station was destroyed, burned down by protesters. The police opened fire, resulting in the deaths of National Central University student Chiang Wen-kuo and youth Chang Chih-ping, as well as severely injuring youth Liu Shih-jung. The incident received international media attention, severely damaging the political image of then premier Chiang Ching-Kuo and planting the political seeds for the later Kaohsiung incident. This “five in one” local elections were the biggest elections Taiwan had ever had. Tangwai elites, who usually struggled on their own, began to work together and join forces across generations, building strong momentum. The results of the elections were also unprecedented, with Huang Yu-jen elected Kaohsiung County mayor, Hsu Hsin-liang elected Taoyuan County mayor, and Lin Yi-hsiung, Chang Chun-hung, Chiu Lien-hui, and Su Hung Yueh-chiao elected provincial councilors. In May 1978, Chiang Ching-Kuo became president as expected. Riding the momentum of the “five in one” local elections, the Tangwai movement began preparing to campaign for the “election of supplementary popular representatives in the central government (National Assembly and Legislative Yuan)” on December 23 later that year. Tangwai election campaign groups made impassioned speeches across Taiwan. However, just a week before the election, the US announced that it would be cutting diplomatic ties with the ROC starting January 1, 1979. On the same day, Chiang Ching-kuo announced that the elections were suspended, putting an end to all political movements. What followed was a full-blown stock market crash, outflow of capital, and waves of panic-stricken people immigrating overseas. To intimidate and break up the Tangwai alliance, Kuomintang repeated the “Lei Chen incident” playbook, framing and arresting leading Tangwai figure January 22, 1979: Tangwai leader Yu Teng-fa was framed with consorting with communists. The new generation of Tangwai activists rapidly gathered at Chiaotou, Kaohsiung and began the first political demonstration in Taiwan under martial law. Photographer: Chen Po-wen 36 September 28, 1979: Supplementary legislator Huang Hsin-chieh giving an impassioned speech at the service office set up by Formosa Magazine in Kaohsiung. Photographer: Chen Po-wen Yu Teng-fa for “consorting with communists” on January 21. However, the new generation of Tangwai activists rapidly gathered and traveled to Chiaotou Township, Kaohsiung County overnight. In the morning of the next day (January 22), they organized the first political demonstration in Taiwan under martial law, the “Chiaotou incident”. At a time when the image of the authoritarian regime was severely challenged both domestically and internationally, the government did not handle the demonstration lawfully right away, but had the Control Yuan “impeach” Taoyuan County Mayor Hsu Hsin-liang on April 20 for being absent from duty to participate in illegal demonstrations, dismissing him from public office. Hsu Hsing-liang was also dismissed by the Public Functionary Disciplinary Commission in the end. These actions did little to intimidate the activists, however. Instead, they further incensed Tangwai supporters, heightening the political conflict. The situa- tion was becoming dangerously explosive, like two trains about to crash into one another. Formosa Magazine — A Political Party Without a Name (1979) ~Making democracy our political system is the biggest contribution that the 18 million people in Taiwan can make to the ethnic Chinese~ These grand words were included in the article “Working Together to Promote a Political Movement of the New Generation” in the first issue of Formosa Magazine in August 1979. The article emphasized how the magazine’s ambition was to inherit Free China’s pursuit of freedom, human rights, and democracy. The magazine would also perpetuate the way Taiwan Political Theory integrated community mobilization as it continued to challenge the authoritarian regime and fight for democracy. 37