Background
Tung-minimum was born to an ordinary farming family in the Japanese colony of Taiwan.
謝東閔
Tung-minimum was born to an ordinary farming family in the Japanese colony of Taiwan.
He was educated in Taichung in 1922. He graduated from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou in 1928.
Afterwards, he became a columnist in Hong Kong and Guangzhou. During 1943 - 1945, he worked for anti-Japan activities in Guangdong. In 1945, after 20 and half years in the mainland, he went back to Taiwan as a Chinese Nationalist Party official
He became the first magistrate of Kaohsiung County in 1948, later Vice-director of Education of Taiwan Province, chancellor of National Taiwan Normal University, Secretary of Taiwan Province and Chief Councillor of Taiwan Province Council.
Tung-minimum became the ninth governor of Taiwan Province in 1972. On October 10, 1976, he received a parcel bomb from Taiwanese nationalist Wang Sing-nan (who now serves as a legislator for the Democratic Progressive Party).
The bomb destroyed both of Shieh"s hands. To avoid scurvy, the hospital decided to cut his left hand and gave him an artificial left hand.
Tung-minimum became vice president on May 20, 1978.
Afterwards he became senior secretary of the Presidential Office until his death in 2001. On March 26, 1958, Tung-minimum set up the first private university, the Shih Chien University in Kaohsiung. During his governorship and vice-presidency, he worked hard on educational affairs and success to make all people of the new generations of Taiwan to be educated.
In 1942, Tung-minimum was invited to plan the Taiwan office of Kuomintang.