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Taiwanese Association of America San Antonio (聖安東尼)

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Taiwanese Association of America San Antonio (聖安東尼)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Taiwanese Association of America San Antonio
  • Chinese: 聖安東尼
  • Era: Contemporary
  • Geography: Taiwanese American community
  • Core roles: Community organization (TAH directory)

The Taiwanese Association of America San Antonio (TAASA) is a chapter of the Taiwanese Association of America (TAA, 全美台灣同鄉會), the national umbrella organization of Taiwanese American community associations. TAASA serves the Taiwanese American community in the San Antonio, Texas area and is listed under the TAA’s Southern region (美南).

Role in the Community

  • Chinese chapter name in the TAH story corpus: 聖安東尼臺灣同鄉會 (the directory page only carries 聖安東尼).

  • Recorded in the TAH community-story corpus: TAH record: TAA San Antonio Texas chapter (published 2015-11-08, band B), which documents the chapter as part of TAA’s Southern-region (美南) network.

  • Movement-era Southern-region (美南) activity placing the chapter in the network’s founding cohort, from 莊承業, 「漫談美南台灣人夏令會的濫觴」 — Our Journeys 318 (10/2017): the first 美南台灣人夏令會 (1984-06-08–10, Sam Houston State Univ., 300–400 attendees, speakers 黃彰輝/廖述宗/陳南天) was organized through coordination among the 美南 hometown associations, with 聖安東尼 listed among the participating cities alongside 休士頓, 達拉斯, 奧斯汀, 大學城, 紐奧良, 巴頓魯治, 奧克拉荷馬.

  • Our Journeys 307 (莊承業, 08/2017) records that after 郭正光 became 休士頓會長 in 1987, the 聯合鄉訊 united hometown associations including San Antonio (magazine folded into a broadsheet published by Houston TAA, 65 issues 1987-04–1992-09).

  • Our Journeys 317 (隆福, 10/2017) records San Antonio 同鄉 among those who traveled to the 美國南區台灣民眾大會 (~400 attendees; 彭明敏 and 張燦鍙 spoke).

  • Movement-era local-organizing context: Our Journeys 155 台美人檔案座談會 at 2007美南夏令會 records San Antonio among the 美南 cities (Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Austin, Baton Rouge, Clear Lake, College Station, San Antonio, Oklahoma) urged to take up the movement-Archives question from the local level in regional meetings, with the 總幹事 convening past 美南夏令會 total secretaries to continue both the summer conference and the Archives effort.

  • Adjacent San Antonio institutions in the same corpus record the chapter’s civic context: Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce of San Antonio, Evangelical Formosan Church of San Antonio, Church of San Antonio.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-22 (slice 09211400-4; 聖安東尼 / San Antonio): hit set is exactly the records already wikilinked above (chapter record, Our Journeys 155/307/317/318, Chamber of Commerce, Evangelical Formosan Church, Church of San Antonio); saturated, no new absorbable material.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-22 (slice 09220800-11; 聖安東尼 / San Antonio): hit set identical (Our Journeys 155/307/317/318, Chamber of Commerce, Church of San Antonio + already-linked records); saturated, SKIP.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-23 (slice 09230317-8; 聖安東尼 / San Antonio): fresh grep of content/works + content/articles — hit set identical to the records already wikilinked above; saturated, SKIP-with-reason.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09240317-3; 聖安東尼 / San Antonio): fresh grep of content/works + content/articles — hit set identical to the records already wikilinked above (Our Journeys 155/307/317/318, Chamber of Commerce, Church of San Antonio); saturated, SKIP-with-reason.

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • Re-verify 2026-09-24 (slice 09230317-8 completion pass): fresh re-grep — hit set identical to records already wikilinked; no new absorbable material. SKIP (saturated). people/kin-ko.md organizations/american-citizens-for-taiwan.md
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09250700-1; 聖安東尼 / San Antonio): fresh grep of content/works + content/articles — hit set identical to the records already wikilinked above (Our Journeys 155/307/317/318, Chamber of Commerce, Church/Evangelical Formosan Church of San Antonio); saturated, SKIP-with-reason.

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