Tennessee Taiwanese Association (田納西州大納許維爾台灣同鄉會)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Tennessee Taiwanese Association
- Chinese: 田納西州大納許維爾台灣同鄉會
- Era: Contemporary
- Geography: Taiwanese American community
- Core roles: Community organization (TAH directory)
The Tennessee Taiwanese Association (田納西州大納許維爾台灣同鄉會) is a regional chapter of the Taiwanese Association of America (TAA, 全美台灣同鄉會), the national umbrella organization for Taiwanese American community associations in the United States. The chapter serves the Taiwanese American community in the Nashville, Tennessee area, as indicated by the Chinese name, which references 大納許維爾 (Nashville). It is affiliated with the TAA’s Mid-Western (美中西) regional grouping.
Role in the Community
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The Nashville-area Taiwanese American community’s organizing record enters the corpus around 2018: the TAH story Nashville Taiwanese Association (2018-01-11) and the community’s participation in Taiwanese American Heritage Week of Nashville, TN (2018).
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Neighbor chapter with deep memoir coverage: TAA East Tennessee (Knoxville, founded 1975) — see 張惠雄. The Nashville chapter’s own founding history is not yet in the corpus.
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Deepest Tennessee node in the corpus: 陳希寬’s memoir of compiling the first 《全美台灣同鄉通訊錄》 (1967–68, UFAI-era) records Tennessee contacts 李友義、歐文斌, and the directory’s regional tally counted 田那西州 47名 — the 1960s Tennessee Taiwanese presence that predates any chapter record ( 陳希寬).
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Earliest formal gathering in the corpus: the 4th 東南區台灣人夏令會 (1982) was held in Tennessee concurrently with the 萬國博覽會 there, drawing 500+ attendees and a party-outside slate (康寧祥、尤清、黃煌雄、張德銘) Q&A that clashed with 紀政 and 沈君山 — an early movement gathering on Tennessee ground that predates this chapter’s own record ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/our-journeys-379|Our Journeys #379]]).
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CORPUS SCAN (2026-09-22): the Tennessee corpus shelf is now fully enumerated — beyond 313. 東田納西台灣同鄉會成立簡史 there are two more East-Tennessee records, East Tennessee Chapter 東田納西台灣同鄉會簡介 (2017) and the chapter’s own newsletter 大煙山麓 by TAA – East Tennessee 東田納西台灣同鄉會 (2017), plus the EN translation 313 (EN) and 2017). All remain East-Tennessee (Knoxville) material; NONE is a Nashville-chapter founding record — this chapter’s own history is still absent from the corpus, only its 2018 activity records exist. (re-verified 2026-09-24; 314 absorbed)
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HOLD: directory lists this chapter under TAA’s Mid-Western (美中西) grouping while the geographically adjacent East Tennessee chapter sits in Eastern Southern (美東南); the Nashville-area chapter’s regional affiliation and its relationship to the “Nashville Taiwanese Association” story remain to be reconciled.
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Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09240500-7): SKIP — Nashville/TN grep confined to works already linked above (nashville-taiwanese-association, taiwanese-american-heritage-week-of-nashville-tn, works/index); Nashville-chapter founding record still absent from the corpus; nothing new to absorb.
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One further East-Tennessee shelf record enumerated 2026-09-25 (slice 09250800-3): East Tennessee Taiwanese News 東田納西台灣同鄉會鄉訊 (2017-10-12, bibliographic-only record) — joins the enumerated East-Tennessee shelf above. Still Knoxville material, not a Nashville founding record; this chapter’s own history remains absent from the corpus.