Chen Jianchen ( zh, 陈建晨, 27 January 1906 – 16 October 1989) was a Chinese university teacher and politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the

Legislative Yuan The Legislative Yuan () is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China (Taiwan) located in Taipei. The Legislative Yuan is composed of 113 members, who are directly elected for four-year terms by people of the Taiwan Area through a ...

in 1948.

Biography

Chen was born in Shang county in

Shaanxi Shaanxi is a Provinces of China, province in north Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to t ...

. She graduated from the economics department of

Waseda University Waseda University (Japanese: ), abbreviated as or , is a private university, private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the Tōkyō Professional School by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the fifth Prime Minister of Japan, prime ministe ...

in Japan and subsequently taught at the , , and Northwest Agricultural College. During the early phase of the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931. It is considered part ...

, she co-founded the bimonthly magazine ''Great Unity'' (大团结) and became a member of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee of the

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT) is a major political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was the one party state, sole ruling party of the country Republic of China (1912-1949), during its rule from 1927 to 1949 in Mainland China until Retreat ...

. In 1947 she joined the . She was subsequently elected to the

in the 1948 elections and sat on the Finance and Banking Committee, the Budget Committee and the Labour Committee. After the

establishment of the People's Republic of China The proclamation of the People's Republic of China was made by Mao Zedong, the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), on October 1, 1949, in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The government of a new state under the CCP, formally called t ...

in 1949, she served as a deputy Minister of Justice in the East China Military and Political Committee and vice president of the Higher People's Court in

Jiangsu Jiangsu is a coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province in East China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its capital in Nanjing. Jiangsu is the List of Chinese administra ...

. She was a delegate to the sixth

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China and a central part of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s United front (China), united front system. Its members adv ...

and a member of the central committee of the

Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang The Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (RCCK; also commonly known, especially when referenced historically, as the Left Kuomintang or Left Guomindang), commonly abbreviated in Chinese as Minge (), is one of the eight minor Democ ...

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chen, Jianchen 1906 births Waseda University alumni Chinese academics 20th-century Chinese educators 20th-century Chinese women politicians Members of the Kuomintang Members of the 1st Legislative Yuan Members of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang 1989 deaths