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Elsie Tu
Elsie Tu GBM, CBE (née Hume; ; born 2 June 1913), is an English-born Hong Kong social activist, former elected member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong, and former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. She moved to Hong Kong in 1951 following a period as a missionary in China. She became known for her strong antipathy towards colonialism and corruption, as well as for her work for the underprivileged. In the run up to the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to China, Elsie Tu surprised many by finding favour with the Chinese Communist Party, and taking a seat on the Beijing-backed Provisional Legislative Council from December 1996 to June 1998, after failing to win in the 1995 election. In post-1997 Hong Kong, although without a formal public role, Elsie Tu has consistently supported the Beijing government especially on contentious issues.〔(Fighting for the Underdog, or Selling Out to Beijing? ), Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan 1997〕
== Early life ==
Tu was born to John and Florence Hume on 2 June 1913 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the second child of four. After attending Benwell Girls Secondary School and Heaton Secondary School, she went on to study at Armstrong College, a forerunner of Newcastle University, graduating in 1937 with a Bachelor of Arts. From 1937 to 1947 she was a schoolteacher in Halifax, where, during World War II, she was a Civil Defence volunteer.
Hume converted to Christianity in 1932. In 1946 she married William ("Bill") Elliott, and went with him to China as a missionary in 1947. After the Communists took power in 1949, foreign missionaries were expelled from the Mainland and the couple moved to Hong Kong in 1951. Shocked by the poverty there, Elsie became disenchanted with her husband's extreme Protestant faith and the refusal of their church, the Plymouth Brethren, to become involved in social issues. The couple eventually separated during an abortive trip back to England, and later divorced. Elsie left the Plymouth Brethren and returned to Hong Kong alone.
In 1954 Elsie Elliott set up a school for the children of squatters in Kwun Tong, remaining as the school principal until 2000.
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