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...water chestnuts on charcoal braziers. When Chen was growing up here during the 1950s, Taiwan was still struggling for survival; today's grandiose notion of cultural identity was a distant luxury. While the newly arrived leaders of the Kuomintang, freshly landed from the mainland, were building their capital in Taipei, for the native Taiwanese, descendants mostly of Fujian and Guangdong natives who settled during the 17th century, life was hardscrabble. What kids like A-Bian dreamed about was a full stomach. He ate only rice most meals. Beef, chicken and fish were for special occasions. His family's typical stone...
...exporting your music, movies and TV shows, that means other countries are interested in what you think, who you are. The upshot is a state that confidently and pragmatically goes about its business (even though much of that business is on the mainland). And as you wander through Taipei or tour the countryside, you realize that the hoary topic of re-unification is not so much an issue as an irrelevance, a political parlor game fraught with linguistic and semantic tricks played out in Beijing, Washington and Taipei?a game that increasingly seems as anachronistic as the terms still used...
...practice as a lawyer. Through this phase of his career and the next?his emergence as a political figure following his stellar defense of the "Kaohsiung Eight" opposition group charged with plotting to overthrow the government, and his subsequent terms in office as a legislator and the mayor of Taipei?his approach remained basically the same: to out-prepare, out-study, out-argue and out-campaign his rival, whether that was opposing counsel or a KMT politician. His method was bluntly effective and essentially unchanged from his academic blueprint: work harder, better and longer and eventually you will persevere...
...better reach out, Chen has reached in, exploring his own emotional core. "I've been through hardships and failures," he says, citing his 1985 loss in Tainan county, a prison stay in 1986 for libel, his 1998 second term mayoral loss in Taipei. "I can't say that every great leader must go through hardship, but I know that it makes me a better leader...
...find it difficult to coalesce. A good showing in December, and Chen's disappointing first year?especially his mishandling of a pledge to keep Taiwan nuclear-free by canceling and then reinstating a planned power plant?could be forgotten as Chen pushes through his legislative agenda. As mayor of Taipei, he was a tireless promoter of quality of life issues?shutting down sex shops, getting a light-rail urban transit system into operation, installing special bus lanes to unsnarl Taipei's notorious traffic and beautifying the city...