Lin Cheng-chieh (Chinese: 林正杰; pinyin: Lín Zhèngjié; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Chèng-kia̍t; born 8 November 1952) is a Taiwanese politician.
Following his release, Lin Kwan-rung spent three years at his ancestral home in Fujian until, with the help of his wife, he returned to Taiwan in 1983.
[11] Lin left the DPP in June 1991,[12] shortly after Fei Hsi-ping and Ju Gau-jeng, leading the party to radicalize and openly support Taiwan independence.
[13][14] After leaving the DPP, Lin told Alan M. Wachman in July 1991 that "[I]t is not necessarily the case that those who identify themselves as Taiwanese support Taiwan independence...
[18] In 1994, Lin began a hunger strike as part of a larger protest in support of retaining a statue of Guanyin on the grounds of Daan Forest Park.
[19] Despite having left the Democratic Progressive Party, Lin served as deputy mayor of Hsinchu under fellow DPP founder James Tsai.
[21] In August 2006, Lin slapped and kicked Chin Heng-wei [zh], editor of the magazine Contemporary Monthly, during a joint appearance on Formosa TV.
[31] In December, he led a gathering of thirty people to protest the renaming of Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall.