Chiang Hsiao-yung
{{Short description|Taiwanese politician (1948–1996)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Eddie Chiang Hsiao-yung
| native_name = {{lang|zh-hans|蔣孝勇}}
| image = Chiang Ching-kuo family (蒋孝勇).jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date|1948|10|1|df=y}}
| birth_place = Shanghai, Republic of China
| death_date = {{death date and age|1996|12|22|1948|10|1|df=y}}
| death_place = Taipei, Taiwan
| party = Kuomintang
| spouse = Chiang Fang Chi-yi{{cite web |url=http://media.hoover.org/sites/default/files/documents/Dkt18-2-DeclarationofEricWakin.pdf |title=Declaration of Eric Wakin |author= |date=January 8, 2014 |website=hoover.org |publisher=The Hoover Institution |accessdate=November 7, 2014 }}
| children = Demos Chiang Yo-bo, Edward Chiang Yo-chang, Andrew Chiang Yo-ching
| parents = Chiang Ching-kuo
Chiang Fang-liang
}}
Chiang Hsiao-yung ({{zh|t=蔣孝勇|s=蒋孝勇|p=Jiǎng Xiàoyǒng|first=t}}; also known as Eddie Chiang; October, 1948 – December 22, 1996) was a politician of the Republic of China.
Biography
Chiang was born in Shanghai, Republic of China in 1948. He was the third son of Chiang Ching-kuo, the President of the Republic of China in Taiwan from 1978 to 1988. His mother was Faina Ipatyevna Vakhreva, also known as Chiang Fang-liang. He had two older brothers, Hsiao-wen and Hsiao-wu, and one older sister, Hsiao-chang. He also had two half-brothers, Winston Chang and John Chiang, with whom he shared the same father.
After a brief political career in the Kuomintang in 1988,{{cite news |last=Holley |first=David |date=July 15, 1988 |title=Reformist Members Named to Taiwan Party Leadership |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-15-mn-7210-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |location=Los Angeles, California |access-date=November 7, 2014 }} he emigrated to Canada with his family. In 1996, he died in Taiwan at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital as a result of esophageal cancer, aged 48. He was survived by his wife Chiang Fang Chi-yi and three sons.{{cite news |author= |title=CHIANG HSIAO-YUNG |url=https://apnews.com/5c61c51162b8fefde6d76cb278d08ec0 |work=AP News |date=December 23, 1996 |accessdate=November 7, 2014 }}
{{as of|2013|11}}, Chiang Fang Chi-yi is a member of the Kuomintang Central Committee{{cite news |last=Mo |first=Yan-chih |date=November 10, 2013 |title=Mother expects Andrew Chiang to be responsible |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/11/10/2003576551 |newspaper=Taipei Times |location=Taipei |accessdate=November 7, 2014 }} while his eldest son Demos Chiang is a successful designer and businessman.{{cite news |last=Blum |first=Jeremy |date=November 13, 2013 |title=Great-grandson of Chiang Kai-shek accused of threatening Taipei American School |url=http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1354426/great-grandson-chiang-kai-shek-accused-threatening-taipei |newspaper=South China Morning Post |location=Hong Kong |accessdate=November 7, 2014 }} Andrew Chiang, his youngest son, was charged with making threatening comments against the faculty of the Taipei American School through email and Facebook in 2013.{{cite news|title=Andrew Chiang denies threatening Taipei school|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/12/20/2003579442|accessdate=11 June 2015|work=Taipei Times|date=20 December 2013}} He was convicted in 2015, and fined NT$183,000.{{cite news|title=Chiang's grandson avoids prison|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/06/12/2003620522|accessdate=12 June 2015|work=Taipei Times|date=12 June 2015}}
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