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Speaker Series: Tuesday, April 22, 2014

My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power Tuesday, April 22, 2014 12:00 - 1:00 PM Austin Hall, Morgan Courtroom Read Hsiu-lien Lu's summary of her new book - My Fight for a New Taiwan

Keynote Speaker: Hsiu-lien Lu, Former Vice President of Taiwan Lu Hsiu-lien graduated from the National Taiwan University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Harvard University. Lu was Taiwan’s leading women's rights activist in the 1970s, but a 20-minute speech in 1979 criticizing the authoritarian government led to her spending almost six years as a political prisoner. Lu was elected to the Legislature in 1993, where she co-chaired the Foreign Relations Committee. In 1997, Lu was elected Taoyuan County magistrate and, in 2000 and 2004, was elected Taiwan’s vice president. In 2005, she founded the Democratic Pacific Union. Having established BPW Taipei in 1973, Lu set up the national affilitate- BPW Taiwan in 2008. And she is also the President of the “Formosa Media”, a media company which she established in 2009. Co-sponsored with East Asian Legal Studies and the Fairbank Center.