Pasuya Yao

Pasuya Yao
*Yao Wen-chih*
MLY
Pasuya Yao; Yao Wen-chih MLY
姚文智
	Official portrait, 2014
Member of the Legislative Yuan
	In office; 1 February 2012 – 18 November 2018
Preceded by	Justin Chou
Succeeded by	Ho Chih-wei
Constituency	Taipei II
22nd Director-General of the Government Information Office
	In office; 13 March 2005 – 25 January 2006
Prime Minister	Frank Hsieh
Preceded by	Lin Chia-lung
Succeeded by	Cheng Wen-tsan
Personal details
Born	4 December 1965 (age 59); Tianmu, Shilin District, Yangmingshan, Taipei, Taiwan
Nationality	Taiwan
Political party	Democratic Progressive Party
Education	Fu Jen Catholic University (BA)

Yao Wen-chih (Chinese: 姚文智; pinyin: Yáo Wénzhì; Wade–Giles: Yao Wen-chih; born 4 December 1965), also known by the appropriated^[3] Tsou name Pasuya Yao, is a Taiwanese film maker and former politician. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party, he served in the Legislative Yuan from 2012 to 2018.

Political career

Yao, a former journalist, was named the minister of the Government Information Office in March 2005.^[4]^[5] By 2006, he had stepped down.^[6]

2014 Taipei City mayoral campaign

Yao ran for the mayoralty of Taipei City in the 2014 local elections. He won the first round of a party primary held in May,^[7] but lost to independent candidate Ko Wen-je in an opinion poll held the next month.^[8] The Democratic Progressive Party chose to back Ko's independent bid for the office,^[9] and he defeated Kuomintang candidate Sean Lien.^[10]

2016 Republic of China legislative election

On 16 January 2016, Yao won the legislative election for Taipei City 2nd constituency representing Shilin District and Datong District.^[11]

2016 Republic of China Legislative Election Result
No.	Candidate	Party	Votes	Percentage
1	Wang Ming-tzong (王銘宗)	Independent	1,342	0.74%
2	Chen Min-chien (陳民乾)	Taiwan Independence Party	865	0.48%
3	Wu Chun-te (吳俊德)	Faith and Hope League	3,550	1.96%
4	Lin Xing-rong (林幸蓉)	National Health Service Alliance	1,561	0.86%
5	Wynn Pan (潘懷宗)	New Party	65,967	36.43%
6	Pasuya Yao	DPP	107,366	59.29%
7	Chen Jian-bin (陳建斌)	Free Taiwan Party	433	0.24%

Yao announced that he would contest the Taipei mayoralty for the second time in July 2017.^[12] He resigned from the legislature in November 2018 to focus on his mayoral campaign.^[13]

2018 Taipei City mayoral election

2018 Taipei City mayoral results^[14]
No.	Candidate	Party	Votes	Percentage
1	Wu Er-yang (吳蕚洋)	Independent	5,617	0.40%
2	Ting Shou-chung (丁守中)	Kuomintang	577,566	40.82%
3	Pasuya Yao	Democratic Progressive Party	244,641	17.29%
4	Ko Wen-je	Independent	580,820	41.05%
5	Lee Si-kuen (李錫錕)	Independent	6,172	0.44%
Total voters			2,164,155
Valid votes			1,414,816
Invalid votes
Voter turnout			65.37%

Filmmaking

Yao retired from politics after finishing third behind Ko Wen-je and Ting Shou-chung, stating that he would begin working on documentaries about activists Peng Ming-min and Cheng Nan-jung.^[15] Yao's film production company released the crowdfunded film Untold Herstory in 2022, on which Yao was credited as producer.^[16]^[17]

