Chen Man-li
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Mary Chen Chen Man-li MLY |
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| 陳曼麗 | |
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Lin in 2016
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| Member of the Legislative Yuan | |
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Assumed office 1 February 2016 |
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| Constituency | Republic of China |
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| Born |
5 February 1955 Taipei, Taiwan |
| Nationality | Taiwanese |
| Political party | Democratic Progressive Party (since 2015) |
| Other political affiliations |
Green Party Taiwan (until 2015) |
| Alma mater | San Diego State University |
| Occupation | politician |
Mary Chen or Chen Man-li (Chinese: 陳曼麗; born 5 February 1955) is a Taiwanese environmentalist and politician. A longtime leader of the Homemakers' Union and Foundation and the National Union of Taiwan Women’s Associations, she was an active member of Green Party Taiwan before joining the Democratic Progressive Party in 2015. She represented the DPP in the 2016 legislative elections, and won a seat via party list proportional representation.
Chen earned a master's in business administration from San Diego State University in the United States.
In a 2001 open letter co-written with nine others, Chen rejected the One China principle and advocated Taiwanese independence. In the early 2000s, she was the leader of the Homemakers' Union and Foundation. From this position, Chen advocated for a centralized collection effort regarding organic kitchen waste. She also denounced the Chinese fur trade. She has called upon governmental and private efforts to cut down on carbon dioxide emissions. By 2009, Chen had stepped down as chair of the Homemaker Union and Foundation, but later resumed the post and remained on its board of directors. She has described nuclear power as "something that can cause immense destruction when something goes wrong" in spite of increasing public support for the technology due to climate change. Chen advocated that construction of the Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant be stopped, and plans were eventually put on hold in 2014.
Chen believes that the use of ractopamine and other additives is questionable and not fully endorsed by scientific research, and that US beef imports to Taiwan found to include ractopamine should not be accepted. She is active in raising awareness for other food safety concerns, among them nitrate and radiation contamination. Chen has warned against cigarette consumption on public health and environmental grounds. She opposed the reclassification of scrap metal as non-hazardous material proposed in 2013, citing a health scare similar to food scandal that received widespread attention that year.
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