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Fu Ching-yen

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Fu Ching-yen
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office
1948–1991
ConstituencyLiaobei
Personal details
Born22 June 1906
Faku County, China
Died24 May 1995(1995-05-24) (aged 88)
Vancouver, Canada

Fu Ching-yen (Chinese: 富靜岩, 22 June 1906 – 24 May 1995) was a Chinese civil servant and politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.

Biography

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Fu was born in Faku County in Liaoning province in 1906. She attended Shanghai China Public University, where she graduated from the Department of Political Economy.[1] She subsequently attended the School of Economics and Political Science at the University of London.[1] She began working for the Ministry of Social Affairs as a commissioner, advisor and head of the Accounting Department.[1] She also served as chair the Chinese Women's Life Improvement Association.[1]

She was a Kuomintang candidate in Liaobei province in the 1948 elections to the Legislative Yuan, in which she was elected to parliament. Her husband Meng Kuang-hou was also elected from Liaoning Province. During the Chinese Civil War the couple relocated to Taiwan. She died in Richmond Hospital in Vancouver in 1995.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d 富靜岩 Legislative Yuan