Chiang Fang-liang

Faina Chiang, Chinese: Chiang Fang -liang (蒋方良, Jiǎng Fāngliáng, originally Faina Ipatjewna Wachrewa / Russian Фаина Ипатьевна Вахрева; born May 15, 1916 near Orsha; † 15 December 2004) was the wife of President Chiang Ching- kuo and First Lady Taiwan from 1978 to 1988.

Faina Chiang was born in Belarus and grew up in Yekaterinburg. Her parents died early, and she was raised by her older sister Anna. At the age of 16 years she was a member of the Komsomol and worked in the engineering plant Uralmash. There she met Chiang Ching- kuo know who could not return due to the collapse of the Kuomintang with the Communists in China, and the two were married on March 15, 1935. Their first son, Hsiao -wen, was born in December 1935. They had two more sons, Hsiao -wu and Hsiao -yung and a daughter, Hsiao -chang.

In December 1936 Stalin allowed Chiang's finally the return to China. Faina followed him, lived with Mao Fumei, the mother of Chiang Ching- kuo and met the Wu dialect of Ningbo speak. Later, they fled in the Chinese Civil War with her family to Taiwan.

After Chiang Ching- kuo had become President of the Republic of China in 1978, Chiang Fang -liang rarely came to the traditional missions after as First Lady. She remained during the entire political career of her husband always in the background, because it was not politically wise to emphasize the presence of a Russian middle of the strongly anti- communist atmosphere in the government. They never returned to Russia and made in her life only three foreign trips to visit their children and their families. In 1992, she received a visit from a Belarusian delegation, who was also the mayor of Minsk; that was the only time that she had contact with someone from their home after their emigration.

After Chiang Chin- kuo 's death, she lived in a suburb of Taipei with some officials from China and supported by the Office of the President, and was occasionally visited by prominent politicians who witnessed her their respect. In the media of Taiwan, she was depicted as a virtuous woman, the loneliness endured without complaint with dignity.

Chiang Fang -liang died at the age of 88 years at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital from heart and lung failure. Her funeral was held in the presence of President Chen Shui -bian and Vice President Annette Lu and many senior Kuomintang politicians such as Wang Jin- pyng and Ma Ying- jeou on 27 December 2004. She was cremated; their ashes were buried in makeshift mausoleum of her husband in Touliao in the municipality of Daxi in Taoyuan County. It is planned to both buried at a later date on the Wuchih Military Cemetery in Xizhi in Taipei.

• Spouse of a head of state or government
• Taiwanese
• White Russian
• Born 1916
• Died in 2004
• Woman