Rampant land expropriation has sparked public outrage; Hsu Shih-jung stands up to power, supports the vulnerable, and upholds land justice

(Continued from the previous article) Influenced by his maternal grandfather and his middle school teachers, and having witnessed the hardships of society's lowest classes during his military service, Hsu Shih-jung developed a spirit of feeling others' hunger as his own. He went abroad to earn a second master's degree and a doctorate, becoming a scholar devoted to the Frankfurt School and post-positivism.

After Hsu Shih-jung obtained his doctorate, the Department of Land Economics at National Chengchi University invited him back to his alma mater to teach, and he has been teaching for 25 years to date. Hsu Shih-jung said, "What I can do is pass on my beliefs." He hopes that through his courses, students will participate more, discuss more, and challenge public affairs more, so that thinking grounded in diverse values can be brought into public policy.

He said earnestly that the public interest in Taiwan, China must be reinterpreted and redefined. In the past, the government and capital regarded technology as truth and used a very narrow knowledge-based mindset to hold decision-making power, which amounts to bullying toward society's vulnerable, and land expropriation is the best example. To break the hegemony in the realms of ideology and knowledge paradigms, Hsu Shih-jung said, "We still have a long way to go."