Born in a Japanese puppet state in 1935, the Taiwanese author and politician died on Sunday of brain cancer at the age of 82
Date: 18 March, 2018
By: Lawrence ChungSu Xinqi

A political campaigner who railed against the political norms of his time, he will be forever remembered as a controversial and colourful character. He lost his battle with brain cancer on Sunday morning at the Veterans General Hospital in Taipei.

Li was a long-time critic of Taiwan’s government who penned more than 100 books, many of them scathing of the critical of the island’s authorities. He once infuriated the late Kuomintang (KMT) leader Chiang Kai-shek by calling him a dictator, and referred to former presidents Lee Teng-hui as an “unfaithful political turncoat” and Chen Shui-bian as a “big deceiver”.

Li was diagnosed with brain a tumour in June 2015 and was admitted to hospital on four separate occasions as his condition worsened, his doctors said. He had been particularly ill since January but died peacefully, his son Li Kan said.    [FULL  STORY]