Chang Chun-hsiung

In this article, the surname is Chang.

Chang Chun-hsiung
張俊雄
Official portrait, 2000
Senior Advisor to the President
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 November 2016
President	Tsai Ing-wen Lai Ching-te
In office 1 February 2002 – 19 May 2004
President	Chen Shui-bian
17th and 21st Premier of Taiwan
In office 21 May 2007 – 20 May 2008
President	Chen Shui-bian
Vice Premier	Chiou I-jen Himself (acting)
Preceded by	Su Tseng-chang
Succeeded by	Liu Chao-shiuan
In office 6 October 2000 – 1 February 2002
President	Chen Shui-bian
Vice Premier	Lai In-jaw
Preceded by	Tang Fei
Succeeded by	Yu Shyi-kun
21st Vice Premier of Taiwan
Acting 6 May 2008 – 20 May 2008
Premier	Himself
Preceded by	Chiou I-jen
Succeeded by	Paul Chiu
In office 27 July 2000 – 6 October 2000
Premier	Tang Fei
Preceded by	Yu Shyi-kun
Succeeded by	Lai In-jaw
2nd Chairperson of the Strait Exchange Foundation
In office 10 June 2005 – 21 May 2007
Preceded by	Koo Chen-fu Johnnason Liu (acting)
Succeeded by	Hung Chi-chang
9th Secretary-General of the Democratic Progressive Party
In office 20 March 2002 – 1 February 2005
Chairman	Chen Shui-bian
Preceded by	Wu Nai-ren
Succeeded by	Lee I-yang
18th Secretary-General to the President
In office 20 May 2000 – 1 August 2000
President	Chen Shui-bian
Preceded by	Ting Mao-shih
Succeeded by	Yu Shyi-kun
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office 1 February 2005 – 1 May 2007
Constituency	Party-list
In office 1 February 1984 – 20 May 2000
Constituency	Kaohsiung
Personal details
Born	(1938-03-23) 23 March 1938 Kagi City, Tainan Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan (present-day Chiayi City, Chiayi County, Taiwan)
Political party	Democratic Progressive Party
Spouse(s)	Hsu Jui-ying (div) Chu A-ying
Education	National Taiwan University (LLB)

Chang Chun-hsiung (Chinese: 張俊雄; pinyin: Zhāng Jùnxióng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tiuⁿ Chùn-hiông; born 23 March 1938) is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer who had served as the prime minister of Taiwan (officially Premier of the Executive Yuan) from 2000 to 2002 and 2007 to 2008, both under Chen Shui-bian's presidency. His appointment by then-President Chen in 2000 marked the first time a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) member occupied the premiership.

As a founding member of the DPP, he served on its Central Committee and Central Standing Committee from 1986 to 2000.

Early life and education

Chang was born in 1938 in the city of Kagi (present-day Chiayi) when Taiwan (then Formosa) was still a colony of Japan. He earned his LL.B. at the National Taiwan University in 1960. Chang joined the Kuomintang in 1970, but was expelled three year later for mounting a campaign for the Taipei City Council. As a lawyer, he defended the victims of the Kaohsiung Incident in 1980. From 1982 to 1986 he was President of the Kaohsiung Chapter of the YMCA.

Political career

He was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 1983 to 2000. As a legislator, he was Executive Director and General Convener of the DPP Caucus from 1987 to 1988, 1990, and 1998 to 1999. He was Convener of the Judiciary Committee in 1991, of the Home and Border Affairs Committee in 92, and of the Transportation and Communications Committee in 95.

In 1994, Chang stood as the Democratic Progressive Party candidate to run for the mayor of Kaohsiung, but was defeated by the Kuomintang incumbent Wu Den-yih.

In the 2000 presidential election he was General Manager of Chen Shui-bian's campaign. In the Chen administration, he served as Secretary-General of the Office of the President in 2000, Vice Premier of the ROC in 2000 and Premier of the Republic of China from October 6, 2000 to February 1, 2002.

Since 2002, he has been Secretary General of the Democratic Progressive Party and a Senior Adviser in the Office of the President.

He ran in the 2004 Legislative Yuan election as fourth on the DPP's nationwide slate and was easily elected but resigned (as he promised to do during the campaign) since the Pan-Green Coalition failed to win a majority. He also tendered his resignation as Secretary-General of the Democratic Progressive Party to take responsibility for the defeat.

Chang was appointed as the chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation in 2005 after the death of the former chairman Koo Chen-fu. With the resignation of Su Tseng-chang as Premier on May 12, 2007, President Chen Shui-bian nominated Chang to fill the post of Premier a second time effective May 21, and Hung Chi-chang succeeded Chang as the chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation. Su's resignation and Chang's second appointment as Premier marked the sixth premier that Chen Shui-bian has appointed during his two terms as President.

Family life

Chang maintained a long-term marriage-like relationship with a paramour while remaining legally married to his first wife, Hsu Jui-ying. After his first term as Premier, he and Hsu divorced, and in 2007 he married his paramour (Chu A-ying) as his second wife.