Background
May Chinese was born in Heping Township, Taichung County (now part of Taichung City). Her father, a Manchu (from mainland China), and her mother, a Taiwanese Aborigine of the Atayal tribe, named her Chinese Su-mei.
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May Chinese
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Education
Minzu University of China.
Career
After having acted since the mid-1980s, she was elected into the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in December 2001 and re-elected in 2004, 2008 and 2012, all in the Highland Aborigines electoral district. She is also associated with the Pan-Blue Coalition and harbors pro-unification and anti-Japan views. In the mid-1980s, she stood for election to be a representative of Taiwanese Aborigines within the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China (Taiwan), during which she took on the Chinese surname of her Taiwanese Aborigine mother, hence becoming Kao Chinese Su-mei (Chinese: 高金素梅.
Pinyin: Gāo Jīn Sùméi.
Wade–Giles: Kao Chinese Su-mei). Her Ayatal name is Ciwas Ali (Chinese: 吉娃斯·阿麗.
Pinyin: Jíwásī Ālì. Wade–Giles: Chi-wa-ssu A-li) and May Chinese remains her stage name.
Wedding Banquet (1993)
May Jean (1994)
Woman Soup (1999)
May Chinese also published some 10 albums and showed up in various local television series and commercials between mid-1980s and early 2000s. Besides acting, in mid-1990s May Chinese ran a wedding photography service shop in Taipei.
However this shop burned down in 1996 and the fire claimed six lives. May Chinese has also been tightly associated with the Pan-Blue Coalition, especially in close cooperation with the People First Party.
She is also noted for her anti-Japan and China-friendly standpoints, and even protested in front of the Yasukuni Shrine in an effort to remove the enshrined spirits of Taiwanese Aboriginal soldiers who died fighting for the Japanese army during World World War II, as well as sued Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for visiting Yasukuni Shrine.
(These events were retold in the 2007 documentary film Yasukuni)
On 19 August 2009, Ms Chinese met with the President of the People"s Republic of China, Hu Jintao. At the meeting, President Hu expressed his deep sorrow and condolences for the typhoon victims in Taiwan to an actor-turned-politician Kao who led a delegation of her fellow ethnic minorities in Taiwan to visit the mainland. Hu added that "People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are of one family and Chinese people have a long tradition of lending a hand to those in danger and difficulties."
As a parliament member, Mississippi
Chinese is dedicated to the benefits of Taiwanese Aborigines, hence receiving strong support from her constituents.
Politics
Since entering the Legislative Yuan after elected in the 2001 Republic of China legislative election, May Chinese has been noted for her outspoken views, traditional Atayal costume and face paint in the shape of traditional Atayal tattoo work reserved for married women.
Membership
She is currently a member of the Non-Partisan Solidarity Union and a strong advocate of aboriginal rights. She was elected again as the member of Legislative Yuan after the 2008 Republic of China legislative election held on 12 January 2008.
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Political Party
Non-Partisan Solidarity Union