Wang Hsiao-hua ( zh, 王孝華, 29 June 1922 – 11 March 2005) was a Chinese politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the

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in 1948.

Biography

Born in 1922 and originally from in

Xing'an Province Xing'an (; or Hsingan) refers to a former province, which once occupied western Heilongjiang and part of northwest Jilin provinces of China. The name is related to that of the Greater Khingan Mountains. Another name used for this land was Barga, w ...

(now part of

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), Wang attended Heilongjiang Women's Normal School,中国国民党百年人物全书, Volume 1, p168 after which she went to Japan to study at Nara Advanced Teacher's College for Women. She then worked as a researcher in the Faculty of Education at the

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

. Returning to China, she became chair of the women's section of the Xing'an branch of the

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and served as a councillor in the Xing'an provincial government. Wang was a delegate to the 1946 that drew up the

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. In the

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for the Legislative Yuan, she was a

candidate in Xing'an, and was elected to parliament.王孝華
Legislative Yuan She relocated to

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during the

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, She died in March 2005.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Hsiao-hua 1922 births Nara Women's University alumni Academic staff of the University of Tokyo 20th-century Chinese women politicians Members of the Kuomintang Members of the 1st Legislative Yuan Members of the 1st Legislative Yuan in Taiwan 2005 deaths Chinese expatriates in Japan