Mao Tan-yun

Mao Tan-yun (Chinese: 莫淡雲, 1912 – 5 March 2012) was a Chinese educator and politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.

Mao Tan-yun
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office 1948–1991
Constituency	Suiyuan
Personal details
Born	1912 (1912)
Died	5 March 2012(2012-03-05) (aged 99–100)

Biography

Mao was born in 1912.^[1] Originally from Changsha County in Hunan Province, she attended Wuchang Higher Normal School [zh], after which she worked as a teacher and served as head of Suiyuan Girls' Vocational School.^[2] She joined the Kuomintang and became chair of the women's section in Suiyuan Province.^[2]

In the 1948 elections to the Legislative Yuan, Mao was a Kuomintang candidate in Suiyuan and was elected to parliament.^[2] She relocated to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War, where she became a committee member of the Institute of Revolutionary Practice.^[2] She died in 2012.