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Lee Shih-chuan (politician)
Lee Shu-chuan (; born 1 February 1958) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the deputy mayor of Kaohsiung from 25 December 2018 to 12 June 2020. He previously served in multiple positions within the Taipei County Government, and was Secretary-General of the Executive Yuan from 2014 to 2015, when he was named the Secretary-General of the Kuomintang. He stepped down from that position when his term ended in March 2016. Early life Lee obtained his master's degree in electrical engineering from National Taipei University of Technology in 2001. He then joined the National Taiwan University faculty. Political career In the mid-2000s, Lee served the Taipei County Government as the director of the New Construction Department. He then led the Taipei County Public Works Bureau before being named a deputy magistrate of Taipei County. After Taipei County was upgraded to the special municipality of New Taipei, Lee's title changed and he kept his post as deputy mayor of New Taipei until Februa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li (surname 李)
Li or Lee (; ) is a common Chinese surname, Chinese-language surname, it is the 4th name listed in the famous ''Hundred Family Surnames.'' Li is one of the most common surnames in Asia, shared by 92.76 million people in China, and more than 100 million in Asia. It is the List of common Chinese surnames, second most common surname in China as of 2018, the second most common surname in Hong Kong, and the 5th most common surname in Taiwan, where it is usually romanized as "Lee". The surname is pronounced as () in Cantonese, ''Lí'' (Pe̍h-ōe-jī, poj) in Taiwanese Hokkien, but is often spelled as "Lee" in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and many overseas Chinese communities. In Macau, it is also spelled as "Lei". In Indonesia it is commonly spelled as "Lie". The common Korean name#Family names, Korean surname, "Lee (Korean surname), Lee" (also romanized as "I", "Yi", "Ri", or "Rhee"), and the Vietnamese name#Family name, Vietnamese surname, "Lý (Vietnamese name), Lý", are both derived f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Hong-yuan
Lee Hong-yuan (; born 21 June 1956) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Minister of the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) of the Executive Yuan from 2012 to 2014. Early life Lee Hong-yuan was born in Taishan, Taipei County to a farmer family. His father Lee Teng-hui served as head of the district. Lee's younger brother is Lee Hung-chun. He obtained his bachelor's degree in hydraulic engineering from National Cheng Kung University. He then earned an M.S. (1982) and Ph.D. (1984) in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Iowa, where was inducted as a member of the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Academy in 2008. Upon graduation, Lee worked in the United States for two years before returning to Taiwan in 1986 to teach at National Taiwan University. Lee has also been a visiting professor at five universities in China and in the Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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List Of Secretaries-General Of The Kuomintang
The Secretary-General of the Kuomintang is the chief of staff of the Kuomintang, nominated by the chairperson and confirmed by the Central Committee. The position was created in 1926 and is currently held on by Justin Huang, who assumed the post in October 2021. List of Secretaries-General Secretaries-General of the Central Executive Committee # Yeh Ch'u-ts'ang 楚傖(1926–1927) # Post abolished (1927–1929) # Chen Li-fu (1929–1931) # Ting Wei-feng 惟汾(1931) # Yeh Ch'u-ts'ang (1931–1938) # Chu Chia-hua (1938–1939) # Yeh Ch'u-ts'ang (1939–1941) # Wu Tieh-cheng (1941–1948) # Zheng Yanfen (1948–1950) Secretaries-General of the Central Reform Committee # Chang Chi-yun (1950–1952) Secretaries-General of the Central Committee # Chang Chi-yun (1952–1954) # Chang Li-sheng (1954–1959) # Tang Tsung 縱(1959–1964) # Gu Fengxiang 鳳翔(1964–1968) # Chang Pao-shu 寶樹(1968–1979) # Chiang Yen-si 彥士(1979–1985) # Ma Shu-li 樹 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiang Wan-an
Chiang Wan-an (; born 26 December 1978), also known as Wayne Chiang, is a Taiwanese politician who is the mayor of Taipei. He is the son of former Vice Premier John Chiang, and is believed to be a great-grandson of former President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek. He is the youngest mayor of Taipei since the appointment of Chang Feng-hsu. Upon graduation from National Chengchi University and the University of Pennsylvania, Chiang worked as a corporate lawyer in the United States before returning to Taiwan for politics. Early life Born Chang Wan-an ( zh, c=章萬安, p=Zhāng Wàn'ān) on 26 December 1978, he is the only son to his parents Chiang Hsiao-yen and Helen Huang ( zh, c=黃美倫, p=Huáng Měilún, labels=no). He has two elder sisters. He was unaware of his relation to Chiang Kai-shek until high school, when his father claimed to be an illegitimate son of Chiang Ching-kuo making Chiang Kai-Shek a great-grandfather of the high schooler. Following the announ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Kaohsiung Mayoral Recall Vote
The 2020 Kaohsiung mayoral recall vote was a recall election held on 6 June 2020 to recall the incumbent mayor of Kaohsiung, Han Kuo-yu. The recall was successful, as the number of ''agree'' votes (939,090) outnumbered ''disagree'' votes and exceeded the minimum requirement of 574,996. An acting mayor was appointed by the Executive Yuan and held office until 24 August 2020, nine days after 2020 Kaohsiung mayoral by-election, a by-election was held. The vote is the largest-scale recall vote in Taiwan in terms of electorate, and is the first ever successful recall of a mayor or magistrate. Background Han Kuo-yu was elected mayor of Kaohsiung City in the 24 November 2018 Taiwanese local elections, 2018 local election. However, his popularity quickly dwindled after he began campaigning for the 2020 Taiwanese presidential election, leading to a recall proposal on 26 December 2019. On 17 January 2020, a petition to recall Han cleared the first threshold with 28,560 signatures, exceeding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Taipei
