Kuan Bi-ling
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Kuan Bi-ling | |
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3rd Minister of the Ocean Affairs Council | |
Assumed office 31 January 2023 | |
Prime Minister | Chen Chien-jen Cho Jung-tai |
Preceded by | Chou Mei-wu (acting) Lee Chung-wei |
Member of the Legislative Yuan | |
In office 1 February 2005 – 31 January 2023 | |
Succeeded by | Lin Yi-shih (Kaohsiung 2) Chung Shao-he (Kaohsiung 1) Lee Kun-tse (Kaohsiung 5) Chen Pei-yu (Party-list) |
Constituency | Kaohsiung 2 → Kaohsiung 2 → Kaohsiung 5 → Party-list (Democratic Progressive Party) |
Director General of Bureau of Cultural Affairs | |
In office 1 January 2003 – 15 September 2004 | |
Mayor | Frank Hsieh |
Director General of the Information Bureau | |
In office 17 April 2000 – 31 December 2002 | |
Mayor | Frank Hsieh |
Personal details | |
Born | Fengyuan, Taichung County, Taiwan | 9 December 1956
Political party | Democratic Progressive Party |
Spouse | Hsu Yang-ming |
Relatives | Cynthia Wu |
Alma mater | National Taipei University National Taiwan University |
Occupation | Politician |
Profession | Political scientist |
Kuan Bi-ling (Chinese:
Kuan was previously a national legislator from 2005 to 2023, having won three consecutive elections, including the highly competitive 2008 legislative election after the introduction of the single-member district system which halved the total seats from 225 to 113.
Early life and education
[edit]Kuan Bi-ling was born to a Hakka Taiwanese father and a Hoklo Taiwanese mother. She received her Ph.D. with honors in political science from National Taiwan University.
Early careers
[edit]- Director General, Kaohsiung City Bureau of Cultural Affairs
- Director General, Kaohsiung City Department of Information
- 8th and 10th DPP Central Party Headquarters Central Executive Committee
- Deputy Director, President Chen Shui-Bian Knowledge Taiwan Election Campaign Group
- Spokesperson, Women's Headquarters, Mayor Chen Shui-bian Re-Election Campaign
- Spokesperson, Alliance for Supervision of Constitutional Reform
- Secretary General, Taiwan Association of University Professor
- Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy, National Taipei University
Political career
[edit]Kuan won a seat in the 2008 Taiwanese legislative election held on 12 January 2008, representing Constituency 2 of Kaohsiung City.
No. | Candidate | Party | Votes | Ratio | Elected |
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1 | Lwo Shih-hsiung | Kuomintang | 63,410 | 48.85% | |
2 | Lee Ching-yu | Home Party | 424 | 0.33% | |
3 | Ceng Wun Sheng (曾文 |
Taiwan Constitution Association | 186 | 0.14% | |
4 | Lin Cheng Syong ( |
Independent | 184 | 0.14% | |
5 | Kuan Bi-ling | Democratic Progressive Party | 65,604 | 50.54% |
Personal life
[edit]Kuan is married to Hsu Yang-ming.[1]
Controversy
[edit]Physical confrontation in the Education and Culture Committee
[edit]On 22 October 2008, Legislator Hung Hsiu-chu of the Chinese Nationalist Party injured an eye of Kuan's parliament assistant (PA) while pushing a poster away during a budget review session of the National Science Council in the Education and Culture Committee, so Kuan stood up in argument with Hung till finally slapped Hung's face and Hung pinched Kuan's cheeks, and both legislators refused to apologize. Kuan states: "When one is faced with repression, one should stand straight, refuse to give in and fight against oppression and hegemony."[2] Hung launched a lawsuit against Kuan for two years until a judge persuaded both sides to reconcile with each other, and shared chocolate together in peace on 29 July 2010.[3][4]
Supporting the languages development act
