[3] After receiving his doctorate, Chu became an associate professor at the Department of Business Administration and Economics of National Taiwan University and was promoted to a full-time professorship in 1989.
[5] He recently joined the WID team of Thomas Piketty, analysing the taxation and wealth-registration individual data of Taiwan.
[8][9] During an August 2012 conference, Chu commented on the growing brain drain in Taiwan, stating that more and more Taiwanese move to Mainland China due to better job offers and benefits.
[11] Chu succeeded Lai Shin-yuan as Taiwan's representative to the World Trade Organization in July 2016.
Understanding Chinese Families: A Comparative Study of Taiwan and Southeast China, with Ruoh-Rong Yu, foreword by James J. Heckman, Oxford University Press, 2009.