Chiang Hsiao-yung
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Chiang Hsiao-yung (Chinese: 蒋孝勇) (AKA: Eddie Chiang) (October, 1948 - December 22 1996), born in Shanghai, China, 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, with whom he shared the same parents. He 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, 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; he was 48 years old. He was survived by his wife and three sons.
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