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Taiwanese American Organization at UC Davis

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Taiwanese American Organization at UC Davis

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Taiwanese American Organization at UC Davis
  • Chinese: —
  • Era: Contemporary
  • Geography: Taiwanese American community
  • Core roles: Community organization (TAH directory)

The Taiwanese American Organization (TAO) at UC Davis is a cultural and social student organization focused on serving Taiwanese Americans and others interested in Taiwanese culture on the UC Davis campus. TAO was founded in approximately 2011 — the name TAO was chosen because “TASA” was already in use at Davis by the Thai American Student Association. The organization adopted the TAO name, a variant used at other UC campuses such as UC Irvine, where the model originated. TAO’s founding at Davis followed the involvement of a student leader with the West Coast ITASA network in 2011.

Corpus Check (deepen-x 09170900-21)

SKIP-with-reason: corpus scan found only incidental UC Davis mentions predating this club (e.g. the 10th WFTA annual meeting hosted at UC Davis in 1983 by TAFNC — a different, older event unrelated to TAO, founded ~2011). No primary material about TAO itself; nothing absorbable without inventing history. The page’s own claim that “TASA” was already taken links to the existing Davis campus pages below.

Role in the Community (deepen-x 09180900-24)

  • Absorbed: the community newsletter records an event run by the club — “Shaved Ice Night” at UC Davis, 2013-03-13, published in taiwaneseamerican.org: Shaved Ice Night with TAO at UC Davis. This corroborates that TAO was active on the Davis campus by March 2013, consistent with the ~2011 founding claim on this page (no conflict to HOLD).
  • Further event records absorbed (deepen-x 09210700-25), extending the documented activity trail from 2012 through 2014 — the club ran a recurring social/cultural event calendar on campus:

Corpus re-scan 2026-09-21 (deepen-x slice 09200700-23): re-scanned works/ and articles/ — remaining “taiwanese-american-organization” hits are generic TAH bibliography records (TA O t-shirt listings, TAAMN, 2015 community news roundup, newsletter summary table), none about this Davis club. SKIP-deepen; nothing new absorbable. Corpus re-scan 2026-09-22 (deepen-x slice 09220400-3): fresh grep — only new candidate hits (video-asian-choral-festival, concerts26, ourjourneys247, photo-albums-activities 19/96) contain no Davis/TAO context; hit set saturated. SKIP-deepen.

Corpus re-scan 2026-09-24 (deepen-x slice 09230600-5): fresh grep over works/+articles/ — all “taiwanese-american-organization” hits are the same generic TAH bibliography records (t-shirt listing #7, TAAMN #110, 2015 news #9, newsletter summary table, Philip Chang #191, Flushing parade #2); none concern this Davis club. SKIP-deepen, verified saturated. Corpus re-scan 2026-09-23 (deepen-x slice 09221200-2): fresh grep “UC Davis” — hits are nav/cross-link mentions of the TSA/TGSA Davis pages only, no TAO (this club) content; verified-saturated, SKIP-deepen. Corpus re-scan 2026-09-25 (deepen-x slice 09240600-6): fresh grep — same generic TAH bibliography records (t-shirt #7, TAAMN #110, 2015 news #9, summary table, Philip Chang #191, Flushing parade #2); none concern this Davis club. SKIP-deepen, verified saturated. Corpus re-scan 2026-09-25 (deepen-x slice 09250800-3): fresh grep — hit set (video-asian-choral-festival, t-shirt #7, concerts26, photo-albums-activities 19/96, ourjourneys247) identical to 09220400-3/09240600-6 records, no Davis/TAO context in any; SKIP-deepen, verified saturated.

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