Alex Tsai


Tsai Cheng-yuan, also known by his English name Alex Tsai, is a Taiwanese politician and legal scholar. A member of the Kuomintang, he served as a member of the Legislative Yuan from 2008 to 2016. He was one of the 3rd members of the National Assembly.
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Early life and education

Tsai was born in Beigang, Yunlin, on December 25, 1953. His father, Hsiu-shan, was a purchasing agent of dental equipment. As a child, Tsai worked as a child laborer in a local factory after graduating from junior high school. He graduated from with a specialization in mechanical engineering.
After high school, Tsai graduated from National Taiwan Normal University with a B.Ed. degree and earned an M.B.A. from National Chengchi University. He then completed graduate studies in the United States at Harvard University, earning a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School in 1983.
After graduating from Harvard, Tsai won a scholarship to pursue doctoral studies in economics at Columbia University, where he earned a Master of Philosophy in economics, but ultimately withdrew from the university's doctoral program after studying there from 1984 to 1987. In 2021, he completed doctoral studies at Tsinghua University and earned his Ph.D. in law from the Tsinghua University School of Law. His doctoral dissertation was titled, "The Issue of Taiwan's Territorial Sovereignty under China's Constitutional Norms".

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