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About Chen Chih-hsiung
- Chen Chih-hsiung (Chinese: ???; Pe?h-oe-ji: Tân Tì-hiông; 18 February 1916 – 28 May 1963) was a Taiwanese independence activist. Chen was born in what was known as Ako Cho, a division of Japanese Taiwan, in 1916.
- He studied Dutch at the Tokyo University of Foreign Languages, and was also fluent in English, Japanese, Malay, Hoklo and Mandarin.
- He was sent by the Japanese government to the Dutch East Indies in 1942, shortly after Japan had begun its occupation of the territory, to serve as a translator.
- Chen stayed in Indonesia after the end of World War II and found work designing jewelry.
- He sided with Sukarno in the subsequent Indonesian National Revolution and was imprisoned by the Dutch for a year.
- After the revolution, Sukarno named Chen an honorary citizen of Indonesia.
- Chen later joined Thomas Liao's Formosa Democratic Independence Party and helped secure Liao a trip to the Bandung Conference held in 1955.
- The next year, Liao appointed Chen the ambassador to Southeast Asia upon the formation of the Japan-based Republic of Taiwan Provisional Government.
- The Indonesian government eventually arrested Chen and rescinded his passport before deporting him.
- Chen then traveled to Switzerland and was granted citizenship there before moving to Japan to see Liao.
- The Kuomintang forced Chen's return to Taiwan and asked him to cease his pro-independence advocacy.
- He did return, but founded another pro-independence organization in 1961.
- The Taiwan Garrison Command arrested Chen for his actions the next year and imprisoned him in a facility on Qingdao Road in Taipei.
- In 1963, Chen became the first independence activist to be executed in Taiwan.Chen was survived by his wife Chen Ying-niang, whom he met in Indonesia, and three children.
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