New book touts ex-president Lee Teng-hui’s legacy

By Chen Yu-fu and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer Add TT as Preferred Source Former president Lee Teng-hui’s (李登輝) “special state-to-state relations” framework helped Taiwan move beyond Beijing’s “one China” narrative and provided diplomatic space for the nation’s democratic transition, Hoover Institution Library and Archives East Asia collections curator Lin Hsiao-ting (林孝庭) said yesterday. Lin made the remarks during an interview with the Chinese-language Liberty Times (Taipei Times’ sister newspaper) yesterday, ahead of the launch of his book, The Lee Teng-hui Era and the Reinvention of Taiwan (台灣的李登輝時代:意外國度的重塑), which examines how Lee oversaw Taiwan’s transition from authoritarian rule to democracy, and how his cross-strait policy shaped relations between the Republic of