Tang Kuo-cheng
Tang Kuo-cheng | |
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Member of the Legislative Yuan | |
In office 1948–1991 | |
Constituency | Hunan |
Tang Kuo-cheng (Chinese: 唐國楨) was a Chinese politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.
Biography
[edit]After graduating from Peking Women's Normal University , Tang became a researcher at Meiji University in Japan.[1] Returning to China, she became headteacher at Ningxia Provincial Girls' High School.[1] She joined the Kuomintang and was a delegate to its sixth national congress. She became a member of the Central Women's Movement Committee and chair of Nanjing Women's Association.[1]
Tang was a delegate to the 1946 Constituent National Assembly that drew up the constitution of the Republic of China. She was subsequently a Kuomintang candidate in Hunan in the 1948 elections for the Legislative Yuan, and was elected to parliament.[1] She relocated to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War, where she remained a member of the Legislative Yuan until 1991.