Wu Chi-mei explained

Office1:Member of the Legislative Yuan
Term1:1948–1956
Constituency1:Guangzhou
Birth Date:1898
Death Date:12 November 1956

Wu Chi-mei (Chinese: 伍智梅, 1898 – 12 November 1956) was a Chinese physician and politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.

Biography

Originally from Doushan in Guangdong, Wu was the daughter of, a politician and medical scientist. In 1919 she established the Guangdong Women's Federation, which promoted equality of opportunity in education and employment and petitioned Sun Yat-sen and the Guangdong Provincial Assembly to advance these causes. She attended and then worked as a researcher at the University of Chicago School of Medicine after she was sent to the United States, Europe and Singapore by the Guangzhou municipal government to study public health.[1] A member of the Kuomintang, she became a member of the executive committee of the Guangzhou branch of the party and Guangzhou city council. She served on the party's central executive committee and was a member of the second . She also served as acting head of the Advanced Midwifery School.

Wu was a delegate to the 1946 National Constituent Assembly that drew up the constitution of the Republic of China. She was subsequently a Kuomintang candidate in Guangzhou 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 until her death in 1956.[3]

Notes and References

  1. https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19350515-1.2.81 Studying health systems
  2. https://lis.ly.gov.tw/lylegisc/lylegiskmout?7A2797C21573AECC73635E272F4CF21B4E1889315B2BB6 伍智梅
  3. 总统府公报 [''Presidential Palace Bulletin''] number 766, 12 December 1956