Chiang Wan-an
Taiwanese politician and lawyer (born 1978)
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Chiang Wan-an (Chinese: 蔣萬安; born Chang Wan-an; 26 December 1978), also known by his English name Wayne Chiang, is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer who has served as the mayor of Taipei since December 2022. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), he is the youngest mayor in the history of the office.[1]
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- Lee Shu-chuan
Lin Yi-hua
Chiang Wan-an | |
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蔣萬安 | |
Official portrait, 2022 | |
| 14th Mayor of Taipei | |
| Assumed office 25 December 2022 | |
| Deputy | See list
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| Preceded by | Ko Wen-je |
| Member of the Legislative Yuan | |
| In office 1 February 2016 – 10 November 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Lo Shu-lei |
| Succeeded by | Wang Hung-wei |
| Constituency | Taipei III |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Chang Wan-an 26 December 1978 Taipei, Taiwan |
| Party | Kuomintang |
| Spouse |
Shih Fang-hsuan (m. 2009) |
| Relations | Chiang Ching-kuo (grandfather, ostensible) Chiang Kai-shek (great-grandfather, ostensible) |
| Children | 3 |
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| Education | National Chengchi University (BA, LLB) University of Pennsylvania (LLM, JD, SJD) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 蔣萬安 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 蒋万安 | ||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 章萬安 | ||||||||||||||
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Born to a prominent political family in Taipei, Chiang is believed to be a great-grandson of Chiang Kai-shek.[2] After graduating from National Chengchi University, he earned three law degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and worked as a corporate lawyer in Silicon Valley.
From 2016 to 2022, he represented Taipei City Constituency 3 as a member of the Legislative Yuan. In the 2022 Taiwanese local elections, Chiang ran for the Taipei mayoralty, defeating former health minister Chen Shih-chung and former deputy mayor Huang Shan-shan.
Early life
Chiang was born Chang Wan-an (Chinese: 章萬安; pinyin: Zhāng Wàn'ān)[3][4][5] on 26 December 1978 in Taipei, Taiwan.[6] He is the only son of Kuomintang politician Chiang Hsiao-yen and Helen Huang (黃美倫; Huáng Měilún) and has two elder sisters. His father claims to be an illegitimate son of Chiang Ching-kuo, the only son of Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek. Although Chiang Hsiao-yen's claim has not been formally recognized by the Chiang family, the family supported Hsiao-yen's rise in the Kuomintang.[7] If true, Wan-an would be a great-grandson of Chiang Kai-shek.[8]
Chiang Wan-an's contested familial relationship with Chiang Kai-shek, who ruled Taiwan after the Great Retreat, has been controversial due to Kai-shek's divisive legacy as either a symbol of anti-communism or dictatorship.[5] At age six, Wan-an was introduced to Soong Mei-ling.[9] However, he was unaware of his familial relation to Chiang Kai-shek until high school, when his father made claims of being an illegitimate son of Chiang Ching-kuo.[9] In 2005, the family changed their surname from Chang to Chiang.[10]
Education
After graduating from Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School at the top of his class, Chiang attended National Chengchi University to study international relations.[9] In his sophomore year, he began pursuing a dual degree, graduating with a B.A. in international studies and an LL.B. in public international law in 2000.[11][12] As an undergraduate, he represented the university at the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, where he was recognized as an outstanding debater.[13]
After graduation, Chiang spent a year and a half working as an attorney for Lee and Li, the largest law firm in Taiwan, and became a legislative aide in the National Assembly, where he wrote a petition to legalize flights between Taiwan and mainland China. In 2001, he was named a "young leader of Taiwan" and was introduced to U.S. president Bill Clinton.[9]
In 2002, Chiang left Taiwan to pursue graduate studies in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied under law professor Jacques deLisle.[9] He earned his Master of Laws (LL.M.) in 2004, his Juris Doctor (J.D.) in 2006, and a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.),[14] all from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.[15] He frequently traveled between New York City and Philadelphia while a law student.[16]
Legal career
After receiving his J.D. degree, Chiang became an associate attorney at the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, California, starting in the fall of 2006.[9] He was admitted as a member of the State Bar of California on December 11, 2007.[17] Chiang later moved to the Crone Law Group, a law firm in Silicon Valley, and worked as an associate specializing in venture capital, corporate law, and securities law from 2009 to 2011.[18] He was soon made a partner of the firm.[19] After practicing for several years, he founded his own law firm, the Wan-tse International Law Firm,[20] before returning to Taiwan in March 2015 to enter politics, voluntarily relinquishing his U.S. green card.[21]
Legislative Yuan (2016–2022)
Chiang faced Lo Shu-lei in the first round of the Kuomintang party primary for the legislative elections in April 2015.[22] After Lo failed to build a sufficient lead, another primary was called the next month, which Chiang won.[23] He ran as the KMT candidate for Taipei City's third constituency in the 2016 legislative elections and won a seat in the Legislative Yuan.[24] The Taipei District Prosecutor's Office ended an investigation of vote-buying accusations against Chiang in March, without charging him with wrongdoing.[25]
In January 2018, Chiang stated that he would not seek to represent the Kuomintang in the Taipei mayoral election scheduled for November.[26] Chiang ran for reelection in 2020, defeating his closest opponent, Democratic Progressive Party candidate Enoch Wu, with a 51 percent majority compared to Wu's 45 percent vote share.[27][28]
Mayor of Taipei (2022–)
In May 2022, the Kuomintang nominated Chiang as its candidate for the Taipei mayoralty in the local elections.[12] On 10 November 2022, Chiang announced he would resign his legislative seat to focus on his mayoral campaign.[29][30] A by-election for Chiang's legislative constituency was scheduled for 8 January 2023.[31] On 26 November 2022, he was elected as the Mayor of Taipei.[32][33] Upon taking office on 25 December 2022,[34] Chiang became the youngest-ever Mayor of Taipei.[35]
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| Party | # | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | ||
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6 | Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) | 575,590 | 42.29% |  | |
| Democratic Progressive (DPP) | 12 | Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) | 434,558 | 31.93% |  | |
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8 | Huang Shan-shan (黃珊珊) | 342,141 | 25.14% |  | |
| Others | 8,662 | 0.64% |  | |||
| Total | 1,360,951 | 100.00% | ||||
| Voter turnout | 67.70% | |||||
Personal life
Chiang met his wife, Shih Fang-hsuan (石舫亘), while they both were students at National Chengchi University.[37] They dated for ten years and married on 23 May 2009. Their first child, a son named Chiang Te-li (蔣得立), was born in June 2011,[38][39] and their second son, Chiang Te-yu (蔣得宇), was born on 23 July 2021.[40] They had a third son, Chiang Te-cheng (蔣得正), born in January 2023.[41]
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