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Lung Ying-tai
Lung Ying-tai
龍應台
	File:Lung-Biophoto.jpg
1st Minister of Culture of the Republic of China
	In office; 20 May 2012 – 7 December 2014
Deputy	George Hsu, Chang Yun-cheng, Lin Chin-tien; George Hsu, Hung Meng-chi, Lee Ying-ping
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Hung Meng-chi
Minister of Council for Cultural Affairs of the Republic of China
	In office; 6 February 2012 – 19 May 2012
Preceded by	Ovid Tzeng
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Personal details
Born	13 February 1952 (age 72); Daliao, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Nationality	Republic of China
Alma mater	Taiwan Provincial Cheng Kung University; Kansas State University

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Lung Ying-tai (traditional Chinese: 龍應台; simplified Chinese: 龙应台; pinyin: Lóng Yìngtái) (born February 13, 1952 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan) is an internationally celebrated Taiwanese author, essayist, cultural critic, and civil society leader. Lung Ying-tai has held two prominent positions within Taiwan’s government as Taipei’s first Cultural Bureau Chief (1999-2003) and as Taiwan’s first Culture Minister (2012-2014). She is also a professor of literature and has taught at numerous prestigious universities worldwide, including Hong Kong University and the University of Heidelberg in Germany. In 2005, she co-founded the Lung Ying-tai Cultural Foundation, devoted to improving the quality of civil society in Taiwan by means of improving the island’s cultural life, especially for youth. Currently, Lung Ying-tai continues to write, teach, and direct her cultural foundation.

Lung Ying-tai has written dozens of well-received literary works and is, perhaps, most known for her path-breaking 1985 publication, Wild Fire (Ye Huo Ji 《野火集》), which is widely credited for playing a major role in the democratization of Taiwan during the late 1980s and early 1990s. More recently, she achieved critical acclaim for her 2009 opus, Da Jiang Da Hai 1949 (China 1949: Crossing the Torrents of History), which tackles the complex social impacts of China’s civil war.[1] Despite the book’s already selling over 500,000 copies internationally, it remains banned in mainland China.[1][16][17] As a consequence of her literary and political achievements, Lung Ying-tai’s columns and interviews have been featured in a wide array of international media, including the BBC, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, the South China Morning Post, the New York Times, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Wall Street Journal. Lung Ying-tai is also frequently invited to speak at various venues internationally.

Professional and Academic Activities

Early Life and Career

Lung Ying-tai was born in southern Taiwan, in the city of Kaohsiung. She is the only daughter and third oldest sibling among five. Her father served in the army as a military police officer in China. Following the Nationalist’s defeat to the Communists in China’s civil war, her parents fled to Taiwan in 1949. They left behind Lung Ying-tai’s oldest brother, Lung Ying-yang, with whom Lung Ying-tai would later establish contact in the 1980s and who would become part of the inspiration for her 2009 book on China’s civil war.

Lung Ying-tai received her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Kansas State University in the United States in 1982. Upon completion of her doctorate, she returned to Taiwan. Disappointed and outraged by the highly restrictive political conditions imposed by the government, including the continued use of martial law and single-party authoritarian rule, she began contributing newspaper columns to the local media critical of the government in Taiwan. These culminated in her work, Wild Fire, a collection of her published columns in book form. Wild Fire became a rapid bestseller and won Lung Ying-tai both celebrity status and praise as a leading intellectual in the movement for Taiwan’s democratization, but the work also earned her the status of persona non grata among her detractors. For family reasons, Lung moved to Switzerland in 1986 and on to Frankfurt in 1988. There, she began to write for newspapers such as the Frankfurter Allgemeinung, while also teaching Taiwan literature at the University of Heidelberg.