New Taipei City is a Special municipality (Taiwan), special municipality located in northern Taiwan. The city is home to an estimated population of 3,974,683 as of 2022, making it the most populous city of Taiwan, and also the second largest special municipality by area, behind Kaohsiung. New Taipei City neighbours Keelung to the northeast, Yilan County, Taiwan, Yilan County to the southeast, and Taoyuan City, Taoyuan to the southwest, and completely encloses the city of Taipei. Banqiao District is its municipal seat and biggest commercial area. Before the Spanish Formosa, Spanish and Dutch Formosa, Dutch started arriving in Taiwan and set up small outposts in Tamsui in 1626, the area of present-day New Taipei City was mostly inhabited by Taiwanese indigenous peoples, mainly the Ketagalan people. From the Taiwan under Qing rule, late Qing era, the Tamsui Customs Wharf, port of Tamsui was opened up to foreign traders as one of the treaty ports after the Qing dynasty of China si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Taiwan University
National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1928 during Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imperial University and served during the period of Japanese colonization. After World War II, the Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) government assumed the administration of the university. The Ministry of Education reorganized and renamed the university to its current name on November 15, 1945, with its roots of liberal tradition from Peking University in Beijing by former NTU President Fu Ssu-nien. The university consists of 11 colleges, 56 departments, 133 graduate institutes, about 60 research centers, and a school of professional education and continuing studies. Notable alumni include Tsai Ing-Wen, current President of the Republic of China, former presidents Lee Teng-hui, Chen Shui-bian and Ma Ying-jeou, Turing Award laureate Andrew Yao, and Nobel Prize in Chemistry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taipei County Government
The New Taipei City Government (NTPC; ) is the municipal government of New Taipei City, a special municipality in Taiwan. The New Taipei City Hall is located in Banqiao District. History The city government was originally established as Taipei County Government on 25 December 1945, shortly after the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in October 1945 and the Banqiao Township chosen as its county seat in 1947. On 25 December 2010, Taipei County was upgraded to a special municipality as New Taipei City, consisting of 29 districts with Banqiao District as the municipal seat and the county government was renamed New Taipei City Government. Organizational structure Operational departments * Education Department * Civil Affairs Department * Finance Department * Labor Affairs Department * Land Administration Department * Agriculture Department * Environmental Protection Department * Transportation Department * Urban and Rural Development Department * Legal Affair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Taipei University Of Technology
National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT, Taipei Tech; ) is a public university in Taipei, Taiwan. It is a member of the Global Research & Industry Alliance (Gloria) of the Ministry of Science and Technology and accredited by AACSB. Located in the Daan district of Taipei, the school was established in 1912 as the School of Industrial Instruction, one of the earliest intermediate-higher educational institute in Taiwan. The current president of the university is Sea-Fue Wang. The university is part of the University System of Taipei, along with National Taipei University and Taipei Medical University. Its comprehensive undergraduate and graduate programs offer degrees in the STEM fields as well as design, architecture, management, humanities, and social sciences. The 495-acre campus in downtown Taipei was divided into three sections during the city's development. The main campus (West, East, and South) in Taipei now only spans 22 acres, next to the affluent Huashan 1914 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuomintang
The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Taiwan after 1949. It was the sole party in China during the Republican Era from 1928 to 1949, when most of the Chinese mainland was under its control. The party retreated from the mainland to Taiwan on 7 December 1949, following its defeat in the Chinese Civil War. Chiang Kai-shek declared martial law and retained its authoritarian rule over Taiwan under the ''Dang Guo'' system until democratic reforms were enacted in the 1980s and full democratization in the 1990s. In Taiwanese politics, the KMT is the dominant party in the Pan-Blue Coalition and primarily competes with the rival Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). It is currently the largest opposition party in the Legislative Yuan. The current chairman is Eric Chu. The party originate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. The territories controlled by the ROC consist of 168 islands, with a combined area of . The main island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', has an area of , with mountain ranges dominating the eastern two-thirds and plains in the western third, where its highly urbanised population is concentrated. The capital, Taipei, forms along with New Taipei City and Keelung the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Other major cities include Taoyuan, Taichung, Tainan, and Kaohsiung. With around 23.9 million inhabitants, Taiwan is among the most densely populated countries in the world. Taiwan has been settled for at least 25,000 years. Ancestors of Taiwanese indigenous peoples settled the isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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