Huang Hsin-chieh

{{Short description|Taiwanese politician (1938–1999)}}

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| name = Huang Hsin-chieh

| honorific-suffix = MLY

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| order = 3rd Chairperson of the DPP

| term_start = October 30, 1988

| term_end = January 20, 1992

| predecessor = Yao Chia-wen

| successor = Hsu Hsin-liang

| order1 = Member of the Legislative Yuan

| term_start1 = February 1, 1969

| term_end1 = December 31, 1991

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|8|20}}

| birth_place = Dairyūdōchō, Taihoku City, Taihoku Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan (modern-day Taipei, Taiwan)

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1999|11|30|1928|8|20}}

| death_place = Taipei, Taiwan

| resting_place = Bali, Taipei

| spouse = Chang Yueh-ching

| relatives = Huang Tien-fu (brother)
Lan Mei-chin (sister in-law)

| party = DPP

| education = National Taipei University (LLB)

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Huang Hsin-chieh ({{zh|c=黃信介}}; 20 August 1928 – 30 November 1999) was a Taiwanese politician, Taipei city council member, National Assembly representative, Legislative Yuan legislator, publisher of Formosa Magazine{{Cite book|title=Chen Shui-bian Building a community and a nation|last=Kagan|first=Richard|publisher=Asia-Pacific Academic Exchange Foundation|year=2000|location=Taipei, Taiwan|pages=67|quote=Huang Hsin-chieh was a member of the Legislative Yuan elected from Taipei and the nominal publisher of Formosa.}} and Taiwan Political Theory magazine (台灣政論), senior Dangwai Leader,{{Cite book|title=My Fight for a New Taiwan - One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power|last1=Lu|last2=Esarey|first1=Hsiu-Lien|first2=Ashley|publisher=University of Washington Press|year=2014|isbn=978-0-295-99364-5|location=Seattle|pages=81|quote=Toward the end of the banquet, Kang Ning-hsiang made a brief appearance, followed by that of the most senior Dangwai leader, Legislator Huang Hsin-chieh.}} third chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and senior adviser to the president of the Republic of China. He was born on August 20, 1928, during the period when Taiwan was under Japanese governance also known to the Japanese as the Japan governance period of Taiwan and was fluent in Japanese and Taiwanese. He married Chang Yueh-ching (張月卿) in 1954 and had four children and adopted sons. They lived in a modest residence on [https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E9%87%8D%E6%85%B6%E5%8C%97%E8%B7%AF_(%E5%8F%B0%E5%8C%97%E5%B8%82) Chongqing N. Rd] in Datong District, Taipei City for over three decades.

On November 30, 1999, he died of a heart attack in Taipei at the age of 71.{{cite news|last1=Lin|first1=Oliver|title=Democracy pioneer dies|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/local/archives/1999/12/01/0000013148|access-date=5 March 2017|work=Taipei Times|date=1 December 1999}} He was buried in Bali District,{{cite news|title=Chen makes annual democracy pilgrimage|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2005/12/11/2003283926|access-date=26 January 2018|work=Taipei Times|date=11 December 2005}}

President Lee Teng-hui on January 18, 2000, awarded Huang Hsin-chieh the posthumous citation for activities to promote political reform, nation building, and democracy advancement.{{Cite web|url=http://www.president.gov.tw/Default.aspx?tabid=131&itemid=7124&rmid=514&sort=0&order=1|title=Commendation citation|website=Office of the President, Republic of China|publisher=Government of the Republic of China}}

Lee's successor Chen Shui-bian established a memorial lecture at the Ketagalan Institute in Huang Hsin-chieh's memory to promote deeper democracy through lectures ranging from constitutional reform{{Cite web|url=http://www.president.gov.tw/Default.aspx?tabid=131&itemid=10048|title=總統參加「黃信介先生紀念講座」|date=2004-11-21|publisher=Office of the President, Republic of China}} to China-Taiwan-US relations.