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Category：Photograph

Material:Paper

Year：1986

Size:Length:33 x Width:49 (cm)

Introduction：During the martial law period, the KMT government prohibited those who advocated Taiwan independence overseas, as well as pro-democracy, leftist, and communist dissidents, from entering the country or rejected their visa applications. During the KMT rule, although the government denied the existence of a blacklist, it did admit the fact that the government initiated “case handling” on overseas individuals. During an interpellation by Legislator Chen Shui-Bian at the Legislative Yuan in 1991, Minister Chien Foo of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also denied the existence of a blacklist, but admitted the existence of a “list of noted persons.” After the lifting of martial law in 1987, many Taiwan independence activists in exile returned to Taiwan via illegal means, and were arrested or could not attain citizenship, including pro-democracy activists Hsu Hsin-Liang, Chen Wan-Chen, Lee Hsien-Jung, and Chen Tsui-Yu. On November 30, 1986, Hsu Hsin-Liang and fellow activists planned to return to Taiwan via Tokyo, and his good friend Yu Teng-Fa, former Magistrate of Kaohsiung County, called for people in Kaohsiung to travel north to show support for Hsu on the day before Hsu’s arrival. This picture shows a veteran from Mainland China lifting up his shirt to reveal the tattoos on his chest in protest to the KMT at the gathering site in Kaohsiung.

Chung Yi-Chieh, National Center of Photography and Images Collection Metadata, 2020

Media and Techniques：Gelatin silver print

Accession number:NCP2016-037-0007