Ji Qingyi
Ji Qingyi | |
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| Member of the Legislative Yuan | |
| In office 1948–1966 | |
| Constituency | Heilongjiang |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 September 1904 |
| Died | 11 January 1998 (aged 93) |
Ji Qingyi (Chinese: 紀清漪, 3 September 1904 – 11 January 1998) was a Chinese politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.
Biography[edit]
Born in 1904, Ji was originally from Xian County in Hebei province. After being educated at Heihe Number 1 Primary School, she attended Qiqihar Number 1 Women's Teacher's College and then attended a foundation course at Peking Normal University, after which she studied in the Department of Political Science at Peking University. She subsequently worked as a teacher, as well as editing a supplement in North China Daily and serving as editor-in-chief of New Northeast, a bimonthly publication of Peking University. In 1932 she opened a law firm, becoming the first woman lawyer in Peking. She became Executive Director of the Peking Lawyers Association and established the Xinsheng Women's Vocational School.
Ji was a delegate to the 1946 Constituent National Assembly that drew up the constitution of the Republic of China. She was subsequently a candidate in Heilongjiang Province in the 1948 elections to the Legislative Yuan, in which she was elected to parliament.[1] She remained in China after the Chinese Civil War and her membership of the Legislative Yuan was cancelled in 1966. She later worked as a librarian at the Beijing Municipal Research Centre for Literature and History. She died in 1998.