Kerry Jang

Kerry Jang (鄭文宇) is a Canadian politician, currently serving on Vancouver, British Columbia's City Council. He is a Director of the Greater Vancouver Regional District Board. He was first elected in the 2008 municipal election. Before entering politics, Jang was a professor of psychiatry at the University of British Columbia.

Born and raised in Vancouver, Jang was the eldest of three siblings. His father, Leslie, was a Vancouver School Board plumber for 20 years, and his mother, May, had an administrative career with the Provincial Court of British Columbia, taught Chinese cooking, and sold cookware. Jang's paternal grandfather had three wives, of which Jang's paternal grandmother was third, and twenty-one children. Jang's grandfather made a fortune as a merchant after immigrating from China, but lost it all in the Great Depression. Jang's maternal grandfather was a pig farmer in China and became a tailor after immigrating to Canada.

He attended Renfrew Elementary School prior to Windermere Secondary School, where he was not a very good student. He worked on improving his academic record at Vancouver Community College and then transferred to Simon Fraser University to complete his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Psychology. He completed his education with a Ph.D. in Personality Psychology at the University of Western Ontario, where he initially studied under the highly controversial J. Philippe Rushton, known for work on race, intelligence and penis length. Jang has described the experience of witnessing Rushton's censure, and the impact it had on his understanding of politics:

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