Kaohsiung Incident
Annette Lu is considered the founder of feminist thinking in modern Taiwan and established the first formal women's-rights movements in 1972. After delivering a twenty-minute keynote address during the Kaohsiung Incident in 1979, Lu was arrested, court-martialled and sentenced to twelve years in prison. She served five-and-a-half years and was released in 1985. She would later serve as the Vice President of the Republic of China between 2000 and 2008.