Later Life and Career

Lung Ying-tai remained in Germany until 1999, when, at the invitation of then Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou, she returned to Taiwan to serve as Taipei’s first Cultural Bureau Chief. While her contributions as Cultural Bureau Chief are many, she is most noted for her innovative urban renewal projects. These emphasized the importance of culture in shaping economic, political, and social development. Specifically, Lung Ying-tai implemented the policy of renovating dilapidated buildings and converting them into artist galleries, literature salons, and museums. This urban renewal practice remains popular today.

Despite her successes as Taipei’s Cultural Bureau Chief, which also included hosting Nobel Prize winning writers from mainland China, Gao Xingjian and Mo Yan, as scholars-in-residence, Lung Ying-tai decided to return to her first passion of writing. In 2003, when she finished the first term, she turned down the invitation from Mayor Ma to serve a second term, resigned from public service and moved to Hong Kong, where she continued her life as author and where she took a position as professor of literature at Hong Kong University. Hong Kong University bestowed upon Lung Ying-tai the title of Hung Leung Hao Ling Distinguished Fellow in Humanities. The university also provided Lung Ying-tai with a studio in her own name at Robert Black College, where she completed her opus China 1949: Crossing the Torrents of History.

Lung Ying-tai maintained her residential base in Hong Kong until 2012, when, now President Ma Ying-jeou, invited her to take the position of Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Council, with an aim to establish the Ministry of Culture in 3 months, the first new ministry to be established in Taiwan since 1949. Similar to her previous tenure as Cultural Bureau Chief, Lung Ying-tai’s service as Culture Minister was marked by an unwavering commitment to promote culture as a guiding concept in social, political, and economic development. Among her numerous contributions to the new post were the overhaul and elimination of outdated laws and regulations related to cultural development, the employment of cultural industries to enhance Taiwan’s visibility in the world, and the commitment not to allow mainland China to overpower and obscure Taiwan’s cultural industries. Specifically, Lung Ying-tai advocated for larger budgets to promote the arts, especially Taiwan’s film and publication industries, and to increase the number of Taiwan’s cultural centers around the world.

At the end of 2014, Lung Ying-tai announced her resignation from public office and, once again, returned to her primary passions of writing, teaching, and directing her cultural foundation.

Chronology of major works by Lung Ying-tai

Year of Publication and Name of Publication

1985 Lung Yingtai on Literary Criticism 《龍應台評小說》 ‐Wild Fire《野火集》

1987 ‐Ah, These Europeans! 《人在歐洲》

1994 ‐Take It Easy, My Children《孩子你慢慢來》 ‐The Right To Be Beautiful《美麗的權利》 ‐The Approaching fin de siècle 《看世紀末向你走來》

