Yu Ruzhou

Yu Ruzhou (Chinese: 于汝洲, 30 January 1899 – 18 March 1988) was a Chinese physician and politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.

Yu Ruzhou
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office
1948–1988
ConstituencyHarbin
Personal details
Born30 January 1899
Acheng County, China
Died18 March 1988(1988-03-18) (aged 89)

Biography

Yu was born in Acheng County in 1899. She attended Peking Union Medical College, Shanghai Medical College and the Shanghai Institute of Human and Obstetrics, after which she became a medical officer for the Harbin Anti-epidemic Affairs Office, Daheihe Epidemic Prevention Hospital and Daheihe Police Department.[1] She later became head of Harbin Songjiang Obstetrics School and Songjiang Hospital.[1] During the Second Sino-Japanese War she served as director of the Wartime Childcare Association and was deputy director of Yichang Wartime Children's Transportation Station.[1]

After the war Yu was a delegate to the 1946 Constituent National Assembly that drew up the constitution of the Republic of China.[1] A member of the executive of the Harbin branch of the Kuomintang, she was a Kuomintang candidate in the city in the 1948 elections for the Legislative Yuan and was elected to parliament.[1] She relocated to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War, where she remained a member of the Legislative Yuan until her death in 1988.[2]

References

  1. 于汝洲 Legislative Yuan
  2. 总统府公报 [Presidential Palace Bulletin] number 4,912, 1 April 1988
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