Su Beng

Sú Bêng
史明
Senior Advisor to the President
In office
November 9, 2016 – September 20, 2019
PresidentTsai Ing-wen
Vice PresidentChen Chien-jen
Personal details
Born
林朝暉 Lîm Tiâu-hui

(1918-11-09)November 9, 1918
Shirin Town, Taihoku Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan
DiedSeptember 20, 2019(2019-09-20) (aged 100)
Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Nationality
Political partyIndependent (1949–2019)
Other political
affiliations
Chinese Communist Party (1943–1949)
Alma materWaseda University
Websitehttps://www.facebook.com/su.beng.3
NicknameOzisan (おじさん)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinShǐ Míng
Bopomofoㄕˇㄇㄧㄥˊ
Wade–GilesShih3 Ming2
Tongyong PinyinShǐh Míng
Southern Min
Hokkien POJSú Bêng
Tâi-lôSú Bîng

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.[1]

  1. ^ "Su Beng's legacy lives on in Taiwan museum's spring roll event". Taiwan News. 3 February 2024. Retrieved 24 June 2024.