1996 ‐Cheers, Thomas Mann《乾杯吧，托馬斯曼》

1997 ‐Misgivings《我的不安》

1999 ‐Solitude《百年思索》

2003 ‐The Silver Cactus《銀色仙人掌》 ‐Towards the Ocean《面對大海的時候》

2006 ‐Convince Me With Civility《請用文明來說服我》

2007 ‐Dear Andreas‐ A Candid Conversation Between Generations 《親愛的安德烈》

2008 ‐Simply Departing《目送》

2009 ‐China 1949: Crossing the Torrents of History《大江大海一九四九》

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+Lung Ying-tai (traditional Chinese: 龍應台; simplified Chinese: 龙应台; pinyin: Lóng Yìngtái) (born February 13, 1952 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan) is an internationally celebrated Taiwanese author, essayist, cultural critic, and civil society leader. Lung Ying-tai has held two prominent positions within Taiwan’s government as Taipei’s first Cultural Bureau Chief (1999-2003) and as Taiwan’s first Culture Minister (2012-2014). She is also a professor of literature and has taught at numerous prestigious universities worldwide, including Hong Kong University and the University of Heidelberg in Germany. In 2005, she co-founded the Lung Ying-tai Cultural Foundation, devoted to improving the quality of civil society in Taiwan by means of improving the island’s cultural life, especially for youth. Currently, Lung Ying-tai continues to write, teach, and direct her cultural foundation.
-'''Lung Ying-tai''' ({{zh|t=龍應台|s=龙应台|first=t|p=Lóng Yìngtái}}) (born 13 February 1952 in [[Kaohsiung]]) is a [[Taiwan]]ese essayist and cultural critic.<ref name=nyt>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/world/asia/06iht-taiwan.html?_r=2&ref=global-home|title=Untold Stories of China and Taiwan|last=Yu|first=Verna|date=5 October 2009|work=New York Times|accessdate=30 January 2010}}</ref> She occasionally writes under the pen name 'Hu Meili' (胡美麗).<ref name=encyc>{{Cite book|last=Wu|first=Helen Xiaoyan|editor=Edward L. Davis|title=Encyclopedia of contemporary Chinese culture|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|chapter=Long Yingtai|isbn=0-203-64506-5|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=U2cO7tjYIK0C&pg=PT555}}</ref> Lung's poignant and critical essays contributed to the democratization of [[Taiwan]]<ref name=nyt/> and as the only Taiwanese writer with a column in major [[People's Republic of China|mainland Chinese]] newspapers, she is an influential writer in [[Mainland China]]. She has written 17 books.<ref name=rebels/><ref name=adjuncts>{{Cite web|url=http://jmsc.hku.hk/2009/10/adjuncts/|title=Adjuncts|work=Journalism and Media Studies Center|publisher=Hong Kong University|accessdate=30 January 2010}}</ref>
+Lung Ying-tai has written dozens of well-received literary works and is, perhaps, most known for her path-breaking 1985 publication, Wild Fire (Ye Huo Ji 《野火集》), which is widely credited for playing a major role in the democratization of Taiwan during the late 1980s and early 1990s. More recently, she achieved critical acclaim for her 2009 opus, Da Jiang Da Hai 1949 (China 1949: Crossing the Torrents of History), which tackles the complex social impacts of China’s civil war.[1] Despite the book’s already selling over 500,000 copies internationally, it remains banned in mainland China.[1][16][17] As a consequence of her literary and political achievements, Lung Ying-tai’s columns and interviews have been featured in a wide array of international media, including the BBC, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, the South China Morning Post, the New York Times, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Wall Street Journal. Lung Ying-tai is also frequently invited to speak at various venues internationally.
-Lung was the Minister of the [[Ministry of Culture (Republic of China)|Ministry of Culture]] of the [[Republic of China]] in 2012-2014.<ref>http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aedu/201412010019.aspx</ref>
-==Early life==
+'''Professional and Academic Activities'''
-Lung's father, Lung Huai-sheng (龍槐生), was a [[Kuomintang]] soldier and the family had to escape to Taiwan after the KMT lost [[Chinese Civil War|the civil war in China]] in 1949.<ref name=nyt/> She is her parents' second child and has four brothers. The first character of Lung's given name, ''ying'' (應), is her mother's [[family name]] (Yin Mei-jun), and the second character, ''tai'' (台), is to signify that she is the first child in the family to be born in Taiwan.
+'''Early Life and Career'''
