Chen Jiujing
Chen Jiujing | |
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| Member of the Legislative Yuan | |
| In office 1948–1949 | |
| Constituency | Shandong |
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| Born | 1910 |
Chen Jiujing (Chinese: 陳久敬, born 1910, date of death unknown) was a Chinese educator and politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.
Biography
Originally from
, where she taught at the Soviet Embassy.In 1948 she was elected to the Legislative Yuan from a reserved seat for women in Shandong. She joined the Education and Culture Committee, the Finance and Banking Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee. She fled to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War, but her husband Li Taihua, a former Minister of Education of Shandong Province, was arrested.[1] However, she returned to the mainland, initially to Guangzhou.[2] After a short spell in Hong Kong, she returned to Beijing in September 1950 and returned to teaching in the Soviet embassy. In 1956 she joined the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang. She became headmistress of a primary school in 1980 and director of the Beijing Adult Education Association.