Cheng Xiu

Originally from Duchang County in Jiangxi province,^[1] Cheng was the niece of Cheng Tianfang.^[2] She obtained an LLD from the Nancy-Université in France, worked at the National Institute for Compilation and Translation and was a professor at National Chung Cheng University.^[3] She was a member of the Jiangxi Women's Association and the Jiangxi branch of the Women's Movement Committee.^[3]

Cheng was a Kuomintang candidate in Jiangxi province in the 1948 elections for the Legislative Yuan and was elected to parliament.^[3] She relocated to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War, where she remained a member of the Legislative Yuan. In 1956 she was convicted of fraud and sentenced to a year in prison and a loss of civic rights for two years. She appealed to the High Court but lost, resulting in her membership of parliament being cancelled.^[4] She died on 1 April 1967.^[1]