Peng Ming-min
Peng Ming-min | |
|---|---|
| 彭明敏 | |
Peng in 2017 | |
| Senior Adviser to the President of the Republic of China | |
| In office 20 May 2000 – 20 May 2008 | |
| President | Chen Shui-bian |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 August 1923 Taikō Town, Taikō District, Taichū Prefecture, Taiwan, Japan (modern-day Dajia District, Taichung, Taiwan) |
| Died | 8 April 2022 (aged 98) Taipei, Taiwan |
| Nationality | Taiwanese |
| Political party | Democratic Progressive Party (1995 – 1997) |
| Education | Tokyo Imperial University (BA) National Taiwan University (LLB) McGill University (LLM) University of Paris (PhD) |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Peng Ming-min (Chinese: 彭明敏; pinyin: Péng Míngmǐn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Phêⁿ Bêng-bín; 15 August 1923 – 8 April 2022) was a Taiwanese democracy activist, advocate of Taiwan independence, legal scholar, and politician. Arrested for sedition in 1964 for printing a manifesto advocating democracy in his native Taiwan, he escaped to Sweden, before taking a post as a university teacher in the United States. After 22 years in exile he returned to become the Democratic Progressive Party's first presidential candidate in Taiwan's first direct presidential election in 1996.