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Zhongli Incident
The Zhongli Incident or Chung-li Incident was a democracy movement in the Taiwanese town of Zhongli (now Zhongli District, Taoyuan City) in 1977, after a voter reported witnessing the Kuomintang rigging the election. Historical background In the 1950s and 1960s, non-Kuomintang candidates could run for local positions in Taiwan, but were effectively barred from national or provincial posts because of a lack of resources and a government-controlled press that always supported the Kuomintang. In the 1970s, they began to coalesce into what came to be known as the Tangwai movement (literally "outside the party"), though martial law under the Kuomintang prevented the formation of a unified opposition party. The movement gained strength from gradual emergence of a sense of Taiwanese identity and was emboldened by steps taken by Washington and Beijing toward normalization of diplomatic relations, undermining the Kuomintang's claim to be the legitimate government of all of China, includ ...
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University Of Washington Press
The University of Washington Press is an American academic publishing house. The organization is a division of the University of Washington, based in Seattle. Although the division functions autonomously, it has worked to assist the university's efforts in support of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, and the Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education. Since 1915, it has published the works of first-time writers, including students, poets, and artists, along with authors known throughout the world for their work in the humanities, arts, and sciences. The organization's daily operations are conducted out independently of the university, but the imprint is controlled by a committee of faculty members that the university president has selected. Each manuscript must go through a collaborative approval process overseen by the editors and the University Press Committee before being chosen for publicati ...
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The Reporter (Taiwan)
''The Reporter'' () is an independent non-profit news organization based in Taiwan. Launched in December 2015, the site focuses on investigative journalism. It is a member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network. Organization The Reporter is independently owned by The Reporter Foundation which is overseen by a board of 11 members, directed by Huang Jong-tsun, who was the Minister of Education from 2002 to 2004. The media outlet employs about 25 full-time staff. The editor-in-chief is Sherry Lee (李雪莉), who previously worked as an editor at '' CommonWealth Magazine''. ''The Reporter'' was founded by a NT$5 million (US$160,000) donation from Tzu-Hsien Tung, co-founder of Asus. It relies solely on public donations for its operations. As of October 2017, it has about 400 regular donors from which it raises about US$200,000 annually. It raises additional revenue by organizing workshops at local universities. Coverage The first major story from ''The Reporter'' was i ...
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1977 In Taiwan
Events from the year 1977 in Taiwan. This year is numbered Minguo 66 according to the official Republic of China calendar. Incumbents * President – Yen Chia-kan * Vice President – Chiang Ching-kuo * Premier – Chiang Ching-kuo * Vice Premier – Hsu Ching-chung Events July * 9 July – President Yen Chia-kan visited Saudi Arabia. August * 1 August – The opening of Magong Airport in Penghu County. Births * 24 January - Cheng Yung-jen, football player * 1 April – Ehlo Huang, actor and singer * 9 April – Kawlo Iyun Pacidal, member of 9th Legislative Yuan * 20 April – Chan Yih-shin, golf athlete * 28 April – Lawrence Ko, actor * 29 April – Tsai Hsien-tang, football player * 2 May – Blackie Chen, television host and basketball player * 8 June – Dylan Kuo, actor, singer and model * 1 July – Kao Cheng-hua, baseball player * 31 August – Shen Po-tsang, baseball player * 14 September – Yen Kuan-heng, member of Legislative Yuan * 2 ...
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White Terror (Taiwan)
The White Terror ( zh, t=, poj=Pe̍h-sek Khióng-pò͘, p=Báisè Kǒngbù) was the political repression of Taiwanese civilians and political dissenters under the government ruled by the Kuomintang (KMT). The period of White Terror is generally considered to have begun when martial law was declared in Taiwan on 19 May 1949, which was enabled by the 1948 Temporary Provisions against the Communist Rebellion, and ended on 21 September 1992 with the repeal of Article 100 of the Criminal Code, allowing for the prosecution of "anti-state" activities. The Temporary Provisions had been repealed a year earlier on 22 April 1991. Martial law had been lifted on 15 July 1987. Two years after the 28 February incident, the KMT retreated from mainland China to Taiwan during the closing stages of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. Wanting to consolidate its rule on its remaining territories, the KMT imposed harsh political suppression measures, which included enacting martial law, executing su ...
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Taipei Times
The ''Taipei Times'' is an English-language print newspaper in Taiwan published by the Liberty Times Group. Founded as the third English-language newspaper on 15 June 1999, it is currently the last surviving English-language print newspaper in Taiwan. History Published by the Liberty Times Group, the ''Taipei Times'' launched its first edition on 15 June 1999. It was the third English-language newspaper founded in Taiwan. President Lee Teng-hui attended its launch ceremony. The other two English-language media before the ''Taipei Times'' were '' Taiwan News'' and ''The'' ''China Post''. It is a participant in Project Syndicate. In a column celebrating the paper's fifth anniversary, then-''Taipei Times'' associate editor Laurence Eyton wrote that much of the initial planning of the paper was concluded over pints of Carlsberg in a pub with Anthony Lawrence, the paper's first managing editor. In 2002, the daily circulation stood at 280,000 copies. By 2017, the ''Taipei ...
