Although there are no noticeable stains or scratches, please understand that this item has been stored by an individual. ◆ A Kuomintang politician from Taiwan (Republic of China). He became the first Taiwanese-born President of the Republic of China in 1988 and actively promoted democratization from the 1990s. He gradually leaned towards Taiwanese independence, and relations with the Chinese government on the mainland deteriorated. As President from 1988 to 2000, he was a Kuomintang politician who promoted the democratization and modernization of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Following the death of President Chiang Ching-kuo, he was promoted from Vice President and became the first Taiwanese-born (Ben-sheng-ren) President. In March 1996, he was elected President in the first direct election by the people of Taiwan. He was born in Taiwan under Japanese rule in 1923, but he himself stated that his ancestors were Hakka. He studied at the Faculty of Agriculture at Kyoto University in Japan, experienced the war as a Japanese soldier through student mobilization, joined the Kuomintang after the war, worked in practical affairs under the Kuomintang governments of Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo, and served as Mayor of Taipei, among other positions. After the death of Chiang Ching-kuo in January 1988, he became the first Taiwanese-born (Ben-sheng-ren) President. Lee Teng-hui withdrew the Kuomintang's slogan of "Reconquering the Mainland" (returning to the mainland from which they were driven out by the Chinese Communist Party), recognized the effective control of the People's Republic of China over the mainland, and advocated for the name "Republic of China, Taiwan," stating that the base of the Republic of China was Taiwan. This assertion was called the "Two States Theory."