Chiang Wan-an
蔣萬安
Official portrait, 2022
14th Mayor of Taipei
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 December 2022
Deputy	See list Lee Shu-chuan Lin Yi-hua
Preceded by	Ko Wen-je
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office 1 February 2016 – 10 November 2022
Preceded by	Lo Shu-lei
Succeeded by	Wang Hung-wei
Constituency	Taipei III
Personal details
Born	Chang Wan-an (1978-12-26)26 December 1978 (age 46) Taipei,Taiwan
Political party	Kuomintang
Spouse	Shih Fang-hsuan ​ (m. 2009)​
Relations	Chiang Ching-kuo (grandfather, ostensible) Chiang Kai-shek (great-grandfather, ostensible)
Children	3
Parent	Chiang Hsiao-yen (father)
Education	National Chengchi University (BA,LLB) University of Pennsylvania (LLM,JD,SJD)
Occupation	Politician lawyer
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	蔣萬安
Simplified Chinese	蒋万安
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiǎng Wàn'ān Bopomofo ㄐㄧㄤˇ ㄨㄢˋ ㄢ Wade–Giles Chiang³ Wan⁴-an¹ Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Zoeng2 Maan6-On1
Birth name
Traditional Chinese	章萬安
Simplified Chinese	章万安
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhāng Wàn'ān Bopomofo ㄓㄤ ㄨㄢˋ ㄢ Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Zoeng1 Maan6-On1

Chiang Wan-an (Chinese: 蔣萬安; bornChang Wan-an; 26 December 1978), also known by his English nameWayne Chiang, is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer who has served as themayor of Taipei since December 2022. A member of theKuomintang (KMT), he is the youngest mayor of Taipei in its history.^[1]

Born to a prominent political family inTaipei, Chiang is the son ofChiang Hsiao-yen, who served asVice Chairman of the Kuomintang from 2008 to 2014. Because Chiang's father claims lineage to the prominentChiang family, Chiang is believed to be a great-grandson ofChiang Kai-shek, who ruled Taiwan after theRetreat of the Republic of China.^[2]

Before entering politics, Chiang graduated fromNational Chengchi University, earned three law degrees from theUniversity of Pennsylvania, and worked as acorporate lawyer in the United States. He representedTaipei City Constituency 3 as amember of the Legislative Yuan from 2016 to 2022, then ran for the mayoralty, defeatingDemocratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidateChen Shih-chung.

Chiang was born Chang Wan-an (Chinese:章萬安;pinyin:Zhāng Wàn'ān) on 26 December 1978 inTaipei, Taiwan.^[3][4] He is the only son of politicianChiang Hsiao-yen and Helen Huang (黃美倫;Huáng Měilún), and has two elder sisters. His father claims to be an illegitimate son ofChiang Ching-kuo, the only son of Chinese leaderChiang Kai-shek.^[5] Although the claim has been unrecognized by the mainChiang family, the family supported Hsiao-yen's rise in the Kuomintang.^[5] If true, Wan-an would be a great-grandson of Chiang Kai-shek.^[6]

Wan-an's contested familial relationship with Chiang Kai-shek, who ruled Taiwan after theGreat Retreat, has been controversial due to Chiang's divisive legacy as either a symbol of anti-communism or dictatorship.^[4] At age six, he was introduced toSoong Mei-ling.^[7] However, he was unaware of his familial relation to Chiang until high school, when his father made claims of being an illegitimate son ofChiang Ching-kuo. Following the announcement, the family changed their surname fromChang toChiang.^[7][8]

After graduating fromTaipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School,^[9] Chiang studied law andinternational relations as an undergraduate atNational Chengchi University (NCCU), where hedouble majored in both subjects and earned both aBachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree and aBachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree.^[10][11] Because he graduated at the top of his high school class, he was automatically admitted to the university.^[7]

After graduating from NCCU, Chiang spent a year and a half working as an attorney forLee and Li, the largest law firm in Taiwan, and became alegislative aide in theNational Assembly, where he wrote a petition to legalize flights between Taiwan andmainland China. In 2001, he was named a "young leader of Taiwan" and was introduced to U.S. presidentBill Clinton.^[7] In 2002, Chiang left Taiwan to pursue graduate studies in the United States at theUniversity of Pennsylvania, where he studied under law professorJacques deLisle.^[7] He earned hisMaster of Laws (LL.M.) in 2004, hisJuris Doctor (J.D.) in 2006, and aDoctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.),^[9] all from theUniversity of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.^[12] He frequently traveled betweenNew York City andPhiladelphia while a law student.^[13]

Upon receiving his J.D. degree, Chiang became anassociate attorney at the law firm ofWilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati inPalo Alto, California, starting in the fall of 2006.^[7] He was admitted as a member of theState Bar of California on December 11, 2007.^[14] Chiang later moved to the Crone Law Group, a law firm inSilicon Valley, and worked as an associate specializing inventure capital,corporate law, andsecurities law from 2009 to 2011.^[15] He was soon made apartner of the firm.^[16] After practicing for several years, he founded his own law firm before returning to Taiwan in 2013.

Chiang faced Lo Shu-lei in the first round of theKuomintang party primary for the legislative elections in April 2015.^[17] After Lo failed to build a sufficient lead, another primary was called the next month, which Chiang won.^[18] He ran as the KMT candidate forTaipei City's third constituency in the2016 legislative elections and won a seat in theLegislative Yuan.^[19] The Taipei District Prosecutor's Office ended an investigation of vote-buying accusations against Chiang in March, but did not charge him with wrongdoing.^[20]

In January 2018, Chiang stated that he would not seek to represent the Kuomintang in the Taipei mayoral election scheduled for November.^[21] Chiang ran for reelection in 2020, defeating his closest opponent,Democratic Progressive Party candidateEnoch Wu, by six percent of votes, 51–45%.^[22][23]

In May 2022, the Kuomintang nominated Chiang as its candidate for the Taipei mayoralty in thelocal elections.^[11] On 10 November 2022, Chiang announced he would resign his legislative seat to focus on his mayoral campaign.^[24][25]A by-election for Chiang's legislative constituency was scheduled for 8 January 2023.^[26] On 26 November 2022, he was elected as theMayor of Taipei.^[27][28] Upon taking office on 25 December 2022,^[29] Chiang became the youngest-ever Mayor of Taipei.^[30]

2022 Taipei mayoral election result[31]
Party		#	Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Kuomintang (KMT)	6	Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安)	575,590	42.29%
	Democratic Progressive (DPP)	12	Chen Shih-chung (陳時中)	434,558	31.93%
	Independent	8	Huang Shan-shan (黃珊珊)	342,141	25.14%
	Others			8,662	0.64%
Total				1,360,951	100.00%
Voter turnout				67.70%

Chiang met his future wife, Shih Fang-hsuan (石舫亘), while they both were students at National Chengchi University.^[32] They dated for ten years and married on 23 May 2009. Their first child, a son named Chiang Te-li (蔣得立), was born in June 2011,^[33][34] and their second son, Chiang Te-yu (蔣得宇), was born on 23 July 2021.^[35] In January 2023, they welcomed their third son, Chiang Te-cheng (蔣得正).^[36]

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