North America Taiwanese Professors’ Association Southern California
North America Taiwanese Professors’ Association Southern California (北美洲台灣人教授協會南加分會) is listed as a group member of the |Taiwan Center Foundation of the Greater Los Angeles.
Identity Snapshot
- Chinese: 北美洲台灣人教授協會南加分會
- English (as listed): North America Taiwanese Professors’ Association Southern California
- Relation: Taiwan Center group member (official listing)
- Source: https://www.taiwancenter.org/group-members ·
taiwancenter-org-group-members.md
Role in the Community
NATPA Southern California sits within the wider NATPA network documented in the TAH story corpus:
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NATPA (北美洲台灣人教授協會) was co-founded by 廖述宗, a旅美學者 and its first chapter-era 創會會長, per the oral-history memoir [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/our-journeys-350||Our Journeys #350]].
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The association’s annual meeting has been held jointly with the 美南台灣人夏令會, recorded in the 2012 joint special issue |919. 美南台灣人夏令會暨北美洲台灣人教授協會年會特刊 2012 — the Southern California chapter operates in this 美南 community milieu.
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NATPA publishes its own newsletter, |NATPA FORUM.
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The headquarters documents a serial of 年會特刊 spanning at least 1998–2008: 909. 第十八屆年會特刊 1998, 911. 第二十二屆年會特刊 2002 and 918. 年會特刊 2008 — the annual-meeting record the Southern California chapter plugs into.
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Parent-org movement footprint: 周實’s 1990 census campaign memoir records NATPA (教授協會) as one of twelve Taiwanese community organizations that jointly wrote to ~12,000 Taiwanese households nationwide in July 1990 urging them to register “Taiwanese” on the census — see 09-2016.
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Sibling chapters are individually documented in the corpus — 6. 密西根分會 and 7. 新英格蘭分會 (both 2015) — showing the chapter structure the 南加分會 belongs to; NATPA’s scholarly mission is recorded in 13. 廖述宗教授研究獎金.
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2019 — the TAH story corpus holds a dedicated activity record for the chapter: 北美洲台灣人教授協會南加州分會的活動 (NATPA S CAL, 2019-02-26) — bibliographic record only; full text remains in the vault.
Corpus re-grep (deepen-x 2026-09-22) surfaced a dedicated chapter record cluster previously unlinked — all bibliographic records (full text in the vault):
- NATPA 南加州分會 (2015-12-21) — chapter profile record.
- 26. Brief History of NATPA – S CAL 南加州分會的介紹 (2017-10-30) — the chapter’s own self-history.
- 927. 2015 NATPA-SCAL 30th Pearl Anniversary (2015-12-22) — 30th-anniversary commemorative issue; implies a ~1985 chapter origin (inference from the anniversary record; charter date still unconfirmed — HOLD remains).
- 南加分會 e-newsletter record (2018-01-15) and S.CA (2016-08-13) — the chapter ran its own newsletter/columns, an unusual level of publishing activity among sibling chapters.
- 4 (NATPA Forum) — chapter-level participation in the National Immigration Day Parade report.
HOLD: chapter-specific founding date and officers remain unconfirmed; the 2019 record above documents activity but not charter. Corpus mentions of a 南加分會 (e.g. the 2007 年會特刊 849. NATMA 南加分會暨總會年會特刊 2007 and the 2017 傳統月 牙科義診/CPR 記者會 record 大洛杉磯台美人傳統月 NATMA 南加分會記者會 20170503) belong to the sibling physicians’ association NATMA (北美洲台灣人醫師協會), not NATPA — do not conflate the two 南加分會.
From the record
- 2026-09-12 (sourced) — 美洲台灣日報 (Taiwan Daily) hub coverage names this chapter in a disambiguation hold: the 202609 month-absorb reportage records a 《風吹》放映會 held 2026-09-12 by the Laguna Woods chapter (LW-NATPA) and explicitly holds it apart from this 南加分會 — the screening is not this chapter’s record, LW-NATPA has no dedicated vault page, and only the bylined reportage (absorbed under 劉文義) was archived. Do not merge the two chapters. — taiwandaily.net
Source Notes
- Content priority A: Name on Taiwan Center group-members page
- Hub: |taiwancenter.org
- Content priority C: Independent history not expanded from listing alone