Kung Te-cheng
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K'ung Te-ch'eng (孔德成) (born February, 1920) is a 77th generation descendant of Confucius. He holds professorships at National Taiwan University, Fu Jen Catholic University, and Soochow University. In the Republic of China (Taiwan) government, he is a senior advisor to the President of the Republic of China (a largely honorary position he was first appointed to by President Chiang Kai-shek in 1948) and the Sacrificial Official to Confucius (a hereditary position for performing official rites). He helped formulate and is in charge of officiating the modern Confucius ceremony.
He is married to Sun Chi-fang, the great-granddaughter of the Qing dynasty scholar-official and first president of Peking University Sun Jianai, whose Shouxian, Anhui, family created one of the first business combines in modern-day China that included the largest flour mill in Asia, the Fou Foong Flour Company.
He was a member of the National Assembly of the Republic of China from 1946 to 1991 and helped draft the 1947 Constitution of the Republic of China. Kung served as President of the Examination Yuan from 1984 to 1993.
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