LATEST ARTICLES
2007–2026: When Accountability Safeguards Taiwan’s Constitutional Order
As the consequences of the 2007 Tai Ji Men ruling continue to unfold, they reveal how constitutional guarantees depend on the conduct of administrative power.
July 13, 2007, and Tai Ji Men: A Legal Victory, A Lesson for All of Us
A landmark acquittal that affirmed innocence, yet left a wound unhealed. A reminder that justice must be lived, not merely declared.
The Tai Ji Men and the Yenish: When Bureaucrats Ignore the Courts
In the drama of the Yenish children unjustly separated from their families in Switzerland, bureaucrats resisted the courts for decades—just as happened in the Tai Ji Men case.
A Legal Victory, an Administrative Injustice: Remembering Tai Ji Men’s Supreme Court Triumph
Tai Ji Men’s long journey toward justice continues to inspire international concern and civic reflection.
Conscience, Belief Practices, and Institutional Integrity: A Sustainability-Oriented Perspective on the Tai Ji Men Case
Environmental engineering may seem remote from freedom of belief. In fact, it helps describe polluted systems in different fields.
Master-Disciple Tradition, Equality, and Inequality in Taiwan
The Tai Ji Men case is based on a misunderstanding of how traditional relations between masters and their disciples function.
Equality, Freedom of Belief, and the Tai Ji Men Case
A Taiwanese technology executive draws lessons from the semiconductor industry that are relevant to issues of tax justice and freedom of belief.
Taxes as a Tool of Religious Discrimination: The Case of Tai Ji Men
Bureaucratic inertia persisted after courts ruled in favor of Tai Ji Men, resulting in administrative persecution.
The Tai Ji Men Case at the European Academy of Religion’s Ninth Annual Conference
At a global scholarly gathering in Rome, a session explored Taiwan’s unresolved issues of tax justice and freedom of religion or belief.
Calling for a Solution of the Tai Ji Men Case
We join Tai Ji Men in respectfully asking the government of Taiwan, whose commitment to democracy in a region plagued by non-democratic regimes we appreciate and applaud, to return through a political act the confiscated sacred land to Tai Ji Men and publicly confirm that, as Taiwan’s Supreme Court stated, they never violated the law nor evaded taxes.
It would be a small step for Taiwan’s government, but a crucial one to tell the world Taiwan is truly committed to freedom of religion or belief and to the protection of religious and spiritual minorities that were once persecuted by its authoritarian and post-authoritarian regimes.
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“The Tai Ji Men Case” web site is a project by Action Alliance to Redress 1219 whose aim is to collect and put at the readers’ easy disposal articles, documents, and videos—from academic studies to magazine articles—about the case of Tai Ji Men, a mempai (similar to a school) of qigong, martial arts, and self-cultivation headquartered in Taiwan, which has been victim of discrimination and persecution in its home country since 1996, and whose street protests have generated widespread international protests. Here you can find an exhaustive chronology of the case.
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