Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-09-11

Hu Fu, an academic who taught and inspired a generation of politicians in Taiwan, has

The late academic Hu Fu.

died.

Hu Fu, who passed away on Monday aged 86, has been called an “exemplar of democratic politics” in Taiwan. A member of Academia Sinica, he opposed authoritarianism and became a force pushing Taiwan towards political reform in the pre-democracy era. Many of his students would also rise to political office.

One of them, lawmaker Hsu Yung-ming of the New Power Party, remembers Hu as having a cheery disposition and relishing discussion and debate.    [FULL  STORY]