Chien Hsi-chieh is a Taiwanese politician who served in the Legislative Yuan from 1996 to 2002 as a member of the Democratic Progressive Party.
13 Facts About Chien Hsi-chieh
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Chien Hsi-chieh later founded the Alliance of Fairness and Justice.
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Chien Hsi-chieh became active in the tangwai movement after the Kaohsiung Incident as a journalist and cartoonist.
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Chien Hsi-chieh was elected to two terms as a member of the Legislative Yuan and served from 1996 to 2002.
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In 2000, Chien Hsi-chieh was attacked by Lo Fu-chu and Lin Ming-yi.
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Chien Hsi-chieh founded the Alliance of Fairness and Justice, known as the Pan-Purple Coalition, on 10 August 2003 and announced that he would represent the coalition of social groups as its presidential candidate in the 2004 elections, but soon left the race.
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Since leaving office, Chien Hsi-chieh has supported many social causes and initiatives.
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Chien Hsi-chieh has called for the government to fund programs that would raise Taiwan's birth rate.
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The next year, Chien Hsi-chieh helped lead the Million Voices Against Corruption, President Chen Must Go campaign alongside Shih Ming-teh.
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Chien Hsi-chieh later joined the Alliance for Fair Tax Reform to serve as its spokesman, leaving the group to establish the Anti-Poverty Alliance.
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In 2012, Chien Hsi-chieh, representing the Anti-Poverty Alliance, was named to the Executive Yuan Tax Reform Committee alongside Wang Jung-chang of the Alliance for Fair Tax Reform.
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Chien Hsi-chieh has written repeatedly on the merits of nonviolent civil resistance, a topic on which he published a book in 2015.
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The Taipei Times has published Chien Hsi-chieh's writing on economic inequality and tax reform.