[edit]The 2018 Development of National Languages Act stipulates the government offices to provide the interpretation services for the citizens participating in administrative, legislative, and judicial procedures to freely choose to use their national languages,[5] so the Legislative Yuan activated the interpreter service for the parliament session in real time accordingly.[6] On 27 September 2021, after following the steps to apply in advance with 3 Taiwanese interpreters been present ready,[7] Legislator Chen Po-wei of the Taiwan Statebuilding Party proceeded his scheduled questioning session in Taiwanese in the Foreign and National Defense Committee.[8][9] Minister of National Defense, Chiu Kuo-cheng rejected to speak Taiwanese, nor accepted the interpreter's real-time service at site, but brought the deputy minister Zong-hsiao Li as his own interpreter, and insisted in the 3-way translation pattern sentence by sentence.[7] Chiu repeatedly interrupted the question process by asking Chen to speak Mandarin Chinese for easier communication, or the session time cannot be lengthened to accommodate the interpretation,[8][9] but Li is not a linguistic professional, hence his translation contains contextual errors,[8][9][7] so Chairman Chen I-hsin intervened when the argument occurred, and introduced the existing synchronized interpretation in progress as the solution same as the common conference practice in the other states; but Chiu never picked up the earphone, yet insisted his way till the session run out of time.[8][9] Chen later apologized to the public for the good intention of practicing the national language law being turned into a linguistic communication tragedy, and condemned Chiu for "bullying" (
References
[edit]- ^ Chiu, Yen-ling; Yen, Ruo-jin (3 January 2012). "2012 ELECTIONS: Spouses help nominees' campaigns". Taipei Times. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
- ^ Wang, Flora (27 December 2008). "Kuan Bi-ling censured over slap" (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Taipei: Taipei Times. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
- ^ Zheng, Min-sheng; Luo, Rong; Wang, Ji-you (29 July 2010). "
年 輕 法官 力 勸 強 悍女立 委 和解 " [A Young Judge Persuades Tough Lady Legislators to Reconcile] (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Taipei: China Times. Retrieved 15 May 2022. - ^ Kuo, Zhao-chi; Chen, Guan-yu (29 July 2010). "
年 輕 法官 力 勸 洪 秀 柱 、管 碧 玲 大 和解 " [Hsiu-chu Huang and Bi-ling Kuan Reconcile after a Young Judge's persuasion] (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Taipei: Era News. Archived from the original on 28 September 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2022 – via Nownews.com, Internet Archive. - ^ Ministry of Culture (11 January 2019). "Development of National Languages Act". Taipei. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
- ^ "National languages development act passed by Legislature". Taiwan Today. Taipei. 26 December 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
- ^ a b c d e Li, Bing-fang (28 September 2021). "
陳 柏 惟 台 語 質 詢和邱國正 起 衝突 ,道 歉嘆「喜 事變 悲劇 」,立 院 將 暫緩執行 通譯 服務 加 強 溝 通 " [Bo-wei Chen questioned Kuo-Cheng Chiu in Taiwanese, and sighed after the conflict: "A happy event turned into a tragedy" - the Legislative Yuan will suspend the interpretation service and improve the communication] (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Taipei: The News Lens. Retrieved 8 April 2022. - ^ a b c d Chen Po-wei; Chiu Kuo-cheng (27 September 2021). "
會議 隨 選 " [Meeting Recording Selection] (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Taipei: Multi-media Selection Video System, Meeting Broadcast IVOD Network, Legislative Yuan. Retrieved 8 April 2022. - ^ a b c d Chen Po-wei; Chiu Kuo-cheng (27 September 2021). "
立法院 公報 第 100卷 第 75期 委員 會 紀 錄 -立法院 第 10屆 第 4會期 外 交及國防 委員 會 第 2次 全體 委員 會議 紀 錄 " [The Second Committee Meeting Minute, Foreign and National Defense Committee, Fourth Session, Tenth period, Gazette of the Legislative] (PDF) (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Taipei: Gazette of the Legislative Yuan, Vol. 100, Issue 75. Retrieved 8 April 2022. - ^ "EDITORIAL: Language is not just a tool". Taipei Times. Taipei. 6 October 2021. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- Taiwanese politicians of Hakka descent
- Democratic Progressive Party Members of the Legislative Yuan
- Kaohsiung Members of the Legislative Yuan
- National Taiwan University alumni
- Living people
- Politicians of the Republic of China on Taiwan from Taichung
- 21st-century Taiwanese women politicians
- Academic staff of the National Taipei University
- Members of the 6th Legislative Yuan
- Members of the 7th Legislative Yuan
- Members of the 8th Legislative Yuan
- Members of the 9th Legislative Yuan
- 1956 births