Josephine Chu Chu Hui-liang MLY
朱惠良
Chu as a member of the Third Legislative Yuan
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office 1 February 1996 – 31 January 2002
Constituency	Taipei 2
Personal details
Born	(1950-12-16) 16 December 1950 (age 73)
Nationality	Taiwanese
Political party	Independent
Other political affiliations	New Party
Alma mater	Princeton University (Ph.D.)
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Museum director

Josephine Chu ( Chinese: 朱惠良; pinyin: Zhū Huìliáng; born 16 December 1950) is a Taiwanese former politician. She served in the Legislative Yuan from 1996 to 2002. Chu and Hsu Hsin-liang formed an independent ticket in the 2000 presidential election, finishing fourth.

Early life, education and career

Chu, born in 1950, is of Mainlander descent. ^[1] She received a Ph.D. in art and archaeology from Princeton University in 1990 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "The Chung Yu (A.D. 151-230) tradition: a pivotal development in Sung calligraphy." ^[2] She was then a research fellow at the National Palace Museum. ^[3]

Political career

Chu served two terms in the Legislative Yuan, winning the 1995 and 1998 elections. ^[3] Throughout her legislative career, she was occasionally covered in local media as a New Party politician, ^[4] but most often as an independent. ^{[5] [6]} Chu and Hsu Hsin-liang formed an independent ticket in the 2000 presidential election, won by Chen Shui-bian and Annette Lu. Chu ran for the Hsinchu district seat in the legislative elections of 2001 with the endorsement of the Gender Sexuality Rights Association, but lost. ^[7]

Political stances

Chu has worked to expand LGBT rights in Taiwan, ^{[8] [9]} and has advocated for rights of foreign spouses. ^[10]

Chu backed efforts to maintain an unbiased media, as well as cultural outreach initiatives. To this end, she supported a proposal by the Taiwan Media Watch Foundation to have government workers barred from working in the media, ^[11] and has criticized political interference in the Public Television Service. ^[12] In 2001, she expressed support for expanding the National Palace Museum to southern Taiwan, ^[13] a project that was not completed until 2015.

When the United States government announced that it would not ratify the Kyoto Protocol, Chu sought a meeting with the American Institute in Taiwan to argue for the ratification of the treaty. ^[14] In 2004, she criticized the Chen Shui-bian administration for backing a NT$610.8 billion proposal to acquire American weapons, saying that the results of the Cross-Strait referendum showed that most Taiwanese did not approve of the action. ^[15]

Later career

After leaving politics, Chu taught at Taipei National University of the Arts. ^[16] In 2009, she returned to the National Palace Museum as assistant director of educational outreach, ^[17] assuming the departmental head position the next year. ^{[18] [19]}

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