The wife of renowned historian Tao Jing-shen (
Pao Chia-lin (
The 69-year old Tao is a member of the Institute of History and Philology at the Academia Sinica.
According to the local media reports, the 65-year-old Pao had long suspected her husband of having an affair and had hired private detectives to follow him.
On Sept. 21, the detectives called Pao after Tao had stayed at the 54-year old Chang's apartment for several hours.
Pao then contacted the local police and went to Chang's apartment to meet up with the detectives.
The news reports say there was a five-minute delay between the police knocking on the door of Chang's apartment and her opening the door.
Once the door was opened, Pao headed straight for the bedroom and found her husband there.
According to police, both Tao and Chang were properly dressed when the officers entered the apartment. Tao told the police that he and Chang are just good friends and he was simply visiting her to celebrate Moon Festival.
"There's no evidence to prove that Tao was having an extramarital affair [with Chang]," a Taipei police officer said.
Since Pao was insisting on filing a lawsuit, however, the police eventually took Tao and Chang back to the Wanhua Police Precinct for questioning.
An friend of Tao and Pao's, who preferred to remain anonymous, yesterday revealed that the couple had previously agreed to divorce, and that Pao's actions might be caused by a disagreement over the division of their assets.
The Academia Sinica yesterday refused to comment on Tao's alleged affair or the lawsuit, saying that the institute has no right to interfere with its members' personal affairs.
The couple received their doctorates from Indiana University, Tao in 1967 and Pao in 1971.
They are both professors of Chinese history at the University of Arizona's department of East Asian studies.
Tao was elected a member of the Academia Sinica in July 1990.
Pao was a leading women's rights activist in the 1970s and gained fame with her book, Studies in Chinese Women's History (
The National Immigration Agency (NIA) said yesterday that it will revoke the dependent-based residence permit of a Chinese social media influencer who reportedly “openly advocated for [China’s] unification through military force” with Taiwan. The Chinese national, identified by her surname Liu (劉), will have her residence permit revoked in accordance with Article 14 of the “Measures for the permission of family- based residence, long-term residence and settlement of people from the Mainland Area in the Taiwan Area,” the NIA said in a news release. The agency explained it received reports that Liu made “unifying Taiwan through military force” statements on her online
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck off Taitung County at 1:09pm today, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. The hypocenter was 53km northeast of Taitung County Hall at a depth of 12.5km, CWA data showed. The intensity of the quake, which gauges the actual effect of a seismic event, measured 4 in Taitung County and Hualien County on Taiwan's seven-tier intensity scale, the data showed. The quake had an intensity of 3 in Nantou County, Chiayi County, Yunlin County, Kaohsiung and Tainan, the data showed. There were no immediate reports of damage following the quake.
Actor Darren Wang (王大陸) is to begin his one-year alternative military service tomorrow amid ongoing legal issues, the Ministry of the Interior said yesterday. Wang, who last month was released on bail of NT$150,000 (US$4,561) as he faces charges of allegedly attempting to evade military service and forging documents, has been ordered to report to Taipei Railway Station at 9am tomorrow, the Alternative Military Service Training and Management Center said. The 33-year-old would join about 1,300 other conscripts in the 263rd cohort of general alternative service for training at the Chenggong Ling camp in Taichung, a center official told reporters. Wang would first
A BETRAYAL? It is none of the ministry’s business if those entertainers love China, but ‘you cannot agree to wipe out your own country,’ the MAC minister said Taiwanese entertainers in China would have their Taiwanese citizenship revoked if they are holding Chinese citizenship, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Minister Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) said. Several Taiwanese entertainers, including Patty Hou (侯佩岑) and Ouyang Nana (歐陽娜娜), earlier this month on their Weibo (微博) accounts shared a picture saying that Taiwan would be “returned” to China, with tags such as “Taiwan, Province of China” or “Adhere to the ‘one China’ principle.” The MAC would investigate whether those Taiwanese entertainers have Chinese IDs and added that it would revoke their Taiwanese citizenship if they did, Chiu told the Chinese-language Liberty Times (sister paper
RSS