Dr. Chiang Wei-shui, a physician Dadaocheng Daan Hospital in Taipei, in the 1920s during the Japanese occupation period, teamed up with comrades to organize the Taiwan Cultural Association and the Taiwan People's Party, which gave birth to the Taiwan Workers' Union, and became the "nanny" of the "Taiwan Minpao" newspaper, Dr. Chiang and the likes struggling with unarmed and non-violent Taiwanese anti-Japanese movement, truly wrote an epic historical page. Chiang Wei-shui had been arrested and imprisoned more than a dozen times in his life. He wrote about human rights in prison diligently. He used the role of a "cultural doctor" to diagnose the "world's cultural incompetent" Taiwan. He laid a very large number of foundations in the "Clinical Lectures". His prescription for the school and social education carried hopes to restore Taiwan to be stronger and healthier within 20 years.
This study uses the classical method of historical literature as the latitude, and the Jene Sharp "non-violent action" research method as the longitude. Together with Erica Chenoweth’s "3.5% rule", the successful model of the social protest, the core of Dr. Chiang’s involvement in the Taiwan national movement is the three levels of "protest and persuasion, non-cooperation, and non-violent intervention", which verify the golden decade of the unarmed and non-violent resistance during the Japanese occupation period (1921-1931), and the success and failure history and experience of the anti-Japanese sages. The study found that the Japanese military suppressed those armed anti-Japanese activists in the early days of the Japanese occupation, and in the later period focused on profit extraction on the island rather than educational enlightenment. Therefore the development of agro-industrial economy was prioritized but the local education and culture were suppressed. Taiwanese national activists such as Chiang Wei-shui tried to enlighten the masses with wisdom and promoted the establishment of a Taiwanese parliament to fight for autonomy. Under the totalitarian suppression of the Japanese colonial government, non-violent actions could only focus on the passive and primal "protest and persuasion", and rarely progress to the second level of economic, social and "political non-cooperation", and the third level of "non-violent intervention" was even rarer. Due to the harsh penalties imposed by the Japanese government, the actual number of people who participated in the resistance was still limited, and all its efforts were doomed to fail.
The conclusion of this study is that Dr. Chiang Wei-shui insisted on non-violent resistance to develop Taiwan's national and democratic movements. The process of enlightening the local culture, developing education, arousing popular support, and uniting the people still put considerable pressure on the ruling authorities. Chiang's thorough character and uncompromising spirit, and his dedication to the movement were more than enough to win the respect and admiration of later generations.