Tsai Ling-yi (; born 6 November 1952) was the
Second Lady of the
Republic of China
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from 2012 to 2016. She is the wife of
Wu Den-yih, the former
Vice President of the Republic of China.
Born as Tsai Ying-tao (蔡櫻桃) in a fishing village in
Yilan County,
Tsai married Wu Den-yih in 1970, and has four children.
She helped her husband's constituency service in
Nantou County
Nantou County (; Hokkien POJ: ''Lâm-tâu-koān''; Hakka PFS: ''Nàm-thèu-yen'') is the second largest county of Taiwan by area, located in the central part of the country. It is also the only non-coastal county in Taiwan. Its name derives fro ...
when he was a Member of the
Legislative Yuan
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, and also actively participated in political campaigns of Wu Den-yih
and
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 ...
.
References
1952 births
Living people
Second ladies of the Republic of China
Politicians of the Republic of China on Taiwan from Yilan County, Taiwan
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