Der-zheng Wang

Elizabeth Der-zheng Wang (Chinese: 王德箴, 1912 – 30 November 2009) was a Chinese politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.

Der-zheng Wang
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office 1948–1991
Constituency	Jiangsu
Personal details
Born	1912 (1912)
Died	30 November 2009(2009-11-30) (aged 96–97) Waterloo, Canada

Biography

Born in 1912, Wang was originally from Xiao County in Jiangsu province. She studied for a bachelor's degree in Chinese and English literature at National Central University, graduating in 1935.^[1] She then went to the United States, where she earned for a master's degree in English literature at the University of North Carolina in 1939, after which she was a graduate student in the Institute of Political Science of the Catholic University of America.^[1][2] Returning to China in 1940, she became a professor at Guangxi University, National Chengchi University. She also headed the cultural group of the Women's Youth Division of the Three People's Principles Youth League [zh]. She married Ju-Yu Chang, with whom she had three sons.^[1]

A member of the Provisional Senate of Jiangsu province, Wang was a Kuomintang candidate in Jiangsu province in the 1948 elections for the Legislative Yuan, and was elected to parliament.^[2] She relocated to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War, where she was a professor of English literature at Soochow University.^[1] She immigrated to Canada in 1993 to live at the Beechwood Manor care home in Waterloo, Ontario, where she died in 2009.^[1]