James Tien Pei-chun | |
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田北俊 | |
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:James_Tien_cut.jpg) James Tien in the 2016 Legislative Council election | |
| Member of the Legislative Council | |
| In office 1 October 2012 – 30 September 2016 | |
| Preceded by | New seat |
| Succeeded by | Eunice Yung |
| Constituency | New Territories East |
| In office 1 October 2004 – 30 September 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Wong Sing-chi |
| Succeeded by | Wong Sing-chi |
| In office 21 December 1996 – 30 June 1998 (Provisional Legislative Council) | |
| In office 1 July 1998 – 30 September 2004 | |
| Preceded by | New parliament |
| Succeeded by | Jeffrey Lam |
| Constituency | Commercial (First) |
| In office 28 June 1993 – 30 June 1997 | |
| Preceded by | Stephen Cheong |
| Succeeded by | Replaced by Provisional Legislative Council |
| Constituency | Industrial (First) |
| In office 12 October 1988 – 22 August 1991 | |
| Appointed by | Sir David Wilson |
| Non-official Member of the Executive Council | |
| In office 1 July 2002 – 6 July 2003 | |
| Appointed by | Tung Chee-hwa |
| Preceded by | Henry Tang |
| Succeeded by | Selina Chow |
| Member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference | |
| In office March 2003 – 29 October 2014 | |
| Chairman | Jia Qinglin Yu Zhengsheng |
| Leader of the Liberal Party | |
| In office 21 May 2013 – 29 October 2014 | |
| Chairperson | Selina Chow |
| Preceded by | New post |
| Succeeded by | Vincent Fang |
| Chairman of the Liberal Party | |
| In office 5 December 1998 – 8 September 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Allen Lee |
| Succeeded by | Miriam Lau |
| Chairman of the Hong Kong Tourism Board | |
| In office 1 April 2007 – 1 April 2013 | |
| Appointed by | Donald Tsang |
| Preceded by | Selina Chow |
| Succeeded by | Peter Lam |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 January 1947 Shanghai, Republic of China |
| Political party | Liberal Party (1993–2022) |
| Other political affiliations | Hope for Hong Kong (2020–2021) |
| Spouse | Mary N. H. |
| Relations | Michael Tien (brother) |
| Children | Andrea Calvin |
| Parent | Francis Tien |
| Residence | Hong Kong Island |
| Alma mater | Diocesan Boys' School University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| Occupation | Politician, entrepreneur |
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James Tien Pei-chun, GBS, OBE, JP (Chinese: 田北俊; born 8 January 1947) is the former chairman and Leader of the Liberal Party (LP) and former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Legco). Originally an entrepreneur, he was also a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong (Exco), member of Central and Western and Kwai Tsing District Council and Hong Kong member to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
Son of the textile entrepreneur-turned-politician Francis Tien, James was appointed to public offices since the 1980s, where he sat on the Hong Kong Basic Law Consultative Committee (BLCC) and was appointed to the Legislative Council in 1988. He returned to the LegCo in 1993 through a by-election in the Industrial (First) functional constituency nominated by the Federation of Hong Kong Industries (FHKI).
He succeeded Allen Lee to become the chairman of the Liberal Party in 1998 and was appointed to the Executive Council by Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa in 2002. His popularity rose to peak when he resigned from the ExCo in 2003 in opposition to the Basic Law Article 23 which brought down the proposed legislation. He ran a successful campaign in the 2004 LegCo geographical constituency direct election but was defeated in 2008 and resigned from his party offices.
He threw his weight behind Henry Tang in the 2012 Chief Executive election and had been critical of the eventual winner Leung Chun-ying after the election. His vocal opposition to Leung saw his CPPCC membership being stripped away, making him the first person in history to have received this sanction. He served one more term on the LegCo from 2012 to 2016.