There are many ways to become an official, including those who take the civil service examination to become an official, those who do business and become an official, and so on, but if you become an official because of the toilet, it is really quite rare in the whole world.
However, the world is big, and there are no surprises. Not to mention, some people really became officials because of this, and it was not the Jiupin Sesame Official, but the position of "foreign minister" at the provincial level.
The official who became the local "foreign minister" because of the toilet was Yu Jiang Yuegui.
Speaking of Yujiang Laurel, she has an inextricable connection with China.
Yujiang Yuegui's parents were from Hua County (now Huadu District) in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, immigrated to California in the early 1922s, and in 1922, Yujiang Yuegui was born in Okodale, a small town in California.
At this time, the parents did not expect that this Chinese girl born in a foreign country would be elected as the local "foreign minister" of the United States 52 years later.
In 1974, toilet charges still existed in California society, but white Men in the United States did not charge, while women needed to coin 25 cents to use the toilet.
In response to this phenomenon, Yu Jiang Yuegui successfully used this social problem to help her own campaign, when Yu Jiang Yuegui first ran for the position of Secretary of State of California, she took "women's free public toilets" as a political opinion, won the hearts of the people of California, and was successfully elected as The Secretary of State of California.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
The secretary of state in California is the same as the U.S. secretary of state, but at different levels.
The U.S. Secretary of State is the U.S. official in charge of foreign affairs, equivalent to The Chinese foreign minister, but the secretary of state is second only to the U.S. president and vice president in the United States, ranking third in the U.S. government.
The secretary of state is the position responsible for foreign affairs in the 50 states of the United States, just like the local "foreign minister", but in the state government, the status is second only to the governor.
Yu Jiang's ability to win the position of California secretary of state, the richest state in the United States, is an important milestone for Chinese participation in American politics.
However, California's secretary of state is not the first major government position yu Jiangyue has been elected.
Yu Jiang's initial political career began with the Alameda Education Bureau in California, becoming the first Chinese woman to be appointed to the Alameda School District Committee.
Then, in 1966, she was elected to the state legislature on behalf of the Democratic Party, becoming the first Chinese woman to enter the California State Assembly but serve as a member of the State Assembly, which lasted for 8 years until the end of 1974, and the experience in the State Assembly laid the foundation for Yu Jiang Yuegui's election as California Secretary of State.
California Government
Therefore, starting in 1974, Yu Jiang Yuegui was elected as secretary of state of California with a high poll, and successfully served five consecutive terms, working for 20 years until the end of 1994.
Her each re-election for secretary of state won a high number of votes, surpassing the number of votes received by any elected public official in history, including the governor, and a miracle in California's campaign history.
It was in the position of California's secretary of state that Yu Jiang Yuegui set a number of firsts:
She was the first Chinese-American secretary of state in California's history, the first female secretary of state, the first elected chinese and even Asian to enter the State level in California, and the first Chinese woman to be elected chairman of the California World Trade Commission.
And in 1976, when she became the temporary head of California, when the governor of California was not in office, she became the first woman to act as the governor of California.
Yu Jiang Yuegui with former US President Clinton
When he stepped down as secretary of state in 1994, he was appointed by then-US President Bill Clinton as the U.S. ambassador to Micronesia, and returned to the United States in 1996 to retire.
It can be said that Yu Jiang Yuegui has been strong in American politics for more than 30 years, from the state's education bureau to the state legislature to the state government and later the U.S. ambassador to foreign countries.
It is indeed not simple for such a political experience to happen to an immigrant Chinese woman, and it is quite rare.
She has become a pioneer of Chinese participation in politics, and a pioneer of Chinese women's participation in politics.
However, what is unexpected is that Yu Jiang Yuegui now has a lot of political influence, and when she was a child, she was poor and jingle, and such a difference in life was also quite large.
When her parents came to the United States from Guangdong in the early days, China was still a period of feudalism, imperialism and capitalism, and the conditions in China were not very good, especially when they came to the United States, and they could only live on the small laundry opened by their parents.
Children from poor families are the most self-motivated, and they are not wrong at all.
In order to change the status quo of her low status, Yu Jiang Yuegui actively studied and obtained a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a doctorate from Stanford University.
This kind of higher education background, for many Chinese women in the United States, may also find a suitable home to spend the future life. However, Yu Jiang Yuegui did the opposite and decided to embark on the road of politics.
She once said: As a Chinese American, she has been persecuted in the past and has survived difficult years. Therefore, I want to reshape the image of the Chinese, because I believe that the Chinese are also first-class citizens of the United States, just like other ethnic groups.
During the period when Yu Jiang Yuegui embarked on the road to politics, the political arenas in the United States and California were quite conservative, almost the world of white men, but she stepped forward, sought a high position, stood in american politics for more than 30 years, and became a model for early American women, especially Asian women. The outside world even used the analogy of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as "California Kissinger".
It was also driven by her that in the 1990s, there was a wave of Asian political participation in California, and Chinese women such as Liu Xuanqing, Zhao Meixin, Chen Huanying and other Chinese women were elected to the California House of Representatives, creating a new peak of Chinese and even Asian participation in politics, and her son Kwong Jieling was also elected as the chief financial officer of California.
In the new century, that is, in the later years of Yujiang Yuegui, she actively participated in Sino-US cultural exchanges and matched Sino-US relations, and died on December 21, 2017 in Orange County, California, at the age of 95.
Then California Governor Brown was saddened that Yu Jiang Was a pioneer in women's political participation, and she opened the door to more women and Chinese Asian Americans to participate in public affairs.
In recognition of Yujiang Laurel's contributions in California, on March 25, California decided to name the California Secretary of State Building in Sacramento, the capital of the state, as "Yujiang Laurel California Secretary of State Building", which is the first state building named after a woman.
It can be seen from this that Yu Jiang Yuegui, as a Chinese woman, can completely gain a foothold in American politics, and at any time, do not doubt the wisdom of Yan Huang's descendants.
Of course, I hope that more Chinese people will actively participate in the US political arena and thus improve the status of Chinese in the United States, which is of positive significance to Sino-US relations.