Pang Chien-kuo

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Pang Chien-kuo
Pang Chien-kuo during the 2000s
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office 1 February 2002 – 31 January 2005
Constituency	Taipei City Constituency II
Member of the Taipei City Council
In office 25 December 1992 – 31 January 2002
Personal details
Born	(1953-08-19)19 August 1953 Miaoli County, Taiwan
Died	11 January 2022(2022-01-11) (aged 68) Neihu District, Taiwan
Nationality	Taiwanese
Political party	NP (1994–1998) Independent (1998–2000) PFP (2001–2006) Kuomintang (2006–2022)
Education	National Chung Hsing University (BS) National Taiwan University (MA) Brown University (MA, PhD)

Pang Chien-kuo (Chinese: 龐建國; 19 August 1953 – 11 January 2022) was a Taiwanese politician.

Education[]

Pang earned a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from National Chung Hsing University in 1975 and a master's degree in law from National Taiwan University in 1980.^[1] Pang obtained a Ph.D. in sociology from Brown University in 1988 under the guidance of Peter B. Evans. His dissertation is titled The State and Economic Transformation: The Taiwan Case.^[2]

Career[]

Before pursuing political office, Peng was an associate researcher within Academia Sinica's Institute of Ethnology.^[1] A member of the New Party, the People First Party, and later Kuomintang, he served in the Taipei City Council from 1992 to 2002 and in the Legislative Yuan from 2002 to 2005.^[1][3] He contested the 2004 legislative election as a PFP candidate,^[4] and did not win. In 2004, Pang spoke for the family of Lien Chan regarding a decision on legal action against Next Magazine.^[5] During that year's presidential election, Pang was spokesman for the Kuomintang and People First Party's fusion ticket.^[6]

After stepping down from the legislature, Peng served as an adviser to the Straits Exchange Foundation,^[7] subsequently accepting a professorship at Chinese Culture University, within the Graduate Institute of National Development and Mainland China.^[8] Peng was later appointed director-general of the Taiwan Competitiveness Forum.^[9][10]

He was well known for his efforts for promoting Chinese unification.^[11]

Personal life and death[]

Peng was of Mainland Chinese descent.^[12] He married news anchor  [zh] in 2001.^[13] He died from a fall in Neihu District on 11 January 2022, at the age of 68.^[13][14] A few hours before his death Pang left a message in his LINE group saying "I would rather die than live in this unjust Taiwan!"^[13][15] Prior to his death, Peng had been diagnosed with cancer.^[13]

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