太陽花學運
Between 18 March to 10 April 2014, the Sunflower Student Movement, initiated by a coalition of students and civic groups in the Legislative Yuan and later also the Executive Yuan, was a student-mainly mass movement to protest Ma's trade in services policy with mainland China. On 26 September 2014, a student protester hurled the book "Formosa Betrayed" at Ma and hit the president, who was not hurt by the incident. The Presidential Office condemned the act of violence.