edu.tw
Professional Field:Christian image art; East-West cultural exchanges and art; Western late classical and medieval biographical literature; cross-cultural image, narrative and aesthetic research.

Shen Cheen Associate Professor

E-mail:shencheen@gmail.com
Professional Field:Chinese and Western art history, calligraphy and painting art research.