Yu Ruzhou

Yu was born in Acheng County in 1899. She attended Peking Union Medical College, Shanghai Medical College and the Shanghai Institute of Human and Obstetrics, after which she became a medical officer for the Harbin Anti-epidemic Affairs Office, Daheihe Epidemic Prevention Hospital and Daheihe Police Department.^[1] She later became head of Harbin Songjiang Obstetrics School and Songjiang Hospital.^[1] During the Second Sino-Japanese War she served as director of the Wartime Childcare Association and was deputy director of Yichang Wartime Children's Transportation Station.^[1]

After the war Yu was a delegate to the 1946 Constituent National Assembly [zh] that drew up the constitution of the Republic of China.^[1] A member of the executive of the Harbin branch of the Kuomintang, she was a Kuomintang candidate in the city in the 1948 elections for the Legislative Yuan and was elected to parliament.^[1] She relocated to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War, where she remained a member of the Legislative Yuan until her death in 1988.^[2]