On May 19, 1989, the funeral for Cheng Nan-jung (Nylon Cheng) was being held in Taiwan. When the funeral procession reached the front of the Presidential Palace, the government set out barbed wire barricades and riot police to suppress the procession. They even sprayed powerful water jets at the peaceful marchers, arousing public anger. At this moment, Chan I-hua, a grassroots party worker in the Democratic Progressive Party and a participant in the Taiwan independence movement, suddenly doused himself in gasoline he had prepared, set himself on fire, and rushed the barbed wire barricade to hang a banner reading "Born a Taiwanese Person, Died a Taiwanese Soul". With this, he gave the most severe denunciation possible to the Kuomintang (National People's Party) regime.

References: [鄭南榕基金會("Nylon Cheng Liberty Foundation")(Chinese)]] (http://www.nylon.org.tw/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=18)