Chiang Fang-liang
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| 3rd First Lady of the Republic of China | |
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| President | Chiang Ching-kuo |
| Preceded by | Liu Chi-chun |
| Succeeded by | Tseng Wen-hui |
| Spouse of the Premier of the Republic of China | |
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| Prime Minister | Chiang Ching-kuo |
| Preceded by | Liu Chi-chun |
| Succeeded by | Hsu Huang-chen (acting) |
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| Born | Faina Ipat'evna Vakhreva Script error: No such module "person date". near Orsha, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | Script error: No such module "person date". Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Resting place | Daxi Presidential Burial Place Touliao, Taiwan |
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Faina Chiang Fang-liang (Chinese: 蔣方良; pinyin: Jiǎng Fāngliáng; born Faina Ipatyevna Vakhreva; Template:Langx; Template:Langx; 15 May 1916 – 15 December 2004) was the First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988 as the wife of President Chiang Ching-kuo.
Early life
On 15 May 1916, Faina was born near Orsha, then part of the Mogilev Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in Belarus). Faina was orphaned at a young age and raised by her older sister Anna.[1][2]
Career
At age 16, as a member of the Soviet Union's Communist Youth League, Faina worked at the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant in Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR, where she met Chiang Ching-kuo, her supervisor.[3][4] On 15 March 1935, aged 18, Faina married him.[2][3]
Move to Taiwan
In December 1936, Joseph Stalin granted Chiang's return to China.[2] After the couple was received by Chiang Kai-shek and his wife Soong Mei-ling in Hangzhou, they traveled to the Chiang home in Xikou, Zhejiang, where they held a second marriage ceremony.[4] Fang-liang stayed behind to live with Chiang Ching-kuo's mother, Mao Fumei. She was assigned a tutor to learn Mandarin Chinese, but she learned the local Ningbo dialect of Wu Chinese instead.[1][2] She reportedly got along well with Mao Fumei and did her own housework.[2][4]
As first lady
When Chiang Ching-kuo became President, Fang-liang rarely performed the traditional roles of first lady, partly due to her lack of formal education; her husband also encouraged her not to get into politics. She occasionally taught Russian to Kuomintang cadets.[5] She largely stayed out of the public spotlight,[1][3] and little was ever known of her in an anti-communist atmosphere in the government. She never returned to Russia and travelled abroad only three times in the last 50 years of her life, all to visit her children and their families. In 1992, she received a visit from a Belarusian delegation.[4][6]
Children
On 14 December 1935, their first son Chiang Hsiao-wen was born in the Soviet Union.[3] Each of her three younger children was born in different parts of China, reflecting turbulent years as an official of the country.[4] Faina had four children:
- Chiang Hsiao-wen (b. 1935 in Sverdlovsk)[3]
- Chiang Hsiao-chang (b. 1938 in Nanchang)
- Chiang Hsiao-wu (b. 1945 in Chekiang)
- Chiang Hsiao-yung (b. 1948 in Shanghai)
All her children were sent to study in foreign universities[4] – Hsiao-wu to West Germany and the remaining children to the United States. All three sons died shortly after Ching-kuo's death in 1988: Hsiao-wen in 1989, Hsiao-wu in 1991, and Hsiao-yung in 1996.[3] Fang-liang then lived in the suburbs of Taipei. She received occasional visitors, such as some prominent politicians who went to pay their respects every few years. In the Taiwanese media, if she ever received coverage, she was depicted as a virtuous wife who never complained and endured her loneliness with dignity.[1][2][7]
Death and funeral
Chiang died of respiratory and cardiac failure stemming from lung cancer at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital on 15 December 2004, at the age of 88 (or 89 according to East Asian age reckoning).[1][7][8][9]
Chiang's funeral was held on 27 December 2004, with President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu in attendance.[10] Kuomintang politicians Wang Jin-pyng, Lin Cheng-chih, P. K. Chiang, and Ma Ying-jeou draped her casket with the Kuomintang party flag, and Kuomintang party elders Lee Huan, Hau Pei-tsun, Chiu Chuang-huan, and Shih Chi-yang draped her casket with the ROC national flag.[11][12] Chiang was cremated and her ashes taken to her husband's temporary mausoleum in Touliao, Taoyuan County (now Taoyuan City). They were buried together in the Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery.[1] Template:Chiang family tree
See also
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References
Citations
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- ^ a b c d e f Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Tsai, Wen-Ting; Tsai, Julius (January 2005). "Farewell, Faina — Chiang Fang-liang Dies Aged 90". Taiwan Panorama. Taipei, Taiwan. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wu, Pei-shih (18 May 2003). "Forgotten first lady served as model traditional wife". Taipei Times. Taipei, Taiwan. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wen, Stephanie (16 December 2004). "Chiang Fang-liang remembered". Taipei Times. Taipei, Taiwan. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wang, Jaifeng; Hughes, Christopher (January 1998). "Cover Story — Love to Fang-Liang – the Chiang Family Album". Taiwan Panorama. Taipei, Taiwan. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The lonely widow of Huaihai Rd in sealed memory". China Daily. Beijing. 12 January 2005. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Yu, Susan (16 June 1992). "Mensk officials meet Chiang Fang-liang Chiang Ching-kuo's widow breaks precedent to receive countrymen". Taiwan Today (Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Taipei, Taiwan. Archived from the original on 7 November 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Yiu, Cody (16 December 2004). "A sad life ends for Chiang Fang-liang". Taipei Times. Taipei, Taiwan. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Faina Chiang dies at 88 in Taipei". China Daily. Beijing. 15 December 2004. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."President Chen pays tribute to former first lady Faina Chiang". China Post. Taipei. 17 December 2004. Archived from the original on 4 November 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Nation bids farewell to former first lady Faina Chiang". China Post. Taipei. 27 December 2004. Archived from the original on 4 November 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Chuang, Jimmy (25 December 2004). "Faina Chiang's funeral will be held on Monday". Taipei Times. Taipei, Taiwan. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Faina Chiang's funeral held in Taiwan". sina.com. 27 December 2004. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
Bibliography
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.周玉蔻 [Zhou, Yu-kou] (1993). 蔣方良與蔣經國 [Chiang Fang-liang and Chiang Ching-kuo]. 台北市: 麥田出版有限公司. ISBN 9789577081070.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.O'Neill, Mark (2020). China's Russian Princess: The silent wife of Chiang Ching-kuo. Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Company. ISBN 978-9620446153.
External links
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