-After attending [[National Tainan Girls' Senior High School]], Lung received her bachelor's degree in Foreign Language and Literature from the [[National Cheng Kung University]]<ref name=ncku>{{Cite web|url=http://english.web.ncku.edu.tw/files/14-1005-59627,r20-1.php|title=Academician Paul Chu and Prof. Ying-Tai Lung Honored with K.T. Li Chair Professor Award by NCKU|date=10 November 2009|work=National Cheng Kung University|accessdate=30 January 2010}}</ref> and a [[Ph.D.]] from [[Kansas State University]] in English and American Literature.<ref name=bw/>
+Lung Ying-tai was born in southern Taiwan, in the city of Kaohsiung. She is the only daughter and third oldest sibling among five. Her father served in the army as a military police officer in China. Following the Nationalist’s defeat to the Communists in China’s civil war, her parents fled to Taiwan in 1949. They left behind Lung Ying-tai’s oldest brother, Lung Ying-yang, with whom Lung Ying-tai would later establish contact in the 1980s and who would become part of the inspiration for her 2009 book on China’s civil war.
-==Early career==
+Lung Ying-tai received her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Kansas State University in the United States in 1982. Upon completion of her doctorate, she returned to Taiwan. Disappointed and outraged by the highly restrictive political conditions imposed by the government, including the continued use of martial law and single-party authoritarian rule, she began contributing newspaper columns to the local media critical of the government in Taiwan. These culminated in her work, Wild Fire, a collection of her published columns in book form. Wild Fire became a rapid bestseller and won Lung Ying-tai both celebrity status and praise as a leading intellectual in the movement for Taiwan’s democratization, but the work also earned her the status of persona non grata among her detractors. For family reasons, Lung moved to Switzerland in 1986 and on to Frankfurt in 1988. There, she began to write for newspapers such as the Frankfurter Allgemeinung, while also teaching Taiwan literature at the University of Heidelberg.
-After returning to Taiwan, she began writing an [[op-ed]] column in ''[[China Times]]'' on the various conditions in Taiwan. Her essays were published together in 1985 in a book of social-political criticism, "The Wild Fire," (''[[Ye Huo Ji]]'' [[:zh:野火集|《野火集》]]) when Taiwan was still under the [[Dangguo|Kuomintang’s one-party rule]], which cemented her role as an intellectual in Taiwan. She moved to [[Germany]] in 1987,<ref name=cultural/> partly due to the response to her work that included death threats.<ref name=critic>{{Cite news|url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB984147226750729821.html?mod=googlewsj|title=Former Taiwan Social Critic Works To Promote Taipei's Urban Culture|last=Ling|first=Connie|year=2001|work=Wall Street Journal|accessdate=30 January 2010}}</ref> Her translated essays had appeared in European newspapers such as the ''[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]''. Her work has appeared in mainland Chinese newspapers since the early 1990s.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2006/12/10/2003339860|title=Lung Ying-tai slams Taiwan's isolation|last=Snyder|first=Charles|date=10 December 2006|work=Taipei Times|accessdate=30 January 2010}}</ref> Her essays include "Children Take Your Time," "Silver Cactus", "Rise of thinking," and in 2006, "Please Use Civilization to Convince Me", an open letter to [[Hu Jintao]] following the temporary closure of ''[[Freezing Point]]''.<ref name=bw>{{Cite news|url=http://www.businessweekly.com.tw/webarticle.php?id=22981|script-title=zh:向胡錦濤嗆聲的心路歷程|last=Chen|first=Elaine|work=Business Week|language=Chinese|accessdate=30 January 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4743274.stm|title=China's censored media answers back|last=Luard|first=Tim|date=23 February 2006|work=BBC News|accessdate=30 January 2010}}</ref> She criticised Singaporean minister [[Lee Kuan Yew]] and the government's restrictions on personal freedom in 1994 in an article titled, "Thank God I Am Not Singaporean".<ref name=critic/>
