Ma Ying-jeou 马英九

Ma Ying-jeou (Ma Yingjiu, born on July 13, 1950) is the incumbent President of the Republic of China (ROC). He formerly served as Justice Minister from 1993 to 1996, Mayor of Taipei from 1998 to 2006, and Chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 2005 to 2007.
Ma was elected Mayor of Taipei in 1998 and re-elected in 2002. He was elected Chairman of the Kuomintang by party members on July 16, 2005. He announced his resignation on February 13, 2007, after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of misuse of mayoral funds during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; all charges were later cleared. Ma subsequently won the presidency in the ROC presidential election of 2008. He was sworn into office on May 20, 2008.
Ma’s father determined that his son be a broad-minded gentleman with a sense of national purpose, demanded that he study the Chinese classics and spend hours after school every day mastering Chinese calligraphy. And the father, a champion runner in high school and college, took him on long runs during his late teens after initially viewing him as too lazy to achieve athletic success.
Out of that upbringing came a fiercely determined man who sleeps five hours a night, jogs regularly at dawn - and won the presidency in the presidential election in 2008.
‘Although at the time I felt very much - well, sometimes — bothered, looking back I appreciate his role,” said Mr. Ma, recalling the many evenings he spent practicing brush strokes.
(Source: China Post, 2 Jan 09)
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马英九出生于1959年7月13日，是现任中华民国总统。之前，他于1993至1996年任司法部长，1998至2006年任台北市长，2005至2007年任中国国民党主席。

马英九是在1998年中选为台北市长，于2002年再次中选。2005年七月16日他被党员选为国民党主席。被台湾高等法院检察署控告在他担任台北市长期间滥用首长特别费后，他于2007年2月13日宣布辞职。后来，所有控状皆罪名不成立。之后在2008年，他赢得总统选举。
马英九的父亲决定，他的孩子应该成为一个有国家使命感的心胸广阔的君子，要求他阅读中国古典名著，每天要花几个小时练习书法。他的父亲本身是个高中与院校里的赛跑高手。由于早期认为马英九懒得成为田径运动员，在他十多岁时，带他一起长跑。
这样的教养，造成了一个意志坚强的马英九，每晚只睡五小时，傍晚经常跑步，和在2008年赢了总统选举。
回想起过去不少傍晚练习书法的岁月，他说：‘虽然有时会感到烦忧，可是回顾过去，我很感激父亲所付出的。’
(以上材料取自中国时报2009年1月2日的报道。)