Lee Wen-chung (Chinese: 李文忠; born 20 June 1958) is a Taiwanese politician who served in the National Assembly from 1992 to 1999, then in the Legislative Yuan until his resignation in 2006.
Lee was born to a poor Nantou County family in 1958, and attended National Taiwan University, where he studied political science.
Heavily influenced by the 1979 Kaohsiung Incident, he edited tangwai publications and pushed for the school to permit direct elections for student body president alongside Liu Yi-te and Lai Chin-lin.
University administration labelled Lee "excessively politically progressive" instead and expelled him in 1986, after which he became active in Taiwan's labor rights movement.
[6][7] In his first term, Lee helped uncover a financial scandal involving Taiwan Pineapple Group and members of the Taiwanese judiciary dating back to November 1999.
[21] Lee and Lin Cho-shui resigned their legislative seats in November 2006 to protest the way a party-led investigation into Chen Shui-bian was being run.