Hsiu-chu Hung is a female politician in Taiwan. She was the first ever chairwoman of Kuomintang (KMT), elected in 2016. Hung was also the Vice President of the Judicial Yuan for all most 4 years.
Background
Hung was born on April 7, 1948, in Taiwan, the oldest child in the family.
Hung Zi-yu was her father, who was a target during the White Terror in Taiwan and was subject to political prosecution. He also worked in politics and was part of the government of Monopoly Bureau in central China. During the February of 1946, her father relocated to Taiwan with the Pro-autonomy Government. He became the vice to the boss of a factory the manufactured sugar, the company was part of the Taiwan Sugar Corporation. The manager of the Sugar Company was given the accusation of being part of the Communist party. Hung’s father was also caught up in the whole scenario. He was eventually jailed for three years in a prison that was located on Green Island. After her father was released from prison, he could not find a job for the following 40 years, putting his family in a financial dilemma.
Education
Hung was sent to Dongyuan Basic School and also later attended secondary at Taipei’s Girls’ high school. She was an excellent public speaker and would often win contests based in storytelling. She had a wealth of awards and certificates dating back to elementary school.
Her teachers reported that Hung was an excellent student in writing and speeches, although she faces troubles when it came to learning mathematics. She was not fond of the subject and even achieved poor mathematics results when she sat her entrance exams for college.
Due to his own political experiences, Hung’s father was keen to see his daughter follow a similar path, and due to this, she had applied to more than five different law schools. She was accepted by the College of Chinese Culture in Taiwan and also received a scholarship from the founder of the college. While she was in college, Hung worked as a tutor in the evenings - she did this to help support her family and also help pay her tuition costs.
Hung earned a Master’s degree in the United States of America from the Northeast Missouri University in 1991. She also continued her coursework at the National Taiwan and National Chengchi Universities.
Hung took the Bar Exam in 1970 and failed on her first attempt. The Ministry of Education later extended the required public education to just under a decade (9 years).
Hung then had to begin her career in education. She began her first teaching job at the Xihu High School of Industry - and later got a job at the Taipei County Public Xiufeng High School. She was also a student affairs director at the latter workplace.
When she was in the 11th grade, Hung became part of the KMT. She met the head of KMT’s Taiwan Branch, Song Shi-Xuan, in 1980. Song had given her the position as the head of the woman’s division for KMT, which she served as until the year 1986. Hung had also worked in the headquarters of the party for almost 3 years - as the editor for the provincial department of KMT.
Hung began her first election campaign in the late 1980’s, although she was objected by her KMT branch director - meaning that she didn’t time off to during the course of her campaigns. She insisted on entering the elementary and participated during her weekends. She used to send her cousin to put up posters to show her presence - Hung eventually won the primary by a small margin. She also won the legislative seat and had begun her eight-year career within the Yuan Legislature. Hung almost lost in her second term of Legislative Yuan, but she still managed to scoop a position.
In 1989 she joined the secondary political coalition for the KMT, but it separated and became the New Party in 1993, with Hung deciding to stay with the original KMT. In her third term, Hung won the seat again for a third time in 1995. The county was divided into 3 districts, and during the 4th term of elections, there were said to be a lot of candidates and Hung moved to the non-partisan division - where she was elected a fourth time.
On 15 February 2012, Hung was selected to be the Vice Chairperson of Kuomintang (KMT). The Kuomintang's Central Standing Committee choose her to take that important role, after the previous chairperson Tseng Yung-chuan had abdicated from the chairperson's position. In November 2014, the Kuomintang political party lost many positions in the government after the local elections in Taiwan of 2014. It all resulted in abdication of Kuomintang's Party Chairman Ma Ying-jeou. Hung was selected to fill the position of Secretary-General of the Kuomintang (KMT) Political Party. The Kuomintang's Central Comitee had chosen her for that position in December of 2014. In January 2015, a new Kuomintang's Party Chairman was elected, Eric Chu. He won the Kuomintang's Party Chairperson Elections. Hung was thrown away from her position as Secretary-General of Kuomintang in the same month after elections.
Besides her political career and work at the Kuomintang Political Party, Hung also does much other works. She is the director of many China's non-governmental organizations and other types of organizations and foundations. For example she works as Director of the Republic of China's Youth and Children Welfare Association, Chairperson of the Republic of China's Tug of War Association, Chairperson of the Chinese Taipei Tug of War Organization, Director of the Republic of China's Youth Work Association, Director of the Republic of China's Women Work Association, Chairperson of the Republic of China's Youth Care Organization, Director of the Republic of China's World Federation of Folk Dance. Hung is also on the function as General Counselor of the Republic of China's Sports Federation.
In the Spring of 2015, she registered for the Kuomintang Presidential elections as the candidate for Presidency over the Republic of China. In the Summer of 2015, she became the official and approved presidential candidate of the Kuomintang Political Party for the Republic of China's general elections held in 2016. She started her presidential campaign in the city of Taichung.
Sadly, Hung was signed off as the Kuomintang's Political Party's candidate for President of the Republic of China. The Kuomintang's Central Committee made that decision because she was not scoring well in the presidential polls. Instead of Hung as the presidential candidate of Kuomintang, Eric Chu was nominated instead. After she was resigned off the position as the presidential candidate, Hung had announced that she would return all of the expenses of her presidential campaign to the donors of her campaign. After she had lost her presidential candidacy, she was offered to become the member of the New Political Party of Taiwan by New Party's chairman Yok Mu-ming. She had declined his offer. She was so devastated because the Central Committeee of Kuomintang Party signed her off road to becoming the President of the Republic of China, that she wrote a book on that topic entitled Unfinished Presidential Road. She was later proclaimed as the Chairperson of the Kuomintang Party in 2016, and still holds that position.
Hung is the Chinese patriot, and it is no wonder she is the member and the Chairman of the Chinese National Party Kuomintang. After she was elected as the official president candidate of Republic of China, she gave a speech of what she would do if she became the President. She promised to the Chinese and Taiwanese people peace, openess to their need, and she also promised the equal distribution of wealth, including the equal distribution of morality.
She gave an interview for Taichung's local radio station, where said that the interests of Chinese and Taiwanese people are most important to her and that she would take those interests into her account. Hung also made a promise to Chinese and Taiwanese people that she would, as the President of the Republic of China, improve the military relations between the states of Taiwan and China.
Personality
Hung has very dominant character. She says everything that is on her mind on any topic, thus she was nicknamed "Little hot pepper."
Physical Characteristics:
Hung has short black hair. She is not very tall - her height is only 1.60 meters. Her trademarks are her full lips and clever brown eyes.
Quotes from others about the person
The ultimate goal of laws is to educate the society to abide by the law and law by itself can only address the symptoms, but education can reach deep into our heart, which is far more effective to set the society on the right course. So, education is the fundamental solution. Although I am an educator, I am marching toward the same goal as a lawyer and there is no need to feel disappointed.
Interests
She enjoys gardening and hanging out with her personal friends, and friends and colleagues from the Kuomintang Party.
Writers
Besides being a politician, Hung also loves to read the classical Chinese and Taiwanese literature. In her free time, she writes songs and poetry.
Connections
Hung is currently not married, nor has she children of her own.