Lee Teng-Hui: The Man Who Devoted Himself To Taiwan

Lee Teng-hui: The Man Who Devoted Himself to Taiwan Lee Teng-hui, born in 1923 in Sanzhi, Taiwan during the Japanese Colonial Era, grew up to soar the ranks of politics, eventually becoming the President of the Republic of China. He attended Japan’s Kyoto Imperial University, then came back to Taiwan, attending the National Taiwan University, then travelled to the United States and attended Iowa State University and Cornell University. In 1961, he took on the religion of Christianity, which he relied on during difficult times that he would encounter during his duration as an active politician. On the scale of how much Lee Teng-hui embodied the TAS value of responsibility, Lee was very responsible as a Minister without a Portfolio, Mayor of Taiwan, a governor, and President. But he was even more responsible as a family member. Therefore, Lee Teng-hui embodied the TAS-value of responsibility extensively.

Lee Teng-hui was very responsible as a minister, as shown with the “Ten Major Construction Projects” to which he was assigned. “Ten Major Construction Projects” included: the first

In the January of 1988, President Chiang Ching-kuo suffered a sudden death and with two years left in his term, Lee was abruptly placed in the position of president. After finally becoming the President of the Republic of China, Lee ends the civil war with Beijing, Taiwan’s constitutional claim that China was under their authority, all in under six years. Lee’s election to presidency had broken down the KMT-led system of authoritarian rule in favor of a Democratic system, and slowly, he started to stretch apart the “Chiang Kai-shek cult”, making