Annette Lu

Annette Lu, or Lu Hsiu-lien, strikes me as someone whose life tracks the whole arc of modern Taiwan. Trained as a lawyer at National Taiwan University, she emerged as a feminist voice in the Tangwai movement during a period when dissent carried real personal risk. I find her path compelling: from women's rights activist to joining the Democratic Progressive Party in 1990 and winning a Legislative Yuan seat in 1992. Born under Japanese rule in what was then Shinchiku Prefecture, she embodies generations of upheaval. To me she reads as a principled fighter rather than a career politician, someone who chose conviction before it was safe to.

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Name (English)

Annette Lu

Name (Japanese)

呂秀蓮

Reading

ろ・しゅうれん

Born

June 6, 1944 (age 82)

Origin

Tōen town, Shinchiku Prefecture, Taiwan under Japanese rule

Occupation

politician / women's rights activist / lawyer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Monkey

High school

Taipei Municipal Taipei First Girls' High School

University

National Taiwan University

• Official sitehttps://www.president.gov.tw/1_vice_president/e_layer2.html
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette%20Lu
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%91%82%E7%A7%80%E8%93%AE
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q465284

Tags

• Shinchiku Prefecture
• politician
• women's rights activist
• lawyer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.