Yeah, of course. The defining moment in Taiwan’s democratization is what we call the Wild Lily Movement. I’ll just give you the Wikipedia link, which makes it easy. It’s just for a week, no, 22 days. It’s defining because it was the year after the Berlin wall, and Tiananmen, of course. It was very symbolic demands, demands that are very much informed by the previous year’s sit-ins and occupies.

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