One of the Demon Heroes' rebels, the floating pot space - Long Yingtai

Long Yingtai (1952), pen name Hu Meili, Manchu, born in Daliao Township, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan (now Daliao District, Kaohsiung City), Taiwan, is a famous Taiwanese writer and the first director of the Cultural Bureau of Taipei City.

(The author read books when he was young, and was amazed by the master, and for the first time admired the girl's thoughts running in front of the author, it is true that many years later, the author's world has been different from that of his youth)

His father Long Huaisheng was originally from Hengshan, Hunan Province Manchu after the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Mongolian, Manchu Long, the Han surname is Long, in Miaoli County Police Station Yuanli Branch as the director, mother Ying Meijun from Chun'an, Zhejiang, moved to Taiwan after the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and has four sons and one daughter.

Long Yingtai grew up in Miaoli Garden, Taiwan, studied in Yuanli Elementary School, Yuanli Junior High School, and spoke Hokkien dialect, and later moved to Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and was an alumnus of Tainan Girls' High School.

After graduating from National Cheng Kung University in 1974 with a degree in Foreign Languages, Long went to the United States to study and received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Kansas State University. After graduation, he taught at the City University of New York, Massey College, the Department of English at National Central University, Tamkang University, and the University of Heidelberg.

In 1984, Long wrote a column called "Wildfire Collection" in the China Times, which was published the following year and reprinted 24 times in 21 days, which was a book that had a great impact on the development of democracy in Taiwan in the 1980s. Yu Guangzhong called it "Dragon Wind".

In 1999, at the invitation of Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou, Lung Ying-tai became the first director of the Taipei City Cultural Affairs Bureau, during which he promoted local culture and tree protection policies.

In February 2003, Long Yingtai resigned. Back to writing. In August of that year, he went to Hong Kong, where he spent his first year at the City University of Hong Kong, and then became a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong.

In July 2005, he co-founded the Lung Ying Tai Cultural Foundation with a group of cultural people and entrepreneurs who advocate social participation.

In October 2008, the University of Hong Kong appointed Lung Ying-tai as the inaugural Hung Leung Hau-ling Distinguished Humanities Scholar and established the Lung Ying-tai Writing Room at the Parkerage College of the University of Hong Kong.

In August 2009, "The Great River and the Sea 1949" was published, which caused a huge repercussion in the Chinese world. In February 2011, Li Ao published "The Great River and the Sea Deceived You". ridicule and refute the historical outlook of "The Great River and the Sea 1949".

During Lung Ying-tai's tenure as Minister of Culture. She was called the Queen Mother of the Dragon, the Queen of the Dragon, and the Dragon Fairy by reporters.

On September 18, 2012, Lung Ying-tai said: "Compared with other countries, Taiwan's ministerial-level salary of 150,000 yuan per month is indeed too little, which involves the issue of national competitiveness."

December 12, 2012. Lung Yingtai said: "Ma Ying-jeou was choked by throwing shoes. It's a kind of bullying."

In 2013. Chen Lerong criticized the Ministry of Culture under the leadership of Lung Ying-tai for lacking specific policies and only holding forums and dialogues, calling Lung Ying-tai "Minister of the Forum".

In the 1980s. Lung Yingtai married her German ex-husband and gave birth to two sons, the eldest son Andre and the second son Philippe (Long's 2007 book "Dear Andre" is a compilation of her correspondence with her eldest son, Andrei).

In 1986, Lung Yingtai and his family lived in Switzerland, and in 1988 moved to Germany. Offered a course in Taiwanese literature at the Department of Sinology at the University of Heidelberg.

He is the author of "Wildfire Collection" and other review collections, and the essays "A Hundred Years of Thinking", "When Facing the Sea", "Child, You Take Your Time", etc. In recent years, Lung Ying-tai has repeatedly pointed out the merits of the "democratic system" on different occasions, which has aroused widespread repercussions and controversies.

Some of Lung Yingtai's works have aroused a wide range of responses and discussions from readers. "Wildfire Collection" caused great repercussions and discussions in Taiwan at that time, and was reprinted four times in 20 days, with about 100,000 copies. The number of people who bought books and the number of people who circulated them was equivalent to 20%-60% of the reading population in Taiwan at that time.

"Wildfire Collection" was later published in Chinese mainland and generated an enthusiastic response among college students across the mainland. Many college students believe that the book is not only aimed at Taiwan but also Chinese mainland, and even seems to have been written for Chinese mainland. The Wildfire Collection, published in China, is an abridged version.

"Ah, Shanghai Man!", which was published in the "Wenhui Bao PEN Club" on January 7, 1997, caused an uproar. "Shanghai men" called the newspaper office one after another to scold the author for "insulting" Shanghai men, but Shanghai men are still real "big husbands".

