Oei Hui-lan
| Madame Wellington Koo | |
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Madame Wellington Koo with her baby, photographed by Henry Walter Barnett
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| First Lady of the Republic of China | |
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In role October 1, 1926 – June 16, 1927 |
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| President | Wellington Koo |
| Succeeded by | Zhao Chungui |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Oei Hui-lan December 21, 1889 Semarang, Central Java, Dutch East Indies |
| Died | 1992 New York City, United States |
| Citizenship | |
| Political party | Kuomintang |
| Spouse(s) | Count Hoey Stoker (div. before 1920) Wellington Koo (m. 1921) |
| Children | Yu-chang Wellington Koo Jr. (1922–1975) Fu-chang Freeman Koo (1923–1977) |
| Parents |
Oei Tiong Ham, Majoor der Chinezen (father) Goei Bing Nio (mother) |
| Relatives |
Oei Tjong-lan (sister) Oei Tjong Hauw (half-brother) |
| Residence | Semarang, London, Paris, Beijing, Shanghai, New York City |
Oei Hui-lan (Chinese: 黃蕙蘭; pinyin: Huáng Huìlán; Wade–Giles: Huang Hui-lan; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ûiⁿ Hūi-lân; December 2, 1889 – 1992), known as Madame Wellington Koo, was a Chinese-Indonesian, international socialite and style icon, who briefly acted as First Lady of the Republic of China from late 1926 until 1927. She was the wife of the pre-communist Chinese statesman Wellington Koo, as well as daughter and heiress of the colonial Indonesian tycoon Oei Tiong Ham, Majoor der Chinezen.
She was born on December 2, 1889 into a leading Peranakan Chinese family in Semarang, Central Java, then part of the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. Her father, the tycoon Majoor Oei Tiong Ham, headed Kian Gwan, arguably the largest and most prominent multinational corporation in Asia at the start of the twentieth century.
Her mother, Goei Bing-nio, was her father's only legitimate wife and – unlike the nouveau riche Oei family – came from the 'Cabang Atas', or the traditional Chinese establishment of colonial Indonesia. Through her mother, Hui-lan was descended from the merchant-mandarin Goei Poen Kong, who served as Boedelmeester, then Luitenant der Chinezen in Semarang in the late eighteenth century. Oei's maternal Goei family traces its roots and prominence in Semarang back to the 1770s, and had initially resisted her father's social and economic rise.
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