The Chung-li Incident (Chinese: 中壢事件; Pinyin: Zhōnglì shìjiàn) took place in 1977, when, during the counting of votes for a local election in Taoyuan County, Tangwai politician Hsu Hsinliang riled up his supporters by alleging that voter fraud had taken place. The mob consequently burnt down a police station.
To escape the violence, Hsu fled to the US, where he later established the Taiwan Revolutionary Party, and, like most anti-KMT political figures operating abroad in exile, advocated for increasingly radical means of overthrowing the KMT regime.
