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From star to "legislator": The legendary life of Gao Jinsumei

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Recently, Taiwan's ethnic minority public opinion representative Ko Kim Su-mei posted two videos on her social media questioning senior officials of the Taiwan authorities, which were warmly responded to by netizens, the first on March 2 and the second on March 9, and the targets of her questioning were Taiwan's "Education Minister" Pan Wenzhong and Taiwan's "Minister of Culture" Zheng Lijun. Some Taiwan netizens praised it, saying that Gao Jinsumei is one of the few public opinion representatives who are worthy of taxes.

At 21:10 on March 13, the protagonist of Southeast Satellite TV's "Taiwan News Face" is Gao Jinsumei, who has successfully transformed from a former show business star into a representative of public opinion. The guests of the show are current affairs commentators Qiu Yi, Tang Huilin and veteran celebrity Xu Shengmei. The three guests shared many stories of Gao Jinsumei's early years and praised her performance in the political arena.

Gao Jinsu Mei angrily choked the green camp county city to rebuild the Japanese shrine video fire

Recently, the Gaoshi tribe in Peony Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan, rebuilt the Japanese shrine and Taichung Mayor Lin Jialong said that he would rebuild the Japanese shrine in Taichung Park, which has triggered widespread discussion in Taiwanese society. On March 2, when Ko Kim Su-mei was questioned by the "Education and Culture Committee" of Taiwan's legislature, she gave Pan Wenzhong, head of the education department of the Taiwan authorities, a "shocking education."

Gao Jinsumei pointed out that on February 9, 1939, the Japanese government set up the "National Spiritual General Mobilization Committee", which was in the scope of Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Sakhalin Island, and asked the people of these areas to be loyal to the emperor, worship shrines, gather support for the war, and stand up for war mobilization. At that time, it was stipulated that the worship of the shrine should also be worshipped in the direction of the Japanese Imperial Palace, because the emperor was the "god", the shrine was the gokoku shrine, and the "country" of the gokoku shrine was the militaristic Japanese country that launched the war of aggression. Gao Jinsumei said that in 1945, when Japan was defeated and surrendered, the Japanese emperor publicly declared that "the emperor is a man, not a god." Historical facts have proved that the shrine was one of the tools used by Japanese militarism to launch a war of aggression, a part of promoting the "imperialization" of the colonial people, and a means of brainwashing to gather support for the war. Rebuilding the shrine has nothing to do with Taiwan-Japan friendship, and rebuilding the shrine is a gesture to promote the consciousness of "imperial nationalization," a phenomenon of Japanese militarist restoration, and a ridiculous drama that spans time and space! Ko Kim Su-mei questioned that nearly 400,000 people were killed during the Japanese colonial period in Taiwan, and when the DPP authorities saw the problem of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, they "de-Chiang Kai-shek" while holding the thighs of the Japanese colonial regime!

From star to "legislator": The legendary life of Gao Jinsumei

After Gao Jinsumei's questioning video was published on social media, it received more than 200,000 views and more than 5,000 retweets. On March 9, Gao Jin Sumei taught The head of the cultural department of the Taiwan authorities a lesson on the same issue in taiwan's legislature, And after recounting the above historical facts, Ko Kim Su-mei questioned Taichung Mayor Lin Jialong's fallacy that the reconstruction of the shrine was intended to "promote tourism", and she asked Cheng Lijun, if the reconstruction of "authoritarian injustice sites" is not for education, but for sightseeing, do you think this is a joke? Don't forget that last year's incident in which Taiwanese middle school students played Nazis proved that Taiwan's historical and cultural education is insufficient, and such a ridiculous event will occur and become an international joke. As for Gao Jinsumei's rebuke, Zheng Lijun could not resist and could only frequently answer in empty language such as "will respect human rights".

As of March 12, the videos that have been questioned have nearly 220,000 and 110,000 hits respectively, and the highlights can be watched in this issue of Taiwan News Face.