-She returned to Taiwan to become the first Director of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of [[Taipei]] in September 1999,<ref name=cultural>{{Cite news|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/local/archives/1999/09/04/1836|title=Writer appointed cultural head|last=Chu|first=Monique|date=4 September 1999|work=Taipei Times|accessdate=30 January 2010}}</ref><ref name=critic/><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nzz.ch/2001/08/11/li/article7246O.html|title=Asiens Öffnung zur Welt - Gespräch mit Lung Ying-tai, Kulturdirektorin der Stadt Taipeh|date=11 August 2001|work=Neue Zürcher Zeitung|language=German|accessdate=30 January 2010|location=Switzerland}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2000/05/15/36092|title=Editorial: Culture and politics inseparable|date=15 May 2000|work=Taipei Times|accessdate=30 January 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/local/archives/2000/08/02/46112|title=Cultural Affairs Bureau takes over art museum|last=Shu-ling|first=Ko|date=2 August 2000|work=Taipei Times|accessdate=30 January 2010}}</ref> and her policies increased the visibility of the arts in Taipei during her four-year term.<ref name=rebels/> She resigned in March 2003 to return to writing, noting that "being an official is suffocating. I could hardly breathe."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2003/03/20/198760|title=Taipei's cultural head makes good with two books|last=Huang|first=Sandy|date=20 March 2003|work=Taipei Times|accessdate=30 January 2010}}</ref>
+'''Later Life and Career'''
-She joined the Journalism and Media Studies Centre of the [[University of Hong Kong]] in August 2004. In July 2005, she established the Lung Ying-tai Cultural Foundation and used the foundation as a platform to sponsor literary and artistic endeavours as well as academic lectures.<ref name=rebels>{{Cite news|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2007/03/02/2003350716|title=Making rebels with a cause|last=Buchan|first=Noah|date=2 March 2007|work=Taipei Times|accessdate=30 January 2010}}</ref> Since 2008 Lung Ying-tai has undertaken the position of Hung Leung Hao Ling Distinguished Fellow in Humanities of [[University of Hong Kong]]<ref name=adjuncts/> and Chair Professor of [[National Tsing Hua University]] in Taiwan.<ref name=bw/> She received the 2009 [[K.T. Li]] Chair Professor Award from NCKU.<ref name=ncku/>
+Lung Ying-tai remained in Germany until 1999, when, at the invitation of then Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou, she returned to Taiwan to serve as Taipei’s first Cultural Bureau Chief. While her contributions as Cultural Bureau Chief are many, she is most noted for her innovative urban renewal projects. These emphasized the importance of culture in shaping economic, political, and social development. Specifically, Lung Ying-tai implemented the policy of renovating dilapidated buildings and converting them into artist galleries, literature salons, and museums. This urban renewal practice remains popular today.
-Her 2009 book "Da Jiang Da Hai 1949" ("[[Big River, Big Sea — Untold Stories of 1949]]") is about the 1949 civil war and the escape to Taiwan of supporters of the Kuomintang.<ref name=nyt/> It sold over 100,000 copies in Taiwan and 10,000 in Hong Kong in its first month of release, but discussion of her work was banned in mainland China following the book launch.<ref name=nyt/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chinafreepress.org/publish/Othernews/Lung_Ying-tai_becomes_an_internet_pariah_in_China.shtml|title=Lung Ying-tai becomes an internet pariah in China|date=18 September 2009|work=China Free Press|accessdate=30 January 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/22843/|title=A History of 60 Years of China, Banned on Communists’ 60th Anniversary|last=Ping|first=Wan|date=22 September 2009|work=Epoch Times|accessdate=30 January 2010}}</ref>
+Despite her successes as Taipei’s Cultural Bureau Chief, which also included hosting Nobel Prize winning writers from mainland China, Gao Xingjian and Mo Yan, as scholars-in-residence, Lung Ying-tai decided to return to her first passion of writing. In 2003, when she finished the first term, she turned down the invitation from Mayor Ma to serve a second term, resigned from public service and moved to Hong Kong, where she continued her life as author and where she took a position as professor of literature at Hong Kong University. Hong Kong University bestowed upon Lung Ying-tai the title of Hung Leung Hao Ling Distinguished Fellow in Humanities. The university also provided Lung Ying-tai with a studio in her own name at Robert Black College, where she completed her opus China 1949: Crossing the Torrents of History.
