Mao Tan-yun explained

Office1:Member of the Legislative Yuan
Term1:1948–1991
Constituency1:Suiyuan
Birth Date:1912
Death Date:5 March 2012

Mao Tan-yun (Chinese: 莫淡雲, 1912 – 5 March 2012) was a Chinese educator and politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.

Biography

Mao was born in 1912.[1] Originally from Changsha County in Hunan Province, she attended, after which she worked as a teacher and served as head of Suiyuan Girls' Vocational School. She joined the Kuomintang and became chair of the women's section in Suiyuan Province.

In the 1948 elections to the Legislative Yuan, Mao was a Kuomintang candidate in Suiyuan and was elected to parliament.[2] She relocated to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War, where she became a committee member of the Institute of Revolutionary Practice.[2] She died in 2012.

Notes and References

  1. https://news.cts.com.tw/cts/general/201110/201110090841531.html 與國家一起誕生!百歲立委賀國慶
  2. https://lis.ly.gov.tw/lylegisc/lylegiskmout?CADC9E0DDE73573A47E589791A6CC481266B95B6 莫淡雲