Taiwanese politician and lawyer
Chiang Wan-an
(born 26 December 1978), also known as
Wayne Chiang
, is a Taiwanese politician who has served as the mayor of
Taipei
since December 2022. He is the son of former
Vice Premier
John Chiang
, and is believed to be a great-grandson of former
President
Chiang Kai-shek
. He is the youngest mayor of Taipei since the appointment of
Chang Feng-hsu
.
Upon graduation from
National Chengchi University
and the
University of Pennsylvania
, Chiang worked as a
corporate lawyer
in the United States before returning to Taiwan for politics.
Early life
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]
Born Chang Wan-an (
Chinese
:
章萬安
;
pinyin
:
Zh?ng Wan'?n
) on 26 December 1978, he is the only son to his parents
Chiang Hsiao-yen
and Helen Huang (
黃美倫
;
Huang M?ilun
). He has two elder sisters.
He was unaware of his relation to
Chiang Kai-shek
until high school, when his father claimed to be an illegitimate son of
Chiang Ching-kuo
, making Chiang Kai-shek a great-grandfather of the high schooler. Following the announcement, the family changed their surname from "Chang" to "Chiang".
[1]
[2]
Chiang was a student at the
Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University
and
Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School
. Upon graduation, he attended
National Chengchi University
where he majored in double
bachelor
of
diplomacy
and
law
.
[3]
Legal career
[
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]
Upon graduation from
National Chengchi University
, he worked for the law firm Lee and Li. Later, Chiang became an aide in the
National Assembly
. He was accepted to the
University of Pennsylvania Law School
LLM program in 2002, and left for the United States.
[1]
Following his graduation from the LLM program, he immediately enrolled in the school's JD program. After Chiang earned his J.D. degree, he practiced law at
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
's
Palo Alto
office, a well known corporate law firm in California where his practice area focused on
venture capital
financing and corporate and security law. After practicing for several years, he founded his own law firm before returning to Taiwan in 2013.
[4]
[5]
Legislative Yuan (2018?2022)
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]
Chiang faced Lo Shu-lei in the first round of the
Kuomintang
party primary for the legislative elections in April 2015.
[6]
After Lo failed to build a sufficient lead, another primary was called the next month, which Chiang won.
[7]
He ran as the KMT candidate for
Taipei City's third constituency
in the
2016 legislative elections
and won a seat in the
Legislative Yuan
.
[8]
The Taipei District Prosecutor's Office ended an investigation of vote-buying accusations against Chiang in March, but did not charge him with wrongdoing.
[9]
In January 2018, Chiang stated that he would not seek to represent the Kuomintang in the Taipei mayoral election scheduled for November.
[10]
Chiang ran for reelection in 2020, defeating his closest opponent,
Democratic Progressive Party
candidate
Enoch Wu
, by six percent of votes, 51?45%.
[11]
[12]
Mayor of Taipei (2022?)
[
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]
In May 2022, the Kuomintang nominated Chiang as its candidate for the Taipei mayoralty in the
local elections
.
[13]
On 10 November 2022, Chiang announced he would resign his legislative seat to focus on his mayoral campaign.
[14]
[15]
A by-election
for Chiang's legislative constituency was scheduled for 8 January 2023.
[16]
On 26 November 2022, he was elected as the
Mayor of Taipei
.
[17]
[18]
Upon taking office on 25 December 2022,
[19]
Chiang became the youngest-ever Mayor of Taipei.
[20]
Personal life
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]
Chiang met his future wife, Shih Fang-hsuan (石舫亘), while both were students at National Chengchi University.
[22]
They dated for ten years and married on 23 May 2009. Their first child, a son named Chiang Te-li (蔣得立), was born in June 2011,
[23]
[24]
and their second son, Chiang Te-yu (蔣得宇), was born on 23 July 2021.
[25]
In January 2023, they welcomed their third son, Chiang Te-cheng (蔣得正).
[26]
Family tree
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]
Family of Chiang Wan-an
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Notes
- Dashed lines represent marriages
- Dotted lines represent extra-marital relationships and adoptions
- Solid lines represent descendants
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References
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.
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. Retrieved
20 November
2022
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.
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2022
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. Retrieved
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. Retrieved
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2022
.
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. Retrieved
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.
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.
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?介石重??万安大婚
Retrieved 2016-09-11
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?家第五代添男丁 ?孝???石舫亘?利?子
Archived
2019-05-27 at the
Wayback Machine
Retrieved 2016-09-11
- ^
?家第五代金?曝光 ?万安??子?游行
Retrieved 2016-09-11
- ^
蔣萬安喜獲二寶 蔣家第五代蔣得宇滿月了!
Retrieved 2021-08-23
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.
tw.news.yahoo.com
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