Friday, October 17, 2008

Chiang Hsiao-yung

Chiang Hsiao-yung was a politician of the Republic of China.

Biography


Chiang was born in Shanghai, China in 1948. He was the third son of Chiang Ching-kuo, the President of the Republic of China in Taiwan from 1978 to 1988. His mother was Faina Ipatyevna Vakhreva, also known as Chiang Fang-liang. He had two older brothers, and , and one older sister, , with whom he shared the same parents. He had two half-brothers, Winston Chang and , with whom he shared the same father.

After a brief political career in the Kuomintang in 1988, he emigrated to Canada with his family. In 1996, he died in Taiwan at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital as a result of esophageal cancer, aged 48. He was survived by his wife Chiang Fang Chi-yi and three sons.

Currently, Chiang Fang Chi-yi is an active Kuomintang political figure while his eldest son Demos Chiang is a successful businessman.

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