Shih Ming-teh

Shih Ming-teh was a Taiwanese democracy activist and politician who endured decades of imprisonment under authoritarian rule. A central figure in the Tangwai movement and the 1979 Kaohsiung Incident, he later served as chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party and as a member of Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan. He also helped preserve the history of Taiwan’s democratization through the New Taiwan Cultural Foundation and its documentation of the Kaohsiung Incident.