Cheng Xiu (, died 1 April 1967) was a Chinese politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.

Biography

Originally from Duchang County in Jiangxi province, Cheng was the niece of Cheng Tianfang. She obtained an LLD from the Nancy-Université in France, worked at the National Institute for Compilation and Translation and was a professor at National Chung Cheng University. She was a member of the Jiangxi Women's Association and the Jiangxi branch of the Women's Movement Committee.

Cheng Xiu

Cheng was a Kuomintang candidate in Jiangxi province in the 1948 elections for the Legislative Yuan and was elected to parliament. She relocated to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War, where she remained a member of the Legislative Yuan. In 1956 she was convicted of fraud and sentenced to a year in prison and a loss of civic rights for two years. She appealed to the High Court but lost, resulting in her membership of parliament being cancelled. She died on 1 April 1967.

Cheng Xiu

References

Date of birth unknown

Nancy-Université alumni

Academic staff of Nanchang University

20th-century Chinese women politicians

Members of the Kuomintang

Members of the 1st Legislative Yuan

Members of the 1st Legislative Yuan in Taiwan

1967 deaths

Cheng Xiu