S4-E9 – Chen Shui-bian 陳水扁: The Middle Years – From Law School to First Prison Term

When Chen Shui-bian 陳水扁 began his university studies in 1969,
gifted student though he was, few could have imagined he would
become Taiwan’s first non-KMT president. The young Chen had no
political plans – he wanted to study business and make money for
his impoverished family in rural Tainan. One day during his first
semester, he heard a speech by an independent candidate who
publicly criticized the autocratic rule of the KMT. Chen was
fascinated. Listen to this week’s story to learn how Chen changed
majors, and despite being called “boring” by a few young women he
liked, eventually wed Wu Shu-chen 吳淑珍, the daughter of a wealthy
Tainan doctor. Plus, Chen’s involvement in the Kaohsiung Incident
of 1979, a turning point for the democracy movement and for Chen.
And we end with Chen’s first stint in prison; not the more recent
sentences for corruption, but in the mid-1980s for libel.





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