Huang Chen-hua ( zh, 黃振華) was a Chinese politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the

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in 1948.

Biography

The oldest daughter of revolutionary leader

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, Huang attended university in the

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, earning bachelor's and master's degrees from the

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. Returning to China, she became a university professor and education inspector. She worked at the Ministry of Education as an editor and became a member of the Exam Committee. She also served as an advisor to the

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and established her own school, becoming its principal. In the 1948 elections to the Legislative Yuan Huang ran as a

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candidate in Hunan Province and was elected to parliament.李秀芬
Legislative Yuan She relocated to Taiwan during the

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