1. Faina Chiang Fang-liang was the First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988 as the wife of President Chiang Ching-kuo.
11 Facts About Chiang Fang-liang
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Chiang Fang-liang was assigned a tutor to learn Mandarin Chinese, but she learned the local Ningbo dialect of Wu Chinese instead.
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Chiang Fang-liang reportedly got along well with Mao Fumei and did her own housework.
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When Chiang Ching-kuo became President, Fang-liang rarely performed the traditional roles of First Lady, partly due to her lack of formal education; her husband encouraged her not to get into politics.
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Chiang Fang-liang largely stayed out of the public spotlight, and little was ever known of her in an anti-communist atmosphere in the government.
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Chiang Fang-liang never returned to Russia, and traveled abroad only three times in the last 50 years of her life, all to visit her children and their families.
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On 14 December 1935, their first son Chiang Fang-liang Hsiao-wen was born in the Soviet Union.
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Chiang Fang-liang received occasional visitors, such as some prominent politicians who went to pay their respects every few years.
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Chiang Fang-liang died of respiratory and cardiac failure stemming from lung cancer at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital on 15 December 2004, at the age of 88.
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Chiang Fang-liang's funeral was held on 27 December 2004, with President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu in attendance.
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Chiang Fang-liang was cremated and her ashes taken to her husband's temporary mausoleum in Touliao, Taoyuan County.