Peng Ming-min
| Peng Ming-min | |
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| Senior Adviser to the ROC President | |
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In office 20 May 2000 – 20 May 2008 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
15 August 1923 Taikō Town, Taikō District, Taichū Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan (modern-day Dajia District, Taichung, Taiwan) |
| Nationality | Taiwanese |
| Political party | Democratic Progressive Party (since 1995) |
| Alma mater |
Tokyo Imperial University National Taiwan University McGill University University of Paris |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Peng Ming-min (Chinese: 彭明敏; pinyin: Péng Míngmǐn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Phêⁿ Bêng-bín; born 15 August 1923) is a noted democracy activist, advocate of Taiwan independence, 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.
Born during Japanese rule to a prominent doctor's family in rural Taiwan, Peng received his primary education in Taiwan before going to Tokyo for secondary education, graduating from Kwansei Gakuin Middle School in 1939 and the Third Higher School in 1942. During World War II, he studied law and political science at the Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo). At the end of the war, in order to avoid the American bombing of Japan’s capital, he decided to go to his brother near Nagasaki. En route to his brother, he lost his left arm in a bombing raid. While recuperating at his brother's house, he witnessed the second atomic blast that destroyed the city of Nagasaki.
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