Der-zheng Wang

Der-zheng Wang
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office 1948–1991
Constituency	Jiangsu
Personal details
Born	1912
Died	30 November 2009 Waterloo, Canada

Elizabeth Der-zheng Wang (Chinese: 王德箴, 1912 – 30 November 2009) was a Chinese politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.

Biography

Born in 1912, Wang was originally from Xiao County in Jiangsu province. She studied for a bachelor's degree in Chinese and English literature at National Central University, graduating in 1935. She then went to the United States, where she earned for a master's degree in English literature at the University of North Carolina in 1939, after which she was a graduate student in the Institute of Political Science of the Catholic University of America. Returning to China in 1940, she became a professor at Guangxi University, National Chengchi University. She also headed the cultural group of the Women's Youth Division of the Three People's Principles Youth League. She married Ju-Yu Chang, with whom she had three sons.

A member of the Provisional Senate of Jiangsu province, Wang was a Kuomintang candidate in Jiangsu 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 was a professor of English literature at Soochow University. She immigrated to Canada in 1993 to live at the Beechwood Manor care home in Waterloo, Ontario, where she died in 2009.