
Audrey Tang grew up with a heart condition so serious that any strong emotion could land her in the hospital. She learned to stay radically calm. The heart condition was corrected at 12. The equanimity stayed. In 2014, Taiwan's Sunflower Movement pulled her back home. Three hundred thousand students occupied parliament. She left Silicon Valley and livestreamed what she clarifies was not a protest, but a demonstration of an alternative way to govern.