Hsiu-Lien Lu, Ashley Esarey

My Fight for a New Taiwan (eBook, ePUB)

One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Lu Hsiu-lien's journey is the story of Taiwan. Through her successive drives for gender equality, human rights, political reform, Taiwan independence, and, currently, environmental protection, Lu has played a key role in Taiwan's evolution from dictatorship to democracy. The election in 2000 of Democratic Progressive Party leader Chen Shui-bian to the presidency, with Lu as his vice president, ended more than fifty years of rule by the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party).

Taiwan's painful struggle for democratization is dramatized here in the life of Lu, a feminist leader and pro-democracy advocate who was imprisoned for more than five years in the 1980s. Unlike such famous Asian women politicians as Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi, India's Indira Gandhi, and Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto, Lu Hsiu-lien grew up in a family without political connections. Her impoverished parents twice attempted to give her away for adoption, and as an adult she survived cancer and imprisonment, later achieving success as an elected politicianthe first self-made woman to serve with such prominence in Asia.

My Fight for a New Taiwan's rich narrative gives readers an insider's perspective on Taiwan's unique blend of Chinese and indigenous culture and recent social transformation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295805054
• Artikelnr.: 44784620

Autorenporträt

Hsiu-lien Lu and Ashley Esarey. Foreword by Jerome A. Cohen

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Map of Taiwan
Introduction
1. Dreams Come True
2. Taiwanese Daughter
3. Lifting Half the Sky
4. A Moth Flying Towards Flame
5. Human Rights Riot
6. Patriotism Imprisoned
7. In Search of Destiny
8. Knocking at the Gate of the UN
9. Political Trash
10. The Glorious Revolution
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary of Names
Index