Peng Ming-min

Peng Ming-min
Peng in 2017
Senior Adviser to the Taiwanese President
In office
20 May 2000 – 20 May 2008
PresidentChen Shui-bian
Personal details
Born(1923-08-15)15 August 1923
Taikō Town, Taikō District, Taichū Prefecture, Taiwan, Japan (modern-day Dajia District, Taichung, Taiwan)
Died8 April 2022(2022-04-08) (aged 98)
Taipei, Taiwan
NationalityTaiwanese
Political partyDemocratic Progressive Party (1995 – 1997[1])
Alma materTokyo Imperial University
National Taiwan University
McGill University
University of Paris
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionLawyer

Peng Ming-min (Chinese: 彭明敏; pinyin: Péng Míngmǐn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Phêⁿ Bêng-bín; 15 August 1923 – 8 April 2022) was a notable Taiwanese 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.

  1. ^ 林, 河名 (8 April 2022). "「彭教授」與李競選總統 囑扁勿向馬求饒 婉拒任蔡資政". United Daily News. Retrieved 8 April 2022.