Chiang Hsiao-wu

Who was Chiang Hsiao-wu?

Chiang Hsiao-wu, was the second son of Chiang Ching-kuo, the President of the Republic of China in Taiwan from 1978 to 1988. His mother is Faina Ipatyevna Vakhreva, also known as Chiang Fang-liang. He had one older brother, Hsiao-wen, one older sister, Hsiao-chang, and one younger brother, Hsiao-yung, with whom he shared the same parents. He had two half-brothers, Winston Chang and John Chiang, with whom he shared the same father. He died at the age of 46, on July 1, 1991, at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan as a result of congestive heart failure. He was survived by the two children he had with his first wife.