Dangwai

Dangwai or Tangwai ( Chinese  黨外  /  党外 , Pinyin dǎngwài , W.-G. Tang ³ -wai ⁴  - "outside the party") is the name of a political movement in the Republic of China on Taiwan from the mid- 1970s to the mid- 1970s the 1980 year. The movement saw itself as an alternative to the then sole ruling Kuomintang (KMT).

During the phase of one-party rule of the Kuomintang from 1949 to 1987 , only three political parties were legally allowed: the Kuomintang itself, the Young China Party and the Democratic Socialist Party of China . The latter two parties, however, were closely associated with the KMT and could not be considered real opposition parties. The establishment of political parties was prohibited under the current state of emergency. This sparked the "Dangwai Movement" (the movement outside the party , where "party" referred to the Kuomintang). In 1986 the movement became the first opposition party in the Republic of China, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).

Individual evidence

1. ^ John DH Downing - Encyclopedia of social movement media - Dangwai Magazines (Taiwan): (English) Pages 158–159 In: SAGE Publications, Inc. - Thousand Oaks, California 2010, ISBN 9780761926887 ( print ), ISBN 9781412979313 ( e-Book ), accessed March 18, 2019 - Online
2. ↑ Stefan Fleischauer: The dream of one's own nation. History and Present of Taiwan's Independence Movement. Springer-Verlag, 2009, p. 143.