Shih Hsin University (Chinese: 世新大學) is a private university in Wenshan District, Taipei, Taiwan. Shih Hsin University has named one of the “Teaching Excellence Universities” by the Republic of China's Ministry of Education five years in a row, making Shih Hsin being among the top five schools in this category. Shih Hsin University is also ranked 9th among all private universities in Taiwan by private business owners, business managers and graduates in Taiwan in 2010 by Global Views magazine and 104 Job Bank in Taiwan. 2010 Universities Graduates Evaluation Survey (in Chinese)

Shih Hsin University was founded in 1956 by the late famous journalist and publisher, Mr. She-Wo Chen. Originally an institution devoted itself to training professional journalists, Shih Hsin University has developed into a full-fledged university in August 1997. Now with four colleges, including the College of Journalism and Communication, the School of Management, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the School of Law, and with an enrollment of around 10,000 students.

Shih (born 29 November 1950 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a composer. Shih lives and works in Vienna since 1974.

Shih studied composition and harp at the Vienna University for Music and Performing Arts. He graduated in 1983. Shih lives and works in Vienna since 1974. He is a free-lance composer, music-master and leader of the Pacific Youth Orchestra Vienna, founded in 2002. Special merits granted for regularly presenting contemporary Austrian music in China.

His own works – chamber music, ballet, lied, orchestra works, opera and oratorio – have been performed in many European und Asian countries as well as in the United States and regularly appear both on TV and radio (ORF, ARD, MDR, RAI etc.). Shih had his international break-through with his opera „Vatermord“ („Death of a Father“), first performed at Dresden 1994 followed by performances at Leipzig Oper, Nürnberg, Erlangen, Vienna and Berlin.

Further important steps are: oratory „Lebend’ges Land“ at Münster, music-installation „Prayer“ in Taiwan (at the occasion of the centennial of Republic of China) and the open-end cycle „Ein Takt für...“ („A Measure for...“) which established Shih’s individual style of transforming psychical processes into music for all existing instruments, either in solo performance or in combination with others.