Fan Yun (politician)
Fan Yun | |
|---|---|
| 范雲 | |
Fan in 2024 | |
| Member of the Legislative Yuan | |
| Assumed office February 1, 2020 | |
| Constituency | National at-large |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 9, 1968 Tamsui, Taiwan |
| Education | National Taiwan University (BS, MS) Yale University (PhD) |
Fan Yun (Chinese: 范雲; born July 9, 1968) is a Taiwanese sociologist and politician who has been a member of the Legislative Yuan since 2020.
Early life and education
Fan was born in Tamsui District, Taipei County (now New Taipei City), on July 9, 1968. She has three sisters. Her father was a Kuomintang soldier who moved to Taiwan from Jiangsu in 1949 during the Great Retreat, and her mother was a Taiwanese native of Yunlin.[1] Fan's parents were the owners of a noodle shop and general store in Tamsui.[2]
After graduating from Taipei First Girls' High School, she attended National Taiwan University (NTU) and earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) and a Master of Science (M.S.), both in sociology. As a student there, she was the president of the NTU Mainland Society (臺灣大學大陸問題研究社), an anti-communist student activist group, and ran to be president of the university's student union. She also participated in the Wild Lily student movement.[2]
She then pursued doctoral studies in the United States, earning her Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University in 2000.[3] Her doctoral dissertation, completed under political scientist Frances McCall Rosenbluth, was titled, "Activists in a changing political environment: A microfoundational study of social movements in Taiwan's democratic transition, 1980s–1990s".[4]
Political career
Fan was elected a member of the Legislative Yuan in the 2020 Taiwanese legislative election, and took office on February 1, 2020, as a member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).[3]
References
- ^ Cheng, Chin-yao (August 26, 2019). "Fan Yun: "Only a fool would have the chance to change the world"". Mirror Media (in Traditional Chinese). Retrieved 2025-12-07.
- ^ a b "I am Fan Yun". Liberty Times. December 22, 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
- ^ a b 立法院 (2013-07-23). "立法院". 立法院 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 2025-11-26.
- ^ "Activists in a changing political environment: A microfoundational study of social movements in Taiwan's democratic transition, 1980s–1990s" (PhD Thesis). Proquest. 2000.