Chiang Hsiao-yung

Chiang Hsiao-yung (traditional Chinese: 蔣孝勇; simplified Chinese: 蒋孝勇; pinyin: Jiǎng Xiàoyǒng; also known as Eddie Chiang; October, 1948 – December 22, 1996) was a politician of the Republic of China.

Eddie Chiang Hsiao-yung
蔣孝勇
Born	(1948-10-01)1 October 1948 Shanghai, Republic of China
Died	22 December 1996(1996-12-22) (aged 48) Taipei, Taiwan
Political party	Kuomintang
Spouse	Chiang Fang Chi-yi[1]
Children	Demos Chiang Yo-bo, Edward Chiang Yo-chang, Andrew Chiang Yo-ching[1]
Parent(s)	Chiang Ching-kuo Chiang Fang-liang

Biography

Chiang was born in Shanghai, Republic of China in 1948. He was the third son of Chiang Ching-kuo, the President of the Republic of China in Taiwan from 1978 to 1988. His mother was Faina Ipatyevna Vakhreva, also known as Chiang Fang-liang. He had two older brothers, Hsiao-wen and Hsiao-wu, and one older sister, Hsiao-chang. He also had two half-brothers, Winston Chang and John Chiang, with whom he shared the same father.

After a brief political career in the Kuomintang in 1988,^[2] he emigrated to Canada with his family. In 1996, he died in Taiwan at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital as a result of esophageal cancer, aged 48. He was survived by his wife Chiang Fang Chi-yi and three sons.^[3]

As of November 2013^[update], Chiang Fang Chi-yi is a member of the Kuomintang Central Committee^[4] while his eldest son Demos Chiang is a successful designer and businessman.^[5] Andrew Chiang, his youngest son, was charged with making threatening comments against the faculty of the Taipei American School through email and Facebook in 2013.^[4][5][6] He was convicted in 2015, and fined NT$183,000.^[7]