My fight for a new Taiwan
Subtitle: one woman's journey from prison to power
By: Lu Hsiu-lien and Ashley Esarey ; foreword by Jerome A. Cohen
Contributors: Esarey, Ashley, author
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780295993645
Subjects: Vice-Presidents; Politics and government; Women politicians; Human rights movements; Biography
Description: "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"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dreams come true; title: Taiwanese daughter; title: Lifting half the sky; title: A moth flying toward flame; title: Human rights riot; title: Patriotism imprisoned; title: In search of destiny; title: Knocking at the gate of the UN; title: Political trash; title: The Glorious Revolution.