Oei Hui-lan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Chinese-Indonesian socialite
Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1889
Place of Birth: Semarang, Indonesia
Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001
Profession: socialite
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Oei Hui-lan
- Oei Hui-lan (Chinese: ???; Pe?h-oe-ji: Ûin Hui-lân; 2 December 1889 – 1992), known as Madame Wellington Koo, was a Chinese-Indonesian international socialite and style icon, and, from late 1926 until 1927, the First Lady of the Republic of China.
- She was married firstly to British consular agent Beauchamp Caulfield-Stoker, then to the pre-communist Chinese statesman Wellington Koo, and was a daughter and heiress of the colonial Indonesian tycoon Oei Tiong Ham, Majoor der Chinezen.Both the parents of Oei Hui-lan hailed from the establishment: her father stemmed from one of the wealthiest families in Java, while her mother came from the 'Cabang Atas' aristocracy as a descendant of a Luitenant der Chinezen in Semarang's 18th-century Dutch bureaucracy.
- After an unsuccessful marriage with Caulfield-Stoker, she met Wellington Koo while in Paris in 1920.
- They married in Brussels the following year and first lived in Geneva in connection with the establishment of the League of Nations.
- In 1923, she moved with her husband to Beijing where he served as Acting Premier in the evolving republican Chinese state.
- During his second term (October 1926—June 1927), Wellington Koo also acted as President of the Republic of China for a brief period, making Oei Hui-lan the First Lady of China.
- The couple then spent time in Shanghai, Paris and London where Oei Hui-lan became a celebrated hostess.
- In 1941, she moved to New York where she died in 1992. Oei Hui-lan, or Madame Koo as she became known, is also remembered for writing two autobiographies and for her contributions to fashion, especially her adaptations of traditional Chinese dress.
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