Jason C. Hu (Chinese: 胡志強; Pinyin: Hú Zhìqiáng; born 1948) is a former official in the national government of Republic of China. He is currently serving his second term as mayor of the central Taiwan city of Taichung. His current term ends in early 2010 and he is ineligible for re-election. He is a member of the Kuomintang (KMT), the leading party in the Pan-Blue alliance. His daughter, Ting-Ting Hu, is a British born actress.
Hu was born in Beij...
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Jason C. Hu (Chinese: 胡志強; Pinyin: Hú Zhìqiáng; born 1948) is a former official in the national government of Republic of China. He is currently serving his second term as mayor of the central Taiwan city of Taichung. His current term ends in early 2010 and he is ineligible for re-election. He is a member of the Kuomintang (KMT), the leading party in the Pan-Blue alliance. His daughter, Ting-Ting Hu, is a British born actress.
Hu was born in Beijing (then known as Peiping), China, and was brought to Taiwan as a young child when the Chinese Nationalists lost their civil war with the Communists.
After graduating from Taichung Municipal First High School, then known as Chu-jen (居仁, Hanyu Pinyin: Juren) High School, Jason Hu attended National Chengchi University where studied in the Diplomatic Studies Department. Following graduation in 1970, he went to study in the United Kingdom, first to the University of Southampton, where he studied International Relations, then to Balliol College,...
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