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Cai Zimin, male, Han nationality, was born in 1920 in Zhanghua County, Taiwan. After graduating from middle school in 1936, he went to Japan and studied political science at Waseda University, graduating in 1943. He ran a newspaper for Overseas Chinese in Tokyo, and then was a newspaper editor in Beijing in 1945 before returning to Taibei, Taiwan in 1946, where he became editor of the "Freedom Daily." He participated in the "February 28th Uprising" against the provincial authorities in 1947 and then went to Shanghai via Hong Kong where he engaged in work vis-

Recent Career Data

	Author, (Historical Trends in Taiwan)
1998—2003	Member, 9th CPPCC, National Committee, Standing Committee
1997—2003	Vice-President, China Overseas Friendship Association
1997—2003	Honorary Chairman, Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League (TDSGL), Central Committee
1993—1998	Member, 8th Standing Committee of the NPC
1992—1997	Chairman, 5th Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League (TDSGL), Presidium
1988—1993	Member, 7th Standing Committee of the NPC
1987—1988	Member, 4th Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League (TDSGL), Presidium
1987—1988	Chairman, 4th Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League (TDSGL), Presidium
1983—1988	Member, 6th Standing Committee of the NPC