Hsiu-lien Lu & Ashley Esarey 
My Fight for a New Taiwan [EPUB ebook] 
One Woman’s Journey from Prison to Power

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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. Unlike such famous Asian women politicians as Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi, India’s Indira Gandhi, and Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto, Lu Hsiu-lien grew up in a family without political connections. Her impoverished parents twice attempted to give her away for adoption, and as an adult she survived cancer and imprisonment, later achieving success as an elected politician—the first self-made woman to serve with such prominence in Asia.
My Fight for a New Taiwan’s rich narrative gives readers an insider’s perspective on Taiwan’s unique blend of Chinese and indigenous culture and recent social transformation.

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Table des matières

Foreword
Preface
Map of Taiwan
Introduction
1. Dreams Come True
2. Taiwanese Daughter
3. Lifting Half the Sky
4. A Moth Flying Towards Flame
5. Human Rights Riot
6. Patriotism Imprisoned
7. In Search of Destiny
8. Knocking at the Gate of the UN
9. Political Trash
10. The Glorious Revolution
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary of Names
Index

A propos de l’auteur

Ashley Esarey is associate professor of political science and East Asian studies at the University of Alberta. He is the coauthor, with Hsiu-lien Lu, of My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman’s Journey from Prison to Power (University of Washington Press, 2014); and coeditor of Taiwan in Dynamic Transition: Nation Building and Democratization (University of Washington Press, 2020) and Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-Developmental State (University of Washington Press, 2020).

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 344 ● ISBN 9780295805054 ● Taille du fichier 5.7 MB ● Maison d’édition University of Washington Press ● Lieu Seattle ● Pays US ● Publié 2014 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 4852564 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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