Tsai Ying-wen (political scientist)

Tsai Ying-wen
蔡英文
Born(1952-06-04)4 June 1952
Died10 October 2019(2019-10-10) (aged 67)
NationalityTaiwanese
Education
Occupation(s)Political scientist, translator

Tsai Ying-wen (Chinese: 蔡英文; pinyin: Cài Yīngwēn; Wade–Giles: Tsai Ÿing-wën; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhòa Eng-bûn; 4 June 1952 – 10 October 2019) was a Taiwanese political scientist and translator. He was a research fellow at Academia Sinica, with his main research focus on the history of Western political thought. His book, From Monarchy and Autocracy to Democracy, won Academia Sinica's 5th Academic Book Award in Humanities and Social Sciences in 2016.