DPP marks 35 years with book on party’s founding‘TENSE ATMOSPHERE’: Those present at the book launch recalled fears at the founding meeting, while celebrating photographer Chiu Wan-hsing’s tribute to the partyBy Jason Pan / Staff reporterSenior Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) members gathered in Taipei yesterday to launch a book on the party’s early history. “We must never forget the DPP’s original spirit and the party’s founding principles. President Tsai Ing-wen, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairperson, speaks at yesterday’s launch in Taipei of photographer Chiu Wan-hsing’s book Taiwan’s Defiant Years: the Rise of the DPP 1986-1987. Several DPP founding members attended the event, including Legislative Speaker You Si-kun (游錫堃), former Taipei county commissioner You Ching (尤清) and former DPP chairman Yao Chia-wen (姚嘉文). It was urgent to announce the party’s founding to the world, he said, adding that it was crucial that foreign media reported the event.

Source: Taipei Times September 25, 2021 15:56 UTC