Fu Ching-yen
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Fu Ching-yen | |
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| Member of the Legislative Yuan | |
| In office 1948–1991 | |
| Constituency | Liaobei |
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| Born | 22 June 1906 Faku County, China |
| Died | 24 May 1995 (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
[edit]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.