Tao Xuan
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office
1928–1935
Personal details
Born1899
Zhejiang, China
Died1972

Tao Xuan (pinyin: Táo Xuán; Wade–Giles: T'ao2 Hsuan2, 1899–1972) was a Chinese educator and politician. She was one of the first group of three women appointed to the Legislative Yuan in 1928.

Biography

Tao was born in Zhejiang province in 1899,[1] originally from Taoyan in Shaoxing County. She attended the No. 1 Women's Normal School in Shanxi province, after which she enrolled in Chinese Language and Literature course at Peking Women's Normal University in 1917. In 1919 she transferred to the National Normal School for Women. Following the start of the May Fourth Movement, she was elected president of the Peking Federation of Women's Studies. In 1922 she was appointed headmistress of Peking No. 1 Girls' Middle School.

In 1928 she was appointed to the first Legislative Yuan, one of three women alongside Soong Mei-ling and Zheng Yuxiu.[2][3] She was later appointed to the second and third legislatures, remaining in office until 1935.[1] In 1930 she became headmistress of Nanjing Girls' High School. Six years later she was appointed head of the World School Shanghai in 1936.[4]

During the Second Sino-Japanese War she was appointed to the National Political Council in 1938 and headed the headed the Girls Department in the Kuomintang Youth Corps frin 1940 to 1941.[1] After the war she was a delegate to the 1946 Constituent National Assembly that drew up the constitution of the Republic of China. She remained in China following the Civil War and was elected to Jiangsu Province Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 1955.

Never married, she died in 1972.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 China Yearbook, 1943, plviii
  2. ↑ Patti Gully (2008) Sisters of Heaven: China's Barnstorming Aviatrixes : Modernity, Feminism, and Popular Imagination in Asia and the West, p233
  3. ↑ Ran Lu (2008) Paradox of Legal Reform under the Kuomintang Regime in Mainland China, a Case Study in Judicial Reform and Legal Modernisation under an Authoritarian regime (1928-1948)
  4. 1 2 绍兴县敎育志, 2002, p526
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