Category Archives : 1000.China, Taiwan


Lucie Cheng (China, Taiwan)

“We believe that the science of learning covers both science and learning.” Lucie Cheng is publisher of both Li Newspaper and Pots, dean of the College of Journalism and Communications at Shixin University, president of Bibliography Literature Publishing Inc, and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She served Chinese workers in Chinatown in […]

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Kun Lei (China, Taiwan)

“It is an honor to be able to speak up, for all of us.” Lei Kun (a pseudonym) began her transformative journey from sex worker to sex worker activist in 1997, when the Taipei City government decided to abolish licensed prostitution and declared its more than 120 licensed prostitutes illegal. She has transformed sex work […]


Shou E Feng (China, Taiwan)

“Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s visit to the Yasukuni Shrine is a eulogy to Japan’s militaristic war of aggression.” After Japan’s surrender in 1945, during the purge of left intellectuals in Taiwan, Feng Shou E was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. But her passion for social justice and peace have not changed, and she has participated […]

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Chiu Hsiang Huang (China, Taiwan)

Huang is the most outstanding representative of women workers in the Taiwan autonomous trade union since the lifting of martial law in 1987. Huang Chiu Hsiang was born in a tea farmers’ family in the deep mountains of Hsin Chu County. Since 1987, she has been a key trade union leader and is a founding […]


Lin Ching Hsia (China, Taiwan)

“Both a successful therapy case and successful social action rely on the power of the persons involved to struggle against life’s limitations. ‘Struggle’ is necessary, it takes different forms.” After studying overseas, Hsia Lin Ching brought new ideas to Taiwan, a country which had suffered from severe political suppression. Today, she works with sex workers […]

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Chin Yu Hsu (China, Taiwan)

“My story is nothing. The spirit of those times is very important. I often think about how suffering can make humanity shine.” Hsu Chin Yu grew up in Taiwan during the period of the Japanese colonization. In the White Terror period in the 1950s, when many intellectuals, workers and peasants were charged as spies, communist […]


Lan Hsiang Hsu (China, Taiwan)

Until now, all the products we consume have been polluting our water resources. It is done in the manufacturers’ interests, and consumers are unaware.” While farming in Hsinchu county, Hsu Lan Hsiang found herself in the middle of terrible pollution from a biochemical plant. Together with local villagers, they had the plant close down. Later, […]

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Su Mei Kao Chin (China, Taiwan)

“The long history of unfair resources distribution and disrespect for cultural diversity has made aborigines lose sight of who they really are and what their future will be.” Kao Chin Su Mei (40) is a legislator who fights for the rights of aboriginals of Taiwan and Lanyu Islands. Kao Chin has reactivated aborigine’s rights movements, […]