The former Jin Sumei film and television song sanqi acting career is booming

Gao Jinsumei's politics is quite sharp, and such an image makes it difficult to associate her with the image of actors and singers twenty or thirty years ago. Gao Jin Sumei was born on September 21, 1965 in Heping Township, Taichung County, the ethnic minority Taiya tribe, formerly known as Jin Sumei, the Taiya ethnic name is "Jiwas Ali", the father Jin Depei is a Native of Chaohu, Anhui Province, and the mother Gao Xiangmei is a Taiya ethnic group. Jin Sumei has shown an unusual talent in music singing since she was a child, and she stepped into the music scene at the age of 18 and has appeared in nearly ten albums. In addition to her singing career, Jin Sumei was fortunate to be favored by Qiong Yao, and has filmed Qiong Yao dramas such as "Wan Jun" and "Three Flowers", of which she played Ya Yan Hong in "Wan Jun", which is the most well known to mainland audiences. In the 1989 Taiwanese Huashi drama "No Love", Jin Sumei and He Jiajin played the male and female protagonists, winning high ratings and giving her the title of a sister in an eight-o'clock TV series.

From star to "legislator": The legendary life of Gao Jinsumei

In addition to her role in TV dramas, Kim So-mei also entered the film industry, playing the female lead in Ang Lee's 1993 "Wedding Banquet", playing opposite Cho Man-koo. The film won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival.

From star to "legislator": The legendary life of Gao Jinsumei

(Pictured: Stills from the movie "The Wedding Feast")

Subsequently, Kim So-mei won the Post-Film Award at the San Diego Film Festival with the film "Mei Zhen". In her career as an artist, Kim So-mei has acted in nearly ten TV series and six movies. Since 1994, Kim So-mei has chosen to gradually fade out of the film and television circle.

Once Jin Sumei: Career, health has been hit hard and strong

In 1994, Jin Sumei and a friend partnered to invest in the "Merlin" wedding photography company, began to run the dream wedding business, just when everything was just on the right track, in July 1996, the wedding dress shop encountered a merciless fire, according to media reports, 6 clerks died in the fire, Gao Jin Sumei herself was almost killed (this episode guest Xu Shengmei corrected this, she revealed that there were actually two couples of people who came to pick up the wedding dress among the 6 people who were killed at that time! )。 Although the main responsibility is not Kim Sumei, she had to bear the emotional debt of 6 innocent lives, and her physical and mental exhaustion dropped from 45 kg to 35 kg. In 1998, Gao Jinsumei made a comeback through the TV series "Dumb and The Bride", but as soon as filming began, bad news came out: she had liver cancer.

Xu Shengmei revealed that Jin Sumei underwent surgery immediately on the third day after being diagnosed with liver cancer, and the operation was successful, and she escaped the disaster. A month after the operation, just on the day of her 34th birthday, Jin Sumei caught up with the 9.21 earthquake in Taiwan, and in just a few tens of seconds from the TV, tens of thousands of houses instantly collapsed into ruins, and more than two thousand lives left in the blink of an eye. Later, she recalled the change of heart during this time:

"In fact, the length of life is not important, what matters is the thickness of life, whether you live a wonderful life or not, whether you live a happy or unhappy life, and what you can leave for your friends and the world around you." 」

From Kim So-mei to Ko Kim-so-mei: Turning to politics to create miracles

After a series of tribulations, Jin Sumei has rediscovered her mission and responsibility in life, that is, to safeguard the rights and interests of her clan through politics. At the end of 2000, Jin Sumei changed her household registration and took the maternal surname "Gao", and from this time on, she was renamed Gao Jinsumei. In August 2001, she announced that she would participate in the election of Taiwan's "legislators" at the end of the year as a non-party member, and in December of the same year, she became the first female mountain minority "legislator" on the island and officially entered politics. Since then, Gao Jinsumei has been out of control, re-elected, and the election performance has become better and better. In early January 2016, Gao Jinsumei ran for the fifth time, and among the 10 mountain minority "legislator" candidates, she was elected with the first highest vote for the first time, achieving "five consecutive hegemonies", and the current term will last until 2020.

