The Sunflower Movement and Taiwan’s Embattled Sociology
In protest against a sweeping trade liberalization agreement with China, Taiwan’s university students stormed the national legislature in the evening of March 18, 2014, unexpectedly giving rise to a 24-day occupation of parliament, and a subsequent political crisis. The so-called Sunflower Movement partly inspired and was often linked to Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution six months later. It was arguably the largest and longest episode of collective...