Chien Yung-Ta, a native of Nantou, graduated from the Graduate Institute of Journalism at National Taiwan University. He previously worked full-time for The Reporter and as a contributor to Mirror Media’s People section. A former Fulbright Scholar as well as a visiting scholar at Harvard University and Academia Sinica’s Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, he has received numerous awards, including the Taiwan Excellent Journalism Award , the SOPA Award for Editorial Excellence, a Hong Kong Human Rights Press Award, and first prize in the Taiwan Press Photographer Association’s annual photo contest.