Shen Fu-hsiung
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Shen Fu-hsiung MLY |
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| 沈富雄 | |
Shen in February 2006
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| Member of the Legislative Yuan | |
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In office 1 February 1999 – 31 January 2005 |
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| Constituency | Taipei 2 |
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In office 1 February 1996 – 31 January 1999 |
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| Constituency | Taipei 1 (North) |
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In office 1 February 1993 – 31 January 1996 |
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| Constituency | Taipei 2 (South) |
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23 August 1939 Tainan, Taiwan, Empire of Japan |
| Nationality | Taiwanese |
| Political party | Democratic Progressive Party (1992–2007) |
| Alma mater |
National Taiwan University University of California, San Francisco University of Washington School of Medicine |
| Occupation | politician |
| Profession | physician |
Shen Fu-hsiung (Chinese: 沈富雄; born 23 August 1939) is a Taiwanese physician and politician.
Shen was born in 1939, and earned a medical degree at National Taiwan University before seeking further education in the United States. He left Taiwan for the University of California's San Francisco Medical Center and also spent time at the Mayo Clinic and the University of Washington. He taught at UW from 1974 to 1987 and led the nephrology division at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Seattle between 1982 and 1986. While working in the United States, Shen naturalized as a citizen. His support of the Taiwan independence movement drew attention from the Kuomintang, which blacklisted him from returning to Taiwan until 1986. He then set up a clinic at the Adventist hospital in Taipei. In January 1991, Shen was arrested at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, where he was arrested for smuggling drugs and weapons into Taiwan. He was found in possession of erythropoietin and charged under provisions of the Law Governing Drugs and Pharmacists. Shen joined a hunger strike led by students of National Taiwan University in April 1991, in support of revisions to the Constitution of the Republic of China that would make new elections for the National Assembly possible. National Assembly elections were eventually scheduled for December 1991.
Shen chose to run in the 1992 Legislative Yuan elections, and by law was required to relinquish his United States citizenship. In November 1993, Shen led a group of Democratic Progressive Party politicians on a junket to the U.S., where they attended to a meeting of the Asian Pacific Economic Community. Shen won reelection in 1995 in part because his party had asked its supporters to vote for legislative candidates based on the season in which voters were born. This marked the first time the DPP had used a vote allocation system and ensured a vote distribution that saw the elections of Shen, Yeh Chu-lan, Huang Tien-fu, and Yen Chin-fu. In the next election cycle, the DPP began incorporating a direct vote into its electoral primaries. Despite the change in format, Shen won again. In 2001, he succeeded Chen Shui-bian as leader of the Justice Alliance faction, and won that year's legislative election by forming an alliance with Chou Po-ya, Lan Mei-chin, Tuan Yi-kang, and Julian Kuo, against Lo Fu-chu. The following year Shen was elected a member of the Democratic Progressive Party's Central Review Committee. Shen's proposed nomination as DPP candidate for Vice President of the Legislative Yuan in 2002 met with heavy opposition from the Taiwan Solidarity Union. As a result, the DPP instead selected Hung Chi-chang, who eventually lost to the Kuomintang nominee Chiang Pin-kung. The DPP's Justice Alliance backed Shen's 2004 reelection bid, which was ultimately unsuccessful.
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