Liu Caipin ( zh, link=no, 刘彩品), is a former Chinese politician, born in 1937 in mainland China. She was a member of the

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Academic life

Liu Caipin worked at

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as an

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in China for about 20 years. She studied

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in 1955, meeting her husband Kimura Hiroshi (also an astronomer) in Japan. Later, they had two children, born in Japan. In 1971, Caipin and her husband decided to return to China and work in the observatory in

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. Caipin had published many articles in the field of astronomy, most of which were written in collaboration with her husband. Her most cited article, '' Detection of infall motion from the circumstellar disk associated with the exciting source of HH 111,'' published in February 1997, has been cited 31 times.
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Political life

In 1981, Caipin began service as the first president of the council of the All-China Federation of Taiwan Compatriots. She served as a liaison between the

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and Taiwan in order to improve relations. During the first meeting of the All-China Federation of Taiwanese compatriots, she convinced China to gift two

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to Taiwan. She would later go on to serve as a member of the

, playing a key role in the development and passing of the Civil Servant Law of the People's Republic of China.

Lawsuit against Japan

Caipin had spent the majority of her life in Japan before returning to China in 1971. In 1990, Caipin supported a lawsuit against Japan for the war crimes committed by the Japanese military during World War II, such as the Rape of Nanking.

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