After CESNUR 2026, some thirty academics toured a ruined villa near Taipei and met disciples in a forum on a case that refuses to close.
Tai Ji Men
From the Taiwanese Cultural Association to Tai Ji Men
In the 1920s, intellectuals in Taichung defended identity and rights with words alone. Today, a peaceful movement for tax and legal reform does the same.
Rethinking the Tai Ji Men Case Through the Lens of Epistemic Injustice
Miranda Fricker’s categories help explain who was believed, who was silenced, and who was entitled to define the meaning of red envelopes in a three-decade Taiwanese controversy.
The Knights Templar and Tai Ji Men: Unresolved Injustice and Collective Memory
Seven centuries apart, a medieval military order and a Taiwanese self-cultivation community raise the same question: what happens to a state that refuses to repair a wrong it has committed?
An Ancient Eastern Menpai and Conscience Education
A Taiwanese dizi describes the master–disciple bond that transformed four generations of her family, and the thirty-year struggle of her school for justice.
Justice, Trust, and the Sacred: An Islamic Reading of the Tai Ji Men Case
Qur’anic principles on authority and religious freedom suggest that administrative classification can never replace a genuine understanding of a spiritual community.
The Tai Ji Men Case and the Institutional Fabrication of Justice in Post-Authoritarian Taiwan
Three self-reinforcing mechanisms explain why tax authorities still defy a 2007 Supreme Court acquittal, and four reforms could finally break the deadlock after thirty years.
Thirty Years Without Justice: New Perspectives on the Tai Ji Men Case at CESNUR 2026
In Taichung, scholars and disciples examined a tax persecution that has outlived a Supreme Court acquittal and the governments that started it.
A “Pax Romana” Now: Wishing Tai Ji Men an Off-Calendar “Happy New Year”
True peace is founded on the universal extension of equal rights to all citizens and on the dynamic wisdom of its legal institutions.
Justice, Social Peace, and the Risks of Endemic Injustice in a Democratic Society: The Case of Tai Ji Men
How decades of fiscal persecution test Taiwan’s commitment to the rule of law.









