▎James C. Ma

Mr. Chungliamg Ma or James C. Ma received his B.A. in English at the National Cheng Kung University in 1964. After his graduation, he was an English teacher at Nantou Senior High and later, teaching assistant at NCKU. He earned his Master’ degree from the University of Oregon in 1971 and taught English at the Taipei College of Business for two years. In 1978, he was conferred Doctor of Education from Southern Illiois University. Having returned to NCKU in 1979, he taught as associate professor and later as professor. Afterwards, he was appointed Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Dean of Discipline, Dean of Students, and Head of Graduate Institute of Education.

After his retirement from NCKU in 1999, he was invited to start his second career at the Leader College of Management, a privately-funded institution of higher learning in Tainan. He set up the Department of Applied English and the Office of the Student Affairs for the school. He ended his second career in 2007.

Mr. Ma is a poet having published an anthology in Chinese entitled: Birding in the Winter Time with Binoculars, and though an octogenarian, he still writes poems. In 2012, his memoir in Chinese was published by Showee Information Co., LTD. Taipei, Taiwan. And he got his English edition of memoir done in 2021. He often says: “To my son and daughter, I’ll leave nothing but a copy of my memoir in Chinese; to my granddaughters, my memoir in English.”