Ding Chengfang

Ding Chengfang (Chinese: 丁澄芳) was a Chinese educator and politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.

Ding Chengfang
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office
1948–1951
Succeeded byWang Xiurui[1]
ConstituencyAnhui

Biography

Originally from Fuyang County in Anhui Province, Ding attended Peking Women's Normal University, after which she became headteacher of Anhui Provincial Central Experimental Primary School.[2] She joined the Kuomintang and became a member of the committee of its women's section in Anhui.

In the 1948 elections to the Legislative Yuan, Ding was a candidate in Anhui Province and was elected to parliament.[3] Although she relocated to Keelung in Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War, she later returned to the mainland with her children and settled in Nanjing. She resigned from the Legislative Yuan in 1951.[1] She subsequently became headteacher of Nanjing No. 19 Middle School and died during the 1980s.

References
  1. 總統府公報[Presidential Palace Bulletin] No. 293
  2. 安慶文史資料, number 11, July 1985, p46
  3. 丁澄芳 Legislative Yuan
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