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Lu Hsiu-Lien, "My Fight For a New Taiwan: One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power"
Columbia University hosts former Vice President of Taiwan, Lu Hsiu-Lien
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Former Vice-President of Taiwan, Lu Hsiu-lien will discuss her recent book about her journey. 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).
Moderated by Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
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