Su Beng
Sú Bêng | |||||||||||||||||||
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史明 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Senior Advisor to the President | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office November 9, 2016 – September 20, 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||
| President | Tsai Ing-wen | ||||||||||||||||||
| Vice President | Chen Chien-jen | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 林朝暉 Lîm Tiâu-hui November 9, 1918 Shirin Town, Taihoku Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan | ||||||||||||||||||
| Died | September 20, 2019 (aged 100) Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Political party | Independent (1949–2019) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Other political affiliations | Chinese Communist Party (1943–1949) Taiwan Independence Revolutionary Armed Force (1950) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Waseda University | ||||||||||||||||||
| Website | https://www.facebook.com/su.beng.3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Ozisan (おじさん) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 史明 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Su Beng (9 November 1918 – 20 September 2019; Chinese: 史明; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sú-bêng; pinyin: Shǐ Míng; Wade–Giles: Shih³ Ming²), born Lîm Tiâu-hui (林朝暉; Lîm Tiâu-hui; Lín Cháohuī; Lin² Ch'ao²-Hui¹) and later known as Si Tiâu-hui (施朝暉; Shī Cháohuī; Shih¹ Ch'ao²-Hui¹; Si Tiâu-hui), was a Taiwanese revolutionary, historian and political activist of Taiwan independence movement. Su Beng was a representative Taiwanese left-wing nationalist in the socialist sense and is considered the 'Taiwan independence Left'; he opposed Japanese and Chinese imperialism.