Born and brought up in Xiamen, China, Mab Huang left for Taiwan with his parents in 1948. Having completed his first degree in Law at the National Taiwan University in 1955, he proceeded to the United States for further education, first at the University of Chicago taking up the study of International Relations and then at Columbia University in New York City majoring in political science. After teaching for almost three decades in the United States, Mab Huang returned to Taiwan and is now the Liberal Arts Chair Professor at Soochow University, Taipei. He also served as the Director of Chang Fo-chuan Center for the Study of Human Rights (2000-2008), and the Human Rights Program (2006-2008), both of which he helped set up. Mab Huang’s publications include Intellectual Ferment for Political Reforms in Taiwan, 1971-1973 (1976) and "Universal Human Rights and Chinese Liberalism," in Human Rights and Asian Values, Michael Jacobsen and Ole Bruun, ed. (2000). With Professor James D. Seymour, Professor Daniel Yu and Professor Theodore Orlin as co-editors, he is the editor-in-chief of a Chinese-English Bilingual Human Rights Dictionar y (2007). He found and assumed in December 2010 the position of editor in chief of Taiwan Human Rights Journal. Through the years, Mab Huang also served as a member of the Presidential Human Rights Advisory Committee, from the Chen Shui-bian administration to the present time. He is particularly concerned with human rights education and the bringing of the international human rights regime to Taiwan, including the creation of a national human rights commission and the ratification of international human rights conventions.