Yang Tzu-jun

Tsu-Chuen Yang (born August 14, 1955) is a Ph.D. graduate from the Institute of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, U.S.A. She played an important role in promoting Taiwan's own songs, known as campus folk songs, in the 1970s. She also hosted Taiwan TV's "Jumping Notes" (跳耀的音符), a popular music program during dinner time in 1977. Additionally, he organized Taiwan's first outdoor charity concert, “Green Grass Festival” (青草地音樂節), to rescue prostitutes in 1978. In 1979, she served as a member of the executive committee of “Spring Breeze Magazine” (春風雜誌).
In 1983, she participated in the founding of “Forward Weekly”(前進週刊), a nonpartisan movement magazine, where she worked as an editor and reporter. She co-founded the Democratic Progressive Party in 1986 and served as an executive committee member of the central committee. In 1987, she initiated and organized the veterans' hometown visit movement of the Association for the Promotion of Foreigners' Hometown Visitation, which led to the opening of cross-strait family visits by the Chiang Ching-kuo government. She also led Taiwan's first "hometown visit delegation" to China in 1988.
In the same year, she initiated and served as the chairman of the Xiachao Friendship Association, the predecessor of the Xiachao Federation. She later co-founded the China Unification League. In 1995, Tzu-jun became the president of the Taipei City Evening Women's Association. Since 2004, she has been the initiator and organizer of the Solidarity with Yang Rumen and the Three Farmers of Taiwan movement.
== Biography ==
Tsu-Chuen Yang is a Taiwanese singer and political activist. She rose to prominence in the 1970s as a member of the campus folk song movement, which aimed to promote Taiwan's own songs. In 1975, she joined the movement in response to a call from her senior, Li Shuang-tse, to "sing our own song". At the time, songs such as "Young China"(少年中國) and "Formosa"(美麗島) failed to pass the censorship system of the Information Bureau of the Executive Yuan due to their sense of unification and independence.
However, Yang resigned from the movement after being asked to perform purified songs and interfere with the broadcast of folk songs by the Information Bureau of the Executive Yuan. She continued to spread her beliefs through songs and actions and became a dissident figure against the government, which led to her being blocked from the public media.
In 1979, "Formosa Magazine"(美麗島雜誌) was launched with the title track being sung by Yang. During the launch event, the security police surrounded the area, and some people shouted for Yang to sing "Formosa" to lead everyone to rush out. She complied and led the crowd to sing the song.
In January 2012, Yang criticized the current line and Fulao chauvinism of the Democratic Progressive Party, which was founded in 1986, and implicitly criticized Tian Meng-shu as a Fulao chauvinist..
On October 6, 2004, an article by Tsu-Chuen Yang was published in New News No. 917, which subverted the official version of the party history of the Democratic Progressive Party.
On August 13, 2005, Tsu-Chuen Yang and Zhan Che hosted a "Commemorative Conference on the 60th Anniversary of the Victory of the World Anti-Fascist War and the Victory of the Chinese War of Resistance and the Restoration of Taiwan" at the Taipei City 228 Peace Memorial Park. At the conference, Yang spoke about the presence of fascism in society and the need to fight against discrimination and fascism in all its forms. The conference concluded with a chorus of "The International Anthem" led by the Inawashiro Choir and Yang.
On December 23, 2005, Yang and Professor Guo Zhong-yi from the Department of Physics at Soochow University participated in the rescue of Li Jian-cheng, a student from the Department of Political Science at National Taiwan University who was arrested by Hong Kong police for participating in an anti-WTO rally in Hong Kong. 
On April 15, 2007, Yang participated in the 415 Lo-Sheng Sanatorium Rally in support of the preservation of the old Lo-Sheng Sanatorium.
In January 2012, Lin Zheng-jie announced her candidacy for the legislature in Taitung County as a non-party member, and Yang campaigned for him as a revolutionary comrade, along with Lin Zheng-jie's wife, Lin Feng-ying.
On November 28, 2017, Yang participated in a special program entitled "One Family Across the Taiwan Strait: Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of Open Civil Exchange Across the Taiwan Strait," which was co-hosted by the All-China Federation of Compatriots in Taiwan and China Central Television (CCTV). During the program, Yang performed the song "Young China," which is a popular tune among veterans returning to their hometowns to visit their relatives
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