A more extensive and thorough perspective is needed in the writing of Taiwan's human rights history. On the one hand, the traditional conception of human rights should be extended to economic, social, and cultural rights. A variety of social movements should be included in the research and writing of human rights history. On the other hand, the local struggle should be located in the global context. Being isolated from the international community for decades, Taiwan's role in the process of socialization of universal human rights norms is a subject to be explored. The aim of this article is to propose an analytical framework as the starting point of further research on the history of human rights movements in Taiwan.