Ji Qingyi ( zh, 紀清漪, 3 September 1904 – 11 January 1998) was a Chinese politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the

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in 1948.

Biography

Born in 1904, Ji was originally from

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province. After being educated at Heihe Number 1 Primary School, she attended

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Number 1 Women's Teacher's College and then attended a foundation course at Peking Normal University, after which she studied in the Department of Political Science at

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. She subsequently worked as a teacher, as well as editing a supplement in ''North China Daily'' and serving as editor-in-chief of ''New Northeast'', a bimonthly publication of Peking University. In 1932 she opened a law firm, becoming the first woman lawyer in Peking. She became Executive Director of the Peking Lawyers Association and established the Xinsheng Women's Vocational School. Ji was a delegate to the 1946 that drew up the

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. She was subsequently a candidate in Heilongjiang Province in the 1948 elections to the Legislative Yuan, in which she was elected to parliament.紀清漪
Legislative Yuan She remained in China after the

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and her membership of the Legislative Yuan was cancelled in 1966. She later worked as a librarian at the Beijing Municipal Research Centre for Literature and History. She died in 1998.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ji, Qingyi 1904 births 1998 deaths Beijing Normal University alumni Peking University alumni Chinese schoolteachers Chinese journalists 20th-century Chinese lawyers 20th-century Chinese women politicians Members of the 1st Legislative Yuan