Pasuya Yao


Yao Wen-chih, also known by the appropriated Tsou name Pasuya Yao, is a Taiwanese film maker and former politician. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party, he served in the Legislative Yuan from 2012 to 2018.

Political career

Yao, a former journalist, was named the minister of the Government Information Office in March 2005. By 2006, he had stepped down.

2014 Taipei City mayoral campaign

Yao ran for the mayoralty of Taipei City in the 2014 local elections. He won the first round of a party primary held in May, but lost to independent candidate Ko Wen-je in an opinion poll held the next month. The Democratic Progressive Party chose to back Ko's independent bid for the office, and he defeated Kuomintang candidate Sean Lien.

2016 Republic of China legislative election

On 16 January 2016, Yao won the legislative election for Taipei City 2nd constituency representing Shilin District and Datong District.
Yao announced that he would contest the Taipei mayoralty for the second time in July 2017. He resigned from the legislature in November 2018 to focus on his mayoral campaign.

2018 Taipei City mayoral election

Filmmaking

Yao retired from politics after finishing third behind Ko Wen-je and Ting Shou-chung, stating that he would begin working on documentaries about activists Peng Ming-min and Cheng Nan-jung. Yao's film production company released the crowdfunded film Untold Herstory in 2022, on which Yao was credited as producer.