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Democracy
Democracy (from , ''dēmos'' 'people' and ''kratos'' 'rule') is a form of government in which political power is vested in the people or the population of a state. Under a minimalist definition of democracy, rulers are elected through competitive Election, elections while more expansive or maximalist definitions link democracy to guarantees of civil liberties and human rights in addition to competitive elections. In a direct democracy, the people have the direct authority to Deliberation, deliberate and decide legislation. In a representative democracy, the people choose governing officials through elections to do so. The definition of "the people" and the ways authority is shared among them or delegated by them have changed over time and at varying rates in different countries. Features of democracy oftentimes include freedom of assembly, freedom of association, association, personal property, freedom of religion and freedom of speech, speech, citizenship, consent of the governe ...
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Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ( , ; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African Internal resistance to apartheid, anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a Universal suffrage, fully representative democratic election. Presidency of Nelson Mandela, His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by fostering racial Conflict resolution, reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialism, socialist, he served as the president of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997. A Xhosa people, Xhosa, Mandela was born into the Thembu people, Thembu royal family in Mvezo, South Africa. He studied law at the University of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand before working as a lawyer in Johannesburg. There he became involved in anti-colonial and Afr ...
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Shih Ming-teh
Shih Ming-teh (; 15 January 1941 – 15 January 2024), commonly known as Nori Shih, was a Taiwanese statesman and human rights defender. He was once a political prisoner for 25-and-a-half years. Arrested at the age of 21 in 1962 and charged with creating the "Taiwan Independence League" (a study group) with the intention of overthrowing the Kuomintang government, Shih was sentenced to life imprisonment. The sentence was commuted to 15 years in 1975, and Shih was released on 16 June 1977. Shih promptly joined the ''Tangwai'' (literally meaning "outside the party", because the Kuomintang was the only legally existing political party in Taiwan at that time), became a reporter for the ''Liberty Times'' and married the American researcher Linda Gail Arrigo. After he played a part in organizing the 10 December 1979 pro-democracy rally subsequently known as the Kaohsiung Incident (also known as the Formosa Incident or Meilitao Incident), an arrest warrant was issued charging Shih wi ...
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Chen Chu
Chen Chu (; born 10 June 1950) is a Taiwanese people, Taiwanese politician serving as List of presidents of the Control Yuan, president of the Control Yuan and Chairperson, chairwoman of the National Human Rights Commission (Taiwan), National Human Rights Commission since 2020. Before assuming her current post, Chen had served as Secretary-General to the President (Republic of China), Secretary-General to the President from 2018 to 2020 and Mayor of Kaohsiung from 2006 to 2018, making her the longest-serving mayor of the city since the Taiwan under Japanese rule, Japanese occupation of Taiwan. Prior to her entrance into politics, Chen was one of the eight prominent dissidents in the Kaohsiung Incident arrested and charged in 1979. She was a political prisoner for almost six years during the martial law in Taiwan, martial law period in Taiwan. Chen had also served in various capacities with the Taipei and Kaohsiung city governments between 1995 and 2000, with the latter being t ...
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Democratic Progressive Party
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is a centre to centre-left Taiwanese nationalist political party in Taiwan. As the dominant party in the Pan-Green Coalition, one of the two main political camps in Taiwan, the DPP is currently the ruling party in Taiwan, leading a minority government that controls the presidency and the central government. Founded in 1986 by Hsu Hsin-liang, Roger Hsieh and Lin Shui-chuan, a year prior to the end of martial law, the DPP is one of two major parties in Taiwan, the other being the Kuomintang (KMT), a Chinese nationalist party previously ruling the country as a one-party state, and its smaller allies in the Pan-Blue Coalition. It has traditionally been associated with a strong advocacy of human rights, emerging against the authoritarian White Terror that was initiated by the KMT, as well as the promotion of Taiwanese nationalism and identity. Lai Ching-te is the current chairperson of the DPP from 2023, who also serves as t ...
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Kaohsiung Incident
The Kaohsiung Incident, also known as the Formosa Incident, the Meilidao Incident, or the ''Formosa Magazine'' incident,tang was a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations that occurred in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on 10 December 1979 during Taiwan's martial law period. The incident occurred when '' Formosa Magazine'', headed by released political prisoner Shih Ming-teh and veteran opposition legislator Huang Hsin-chieh, and other opposition politicians held a demonstration commemorating Human Rights Day to promote and demand democracy in Taiwan. At that time, the Republic of China was a one-party state under the Kuomintang, called ''Dang Guo'', and the government used this protest as an excuse to arrest the main leaders of the political opposition. The Kaohsiung Incident is widely regarded as a seminal event in the post-war history of Taiwan and the watershed of the Taiwan democratization movements. The event had the effect of galvanizing the Taiwanese community into politic ...
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International Human Rights Day
Human Rights Day (HRD) is celebrated annually around the world on 10 December every year. The date was chosen to honor the United Nations General Assembly's adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the first global enunciation of human rights and one of the first major achievements of the new United Nations. The formal establishment of Human Rights Day occurred at the 317th Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on 4 December 1950, when the General Assembly declared resolution 423(V), inviting all member states and any other interested organizations to celebrate the day as they saw fit. The day is normally marked both by high-level political conferences and meetings and by cultural events and exhibitions dealing with human rights issues. Besides, it is traditionally on 10 December that the five-yearly United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights and Nobel Peace Prize are awarded. Many governmental and non-gov ...
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