-Upon the creation of the [[Ministry of Culture (Republic of China)|Ministry of Culture]] in May 2012 she became the first Minister of Culture of Taiwan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.straight.com/article-765336/vancouver/taiwan-culture-minister-lung-yingtai-negotiates-chinese-government-banned-her-bestseller|title=Taiwan's culture minister Lung Ying-tai negotiates with Chinese government that banned her bestseller|last=Smith|first=Charlie|date=28 August 2012|work=Straight.com|accessdate=27 October 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://english.moc.gov.tw/MOC_en/Code/History.aspx|title=Taiwan's Ministry of Culture History|work=Official site|accessdate=27 October 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://english.moc.gov.tw/MOC_en/Code/Minister.aspx|title=Taiwan's Minister of Culture|work=Official site|accessdate=27 October 2012}}</ref>
+Lung Ying-tai maintained her residential base in Hong Kong until 2012, when, now President Ma Ying-jeou, invited her to take the position of Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Council, with an aim to establish the Ministry of Culture in 3 months, the first new ministry to be established in Taiwan since 1949. Similar to her previous tenure as Cultural Bureau Chief, Lung Ying-tai’s service as Culture Minister was marked by an unwavering commitment to promote culture as a guiding concept in social, political, and economic development. Among her numerous contributions to the new post were the overhaul and elimination of outdated laws and regulations related to cultural development, the employment of cultural industries to enhance Taiwan’s visibility in the world, and the commitment not to allow mainland China to overpower and obscure Taiwan’s cultural industries. Specifically, Lung Ying-tai advocated for larger budgets to promote the arts, especially Taiwan’s film and publication industries, and to increase the number of Taiwan’s cultural centers around the world.
-==ROC Culture Ministry==
-[[File:Lung Ying-tai.jpg|thumb|Minister Lung during Free China Boat Homecoming Ceremony in [[Zhongshan Hall]] on 11 July 2012.]]
+At the end of 2014, Lung Ying-tai announced her resignation from public office and, once again, returned to her primary passions of writing, teaching, and directing her cultural foundation.
-===MOC inauguration===
-During the inauguration ceremony of the establishment of the ROC Ministry of Culture (MOC) on 21 May 2012, Lung hoped that culture will not serve politics, but will be served by politics. She hoped that MOC shall be independent so that it can withstand political influence and carry out cultural work.<ref>http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2012/05/22/2003533444</ref>
-===Taiwanese low reading habit===
-In March 2013, Lung presented a report at the [[Executive Yuan]] on strategies to boost Taiwan's publishing industries. This is due to the lack of interest in reading among Taiwanese and the interest is still declining.<ref>http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/03/22/2003557710</ref>
+'''Chronology of major works by Lung Ying-tai'''
-===I Am A Singer TV show===
-In mid April 2013, Lung said that the ROC Ministry of Culture will create a better environment for local Taiwanese artists and to help them to shine on international stage, responding to the growing popularity of [[I Am A Singer]] (我是歌手) TV music contest show from [[Hunan]] in Taiwan. She said that although it shows the growing investment made by the Chinese mainland in [[pop culture]] show and [[show business]] talent areas, it also reflects the strength and popularity of Taiwanese singers due to the popular usage of their songs by the Chinese mainland singers.<ref>http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2013/04/14/2003559577</ref>
+'''Year of Publication and Name of Publication
-===Reciprocal cross-strait television broadcaster landing rights===
+'''
-Speaking at [[Legislative Yuan]] in end of April 2013 in commenting on Beijing-based [[China Central Television]] and Hong Kong-based [[Phoenix Television]] plan to have right to broadcast in Taiwan, Lung said that [[Government of China|Beijing]] needs also to give the landing rights for Taiwanese [[television network]] in Mainland China, because reciprocity is important. If this can't be realized, then there is no basis for discussion regarding the issues.<ref>http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/china-taiwan-relations/2013/04/30/377368/Reciprocity-key.htm</ref><ref>http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/china-taiwan-relations/2013/04/30/377367/Officials-reply.htm</ref>