From star to "legislator": The legendary life of Gao Jinsumei

Since being elected as a public opinion deputy, Gao Jinsumei has continuously spoken out for the rights and interests of Taiwan's ethnic minorities, especially on Japan-related issues. As early as 2003, Gao Jinsumei began to lead her clan across the sea to Japan and even the United Nations headquarters in New York to launch a protest against the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan. On August 11, 2009, Ko Kim Su-mei led about 50 ethnic minorities from Taiwan to successfully raid the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan for the first time, and launched the "Return of My Ancestral Spirit" operation in front of the main hall of the Yasukuni Shrine, demanding that the Yasukuni Shrine remove the ancestors who had been recruited by Japan as the "TakasaRusa Volunteer Army", and asking the Japanese Prime Minister not to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, and the Japanese government to reflect, apologize and compensate.

From star to "legislator": The legendary life of Gao Jinsumei

For more than a decade, Gao JinSumei has been calling on the Taiwan authorities to restore the historical truth and thoroughly expose the heinous crimes committed by Japanese colonial rule against Taiwan's ethnic minorities. On June 14, 2016, Ko Kim Su-mei questioned Lin Quan, head of the executive branch of the Taiwan authorities, in Taiwan's legislature, and angrily criticized Lin Quan's previous absurd remarks that "some comfort women are voluntary." Gao Jinsumei pointed out: "Facing history is an attitude, and there are only two opposing positions, (that is) the colonizer and the colonized, and there is no other room for ambiguity." The so-called 'respect for different arguments' is to blur, to put it bluntly is to cover up the crimes of the colonists! Gao Jinsumei denounced that the Taiwan authorities have long used the term "Japanese rule" and dare not use "Japanese basis.", although it is only a one-word difference, but the meaning is very different: "The distance between the words 'Japanese ruler' and 'Japanese rule' is the distance between the colonizer and the colonized, that is, the distance between the beheaded and the beheaded!" ...... Don't you 'political elites' read books? Or is it like the Minnan dialect 'read and read into the dung pit'? ”

Emotional experiences are also "legendary"

In addition to Her eye-catching performance in Taiwan's political arena, Gao Jinsumei's emotional life has also been much discussed by the outside world. She is still single, but has had a number of sensational relationships and rumors. Since stepping into the show business circle in the early 1980s, Jin Sumei has successively fallen in love with Taiwanese musician Zheng Jinyi, singer Gao Mingjun, businessman Huang Guanbo, and Hong Kong actor He Jiajin, of which the love affair with He Jiajin is the most well-known.

From star to "legislator": The legendary life of Gao Jinsumei

(Photo: Gao Jinsumei and He Jiajin)

After stepping into the political arena, she was already named Gao Jinsumei, and she successively passed on a scandal with Zheng Zhilong, a representative of public opinion, and Li Hongyuan, a former deputy county magistrate of Taipei County and later Taiwan's "Minister of the Interior," which caused a lot of controversy, but these two feelings eventually ended. In 2011, Gao Jinsumei was also revealed to have a sibling relationship with a mainland writer who was 11 years younger than her, but soon broke up.

For these rumors of personal feelings, Gao Jinsumei responded like this: "I should spend most of my time doing things in the public domain, but because my own emotional side will be amplified by the media, once enlarged, the media will do a very large report, so there will be some people who think that Gao Jinsumei is not doing things, talking about feelings every day, I think this is really very unfair to me and my work team." ”

Gao JinSumei dares to love and hate her feelings, and the men who have fallen in love with her have always thought of her good. He Jiajin once agreed with her that if the two of them were to spend the rest of their lives together before they reached the age of 60 (Gao Jin Sumei is 52 years old this year, about 8 years before the age of 60). And the ex-boyfriend Zheng Jinyi has also been praising Gao Jin Sumei's kindness, filial piety, good heart, and beautiful people, and said that the men Gao Jin Sumei liked could not escape her gentle palm.

From star to "legislator": The legendary life of Gao Jinsumei

(Program guests, from left Tang Huilin, Qiu Yi, Xu Shengmei)

"Taiwan News Face", Southeast Satellite TV, March 13, 2017, 21:10 wonderful presentation.

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