Josephine Chu
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Josephine Chu Chu Hui-liang MLY |
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| 朱惠良 | |
| Member of the Legislative Yuan | |
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In office 1 February 1996 – 31 January 2002 |
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| Constituency | Taipei 2 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 December 1950 |
| Nationality | Taiwanese |
| Political party | New Party |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Museum director |
Josephine Chu (Chinese: 朱惠良; born 16 December 1950) is a Taiwanese former politician. She served in the Legislative Yuan from 1996 to 2002. Chu and Hsu Hsin-liang formed an independent ticket in the 2000 presidential election, finishing third.
Chu, born in 1950, is of Mainlander descent. She obtained a doctorate in archeology from Princeton University in the United States, and was a research fellow at the National Palace Museum.
Chu served two terms in the Legislative Yuan, winning the 1995 and 1998 elections. Throughout her legislative career, she was occasionally covered in local media as a New Party politician, but most often as an independent. Chu and Hsu Hsin-liang formed an independent ticket in the 2000 presidential election, won by Chen Shui-bian and Annette Lu. Chu ran for the Hsinchu district seat in the legislative elections of 2001 with the endorsement of the Gender Sexuality Rights Association, but lost.
Chu has worked to expand LGBT rights in Taiwan, and has advocated for rights of foreign spouses.
Chu backed efforts to maintain an unbiased media, as well as cultural outreach initiatives. To this end, she supported a proposal by the Taiwan Media Watch Foundation to have government workers barred from working in the media, and has criticized political interference in the Public Television Service. In 2001, she expressed support for expanding the National Palace Museum to southern Taiwan, a project that was not completed until 2015.
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