New Book Touts Ex-President Lee Teng-Hui’s Legacy
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New book touts ex-president Lee Teng-hui’s legacy
Former president Lee Teng-hui’s (李登輝) “special state-to-state relations” framework helped Taiwan move beyond Beijing’s “one China” narrative and provided diplomatic space for the nation’s democratic transition, Hoover Institution Library and Archives East Asia collections curator Lin Hsiao-ting (林孝庭
Hoover Institution scholar Hsiao-ting Lin's new book, "The Lee Teng-hui Era in Taiwan," meticulously examines Taiwan's democratization process through declassified documents from multiple countries, telegrams from diplomats stationed in Taiwan, and oral history interviews. In an interview with the Central News Agency, he stated that this book not only presents a local perspective on the late President Lee Teng-hui but also elevates research on T…
Therefore, President Lee Teng-hui went from being a member of the Communist Party to the Kuomintang in his youth, and was eventually revered as the "Father of Taiwan's Democracy." Lin Hsiao-ting, a scholar at the Hoover Institution, said in an interview with the Central News Agency that Lee Teng-hui spent his life thinking about "Who am I?" What remained unchanged was "Taiwan's local identity"; the Republic of China was redefined under Lee Teng-…
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