1.Research projects

        01.08.2014 – 31.7.2015 Development

of Old Town and Civil Participation: A Sociological Study of Czech and Taiwan‟s Cases . (Soochow University, LASS-103520-6)

        01.08.2012 – 31.7.2014 Global Consciousness and University: A

Sociological Study of Czech and Taiwan‟s Cases . (Soochow University)

        01.08.2010 – 31.7.2012 Social

Transformation at Local Level in the Globalized Environment: A Sociological Study of Czech, Slovak and Taiwan‟s Cases . (National Science Council NSC-99-2410-H-031-058-MY2)

        01.01.2011 – 31.12.2011 Social

Apathy and Trust in the Civil Society: Czech-Taiwanese Comparison. (National Science Council NSC-100-2911-I-031-501-)

        01.08.2009

– 30.09.2010 Revitalization of Community Life by Local Initiatives in the Transformed and Globalized Environment: A Sociological Study in Czech and Slovak Cases. (National Science Council NSC-98-2410-H- 031-031-SSS)

2.Publications in Journals and conferences

Chang, Chia-Ming, 2015, Globalization

and the Condition of Local Development: A Case Study on Kutná Hora, Czech, presentation at Annual Conference of Taiwanese Sociological Association, ChungSun University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

    Chang, Chia-Ming and Fu-Sheng Shih,

2013, World Heritage and the Buiding of Locality: A Comparative Analysis of Taiwanese anSlovak Communities, Journal of Globalization and Multiculturalism, NO.1: 25-58 Chang, Chia-Ming and Ter-Hsing Cheng, 2013, Global Consciousness of Young Generation: A Comparative Analysis of Taiwan, Czech and Slovak, Journal of Pariscope, NO.22: -

3.Books and papers of Books

Chang, Chia-Ming and Ter-Hsing

Cheng, 2015 Local Response of ‘Growth’ and ‘Dependency’ :A Case Study of Taiwan Businessmen in Suzhou, China, in Jenn-hwan Wang(ed.) Border Crossing in Greater China, Production, community and identity, London and New York: Routledge. Chang, Chia-Ming, 2014 Civil Participation and Social Capital: A Case Study on NGOs in Tainan City, Taiwan, in Chia-Ming Chang (ed.) Globalization and Local Development: the Experiences in Central Europe and Taiwan, Pp. 29-49, Taipei: Songhui Publish Company. Chang, Chia-Ming ,2011 "Global Impact and Local Response: The Public Attitudes to Taiwanese TNCs and Their Embeddedness in Suzhou, China,” in Su-Chin Shu and Te-Sheng Chen (ed.) Taiwanese Investment in China during the Past Two Decades: Experiences, Developments and Prospects, Pp. 359-406, Taipei: INK Publish Company. Chang, Chia-Ming , 2010 "Formation of Civil Societies and NGOs: The Central and Eastern European Experience,” in Ishikawa, Akihiro and Chia-Ming Chang (eds.) Political and Social Development in Central Europe, Pp. 93-111, Taipei: Bookman Publish Company.