Tsun-ying Wong ( zh, 王隽英, 1908 – 2 December 1960) was a Chinese academic and politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.

Biography

Wong was born in 1908 and was originally from Panshidian in Shandong province. Her father Wong Yicheng was killed during the 1911 Revolution and she was adopted by the politician Ding Weifen. She earned a bachelor's degree at

Yenching University Yenching University (), was a university in Beijing, China, that was formed out of the merger of four Christian colleges between the years 1915 and 1920. The term "Yenching" comes from an alternative name for old Beijing, derived from its status ...

, after which she went to the United States to study for a master's degree at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. While in America, she met and married Kuan-hai Ting and the couple had a son, Samuel. Two months after his birth, the couple returned to China, where they had two more children.Darryl J. Leiter, Paul Ward & Sharon Leiter (2014
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p301 She became a professor at the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Education and National Institute of Social Education. After joining the

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, she became an alternate member of the party's sixth central committee. In the 1948 elections for the Legislative Yuan, Wong was a

candidate in Shandong, and was elected to parliament.王隽英
Legislative Yuan She relocated to

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in 1948 during the

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, where she became an adjunct professor in the Department of Psychology at

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and the Taiwan Provincial Institute of Education. In 1976 her son Samuel won the

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for physics. She remained a member of parliament until her death in

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in December 1960.总统府公报 'Presidential Palace Bulletin''number 1194, 18 January 1961

References

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