The seminars were sponsored by the Harvard–Yenching Institute and ended when Huang won a scholarship provided by the Ministry of Education to pursue a doctorate at the University of Cambridge.
Huang reestablished the Seminars on Taiwan Studies with funding from the Lim Pen-Yuan Cultural and Educational Foundation, founded in 1977.
[3] Huang stated in 1994 that his university studies on Taiwanese history covered Koxinga and the Kingdom of Tungning, but did not include the period of Japanese rule.
[4] In 1993, Huang accepted Kwang-chih Chang's invitation to serve as the first director of the preparatory office that became the Institute of Taiwan History [zh], a division of Academia Sinica.
[14][15] In 2006, Huang wrote A Brief History of Taiwan--A Sparrow Transformed into a Phoenix, an e-book published online by the Government Information Office.