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| Eddie Chiang Hsiao-yung | |
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 an infant Chiang Hsiao-yung with family |
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| Born | 1 October 1948 |
| Died | 22 December 1996 (aged 48) |
| Parents | Chiang Ching-kuo Chiang Fang-liang |
Chiang Hsiao-yung (traditional Chinese: 蔣孝勇; simplified Chinese: 蒋孝勇; pinyin: Jiǎng Xiàoyǒng; also known as Eddie Chiang; October, 1948 - December 22, 1996) was a politician of the Republic of China.
[edit] Biography
Chiang was born in Shanghai, Republic of China in 1948. He was the third son of Chiang Ching-kuo, the President of the Republic of China in Taiwan from 1978 to 1988. His mother was Faina Ipatyevna Vakhreva, also known as Chiang Fang-liang. He had two older brothers, Hsiao-wen and Hsiao-wu, and one older sister, Hsiao-chang, with whom he shared the same parents. He had two half-brothers, Winston Chang and John Chiang, with whom he shared the same father.
After a brief political career in the Kuomintang in 1988, he emigrated to Canada with his family. In 1996, he died in Taiwan at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital as a result of esophageal cancer, aged 48. He was survived by his wife Chiang Fang Chi-yi and three sons.
Currently, Chiang Fang Chi-yi is an active Kuomintang political figure while his eldest son Demos Chiang is a successful businessman.
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