Chang Chiu-hua (; 1937–2020) was a Taiwanese politician. He was head of government in Miaoli Township and Miaoli City, then served a single four-year term as magistrate of Miaoli County.

Life and career

Chang was born in Tō'oku, Byōritsu,

Shinchiku Prefecture was one of the administrative divisions of Taiwan during the Japanese era. The prefecture consisted of modern-day Hsinchu City, Hsinchu County, Taoyuan City, and Miaoli County. Population 1941 ( Showa 16) census *Total population: 838,011 **Jap ...

Japanese Taiwan The island of Taiwan, together with the Penghu Islands, became a dependency of Japan in 1895, when the Qing dynasty ceded Fujian-Taiwan Province in the Treaty of Shimonoseki after the Japanese victory in the First Sino-Japanese War. The sho ...

in 1937, which later became known as

Touwu Touwu Township is a rural township in north-western Miaoli County, Taiwan. Geography *Area: *Population: 9,941 (January 2023) Administrative divisions The township comprises eight villages: Beikeng, Feifeng, Mingde, Mingfeng, Qudong, Shitan, ...

. He graduated from what became

National Taipei University National Taipei University (NTPU; ), founded in 1949, is a national university in Taiwan which specializes in law, business, humanities, and social sciences. Before 2000, the university was named the College of Law and Business, National Chung ...

, and was later named one of the school's distinguished alumni. Chang was a schoolteacher prior to his election as mayor of Miaoli Township under the

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 Tai ...

banner in 1973. He oversaw the municipal government through its reclassification as the county-controlled Miaoli City in 1981, and stepped down in 1982. Chang subsequently served on the second convocation of the Miaoli County Council, then as magistrate of Miaoli County between 1989 and 1993.何來美，《劉黃風雲》，pages 441–445 Chang lost reelection to the magistracy in 1993 to political independent . Chang was diagnosed with liver cancer two months before his death and sought treatment at

National Taiwan University Hospital The National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH; ) is a medical facility located in the Zhongzheng District of Taipei, Taiwan. It started operations under Japanese rule in Daitōtei (today's Dadaocheng) on 18 June 1895, and moved to its present ...

. He died at Da Chien General Hospital in Miaoli on 7 January 2020, aged 83.

References

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