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Mao Tan-yun ( zh, 莫淡雲, 1912 – 5 March 2012) 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

Mao was born in 1912.與國家一起誕生!百歲立委賀國慶
CTS, 9 October 2011 Originally from
Changsha County Changsha County (), commonly known as Xingsha (), is a county in Hunan Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Changsha. Located in the west portion of Changsha, the county is bordered to the north by Miluo ...
in
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Province, she attended , after which she worked as a teacher and served as head of Suiyuan Girls' Vocational School. 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 chair of the women's section in
Suiyuan Suiyuan () was a historical province of China. Suiyuan's capital was Guisui (now Hohhot). The abbreviation was (pinyin: ). The area Suiyuan covered is approximated today by the prefecture-level cities of Hohhot, Baotou, Wuhai, Ordos, Bayan ...
Province. In the 1948 elections to the Legislative Yuan, Mao was a Kuomintang candidate in Suiyuan and was elected to parliament.莫淡雲
Legislative Yuan
She relocated to
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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 ...
, where she became a committee member of the
Institute of Revolutionary Practice The Institute of Revolutionary Practice () is an educational institution established in 1949, and affiliated with the Kuomintang. History On 8 July 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and a group of Kuomintang leaders, among them Chang Chi-yun, , Ku Cheng-kang ...
. She died in 2012.


References

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