ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates social movements surrounding the issue of land expropriation in Taiwan during the second Ma Ying-jeou administration. It explores the extent to which land and residential justice became the centre of persistent, and occasionally massive, demonstrations through the examples of the demolition of the Huaguang Community in Taipei and land incident in the Dapu Borough of Miaoli County. The chapter discusses the nature of Huaguang Community and Dapu Borough as incidents of government land-grabbing are quite different; however, the similarity of the two cases was the intense fury such eviction generated and the invoked methods of demonstration. It provides the background of two high-profile land expropriation cases under President Ma Ying-jeou's second term and their impact on the social movements such as the Sunflower Movement and methods of modern day protest in Taiwan. The escalation of city protests and the occupation of government buildings became the representative phenomenon of protests during President Ma Ying-jeou's second term in office.
