Shen Fu-hsiung is a Taiwanese physician, nephrologist, and politician.
14 Facts About Shen Fu-hsiung
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Shen Fu-hsiung taught at UW from 1974 to 1987 and led the nephrology division at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Seattle between 1982 and 1986.
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Shen Fu-hsiung then set up a clinic at Taiwan Adventist Hospital in Taipei.
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In January 1991, Shen Fu-hsiung was arrested at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, where he was arrested for smuggling drugs and weapons into Taiwan.
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Shen Fu-hsiung was found in possession of erythropoietin and charged under provisions of the Law Governing Drugs and Pharmacists.
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Shen Fu-hsiung joined a hunger strike led by students of National Taiwan University in April 1991, in support of revisions to the Constitution of the Republic of China that would make new elections for the National Assembly possible.
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Shen Fu-hsiung chose to run in the 1992 Legislative Yuan elections, and by law was required to relinquish his US citizenship.
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In November 1993, Shen Fu-hsiung led a group of Democratic Progressive Party politicians on a junket to the US, where they attended to a meeting of the Asian Pacific Economic Community.
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Shen Fu-hsiung won reelection in 1995 in part because his party had asked its supporters to vote for legislative candidates based on the season in which voters were born.
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Shen Fu-hsiung's proposed nomination as DPP candidate for Vice President of the Legislative Yuan in 2002 met with heavy opposition from the Taiwan Solidarity Union.
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Subsequently, Shen Fu-hsiung formally announced his mayoral campaign in 2006, becoming the first DPP member to do so, but dropped out in May of that year.
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Shen Fu-hsiung was named the fifth legislative candidate on the Democratic Progressive Party's proportional representation party list in May 2007, amid opposition from a group of radio presenters.
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However, Shen Fu-hsiung was not confirmed in a July 2008 Legislative Yuan vote.
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Shen Fu-hsiung declared his candidacy for the Taipei City mayoralty in June 2014, but had dropped out of the race by August.