Taiwanese Student Association at UC Irvine
Identity Snapshot
- English: Taiwanese Student Association at UC Irvine
- Chinese: —
- Era: Contemporary
- Geography: Taiwanese American community
- Core roles: Community organization (TAH directory)
The Taiwanese Student Association (TSA) at the University of California, Irvine is a student organization listed among the recognized Asian American campus organizations by the UCI School of Humanities. The organization maintains a Facebook page (facebook.com/tsauci) and an Instagram account (@uci.tsa), though neither carries a formal mission statement or founding year in their public-facing content.
Role in the Community
- Irvine in the movement record: the TAH corpus holds records of a 台灣學生社 based in Irvine, CA that published the journal 《台灣學生》 (Taiwanese Collegian, 季刊) — Irvine, CA.
- Associated society records in the corpus: 321. 台灣學生社 1999年刊, 377. 台灣學生社 2000年刊, 12. 台灣學生社冬令營, and the concert recording 中西部台灣人夏令會音樂會, Cincinnati, 2000-07-07.
- HOLD: no document in the corpus yet establishes organizational continuity between the historical Irvine-based 台灣學生社 / Taiwanese Collegian and the present-day campus TSA at UCI. Connection plausible, unverified; not merged.
- Contemporary Taiwanese student organizing at UCI (corpus record): the taiwaneseamerican.org corpus documents an active Taiwanese student presence on the UCI campus under the name TAO (Taiwanese American Organization): a campus organizing call College Students! Party with UC Irvine’s Taiwanese American Organization (2012-01), a 2011 campus free screening of the documentary Winds of September (free screening of Winds of September at UC Irvine (2011-04)), Lantern Festival and Night Market with TAO at UCI (2014-04) plus its predecessor a year earlier 2013 Lantern Festival and Night Market at UC Irvine (2013-02-24) — an annual recurring event, and a Lunar New Year event Tang Yuan Tasting & Red Envelopes with UC Irvine’s TAO (2012-02) showing recurring cultural programming on campus. A 2010 nationwide campus-tour memoir also lists TAO at UC Irvine among the student clubs visited (On Discovering Passion and Purpose (2010)).
- HOLD: corpus records name the UCI group TAO, while the TAH directory lists Taiwanese Student Association (TSA) — same-group vs successor vs distinct org is unverified; not merged.
Corpus re-scan 2026-09-25 (slice 09240500-6): fresh ZH+EN grep of works/ + articles/ for 台灣學生社 / Taiwanese Collegian / UC Irvine — hit set identical to the saturated set below, plus two UCI/台灣學生社-adjacent records checked and rejected as non-absorbable: 867. 溫智宇捐UCI 2000萬 (2023) is a campus donation story with no TSA/學生社 organizational content, and 245. 美東南區台灣人夏令會簡史 references 台灣學生社 without Irvine-specific facts. Nothing new absorbable; both HOLDs unchanged. Verified-saturated.
Corpus re-scan 2026-09-24: fresh grep of works/articles for 台灣學生社/Taiwanese Collegian/Taiwanese Student Association returns the same Irvine-linked hits (taiwanese-collegian-irvine-ca, 321/377 年刊, 12 冬令營, concerts114) plus unrelated-club hits (USC Taiwanese Student Association, UW-Madison 台灣同學會 memoirs ourjourneys277/81) — no new Irvine-specific community facts; verified saturated, HOLDs above unchanged.