Wild Lily Student Movement
野百合學運
Source: NTHU Student Movement History Forum — Wild Lily Student Movement Retrospective
From: National Tsing Hua University / Residential College
The March Student Movement, which ran from March 16 to March 22, 1990, is also known as the Taipei Student Movement or the Wild Lily Student Movement. At its peak, nearly 6,000 university students from across Taiwan gathered to sit in protest in the plaza of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (now the National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall). They put forward four demands: “dissolve the National Assembly,” “abolish the Temporary Provisions,” “convene a National Affairs Conference,” and “establish a timetable for political and economic reform.” This was not only the largest student protest action since the ROC government relocated to Taiwan, but also exerted considerable influence on Taiwan’s democratic politics. Following the movement, President Lee Teng-hui, honouring his promise to the students, soon convened a National Affairs Conference, and in 1991 also abolished the Temporary Provisions Effective during the Period of Communist Rebellion and ended the so-called “Ten-Thousand-Year Legislature.” Taiwan’s democratisation process thereby entered an entirely new era.
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External Links
- The Wild Lily Student Movement and Taiwan’s Democratic Development (Li Yu-t’an, thesis)
- The 1990s: The Wild Lily Student Movement (History of NCKU)
- Wild Lily Student Movement (Wikipedia)
- Wild Lily Student Movement (Special Exhibition: Retrospective on Postwar Taiwan Student Movements)