Names
May Chin was born in Heping Township, Taichung County (now part of Taichung City). Her father, a Han Chinese (from mainland China), and her mother, a Taiwanese Aborigine of the Atayal tribe, named her Chin Su-mei. In the mid-1980s, she stood for election to be a representative of Taiwanese Aborigines within the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China (Taiwan), during which she took on the Chinese surname of her Taiwanese Aborigine mother, hence becoming Kao Chin Su-mei (Chinese: 高金素梅; pinyin: Gāo Jīn Sùméi; Wade–Giles: Kao Chin Su-mei). Her Ayatal name is Ciwas Ali (Chinese: 吉娃斯·阿麗; pinyin: Jíwásī Ālì; Wade–Giles: Chi-wa-ssu A-li) and May Chin remains her stage name.
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