Cui Renqiu | |
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Member of theLegislative Yuan | |
In office 1948–1951 | |
Constituency | Qingdao |
Personal details | |
Born | Linzi County, China |
Died | February 1959 Linzi County, China |
Cui Renqiu (Chinese:崔紉秋, died February 1959) was a Chinese educator and politician. She was among the first group of women elected to theLegislative Yuan in 1948.
Cui was born inLinzi County inShandong Province. She taught at Shandong Model Elementary School and became head of a primary school affiliated with Jinan Women Teacher's College.[1][2] She joined theKuomintang and became a member of its executive committee inQingdao in 1925 andTai'an in 1928.[3][4] She sat on the steering committee of the Central Women's Movement and was a member of theChongqing chapter of the China Children's Education Society.[5][6] She also wrote a reference book on housekeeping and several articles inWomen's Monthly magazine.
In the1948 parliamentary elections Cui was elected to theLegislative Yuan from Qingdao. She became a member of the Education and Culture Committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Legislative Affairs Committee. In 1949 she was one of the members of the legislature to sign a statement accepting the rule of theChinese Communist Party.[7] Her husband Liu Cixiao, who was director ofShandong University, was executed the following year. In 1951 she forfeited her seat in the Legislative Yuan (which now operated inTaiwan) after missing the fourth session.[8]
Cui died in January 1959 in Linzi.[9]