Su Beng

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Sú Bêng
史明
Senior Advisor to the President
In office November 9, 2016 – September 20, 2019
President	Tsai Ing-wen
Vice President	Chen Chien-jen
Personal details
Born	林朝暉 Lîm Tiâu-hui (1918-11-09)November 9, 1918 Shirin Town, Taihoku Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan
Died	September 20, 2019(2019-09-20) (aged 100) Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Nationality	Empire of Japan (1918–1945) Republic of China (Taiwan) (1945–2019)
Political party	Independent (1949–2019)
Other political affiliations	Chinese Communist Party (1943–1949)
Alma mater	Waseda University
Website	https://www.facebook.com/su.beng.3
Nickname	Ozisan (おじさん)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	史明
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Shǐ Míng Bopomofo ㄕˇㄇㄧㄥˊ Wade–Giles Shih3 Ming2 Tongyong Pinyin Shǐh Míng Southern Min Hokkien POJ Sú Bêng Tâi-lô Sú Bîng

Su Beng (9 November 1918 – 20 September 2019; Chinese: 史明; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sú-bêng; pinyin: Shǐ Míng; Wade–Giles: Shih³ Ming²), born Lîm Tiâu-hui (林朝暉; Lîm Tiâu-hui; Lín Cháohuī; Lin² Ch'ao²-Hui¹) and later known as Si Tiâu-hui (施朝暉; Shī Cháohuī; Shih¹ Ch'ao²-Hui¹; Si Tiâu-hui), was a Taiwanese revolutionary, historian and political activist of Taiwan independence movement. Su Beng was a representative Taiwanese left-wing nationalist in the socialist sense and is considered the 'Taiwan independence Left'; he opposed Japanese and Chinese imperialism.^[1]