Wang Tiwu (, 29 August 1913 - 11 March 1996, born in

Dongyang Dongyang () is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Jinhua in Central Zhejiang Province, China. It covers an area of and administers eleven towns, one township, and six subdistricts. It is part of the Yangtze River Delta Economic Regi ...

Zhejiang ) , translit_lang1_type2 = , translit_lang1_info2 = ( Hangzhounese) ( Ningbonese) (Wenzhounese) , image_skyline = 玉甑峰全貌 - panoramio.jpg , image_caption = View of the Yandang Mountains , image_map = Zhejiang i ...

, China) is the founder of the ''

United Daily News ''United Daily News'' (UDN; ) is a newspaper published in Taiwan. It is considered to support the pan-Blue Coalition in its editorials. History UDN was founded in 1951 by Wang Tiwu as a merger of three newspapers, ''Popular Daily'' (全民日� ...

'' and was a member of the Kuomintang Central Standing Committee. Wang's family was from

. In 1947, Wang was a colonel in the army of Chiang Kai-shek, traveled to Taiwan, and founded the newspaper ''

''. His daughter,

Wang Shaw-lan Wang Shaw-lan (; born 1941) is a Taiwanese businesswoman who serves as the publisher of the ''United Daily News'' and the publishing-ceased Min Sheng Bao in Taiwan. She studied at Shih Hsin University, graduating in 1964. Life and career She ...

, owns the newspaper.

Estates

File:Wang Tiwu family Residence.jpg, Wang's residence at

Daan District, Taipei Daan District (or Da-an District, Da'an, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency District) is an important political, educational, commercial, residential and cultural district of Taipei, Taiwan. The name of the district means "gr ...

. File:Hsinchu South Garden 20150213 02.jpg, Hsinchu South Garden, Wang's country house at Xinpu, Hsinchu.

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1913 births 1996 deaths 20th-century Taiwanese businesspeople Politicians from Jinhua Kuomintang politicians in Taiwan Republic of China politicians from Zhejiang Businesspeople from Zhejiang Taiwanese people from Zhejiang People from Dongyang Taiwanese newspaper founders {{Taiwan-business-bio-stub