Wu Jingbin ( zh, 烏靜彬, 23 July 1914 – May 1990) was a Chinese politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the

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in 1948.

Biography

Wu was born in 1914, the daughter of Mongolian prince and politician

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. She married Manchukzabu in 1930. In 1935 she entered Ürümqi Girls' Middle School, where she became president of the student council. She also became a member of the Xinjiang Women’s Association and a committee member of the women's section of the Xinjiang People’s Anti-Imperial Union. She joined the

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in 1942. In the

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for the Legislative Yuan, she was a candidate in the Ching Setkhitu League in Inner Mongolia and was elected to parliament. After being elected, she sat on the Border Policy and Education and Culture committees.烏靜彬
Legislative Yuan She remained in China following the

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, and in 1951 was arrested and imprisoned during the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries. After being released, she later served as secretary-general of the Xinjiang Uiygur Autonomous Region Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. She died in Ürümqi in 1975.

References

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