Huang Peilan Explained

Office1:Member of the Legislative Yuan
Term1:1948–1962
Constituency1:Guangdong
Birth Date:1908
Death Date:1 November 1962

Huang Peilan (Chinese: 黃佩蘭, 1908 – 1 November 1962) was a Chinese politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.

Biography

Huang was born 1908 and was originally from Dongguan in Guangdong province.[1] She attended and subsequently worked for the government, serving as secretary of the Kuomintang's women's committee and head girls' primary and middle schools in Nanjing. She became a member of the Women's Advisory Committee, becoming head of its Life Guidance division.[2]

Huang was a delegate to the 1946 that drew up the constitution of the Republic of China. She was a member of the Guangdong provincial Senate and contested the 1948 elections for the Legislative Yuan as a Kuomintang candidate in Guangdong, winning a seat in parliament.[3] She relocated to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War, where she remained a member of the Legislative Yuan until her death in 1962.[4]

Notes and References

  1. 辛亥以来人物年里录, 1994, p914
  2. Helen M. Schneider (2012) "Mobilising Women: The Women's Advisory Council, Resistance and Reconstruction during China's War with Japan" European Journal of East Asian Studies, volume 11, number 2, pp213–216
  3. https://lis.ly.gov.tw/lylegisc/lylegiskmout?7A9C976D891D35EDC9E0DD9ECB26F26A4C89134CAD2BDA 黃佩蘭
  4. 总统府公报 [''Presidential Palace Bulletin''] number 1,388, 27 November 1962