Chi-Mei Wang was born in 1946. Upon graduating from Taipei First Girls’ High School, she began studying in the Department of Chinese Literature at National Taiwan University. After the completion of her degree in 1968, she entered her first job as a junior high school teacher but soon after left to study for an M.A. in theatre at the University of Oregon in the United States. During her time there, she studied many aspects of theatre including performance, directing, design, production and education, as well as acting as a director and writer for the school’s drama club. In 1976 she returned to Taiwan, teaching at Chinese Culture University and acting as a director for the Music Department’s opera performances as well as directing all other kinds of productions and performances. At the same time, she coordinated with other like-minded colleagues to establish an artisan workshop while concurrently founding the Taipei Pantomime Company to promote the research and understanding of the culture and language of the deaf. .....

Professor Yi-Wei Yao, born Gong-Wei Yao (April 5, 1922 – April 11, 1997), grew up near Poyang Lake in Jiangxi Province, China. At the age of 16 in 1938, he entered Jian Middle School. Not long after though, several years of successive warring began and he was forced to move with the school. Finally he was admitted to Xiamen University and made the school his new home. After graduating in 1946, Yao moved to Taiwan to work. However, political turmoil soon erupted in China, resulting in Taiwan being diplomatically cut off from the mainland. It was not until 51 years later, in 1989, that Yao was able to visit his home in China again. Yao worked at Bank of Taiwan for 36 years. Throughout his life, Yao found immense pleasure in reading at his leisure time. He aspired in creative writings and teaching, and firmly believed in the spirit of traditional humanities and classical aesthetics. His studies were rigorous and his creative concepts far-reaching. .....