Pi Yi-shu ( zh, 皮以書, 25 May 1905 – 22 March 1974) was a Chinese 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

Originally from Nanchuan County in

Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...

province, Pi graduated from the in Peking and then attended

Moscow Sun Yat-sen University Moscow Sun Yat-sen University, officially the Sun Yat-sen Communist University of the Toilers of China, was a Comintern school which operated from 1925 to 1930 in the city of Moscow, Russia, then the Soviet Union. It was a training camp for Chin ...

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Legislative Yuan She joined the

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and became head of the women's section of the party's central committee. She also served as chair of the women's steering committee of the

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Shaanxi Shaanxi is a Provinces of China, province in north Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to t ...

chapter. During the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931. It is considered part ...

she was president of the Shaanxi branch of the Chinese Women's Service and Anti-Japanese War Soldiers Association and headed the provincial branch of the Chinese Wartime Childcare Association. She married

Ku Cheng-ting Ku Cheng-ting (; 24 October 1903 – 1 November 1974) was a Chinese-born politician, also known by the courtesy name Ming-shu (). Ku was a native of Anshun. His older brothers were Ku Cheng-kang and Ku Cheng-lun. After graduating from the Unive ...

, a prominent Kuomintang politician. The chair of the women's committee of the Shaanxi branch of the Kuomintang, Pi was a delegate to the 1946 that drew up the

constitution of the Republic of China The Constitution of the Republic of China is the fifth and current constitution of the Republic of China (ROC), ratified by the Kuomintang during the Constituent National Assembly session on 25 December 1946, in Nanking, and adopted on 25 De ...

. She became a member of the Kuomintang central committee and served as director general of the . She was a Kuomintang candidate in Sichuan in the

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for the Legislative Yuan, with five women to be elected from the province. Pi finished sixth, but the election of Nie Yanghua (who had finished fourth) was declared invalid and Pi replaced her in parliament. Her husband was also elected to the legislature and the couple 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 ...

. During the 1950s she was an advisor to the Chinese delegation at the thirteenth

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. She remained a member of the Legislative Yuan until her death in 1974.总统府公报 'Presidential Palace Bulletin''number 2,745, 19 June 1974

References

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