Chou Min Explained

Office1:Member of the Legislative Yuan
Term1:1948–
Constituency1:Hubei
Birth Date:1900

Chou Min (Chinese: 周敏, born 1900) was a Chinese educator and politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.

Biography

Born in 1900 and originally from Luotian County in Hubei province,[1] Chou attended and subsequently worked as a teacher at Hebei Provincial Women's Normal School and National Central University. She became headmistress of Hubei Provincial Women's Normal School and founded Hankou City No. 1 Girls' High School and Hubei Provincial No. 2 Girls' Normal School, serving as headmistress of both.

Chou served for two terms in the Provisional Senate of Hubei and as a member of the provincial government. She was a Kuomintang candidate in Hubei province in the 1948 elections for the Legislative Yuan and was elected to parliament.[2] She relocated to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War, where she remained a member of the Legislative Yuan.

Notes and References

  1. 中国国民党百年人物全书, volume 2, p1589
  2. https://lis.ly.gov.tw/lylegisc/lylegiskmout?7C2BB94519BCCB89BC8C9113064C6BCA5B 周敏