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UCLA Taiwanese American Union

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UCLA Taiwanese American Union

Identity Snapshot

  • English: UCLA Taiwanese American Union
  • Chinese: —
  • Era: Contemporary
  • Geography: Taiwanese American community
  • Core roles: Community organization (TAH directory)

The UCLA Taiwanese American Union (TAU) was an undergraduate Taiwanese student organization at UCLA. Its Facebook page describes it as focused on Taiwanese Culture Night and a cappella programming, and a archived UCLA directory listing states its purpose was to educate the campus about Taiwanese culture and to create a bridge between students and the Taiwanese American community. TAU maintained a Facebook page at facebook.com/uclatau, where the most recent identifiable post dates to March 2022.

Role in the Community

  • 2012-10-20 — a Taiwaneseamerican.org community listing records a “Mini Olympics & Social with UCI + UCLA Taiwanese American Clubs” campus event: Mini Olympics & Social with UCI + UCLA Taiwanese American Clubs (duplicate listing: same event, second record). The listing names UCLA Taiwanese American clubs collectively and does not name TAU explicitly, so it is recorded as corroborating UCLA Taiwanese student-club intercampus activity in 2012 rather than a TAU-specific attribution.
  • Otherwise no memoir or record in works/ or articles/ names the UCLA Taiwanese American Union / TAU directly; contemporary UCLA Taiwanese student organizing in the corpus is documented on the separate pages TASA at UCLA and Taiwanese Student Association at UCLA.
  • HOLD (2026-09-25 re-grep): the only corpus “TAU” is 台美聯合陣線 (TAU), whose admins appear among the signatories of 給台美人的一封公開信：守護台灣民主 (2020) — that is the national 台美聯合陣線 coalition, not this UCLA undergraduate club; no relation claimed, attribution held. No fresh first-person material.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-26 (slice 09251527-22): zero hits again in works/ + articles/; 2012 Mini Olympics listing + 台美聯合陣線 TAU disambiguation HOLD above stand; nothing absorbable, page state unchanged.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-01 (slice 09260900-24): fresh case-insensitive grep for “UCLA Taiwanese American Union”/uclatau across works/ + articles/ → zero hits, unchanged. Wider UCLA sweep found period material on predecessor-era UCLA Taiwanese student organizing — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys240|TAH Our Journeys #240, 半世紀前 UCLA的那些日子, 08/2016]] (1960s–70s 台灣同學會/讀書會 era: 劉天良’s 1966 迎新會, the 讀書會 rotating book reports, and Neil Jacoby’s 1967 campus talk; names 劉天良, 陳嶄新, 李木通, 黃根深, 王秋森, 陳松真/陳松楨) and oral-history mirrors in [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys212|Our Journeys #212]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys61|Our Journeys #61]]. These predate and do not name TAU (contemporary, Culture-Night/a-cappella era), so they are recorded as background on UCLA Taiwanese student organizing, not TAU attribution — no merge, HOLD stance unchanged.

Sources

Corpus re-grep 2026-10-07 (slice 10052045-29): fresh five-dir grep (UCLA Taiwanese American Union / uclatau / Taiwanese American Union) — only source-directory index lines, zero substantive hits; 2012 Mini Olympics listing + 台美聯合陣線 TAU disambiguation HOLD above stand. SKIP: verified-saturated. Corpus re-grep 2026-10-09 (slice 10070717-5): fresh five-dir grep (UCLA Taiwanese American Union / uclatau / Taiwanese American Union) — only source-directory index lines, zero substantive hits; 2012 Mini Olympics listing + 台美聯合陣線 TAU disambiguation HOLD above stand. SKIP: verified-saturated.

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