Cui Renqiu

Cui Renqiu
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office 1948–1951
Constituency	Qingdao
Personal details
Born	Linzi County, China
Died	February 1959 Linzi County, China

Cui Renqiu (Chinese: 崔紉秋, died February 1959) was a Chinese educator and politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.

Biography

Cui was born in Linzi County in Shandong Province. She taught at Shandong Model Elementary School and became head of a primary school affiliated with Jinan Women Teacher's College.^[1][2] She joined the Kuomintang and became a member of its executive committee in Qingdao in 1925 and Tai'an in 1928.^[3][4] She sat on the steering committee of the Central Women's Movement and was a member of the Chongqing chapter of the China Children's Education Society.^[5][6] She also wrote a reference book on housekeeping and several articles in Women's Monthly magazine.

In the 1948 parliamentary elections Cui was elected to the Legislative Yuan from Qingdao. She became a member of the Education and Culture Committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Legislative Affairs Committee. In 1949 she was one of the members of the legislature to sign a statement accepting the rule of the Chinese Communist Party.^[7] Her husband Liu Cixiao, who was director of Shandong University, was executed the following year. In 1951 she forfeited her seat in the Legislative Yuan (which now operated in Taiwan) after missing the fourth session.^[8]

Cui died in January 1959 in Linzi.^[9]

References

1. 梁實秋散文集 [Liang Shiqiu's Prose Collection], volume 2, Times Literature and Art Publishing House, March 2015, p91
2. 中華兒童教育社社員錄 [Members of the Chinese Children's Education Society], Republic of China 24, p11
3. 鄧恩銘 [Deng Enming], Hebei People's Publishing House, December 1997, p104
4. 泰汶星火, Jinan Publishing House, September 1995, p285
5. Liu Weikai (ed.) 中國國民黨職名錄 [The Directory of the Positions of the Chinese Kuomintang]
6. 中華民國史檔案資料彙編 [Compilation of Historical Archives of the Republic of China], pp810–811
7. "偽立委五十三人發表聲明 虔誠接受中共領導 決心努力學習爭取新生", People's Daily, 20 September 1949
8. Presidential Palace Bulletin, number 310
9. Li Ming 青岛往事 [Once Upon a Time in Qingdao]