Vivian Shun-wen Wu

Vivian Shun-wen Wu, known as Madam Wu, was born on 5 December 1913 in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China, and died in Taipei on 9 August 2008. She was a prominent Taiwanese businesswoman and the former chairwoman of Yulon Motor, the Taiwan-based automaker known for building Nissan-brand automobiles. She also chaired Tai Yuen Textile, a textile producer, and China Motor, another automaker partly owned by Mitsubishi Motors. Her father, Woo Ching-yuen, was a businessman in the textile industry. She graduated from Saint John's University in Shanghai and received a master's degree at Columbia University. Her husband, Yen Ching-ling, who moved to Taiwan with her in 1948, was the founder of Yulon, and her son Kenneth Yen succeeded her in several executive positions.