Yang Pao-lin

Yang Pao-lin (Chinese: 楊寶琳, 29 June 1911 – 2 July 1993) was a Chinese politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.

Yang Pao-lin
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office 1948–1991
Constituency	Shandong
Personal details
Born	4 June 1911[1] Shandong, China
Died	2 July 1993(1993-07-02) (aged 82)

Biography

Yang was born in 1911 and was originally from Heze County [zh] in Shandong province. She graduated from China University [zh] and was employed as headteacher of Shandong War Orphan Middle School from 1945 to 1947.^[1] She served as president of the Shandong Women's Association from 1945 to 1946 and as chair of the Shandong Women's Movement Committee from 1945 to 1947.^[1] She also headed the women's section of the Shandong People's Self-Defence Corps.^[2] She married Yang Jialin [zh], a politician, and had two daughters.^[1]

Yang was a Kuomintang candidate in Shandong 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 became an executive member of the Taiwan Consumer's Association.^[1] She died in 1993.