In the late 1940s to Taiwan to receive primary education, graduated from the National Taiwan University in 1966, received a bachelor's degree in literature, in the beginning of 1969, entered the United States, entered the University of Pittsburgh to earn a master's degree in 1970, and won a Ph.D. in 1982. Dr. Wu was a professor of the Department of History of the East China University and a researcher at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Central Institute of Taipei. His entire life was devoted to the history of Chinese people and the history of Chinese overseas immigration. He was one of the initiators of the Chinese marine development history research program in 1969, and was also the director and director general of the Chinese overseas research Society of the Republic of China, and was awarded the first edition and second edition (1989 and 1992) of the Chinese