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TAIWAN’S POST-WAR EVOLUTION FROM COLONY TO DEMOCRACY
DISCUSSION WITH JEFFREY BUCZACKI
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY:
Jeffrey Buczacki is a retired Foreign Service Officer whose 29-year career included overseas postings in Zaire, India, Greece, China and Taiwan. He is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
After Chinese language training in Washington, D.C. and Taipei, he was posted to the American embassy in Beijing, China for three years. Later, he served as Branch Chief of the American Institute on Taiwan’s Kaohsiung office from 1992-95, where he witnessed the emergence of the Democratic People’s Party, the first opposition political party on the island.