Hsu Jung-shu (; born 27 December 1939) is a Taiwanese politician. She co-founded the

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in 1986, but was expelled over a 2009 trip to China.

Education and activism

Hsu graduated from

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. When her husband

Chang Chun-hung Chang Chun-hung (; born 17 May 1938) is a Taiwanese politician. Political career Chang was a member of the Kuomintang until 1973, when he left to join the Tangwai movement and won his first political office, a seat on the Taipei City Council. ...

was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 1979

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, Hsu left her job as a teacher to run for the

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. Because Hsu was active in the

tangwai movement The ''Tangwai'' movement, or simply ''Tangwai'' (), was a loosely knit political movement in Taiwan in the mid-1970s and early 1980s. Although the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) had allowed contested elections for a small number of seats in the Legi ...

as a distributor of opposition publications, 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 ...

raided her house for copies of ''Senh Kin'' and ''Taiwan Weekly'' in January 1984 and September 1985, respectively.

Political career

In her 1980 election to the legislature, Hsu won 190,000 votes, a district record, and was the only tangwai-affiliated woman to be seated. During her first term, Hsu continued active participation in opposition causes, visiting jailed activist Lin Hung-hsuan in January 1985 and making a May 1986 trip to the United States to address the first meeting of the US Congressional Committee for Democracy on Taiwan alongside

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. That September, she and seventeen others founded the

. Within the DPP, Hsu was linked to the New Dynamics and Formosa factions. She was entrusted with the responsibilities of high ranking party posts, becoming the first woman to serve as party whip. Hsu was also chair of the Central Review Committee and has served on the Central Standing Committee. Though she stepped down at the end of her term in 2005, Hsu was reappointed to the Legislative Yuan when

Tsai Huang-liang Tsai Huang-liang ; born 5 July 1960) is a Taiwanese politician. Early life and education Tsai was born in 1960 to a family of farmers in Puli, Nantou. He graduated from a two-year college then associated with National Chengchi University. Poli ...

chose to run for the Nantou County magistracy. Hsu was sworn in on 23 June. The next year, Kuomintang legislator

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accused Hsu and others of embezzlement. In 2007, Hsu visited China to discuss Cross-Strait crime. Later that year, she was invited to attend the opening ceremony of the Special Olympics World Summer Games. In 2009, Hsu began attending the

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, despite senior DPP officials having advised her against it. Hsu's party membership was suspended on 23 July 2009, and she was officially expelled four days later. Shortly after her expulsion, Hsu founded the People United Party. She attended the 2010 forum, and the following year declared her candidacy for the 2012 presidential election. Hsu eventually dropped out of the campaign. In 2013, she was again in attendance at the Cross-Strait forum. Hsu sought the presidency again in 2016, and received support from the Taiwan Progressive Party, National Health Service Alliance, and Zhongshan Party. Her candidacy was nullified in November, as the People United Party had not submitted its petition of signatures to the

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by the deadline.

Personal life

Due to the events of the Kaohsiung Incident, Chang Chun-hung and Hsu Jung-shu have separated.

References

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