{
  "id": "chiang-hsiao-yen",
  "title": "Chiang Hsiao-yen",
  "lang": "en",
  "source_lang": "en",
  "summary": "Chiang Hsiao-yen, also known as John Chiang, is a Taiwanese Kuomintang politician and former foreign minister, vice premier, and legislator.",
  "category": "society",
  "subcategory": "politics",
  "type": "person",
  "aliases": [
    "John Chiang",
    "Chang Hsiao-yen",
    "John Chang",
    "Jiang Xiaoyan"
  ],
  "generated_at": "2026-10-15",
  "model": "pro/gpt-6.1-sol",
  "url": "https://aiwiki.page/en/chiang-hsiao-yen/",
  "translations": {
    "zh-Hans": {
      "url": "https://aiwiki.page/zh/chiang-hsiao-yen/",
      "json": "https://aiwiki.page/zh/chiang-hsiao-yen.json"
    }
  },
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "",
      "text": "Chiang Hsiao-yen, also known as John Chiang and formerly as Chang Hsiao-yen or John Chang, is a politician in Taiwan affiliated with the Kuomintang (KMT). A career diplomat before entering senior government and party leadership, he served as minister of foreign affairs from 1996 to 1997, vice premier in 1997, and subsequently secretary-general of both the KMT and the presidential office. He also represented Taipei in the Legislative Yuan. (ey.gov.tw)"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Education and diplomatic career",
      "text": "Chiang attended Hsinchu Senior High School and earned a bachelor's degree at Soochow University in Taiwan and a master's degree at Georgetown University in the United States. He passed Taiwan's special examinations for diplomatic and consular personnel. (ly.gov.tw)\n\nHis career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs included positions as section chief, deputy director-general, and director-general. He served as administrative vice minister from 1986 to 1990 and political vice minister from 1990 to 1993. From 1993 to 1996, he headed the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission, the cabinet-level agency responsible for relations with overseas Chinese communities. (ey.gov.tw)"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Senior government and party offices",
      "text": "Chiang became foreign minister in June 1996 during the presidency of Lee Teng-hui. Contemporary official records identify him by his earlier English name, John Chang. He held the foreign affairs portfolio until 1997 and also served as vice premier that year. His subsequent posts included KMT secretary-general and secretary-general of the presidential office. (congress.gov)\n\nHe later became a KMT vice-chairman, taking up that position in 2008. In 2014, he was one of three incumbent vice-chairmen who submitted their resignations during a reorganization of the party leadership. (ey.gov.tw)"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Legislative service",
      "text": "Chiang entered the Legislative Yuan on 1 February 2002 as a KMT representative for Taipei's second electoral district. During the fifth legislative term, his committee assignments included constitutional amendment, discipline, and foreign and overseas Chinese affairs. (ly.gov.tw)\n\nHe subsequently served in the sixth and seventh legislative terms. For the seventh term, which ran from 1 February 2008 to 31 January 2012, he represented Taipei's third electoral district. Most of his committee service during that term was on the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee; he also served on the Internal Administration Committee. (votetw.com)"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Names",
      "text": "For much of his diplomatic and early political career, Chiang used the surname Chang. He changed his registered surname to Chiang in March 2005. The change is reflected in parliamentary records: his fifth-term profile lists him as Chang Hsiao-yen, while his seventh-term profile uses Chiang Hsiao-yen. Both John Chang and John Chiang therefore appear in English-language accounts of his career. (scmp.com)"
    }
  ],
  "links": [
    "taiwan",
    "kuomintang",
    "taipei",
    "united-states",
    "lee-teng-hui"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Who’s Who in the ROC",
      "url": "https://www.ey.gov.tw/upload/relfile/656/2561/6a40b688-46ef-48bb-a2a7-43aacb86b6d3.pdf"
    },
    {
      "title": "Legislative Yuan -章孝嚴委員",
      "url": "https://www.ly.gov.tw/EngPages/List.aspx?nodeid=1231"
    },
    {
      "title": "Legislative Yuan -Chang, Hsiao-Yen",
      "url": "https://www.ly.gov.tw/Pages/List.aspx?nodeid=11487"
    },
    {
      "title": "Legislative Yuan -Chiang, Hsiao-Yen",
      "url": "https://www.ly.gov.tw/EngPages/List.aspx?nodeid=11907"
    },
    {
      "title": "Legislative Yuan -蔣孝嚴委員",
      "url": "https://www.ly.gov.tw/EngPages/List.aspx?nodeid=1649"
    },
    {
      "title": "Congratulations to Minister John Chang",
      "url": "https://www.congress.gov/104/crec/1996/07/22/142/108/CREC-1996-07-22-pt1-PgE1334-2.pdf"
    },
    {
      "title": "President Lee Accepts Invitation for World Congress on the Panama Canal",
      "url": "https://english.president.gov.tw/NEWS/952"
    },
    {
      "title": "Three KMT mayors to be nominated as vice chairmen",
      "url": "https://www.ecns.cn/2014/05-01/112008.shtml"
    },
    {
      "title": "蔣孝嚴 · 中國國民黨籍 · 臺灣選舉資料庫",
      "url": "https://votetw.com/data/candidate/%E8%94%A3%E5%AD%9D%E5%9A%B4"
    }
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}