In 2011, at an event where then-President Ma Ying-jeou and Premier Wu Den-yih signed their names on a Tao canoe to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Republic of China's founding, Chen criticized Ma for showing contempt for aboriginal culture. She was quoted as saying, "100th anniversary of the ROC was also a demarcation of the 100 years during which Aborigines lost their land."[4]
In 2018, Chen negotiated a deal for a Pinaski palakuwan, an important institution in the Puyuma tribe, to be sold to an indigenous buyer. The palakuwan was previously registered to an "Aniu" (アニウ) during the Japanese era but was transferred to a Han Chinese ownership. As the property was rumored to be listed for sale in the previous year, Puyuma tribal members expressed concern that the palakuwan would be jeopardized. Chen requested the Executive Yuan to aid the tribe in repurchasing the property, and this request was granted in October 2018. The initiative was part of Chen's larger campaign to realize transitional justice in the prior treatment of the Taiwanese indigenous peoples in previous administrations.[6]
In July 2019, Chen announced that the government had nationalized land that was registered to a defunct Japanese-era organization. The land was never properly registered in the modern era, and was neither public nor private. Chen worked with Kuomintang legislator Sra Kacaw to facilitate a bipartisan process of recognizing the land as public and reserving it for indigenous use.[7]
Chen was re-elected in 2020 along with Wu Li-hua, and the 2020 election became the first time the DPP was able to secure seats in both the Lowland and Highland Aborigine constituencies.[5] Chen called attention to the Chinese propaganda campaign targeted at the Taiwanese aboriginal population. She cited National Security Bureau findings that China had for decades carried out wide-ranging united front tactics such as "business incentives and procurement, funding and donations, cultural exchanges, promoting China as the “motherland" for Taiwanese youth, China-centric news and social media, and political lobbying." Chen demanded the bureau investigate cases of Chinese money being used to support Beijing's preferred candidates and influence elections in aboriginal districts.[8]
In September 2021, along with other DPP colleagues as well as Taiwan Statebuilding Party legislator Chen Po-wei, Chen Ying called for the establishment of a permanent athletic training and sports science center similar to ones in the United States, Japan, and South Korea, to facilitate the training of competitive athletes in Taiwan.[9]
Her grandfather Chen Kung-yuan (Agematsu Kouichi) was a member of the famed Kano baseball team, the Taiwanese high school team that won second place at Japanese High School Baseball Championship (Koshien) in 1931, portrayed in the 2014 film Kano. In honor of his father, Chen Chien-nian launched the Kung-Yuan Cup (耕元盃棒球賽), an annual baseball tournament that was restarted by Chen Ying in 2016.[10]
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^ abLu, Mei-fen (March 2017). "文化身分：建築與身體奇觀再現"(PDF). College of Humanities. Taitung, Taiwan: National Taitung University. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
^Sawawan, Aras (1 February 2022). "族群文化融入春聯 特製虎年紅包代廣受好評". TITV News. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
