Hsieh Tung-min

Hsieh Tung-min (Chinese: 謝東閔; pinyin: Xiè Dōngmǐn; Wade–Giles: Hsieh4 Tung1-min3; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Siā Tong-bín; 25 January 1908 – 9 April 2001) was a Taiwanese politician who served as the ninth Governor of Taiwan Province (1972–1978), the sixth and first local Taiwanese Vice President of the Republic of China (1978–1984) under president Chiang Ching-kuo.

[1] Hsieh was born to an ordinary farming family in Taichū Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan.

He went to Shanghai for tertiary education and later graduated from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou.

On 10 October 1976, he received a parcel bomb from Wang Sing-nan, at the time a Taiwanese businessman based in the United States.

Hsieh sought treatment from Taipei Veterans General Hospital for a heart attack on 23 January 2001.