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The Wild Lily movement of March 1990 and the Sunflower movement of March 2014 were arguably the two largest student protests in Taiwan’s post-war history. The former, a six-day sit-in at CKS memorial square, aimed to reform the non-democratic national assembly while the latter, a 24-day occupation of parliament, was against trade liberalization agreements with China. In this talk, professor Fan will analyze the differences and sameness of these two student-led protests as well as their respective roles in Taiwan democratic transition.

Yun Fan received her PhD from Yale University and currently is associate professor of sociology at National Taiwan University. Her research interests include social movements, civil society and gender politics. Her work has been published in Sociological Theory, Social Justice, Taiwanese Sociology, Taiwanese Journal of Political Science and a few edited books. Her forthcoming book entitled “Activists Matter: Social movements during Taiwan’s democratic transition, 1980s-1990s” will be published by Routledge. Besides her academic work, she has been actively involved in the Taiwanese student movement, women’s movement and political reform movement for more than twenty years.