Alice Wang

Wang was born to parents Wang Kun-ho and Kao Li-chun.^[1][2] Both her father Wang Kun-ho and younger brother Wang Po-yu have served on the Taipei City Council.^[1][3]

After graduating from Taipei Private Yan Ping High School, Wang attended law school at National Taiwan University,^[4] where she advocated for the democratization of Taiwan as a student activist.^[1][5] After earning a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Wang continued her legal education at Cornell University in the United States and obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Cornell Law School.^[6] She worked as a lawyer and also taught at Tamkang University and National Open University.^[1][7]

She won a seat on the National Assembly in 1991, taking office the next year at the age of 28.^[1] She ran for the Legislative Yuan in 1995, winning reelection twice thereafter in 1998 and 2001. During her 2001 campaign, she expressed clear support for downsizing the legislature,^[8] but broke with the Democratic Progressive Party by criticizing the vote allocation scheme in place that year.^[9] In 2002, Wang pushed the DPP to nominate Yeh Chu-lan as its candidate for the Taipei mayoralty.^[10] Instead, Yeh remained head of the Hakka Affairs Council until 2004.

As a legislator, Wang was noted for her speaking out on mental and public health issues, including tobacco consumption and drunk driving.^[11][12] In 2000, she helped draw attention to conditions at the Lungfatang psychiatric care center in Kaohsiung County.^[13][14][15]

Wang co-founded a legislative group for unmarried female parliamentarians in 2002,^[16] but left the group after marrying Wang Tsuo-liang in May 2002.^[3] It was reported in 2009 that Wang and her husband were earning money from the collection of recyclables.^[17] In January 2010, Alice Wang petitioned the Xindian bench of the Taipei District Court to grant her a restraining order against Wang Tsuo-liang, citing verbal and physical abuse.^[18]