Recently, the University of Virginia established a new "C.K. Yen Chair," named for a vice president and president of the ROC who held office in the era when Taiwan rejected all contacts with the PRC. Ironically, in a demonstration of the growing stature of PRC academics, the first professor to be hired for the chair was a scholar from the PRC.
美國維吉尼亞大學設立了「嚴家淦講座」，以紀念這位在兩岸軍事對峙時代，曾任中華民國總統、副總統的政治家，結果獲聘的第一位講座教授竟是一位來自中國大陸的學者。