My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power

by Lu Hsiu-Lien, Hsiu-Lien Lu, Ashley Esarey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295993642
• ISBN13: 9780295993645
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher