From the Wild Strawberries to the Sunflower Movement: Dialogue with Jiho Chang on the 10th anniversary of "318 Movement"

Key information

Date
Time
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Venue
Main Building, SOAS University of London, 10 Thornhaugh St, London WC1H 0XG
Room
BG01
Event type
Lecture

About this event

This open-to-public event is a open-dialogue event with the Keelung City Councilor Chang, Jiho about his firsthand experiences on Taiwan's Wild Strawberry Movement (2008), Sunflower Movement (2014), as well as his political careers in Taiwan.

Jiho Chih-Hao Chang is a City Councilor at Keelung, Taiwan. He is a former speechwriter for Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (2015-2017), and former Taiwan Independence advocate and activist who took part in, among others, Wild Strawberry Movement (2008) and Sunflower Movement (2014).  

He obtained his BA in Political Science from University of British Columbia, and MA from National Taiwan University.  He is a member of the Democratic Progressive Party. Jiho appeared in the hit documentary films ‘The Right Thing (2010)’ and ‘The Edge of Night (2018)’, as himself.