Huang Tien-fu (; born 1938) is a Taiwanese politician.

Education

Huang studied political science at

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Political career and activism

Huang ran for a seat on the

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in 1980, a year after his elder brother

Huang Hsin-chieh Huang Hsin-chieh (; 20 August 1928 – 30 November 1999) was a Taiwanese politician, Taipei city council member, National Assembly representative, Legislative Yuan legislator, publisher of ''Formosa Magazine'' and Taiwan Political Theory magazi ...

was arrested for leading the Kaohsiung Incident. Relatives of other people involved in the Kaohsiung Incident also contested the 1980 election cycle and won, namely Chou Ching-yu and Hsu Jung-shu. While in office, Huang published several magazines affiliated with the

tangwai movement The ''Tangwai'' movement, or simply ''Tangwai'' (), was a loosely knit political movement in Taiwan in the mid-1970s and early 1980s. Although the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) had allowed contested elections for a small number of seats in the Leg ...

, among them ''Vertical-Horizontal'', ''Political Monitor'', and ''Bell Drum Tower''. Copies of the fifth issue of ''Bell Drum Tower'' were confiscated by the

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party-state in May 1983, and ''Political Monitor'' was suspended in November. After losing reelection in December, Huang founded ''Neo Formosa Weekly'' in June 1984. ''Neo Formosa Weekly'' also drew the attention of the government, which banned all but one of its 52 issues. On 19 June 1984, "A Critique of New Marxism" was published in ''Neo Formosa Weekly'', accusing Elmer Fung of plagiarism. Fung sued the magazine for libel in October. On 12 January 1985, the Taipei District Court sentenced

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, Lee I-yang and Huang Tien-fu to a year's imprisonment. Upon appeal to the Taiwan High Court, all three sentences were shortened to eight months. The trio were released in February 1987. Huang contested the 1989 Legislative Yuan primary for Taipei, but lost. By forming an electoral coalition with Shen Fu-hsiung,

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, and Yen Chin-fu, Huang was elected to the Third Legislative Yuan. After Chen Shui-bian won the 2000 presidential election, he offered Huang a position as senior adviser, which Huang held through 2006. Days before the 2008 presidential election, Huang stated, "I'm afraid that Taiwan will become the next Tibet. If the KMT wins the election, we don't know when we will et the presidencyback." He served the

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administration as national policy adviser. In May 2022, the

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overturned libel charges against Huang dating back to his tenure on the ''Neo Formosa Weekly'' staff. Huang's wife Lan Mei-chin has also served on the Legislative Yuan.

References

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