Li Hui-min ( zh, 李慧民, 24 November 1918 – 23 December 1987) was a Chinese educator and politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the

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in 1948.

Biography

Originally from

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province, Li attended

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, where she graduated from the Department of Humanities and History.李慧民
Legislative Yuan She subsequently worked as a teacher at Hubei Provincial Badong Middle School and became headteacher of Nanyang County Central Primary School. She later became director of education in Suiyang County of

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. Her husband Zhou Shijie was elected to the

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as a representative of universities in

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. The following year Li was a

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candidate in

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in the

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, and was elected to the Legislative Yuan. She relocated to

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during the

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and died in 1987.

References

{{reflist 1918 births Henan University alumni Chinese schoolteachers 20th-century Chinese women politicians Members of the Kuomintang Members of the 1st Legislative Yuan Members of the 1st Legislative Yuan in Taiwan 1987 deaths