Later, this article and other articles were collected into a book "Ah, Shanghai Man!", including Lung Yingtai's humanistic views on some of the cities or countries he visited.

In an article critical of Chinese mainland, he wrote: "Democracy is not just about voting in elections, it is a way of life, a way of thinking, the air you breathe every day, the cultivation of your hands, and the space for personal transformation.

This is not visible in the small lattice window. So if you are disillusioned with the chaos in the little square, don't forget that true democracy is in life, in the depth and breadth of the square. 」

She also criticized Taiwan's rulers: "Honesty is the first principle, and honesty is the first principle." In the face of China's rulers, she wrote in her article: "You tolerate media independence, you respect intellectuals, what attitude you use to face your own history, what means you use to treat the people, and every small decision is tied to the word 'civilization.'" 」

Lung Ying-tai once said, "I just don't believe that human rights should be separated by political standpoints. The Kuomintang, the Communist Party, the Democratic Progressive Party, the fucking party, if human dignity is not your core value, if you allow human rights to be defined by power, then you are just the object of my spit. Don't intimidate me. 」

For those who are political officials and intellectuals:

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Should the political magistrate use the power of the intellectual-writer? Once "going to sea" becomes an administrative officer, he should be the target of criticism from all sides.

The arena of the administrative officer is his administration, and all his self-justification should be self-evident in his governance measures. On the one hand, he enjoys the power of governance practice, and when he is criticized, he also wants to have the weapon of intellectual speech, is not the same as being a player on the field and a referee who blows the whistle on success or failure?

It is dishonest to have two powers at the same time, "attacking the shield of the son with the spear of the son". ...... My pen can't be unsheathed. - Lung Yingtai "When the Power is in Hand"

After taking office as Minister of Culture, when DPP legislators Duan Yikang and Zheng Lijun questioned the June 4 incident, they refused to express their stance on the issue of democracy and human rights, causing controversy.

Lung Yingtai responded that because the Ministry of Culture will consult with the mainland under the framework of ECFA, in order to avoid problems during negotiations, as the Minister of Culture, she refused to give any response to this.

As for the position of being a writer, it is clearly written in her book. Yang Xianhong, Chen Fangming and others criticized her, saying that her attitude does not show that the government insists on human rights as Taiwan's core value.

Author of 1985 "Long Yingtai Review Novels", Erya Publishing House. 1985 "Wildfire Collection", Yuanshen Publishing House. 1987 "Wildfire Collection", Yuanshen Publishing House. 1988 "People in Europe", Times Culture Inc. 1990 "Longyingtai Essays", edited by Yang Jilan, (Fuzhou) Strait Literature and Art Publishing House.

1990 "Taiwan from Eastern Europe", Social University Cultural and Educational Foundation. 1991 "Long Yingtai Review Novels", (Beijing) Writers Publishing House. 1992 "Letter to Taiwan", Yuanshen Publishing House.

1994 "Look at the End of the Century Coming to You", Times Culture Company. "Child, You Take Your Time", Crown Literary Publishing Company.

The Right to Beauty, Yuanshen Publishing House. "People in Europe", Joint Publishing (Beijing).

1995 "Falling in Love in Heidelberg", United Literary Publishing House. 1996 Cheers, Thomas Mann, Times Culture.

1996 "Long Yingtai Selected Works (Volume 1) Wildfire Collection", "Long Yingtai Selected Works (Volume 2) Long Yingtai Review Novels", "Long Yingtai Selected Works (Volume 3) Women and Villains", "Long Yingtai Selected Works (Volume 4) Look at the End of the Century Coming to You", "Long Yingtai Selected Works (Volume 5) in Heidelberg Fall in Love", Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House.

1997 "My Restlessness," Times Culture, Inc. "Soul Pull", Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House.

1998 The Unfinished Revolution: A Century of Wuxu, The Commercial Press, Taiwan. "Ah! Shanghai Man", Xuelin Publishing House. This Turbulent World, Shantou University Press. "A Hundred Years of Thinking," Times Culture Inc

2003 "Silver Cactus: A Collection of Novels by Long Yingtai", United Literature.

2004 "When Facing the Sea", Times Culture Company.

2005 "Child, You Take Your Time", Times Culture Company.

2006 "Thinking about Hong Kong", Subculture Hall. "Please Convince Me with Civility," Times Culture Company. "Lung Yingtai's Hong Kong Notes @ 25 Shawan Walk", Tiandi Books.

2007 "Dear Andrey", World Magazine.

2008 "Eye Delivery", Times Culture Company.

2009 "The Great River and the Sea 1949", World Magazine. (To be continued......)