References

^ Legislative Yuan. "姚文智委員". Retrieved 2018-11-22.
^ 民視新聞 Formosa TV News. "【台灣演義】姚文智". YouTube. Retrieved 2018-08-26.
^ Chuang, Jimmy (2005-03-14). "Service to Hsieh boosts new GIO boss' career". Taipei Times. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
^ Chuang, Jimmy (18 March 2005). "New GIO minister vows to protect press freedom". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
^ Chuang, Jimmy (30 August 2005). "A new look at the GIO and its task". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
^ Young, W. T. (3 March 2006). "Hsieh to run for president in 2008 poll". China Post. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
^ Wang, Chris (15 May 2014). "Pasuya Yao wins DPP's first-stage Taipei primary". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
^ Wang, Chris (14 June 2014). "Ko wins over Yao in DPP Taipei mayor public poll". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
^ Wang, Chris (17 June 2014). "DPP tells Ko Wen-je it will support him in poll". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
^ Wei, Katherine (30 November 2014). "Ko defeats Lien by a landslide 240,000 votes". China Post. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
^ Chen, Wei-han (17 January 2016). "'League' candidates win three of eight Taipei constituencies". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
^ Su, Fang-ho; Hetherington, William (24 July 2017). "Pasuya Yao throws hat in mayoral ring". Taipei Times. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
^ Shih, Hsiu-chuan (18 November 2018). "Taipei mayoral candidates present platforms, Yao resigns as lawmaker". Central News Agency. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
^ "2018 Local Elections". Archived from the original on 2018-12-04. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
^ Huang, Chien-hao; Chin, Jonathan (2 December 2018). "Pasuya Yao moves from politics to documentaries". Taipei Times. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
^ Wang, Hsin-yu; Lin, Sean (28 July 2022). "Crowdfunding launched for movie about female political prisoners in Taiwan". Central News Agency. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
^ Lo, James (9 September 2022). "'Untold Herstory' film to be on big screens across Taiwan late October". Central News Agency. Retrieved 10 September 2022.

External links

Pasuya Yao on Facebook

[1] Legislative Yuan. "姚文智委員". Retrieved 2018-11-22.

[2] 民視新聞 Formosa TV News. "【台灣演義】姚文智". YouTube. Retrieved 2018-08-26.

[3] Chuang, Jimmy (2005-03-14). "Service to Hsieh boosts new GIO boss' career". Taipei Times. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-03-28.

[4] Chuang, Jimmy (18 March 2005). "New GIO minister vows to protect press freedom". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 March 2016.

[5] Chuang, Jimmy (30 August 2005). "A new look at the GIO and its task". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 March 2016.

[6] Young, W. T. (3 March 2006). "Hsieh to run for president in 2008 poll". China Post. Retrieved 4 March 2016.

[7] Wang, Chris (15 May 2014). "Pasuya Yao wins DPP's first-stage Taipei primary". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 March 2016.

[8] Wang, Chris (14 June 2014). "Ko wins over Yao in DPP Taipei mayor public poll". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 March 2016.

[9] Wang, Chris (17 June 2014). "DPP tells Ko Wen-je it will support him in poll". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 March 2016.

[10] Wei, Katherine (30 November 2014). "Ko defeats Lien by a landslide 240,000 votes". China Post. Retrieved 4 March 2016.

[11] Chen, Wei-han (17 January 2016). "'League' candidates win three of eight Taipei constituencies". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 March 2016.

[12] Su, Fang-ho; Hetherington, William (24 July 2017). "Pasuya Yao throws hat in mayoral ring". Taipei Times. Retrieved 24 July 2017.

[13] Shih, Hsiu-chuan (18 November 2018). "Taipei mayoral candidates present platforms, Yao resigns as lawmaker". Central News Agency. Retrieved 18 November 2018.

[14] "2018 Local Elections". Archived from the original on 2018-12-04. Retrieved 2018-11-25.

[15] Huang, Chien-hao; Chin, Jonathan (2 December 2018). "Pasuya Yao moves from politics to documentaries". Taipei Times. Retrieved 2 December 2018.

[16] Wang, Hsin-yu; Lin, Sean (28 July 2022). "Crowdfunding launched for movie about female political prisoners in Taiwan". Central News Agency. Retrieved 10 September 2022.

[17] Lo, James (9 September 2022). "'Untold Herstory' film to be on big screens across Taiwan late October". Central News Agency. Retrieved 10 September 2022.

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Pasuya Yao

Political career

2014 Taipei City mayoral campaign

2016 Republic of China legislative election

2018 Taipei City mayoral election

Filmmaking

References

External links

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