Mao Tan-yun
Mao Tan-yun | |
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| Member of the Legislative Yuan | |
| In office 1948–1991 | |
| Constituency | Suiyuan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1912 |
| Died | 5 March 2012 |
Mao Tan-yun (Chinese: 莫淡雲, 1912 – 5 March 2012) was a Chinese educator and politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.
Biography[edit]
Mao was born in 1912.[1] Originally from Changsha County in Hunan Province, she attended Wuchang Higher Normal School, after which she worked as a teacher and served as head of Suiyuan Girls' Vocational School.[2] She joined the Kuomintang and became chair of the women's section in Suiyuan Province.[2]
In the 1948 elections to the Legislative Yuan, Mao was a Kuomintang candidate in Suiyuan and was elected to parliament.[2] She relocated to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War, where she became a committee member of the Institute of Revolutionary Practice.[2] She died in 2012.