By Hsiu-lien Lu,Ashley Esarey,Jerome A. Cohen
ISBN-10: 0295993642
ISBN-13: 9780295993645
ISBN-10: 0295995556
ISBN-13: 9780295995557
Lu Hsiu-lien�s trip is the tale of Taiwan. via her successive drives for gender equality, human rights, political reform, Taiwan independence, and, presently, environmental defense, Lu has performed a key position in Taiwan�s evolution from dictatorship to democracy. The election in 2000 of Democratic innovative get together chief Chen Shui-bian to the presidency, with Lu as his vice chairman, ended greater than fifty years of rule by way of the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party).
Taiwan�s painful fight for democratization is dramatized the following within the lifetime of Lu, a feminist chief and pro-democracy recommend who was once imprisoned for greater than 5 years within the Nineteen Eighties. in contrast to such well-known Asian girls politicians as Burma�s Aung San Suu Kyi, India�s Indira Gandhi, and Pakistan�s Benazir Bhutto, Lu Hsiu-lien grew up in a relations with no political connections. Her impoverished mom and dad two times tried to offer her away for adoption, and as an grownup she survived melanoma and imprisonment, later attaining luck as an elected politician�the first self-made girl to serve with such prominence in Asia.
My struggle for a brand new Taiwan�s wealthy narrative offers readers an insider's standpoint on Taiwan�s precise combination of chinese language and indigenous tradition and up to date social transformation.
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