Wu Chi-mei
Wu Chi-mei | |
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| Member of the Legislative Yuan | |
| In office 1948–1956 | |
| Constituency | Guangzhou |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1898 |
| Died | 12 November 1956 |
Wu Chi-mei (Chinese: 伍智梅, 1898 – 12 November 1956) was a Chinese physician and politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.
Biography[edit]
Originally from Doushan in Guangdong, Wu was the daughter of Wu Han-chi, a politician and medical scientist.[1] In 1919 she established the Guangdong Women's Federation, which promoted equality of opportunity in education and employment and petitioned Sun Yat-sen and the Guangdong Provincial Assembly to advance these causes. She attended Hackett Medical College and then worked as a researcher at the University of Chicago School of Medicine after she was sent to the United States, Europe and Singapore by the Guangzhou municipal government to study public health.[2][1] A member of the Kuomintang, she became a member of the executive committee of the Guangzhou branch of the party and Guangzhou city council.[2] She served on the party's central executive committee and was a member of the second National Political Assembly. She also served as acting head of the Advanced Midwifery School.[2]
Wu was a delegate to the 1946 National Constituent Assembly that drew up the constitution of the Republic of China.[2] She was subsequently a Kuomintang candidate in Guangzhou in the 1948 elections for the Legislative Yuan and was elected to parliament.[2] She relocated to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War, where she remained a member of the Legislative Yuan until her death in 1956.[3]