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Maria Tam Wai-chu

Maria Tam Wai-chu
譚惠珠
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Deputy of Hong Kong to National People's Congress
Assumed office
8 December 1997
9th National People's Congress
10th National People's Congress
11th National People's Congress
Congress chairman Li Peng
Wu Bangguo
Zhang Dejiang
Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
In office
1 September 1983 – 31 October 1991
Appointed by Sir Edward Youde
Sir David Wilson
Preceded by Henry Fang
Succeeded by Selina Chow
Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
In office
1 September 1981 – 22 August 1991
Appointed by Sir Murray MacLehose
Sir Edward Youde
Sir David Wilson
In office
21 December 1996 – 27 June 1997
(Provisional Legislative Council)
Personal details
Born (1945-11-02) 2 November 1945 (age 71)
Hong Kong
Political party LDF (1990–97)
HKPA (1997–2005)
DAB (2005–15)
Other political
affiliations
PHKS (1985–90s)
Alma mater St. Paul's Co-educational College
University of London
Gray’s Inn
Occupation Barrister
Maria Tam
Traditional Chinese 譚惠珠

Maria Tam Wai-chu CBE GBM GBS JP (Traditional Chinese: 譚惠珠) is a barrister by profession and a politician of Hong Kong. Maria Tam grew up in Hong Kong, and her ancestral hometown is Zhongshan CIty, mainland China.

Tam entered into politics when she ran in the 1979 Urban Council election as the advocate for women's rights. In the 1980s she was a member of four different levels councils in Hong Kong, namely the Executive and Legislative Councils, the Urban Council and the Central and Western District Board. During her office in the colonial government, she witnessed the Sino-British negotiations on the political status of Hong Kong after 1997 and the Sino-British Joint Declaration. She was appointed to many positions by Beijing during the transition period, such as member of the Preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (PRC) and Hong Kong Affairs Advisor (PRC).

She is also a former chairman of the Transport Advisory Committee during colonial rule, but she became tainted upon revelations that she had failed to declare her family investment in taxi businesses in the territory whilst she held the post.

Tam was co-opted into the colonial government and "quickly became one of its most loyal mouthpieces". Before the handover of Hong Kong, she helped to form a less than successful pro-Beijing party and was "among a group of prominent turncoats that switched from being cheerleaders for the colonial regime to supporters of the new order."


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