Alex Tsai

Tsai Cheng-yuan (Chinese: 蔡正元; pinyin: Cài Zhèngyuán; born 25 December 1953), also known by his English name Alex Tsai, is a Taiwanese politician and legal scholar. A member of the Kuomintang, he served as a legislator from 2008 to 2016. He was one of the 3rd members of the National Assembly.

Tsai Cheng-yuan MLY
蔡正元
Tsai in 2012
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office 1 February 2008 – 31 January 2016
Succeeded by	Li Yanxiu
Constituency	Taipei City Constituency 4
In office 1 February 2002 – 31 January 2008
Constituency	Taipei City Constituency 1
Member of the National Assembly
In office 20 May 1996 – 19 May 2000
Personal details
Born	(1953-12-25) 25 December 1953 (age 71) Beigang, Yunlin, Taiwan
Nationality	Republic of China
Political party	Kuomintang (after 1994) Congress Party Alliance (2018–2020)
Spouse(s)	Yen Chi-hua ​ (m. 1986⁠–⁠2015)​ Queena Hung (洪菱霙) ​ (m. 2016)​
Education	National Taiwan Normal University (BA) National Chengchi University (MBA) Harvard University (MPA) Columbia University (MPhil) Tsinghua University (PhD)

Education

After graduating from Taipei Municipal Industrial and Agricultural Vocational High School with a focus in mechanical engineering, Tsai studied education as an undergraduate at National Taiwan Normal University and graduated with a Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) degree. He then earned a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from National Chengchi University and completed graduate studies in the United States at Harvard University, where he earned a Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.) from the Harvard Kennedy School in 1983.^[1]

After graduating from Harvard, Tsai won a scholarship to pursue doctoral studies in economics at Columbia University, where he earned a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in economics, but ultimately withdrew from the university's doctoral program (all but dissertation).^[2][3] In 2021, he completed doctoral studies at Tsinghua University and earned his Ph.D. in law from the Tsinghua University School of Law. His doctoral dissertation was titled, "The Issue of Taiwan's Territorial Sovereignty under China's Constitutional Norms".^[4]

Publications

• Complete history of Taiwan (臺灣島史記）
• Diary of an inmate (囚徒日記）