Michael Turton shows that the recall campaign in Taiwan is part of a long history of civil society resisting government misrule

"To understand how a campaign like this could organize itself with such effectiveness, it is important to situate public anger and public action in the centuries of resistance to external power that has deep, abiding roots in collective social action throughout the Qing, Japanese and KMT colonial periods."

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2025/07/14/2003840246

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Michael Turton shows that the recall campaign in Taiwan is part of a long history of civil society resisting government misrule

"To understand how a campaign like this could organize itself with such effectiveness, it is important to situate public anger and public action in the centuries of resistance to external power that has deep, abiding roots in collective social action throughout the Qing, Japanese and KMT colonial periods."

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2025/07/14/2003840246

#Taiwan#democracy #activism #台灣大罷免