Huang Fu-san

Huang Fu-san is a Taiwanese historian.

Education Huang Fu-san earned his master's degree specializing in the history of Taiwan from National Taiwan University, supervised by . With Huang's aid, Chen Chi-lu organized the first Seminars on Taiwan Studies at NTU from 1965 to 1967. The seminars were sponsored by the Harvard–Yenching Institute and ended when Huang won a scholarship provided by the Ministry of Education to pursue a doctorate at the University of Cambridge. Between September 1986 and June 1987, Huang was an associate of the Harvard–Yenching Institute. Huang stated in 1994 that his university studies on Taiwanese history covered Koxinga and the Kingdom of Tungning, but did not include the period of Japanese rule. When he began teaching, Huang worked to incorporate the start of Japanese authority over Taiwan in 1895 into his courses. In 1993, Huang accepted Kwang-chih Chang's invitation to serve as the first director of the preparatory office that became the , a division of Academia Sinica. Additionally, Huang has served on the Cultural Assets Review Committee convened by the Taipei City Government. Huang retired from the Institute of Taiwan History in 2010.

Huang has offered commentary on the Dutch Formosa period, as well as Taiwan under Japanese rule. Huang has also discussed Japan–Taiwan relations, and a frequent topic of his published research, the .

Publications Huang book The Female Workers and the Industrialization in Post-war Taiwan was published in 1977, and translated to Japanese in 2006. In 2006, Huang wrote A Brief History of Taiwan--A Sparrow Transformed into a Phoenix, an e-book published online by the Government Information Office.