Chou Hui-ying ( zh, 丑輝瑛, 24 December 1923 – January 2017) was a Chinese educator, musician 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

Chou was born in

Xining Xining is the Capital (political), capital and most populous city of Qinghai province in western China and the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau. As of the 2020 census, it had 2,467,965 inhabitants (2,208,708 as of 2010), of whom 1,954,795 l ...

Qinghai Province Qinghai is an inland province in Northwestern China. It is the largest province of China (excluding autonomous regions) by area and has the third smallest population. Its capital and largest city is Xining. Qinghai borders Gansu on the nort ...

to a family from the village of Choujia in Fuping County, Shaanxi Province. Her father had moved to Qinghai to run a fur export business. She attended the National Chongqing Music Conservatory and subsequently taught at Qinghai Provincial Xining Middle School and Qinghai Provincial Xining Women's Normal School. She later became secretary of the Qinghai province Department of Education inspectorate.中国国民党百年人物全书, 团结出版社, 2005, p297 Chou served as chair of the Qinghai Women's Association and the Qinhai Province women's section 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 ...

. She became a member of the Qinhai Provincial Senate, and in the 1948 parliamentary elections, was elected to the

from

. During the

Chinese Civil War The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led Nationalist government, government of the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Armed conflict continued intermitt ...

she relocated to

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

. Also involved in music, Chou served as executive director of the Chinese Music Society and chair of the Copyright Owners Association. She died in Canada in 2017.

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