A native of Tainan Dr. Tsai became a China resources specialist in America, having obtained his Master’s Degree in Library/Information Science from Florida State university (Tallahassee) and Ph. D. degree from the University of Chicago’s joint program of Library/Information Science and Far Eastern Studies, and served in several critical positions relating to Chinese affairs and subjects matters with major U. S. academic institutions (including Cornell, Chicago, and Princeton Universities libraries) and the Federal Government (Library of Congress) for 40 years.

Additionally, Dr. Tsai was deeply involved in international relations activities, especially relating to Taiwan’s political developments and Taiwanese-American affairs.  As the founding president of the Center for Taiwan International Relations (CTIR), Dr. Tsai was a driving force among its talented colleagues and able supporters in organizing many significant international conferences. Two of these conferences drew China’s official but futile protests to the United Nations (1995) and to the United States Government (State Department and U.S. Senate, 2004).  Two others drew vehement but unsuccessful objections from the government in Taiwan (1990, 1991).  In 1991, however, the U. S. Congress (both the House of Representatives and the Senate) officially passed a CTIR-inspired “Future of Taiwan Amendment” requiring settlement of the future of Taiwan “peacefully, without coercion, and in a manner acceptable to the people of Taiwan” thereby defeating Taiwan authorities’ efforts to sabotage the amendment and its insistence on “acceptance by the government of the Republic of China.”

Following retirement from the U. S. Dr. Tsai spent four years in Taiwan, serving first as a senior research fellow on China projects with a non-governmental/non-profit research organization and later as a Chaired Professor on Intelligence with a private university.  Now he is resuming CTIR’s new projects and welcomes participation from like-minded friends and supporters.