Title: My fight for a new Taiwan
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.
Subjects: Vice-Presidents, Politics and government, Women politicians, Human rights movements, Biography, Taiwan, politics and government, Politicians, Vice presidents
Places: Taiwan
People: Xiulian Lü
Time periods: 2000-, 1975-