Chen Chin-hsing (; born 24 December 1934) is a Taiwanese lawyer and politician. Chen studied law at

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1928 during Taiwan under Japanese rule, Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imper ...

and worked as a schoolteacher and lawyer prior to the start of his political career. As a member of the

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, he served two terms as Hsinchu County Magistrate from 1981 to 1989. Chen then spent the next decade with the

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. He supported

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's 2000 presidential campaign, and later served one term in the

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affiliated with the People First Party. While representing his native Hsinchu County district, Chen worked to pass the Unauthorized Filming Prevention Law to regulate the use of hidden cameras. Chen is of Hakka descent.

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