Liu Wen-hsiung

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Liu Wen-hsiung
劉文雄

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Liu in September 2012
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office
1 February 2005 –31 January 2008
Constituency Republic of China
In office
1 February 1999 –31 January 2005
Constituency Keelung
Personal details
Born(1954-09-18)18 September 1954
Keelung, Taiwan
Died 31 July 2017(2017-07-31) (aged 62)
Anle, Keelung, Taiwan
Political party People First Party (since 2000)
Other political
affiliations		 Kuomintang (until 2000)
Alma mater National Chengchi University
National Taiwan Ocean University

Liu Wen-hsiung (Chinese :劉文雄; pinyin :Liú Wénxióng; 8 September 1954 – 31 July 2017) was a Taiwanese politician who served in the Legislative Yuan from 1999 to 2008.

Chinese language family of languages

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Hanyu Pinyin, often abbreviated to pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan. It is often used to teach Standard Mandarin Chinese, which is normally written using Chinese characters. The system includes four diacritics denoting tones. Pinyin without tone marks is used to spell Chinese names and words in languages written with the Latin alphabet, and also in certain computer input methods to enter Chinese characters.

Legislative Yuan National legislature of Republic of China

The Legislative Yuan is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China now based in Taiwan. It is one of the five branches of government stipulated by the Constitution of the Republic of China, which follows Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People. Sometimes referred to as a "parliament", the Legislative Yuan, under Sun's political theory, is a branch of government. According to the Judicial Yuan's interpretation number 76 of the Constitution (1957), the parliament of the republic includes all three of the National Assembly, the Legislative Yuan, and the Control Yuan. However, after constitutional amendments effectively transferring almost all of the National Assembly's powers to the Legislative Yuan in the late 1990s, it has become more common in Taiwanese newspapers to refer to the Legislative Yuan as “the parliament”.

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Early life and education

Liu was born in Keelung in 1954, [1] and was of Mainland Chinese descent. [2] He attended National Chengchi University before completing graduate work at National Taiwan Ocean University. [3]

Mainland Chinese or Mainlanders are Chinese people who live in a region considered a "mainland". It is frequently used in the context of areas ruled by the People's Republic of China, referring to people from mainland China as opposed to other areas controlled by the state such as Hong Kong or Macau. The word is also often used by Taiwan people to distinguish the Chinese from Mainland China from themselves, if not calling the mainlanders and themselves as Chinese and Taiwanese directly respectively.

National Chengchi University A national university in Taipei

National Chengchi University is a national research university, and the earliest public service training facility in Taiwan. First established in Nanjing in 1927, the university was subsequently relocated to Taipei in 1954. It is considered to be one of the most prestigious and prominent universities in Taiwan. The university, abbreviated as NCCU, specializes in arts and humanities, mass media, social sciences, economics, management, politics, and international affairs programs. It is the only publicly-funded university in Taiwan which provides courses in journalism, advertising, radio and television, diplomacy, and several languages which are not taught at other institutions in Taiwan. The name Chengchi (政治) means governance or politics, and refers to its founding in 1927 as a training institution for senior civil service for the Nanjing Nationalist government of China. The university has strong ties with academic institutions like Academia Sinica, National Yangming University, National Taiwan University and National Palace Museum.

National Taiwan Ocean University A national university in Keelung

National Taiwan Ocean University is a national university in Zhongzheng District, Keelung, Taiwan. NTOU is a member of University System of Taipei.

Political career

Liu served two terms on the Taiwan Provincial Council before his 1998 election to the Legislative Yuan. [4] The Kuomintang formally began expulsion proceedings against Liu in December 1999, because he supported the 2000 independent presidential campaign of James Soong. [5] Liu later joined Soong's People First Party, and was the PFP's legislative whip. [6] [7] On 3 December 2005, he joined the Republic of China local election for the Keelung City mayoralty. [8] [9] However, he finished in third place. [10]

Kuomintang political party in the Republic of China

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James Soong Chairman of People First Party, former Governor of Taiwan Province

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2005 Keelung City Mayoralty Election result
No. Candidate Party Votes
1 Chen Chien-ming Taiwan orange.svg TSU 58,243
2 Hsu Tsai-li Emblem of the Kuomintang.svg KMT 76,162
Vote1.svg
3Liu Wen-hsiung LogoPFP.svg PFP 47,932
4 Wang Tuoh Green Taiwan in White Cross.svg DPP 2,771

In 2006, Liu accused Kuo Yao-chi, then the Minister of Transportation and Communications, of appointing Wu Cheng-chih, a friend who was recommended by her husband, to the secretary-general position of the China Aviation Development Foundation as a form of nepotism; Liu said that Weng did not have the proper aviation background. Kuo said that she did not practice nepotism and that she would seek to have action taken against Liu. [11] The next year, Liu ran in the Keelung mayoral by-election and was a reported candidate for the Control Yuan. [12] [13] Liu later became deputy secretary-general of the People First Party. [14] [15] Liu ran in the 2016 legislative elections as a representative of Keelung district, but lost. [16] In 2017, he was formally nominated to a seat on the Control Yuan. [17]

Kuo Yao-chi was born in Hualien, Taiwan. She was administrative official, former Minister of Transportation and Communications in the Republic of China.

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Personal life

Liu was a Taiwanese Muslim. [18] He suffered a heart attack in July 2017, which led to a coma. [19] He was moved to Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Keelung on 21 July, where he died on 31 July 2017, aged 62. [20] His body was sent to Taipei Grand Mosque where funeral prayer was performed before he was buried. [21]

Islam in Taiwan

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