Josephine Chu
Taiwanese politician
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Chu Hui-liang (Chinese: 朱惠良; pinyin: Zhū Huìliáng; born 16 December 1950), also known by her English name Josephine Chu, is a Taiwanese art historian and former politician. She served in the Legislative Yuan from 1996 to 2002. Chu and Hsu Hsin-liang formed an independent ticket in the 2000 presidential election, finishing fourth.
(BA, MA)
Princeton University (MA, PhD)
Chu Hui-liang | |
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朱惠良 | |
.jpg) Chu as a member of the Third Legislative Yuan | |
| Member of the Legislative Yuan | |
| In office 1 February 1996 – 31 January 2002 | |
| Constituency | Taipei 2 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 December 1950 Nantou City, Taiwan |
| Education | National Taiwan University (BA, MA) Princeton University (MA, PhD) |
| Profession | Museum director |
Early life and education
Chu was born in Nantou City in 1950 to a waishengren family.[1] She graduated from National Taiwan University with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in history in 1974 and earned a master's degree from the university in art history in 1977. She won a government scholarship to complete graduate studies in the United States, where she studied Chinese and Japanese art at Princeton University under historians Wen Fong and Frederick W. Mote.[2]
As a graduate student at Princeton University, Chu received a Mellon Fellowship to study at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[2] She earned a Master of Arts (M.A.) in art and archaeology and her Ph.D. in art and archaeology in 1990 from Princeton. Her doctoral dissertation was titled, "The Chung Yu (A.D. 151–230) Tradition: A Pivotal Development in Sung Calligraphy".[3]
Academic career
After receiving her doctorate from Princeton, Chu became a research fellow at the National Palace Museum.[4] She also held associate professorships at National Taiwan University and the National Institute of the Arts.[5][6]
Political career
Chu served two terms in the Legislative Yuan, winning the 1995 and 1998 elections.[4] Throughout her legislative career, she was occasionally covered in local media as a New Party politician,[7] but most often as an independent.[8][9] Chu and Hsu Hsin-liang formed an independent ticket in the 2000 presidential election, won by Chen Shui-bian and Annette Lu. Chu ran for the Hsinchu district seat in the legislative elections of 2001 with the endorsement of the Gender Sexuality Rights Association, but lost.[10]
Political stances
Chu has worked to expand LGBT rights in Taiwan,[11][12] and has advocated for rights of foreign spouses.[13]
Chu backed efforts to maintain an unbiased media, as well as cultural outreach initiatives. To this end, she supported a proposal by the Taiwan Media Watch Foundation to have government workers barred from working in the media,[14] and has criticized political interference in the Public Television Service.[15] In 2001, she expressed support for expanding the National Palace Museum to southern Taiwan,[16] a project that was not completed until 2015.
When the United States government announced that it would not ratify the Kyoto Protocol, Chu sought a meeting with the American Institute in Taiwan to argue for the ratification of the treaty.[17] In 2004, she criticized the Chen Shui-bian administration for backing a NT$610.8 billion proposal to acquire American weapons, saying that the results of the cross-strait referendum showed that most Taiwanese did not approve of the action.[18]
Later career
After leaving politics, Chu taught at Taipei National University of the Arts.[19] In 2009, she returned to the National Palace Museum as assistant director of educational outreach,[20] assuming the departmental head position the next year.[21][22]