Cui Renqiu ( zh, 崔紉秋, died February 1959) was a Chinese educator 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

Cui was born in Linzi County in

Shandong Shandong is a coastal Provinces of China, province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural ...

Province. She taught at Shandong Model Elementary School and became head of a primary school affiliated with Jinan Women Teacher's College. She joined 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 ...

and became a member of its executive committee in

Qingdao Qingdao, Mandarin: , (Qingdao Mandarin: t͡ɕʰiŋ˧˩ tɒ˥) is a prefecture-level city in the eastern Shandong Province of China. Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, Qingdao was long an important fortress. In 1897, the city was ceded to G ...

in 1925 and

Tai'an Tai'an () is a prefecture-level city in Western Shandong Province of the People's Republic of China. Centered on Mount Tai, the city borders the provincial capital of Jinan to the north, Zibo to the east, Linyi to the southeast, Liaocheng ...

in 1928. She sat on the steering committee of the Central Women's Movement and was a member of the

Chongqing ChongqingPostal Romanization, Previously romanized as Chungking ();. is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the State Council of the People's Republi ...

chapter of the China Children's Education Society. She also wrote a reference book on housekeeping and several articles in ''Women's Monthly'' magazine. In the 1948 parliamentary elections Cui was elected to the

from Qingdao. She became a member of the Education and Culture Committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Legislative Affairs Committee. In 1949 she was one of the members of the legislature to sign a statement accepting the rule of the

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. Her husband Liu Cixiao, who was director of

Shandong University Shandong University (; SDU) is a public university in Jinan, Shandong, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Clas ...

, was executed the following year. In 1951 she forfeited her seat in the Legislative Yuan (which now operated in

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) after missing the fourth session. Cui died in January 1959 in Linzi.Li Ming 青岛往事 'Once Upon a Time in Qingdao''/ref>

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cui, Renqiu Date of birth unknown People from Zibo Chinese schoolteachers Members of the Kuomintang 20th-century Chinese women politicians Members of the 1st Legislative Yuan 1959 deaths