Hung Hsiu-chu
| Hung Hsiu-chu | |
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| 洪秀柱 | |
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| Chairperson of the Kuomintang | |
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Assumed office 30 March 2016 |
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| Vice | Hau Lung-pin, Jason Hu, Lin Junq-tzer |
| Preceded by |
Eric Chu Huang Min-hui (Acting) |
| Vice President of the Legislative Yuan | |
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In office 1 February 2012 – 1 February 2016 |
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| President | Wang Jin-pyng |
| Preceded by | Tseng Yung-chuan |
| Succeeded by | Tsai Chi-chang |
| Member of Legislative Yuan | |
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In office 1 February 2008 – 1 February 2016 |
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| Constituency |
Proportional Representation (2008-2012) Proportional Representation (2012-2016) |
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In office 1 February 2002 – 1 February 2008 |
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| Constituency | Taipei County 3rd At-large |
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In office 1 February 1999 – 1 February 2002 |
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| Constituency | Proportional Representation |
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In office 1 February 1996 – 1 February 1999 |
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| Constituency | Taipei County 3rd At-large |
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In office 1 February 1990 – 1 February 1996 |
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| Constituency | Taipei County At-large |
| Vice Chairperson of the Kuomintang | |
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In office 15 February 2012 – January 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Tseng Yung-chuan |
| Deputy Secretary-General of the Kuomintang | |
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In office 2011–2012 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
7 April 1948 Taipei County, Taiwan Province, Taiwan (now New Taipei City) |
| Nationality | Republic of China |
| Political party | Kuomintang |
| Parents | Hung Zi-yu (father) |
| Alma mater |
Chinese Culture University Truman State University |
Hung Hsiu-chu (Chinese: 洪秀柱; pinyin: Hóng Xiùzhù; born 7 April 1948) is a Taiwanese politician. As a member of the Kuomintang (KMT), she has served the party as a Deputy Chairperson and Deputy Secretary-General. Hung was first elected to the legislature in 1990, and was the Vice President of the Legislative Yuan from 2012 to 2016, her eighth term. She became the Kuomintang's first elected chairwoman later that year.
Having a political background in the field of education, she has focused much of legislative tenure on the quality of, and access to, higher education in Taiwan.
The Kuomintang nominated Hung as the party's presidential candidate for the 2016 elections on July 19, 2015, a month after she had won the party's primary election. Her public support remained low, and she was replaced as candidate by KMT Chairman Eric Chu. Hung succeeded Chu as the Kuomintang's first elected female leader in March 2016.
Hung was born in Taipei County (now New Taipei City), Taiwan. Her father, Hung Zi-yu (Chinese: 洪子瑜), was a victim of political prosecution during the White Terror in Taiwan. He worked for the government Monopoly Bureau in mainland China prior to 1946. In February 1946, he moved to Taiwan with the Nationalist Government and became deputy manager of a sugar factory under the Taiwan Sugar Corporation. After the February 28 Incident, the general manager of Taiwan Sugar was accused of (and later executed for) being an agent of the Communist Party in 1950, and Hung's father was implicated in the case. While he was eventually acquitted on that charge, the court sentenced him to three years and three months imprisonment at the offshore Green Island prison for political and moral 'reeducation.' Following his release from prison, he failed to find formal employment for the ensuing 40 years, and the family was in financial straits, with Hung's father doing random ghostwriting services for elderly legislators and her mother working at a factory.
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