To the Taiwanese, former president Lee Teng-hui, who died on Thursday, played a huge and pivotal role in the democratisation of Taiwan and the rise of the Taiwanese identity.
But he was also a controversial figure who elicited either love or hatred in the island's residents, depending on their political stripes.
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