Fu Ching-yen ( zh, 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

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in 1948.

Biography

Fu was born in Faku County in

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province in 1906. She attended Shanghai China Public University, where she graduated from the Department of Political Economy.富靜岩
Legislative Yuan She subsequently attended the School of Economics and Political Science at the

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. She began working for the Ministry of Social Affairs as a commissioner, advisor and head of the Accounting Department. She also served as chair the Chinese Women's Life Improvement Association. She was a

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candidate in

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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

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the couple relocated to

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. She died in

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in 1995.

References

{{reflist 1906 births Alumni of the University of London Members of the Kuomintang Chinese civil servants Chinese women civil servants 20th-century Chinese women politicians Members of the 1st Legislative Yuan Members of the 1st Legislative Yuan in Taiwan 1995 deaths