My Fight for a New TaiwanLu Hsiu liens journey is the story of Taiwan. Through her successive drives for gender equality, human rights, political reform, Taiwan independence, and, currently, environmental protection, Lu has played a key role in Taiwans evolution from dictatorship to democracy. The election in 2000 of Democratic Progressive Party leader Chen Shui bian to the presidency, with Lu as his vice president, ended more than fifty years of rule by the Kuomintang