Ye Qingyao

Ye Qingyao (; 8 December 1927 – 6 February 2019) was a Chinese mechanical engineer and politician born in Japanese Taiwan and educated in Japan. In 1947, he participated in the February 28 rebellion against Kuomintang rule in Taiwan, and was imprisoned on Green Island for several years before escaping to mainland China from Kinmen in 1956. In China he worked as an engineer, and served as Chairman of Fujian Provincial Committee of the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League and Vice Chairman of the Fujian Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

Early life and education Ye was born on 8 December 1927 into a wealthy family of doctors in Pingtung County, Japanese Taiwan. He received a Japanese education and could barely speak Hokkien. An outstanding student, he was admitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1942, at the age of 15.

After the surrender of Japan in 1945 at the end of World War II, the Kuomintang government of the Republic of China took over Taiwan, and Ye returned there after finishing his studies in 1946. Ye joined the ensuing rebellion and returned from Taipei to Pingtung, where he organized an "anti-violence group" and raided the local arsenal for weapons. When the Kuomintang army arrived in Pingtung, he fled to the mountains in Taitung.

Ye died on 6 February 2019 in Xiamen, at the age of 91.