-===Cross-strait cultural exchanges===
+Lung Yingtai on Literary Criticism 《龍應台評小說》
-In mid of May 2013, Lung said that the MOC is planning to establish "official-to-official authority" platform with Mainland China for any [[Cross-Strait relations|cross-strait]] cultural exchange matter. If everything goes as plan, the MOC will held a cross-strait cultural forum in [[Taipei]] in September 2013. She said that is she concerns about the [[intellectual property rights]] (IPR) and censorship system practiced by [[Government of China|Beijing]], adding that Taiwanese creative industries and cultural sectors might face difficulties in penetrating markets there.{{fact|date=April 2016}}
+‐Wild Fire《野火集》
-She will urge the Mainland counterpart to enhance transparency in publication and film censorship, strengthen IPR protection, push Beijing to exempt non-ideological cultural products of Taiwan from censorship and allow their launch in several Mainland cities and experimental zones without restrictions. She also looks forward to inviting [[Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China|PRC Ministry of Culture]] [[Cai Wu]] to visit Taiwan.<ref>http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/05/11/2003562010</ref>
+‐Ah, These Europeans! 《人在歐洲》
-===Public Television Service Foundation===
+‐Take It Easy, My Children《孩子你慢慢來》
-In end of May 2013, Lung said that the Public Television Service Foundation (PTS) was the biggest international scandal Taiwan has ever had because dispute over PTS board has been blocking many of the public broadcasting policy. She even agreed if the PTS were to be abolished if there is no solution to the dispute.<ref>http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2013/05/23/379324/PTS-row.htm</ref>
+‐The Right To Be Beautiful《美麗的權利》
+‐The Approaching fin de siècle 《看世紀末向你走來》
-===Resignation===
+‐Cheers, Thomas Mann《乾杯吧，托馬斯曼》
-On 1 December 2014, Lung tendered her resignation from the ministerial post citing her aging mother as the main reason and that hostile [[Politics of the Republic of China|politics]] and [[Media of Taiwan|media]] had worn her down. Before stepping down, she appealed to the public to give more encouragement to good government workers to inspire them to give better results from the hard-working civil servants, and that strong civil service is the key to the progress of society. She plans to continue writing after her retirement from politics and to continue caring about the progress of society.<ref>http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aftr/201412060016.aspx</ref>
-==Personal life==
+‐Misgivings《我的不安》
-After moving to Germany in the late 1980s, she married a [[Germans|German]] man with whom she has two sons.<ref name=critic/> She was also known as Ying-tai Walther.<ref name=encyc/> They were eventually divorced.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} One of Lung's books, ''Dear Andreas'' ([[:zh:親愛的安德烈|《親愛的安德烈》]]), is a collection of letters and e-mails between her and her older son.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mysinchew.com/node/5580?tid=12|title=Mother And Son And Life|last=Yan|first=Tay Tian|others=Soong Phui Jee (trans.)|date=14 January 2008|work=Sin Chew|accessdate=30 January 2010}}</ref>
+‐Solitude《百年思索》
-==References==
+‐The Silver Cactus《銀色仙人掌》
-{{Reflist|2}}
+‐Towards the Ocean《面對大海的時候》
-==External links==
+‐Convince Me With Civility《請用文明來說服我》
-{{commons category}}
-{{Wikiquote|Lung Ying-tai}}
-*[http://my.nthu.edu.tw/~cfge/lyt.html Lung Ying-tai page at National Tsing Hua University {{zh icon}}]
-*[http://uradio.cybercampus.hku.hk/player.php?1=1&programid=256 (Live-webcast) Professor Lung Ying-tai's New Book Launch & Lecture]
-*{{Cite web|url=http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-china/hu_jintao_3271.jsp |title=A question of civility: an open letter to Hu Jintao|last=Ying-tai|first=Lung|date=15 February 2006|work=OpenDemocracy|accessdate=30 January 2010}}
+‐Dear Andreas‐ A Candid Conversation Between Generations
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+《親愛的安德烈》
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+‐Simply Departing《目送》
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+‐China 1949: Crossing the Torrents of History《大江大海一九四九》
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