Yenlin Ku, summary of a talk at a
conference on the 200th anniversary of the
birth of Joseph Smith, 2005
First of all, I’d like to make a brief self-introduction. Before joining
the civil service, I was a professor of women studies at National Chiao Tung
University, and director of the Awakening Foundation, the first and for many years
the only feminist organization in Taiwan. I belong to no religious or political
groups. Feminism has been the anchorage of my values and directed my personal
as well as professional growth. For a long time, Mormons meant to me two
clean-cut young Caucasian men riding their bikes around, trying to convert
people to their belief. I have to confess here that when they came to knock on
my door, I always said, “Sorry, I’m busy.” (Actually, I was really busy.)