Shirley Kuo (; born 25 January 1930) is a Taiwanese politician. Kuo earned a doctorate in economics from

Kobe University , also known in the Kansai region as , is a leading Japanese national university located in the city of Kobe, in Hyōgo. It was established in 1949, but the academic origins of Kobe University trace back to the establishment of Kobe Higher Comme ...

in Japan after receiving bachelor's and master's degrees from

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 d ...

and

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, respectively. Upon her appointment to the

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, Kuo became the first female cabinet minister in the

history of the Republic of China The history of the Republic of China begins after the Qing dynasty in 1912, when the Xinhai Revolution and the formation of the Republic of China put an end to 2,000 years of imperial rule. The Republic experienced many trials and tribulations a ...

. She led the ministry from 1988 to 1990, before being named the head minister of the

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, a position she held until 1993. She was married to

Ni Wen-ya Ni Wen-ya (; 2 March 1903 – 3 June 2006) was a longtime member of the Legislative Yuan, a parliamentary body first based in the Republic of China, and later moved to Taiwan. Biography Ni was born in Yueqing, Zhejiang, Qing China. He studied ...

until his death in 2006. A daughter from her first marriage,

Christina Liu Christina Liu (; born 7 April 1955) is a Taiwanese politician. She was first elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2001, and served until 2007. Subsequently, Liu led the Council for Economic Planning and Development from 2010 to 2012, when she was ...

, was finance minister in 2012.

Peng Ming-min Peng Ming-min (; 15 August 19238 April 2022) was a noted democracy activist, advocate of Taiwan independence, and politician. Arrested for sedition in 1964 for printing a manifesto advocating democracy in his native Taiwan, he escaped to Sweden ...

is her first cousin.

References

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