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Agnes Wu (姜瑞香)

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Agnes Wu (姜瑞香)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Agnes Wu
  • Chinese: 姜瑞香
  • Era: 1939
  • Geography: 日本 仙台
  • Core roles: journalist
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
  1. North America Hakka Assn for Public Affair (HAPA-NA) Board member, treasurer, VP

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — 1962

Employment

  • Retiree — 2002

Family

  • Husband: Willie Wu
  • Daughter: Peggy
  • Son: Thomas
  • Son: Keimay

Role in the Community

  • Author of the memoir 崎嶇人生路 / This Rugged Road of Life: 姜瑞香 (EN: mystories313-eng); TAH encyclopedia entry 02.

  • Wrote the memorial 176. In Memory of my Son, Keimay Yang — A Devoted Supporter of ITASA (2015/01); her son Keimay was an ITASA supporter.

  • Memorial piece for her husband: 10. HOLD: conflict — Family lists husband “Willie Wu” vs her own memorial work titled 紀念吾夫楊啟明 (Yang Chi-ming); never auto-merged.

  • 2026-09-22 (slice 09220700-10): corpus re-grepped — hits (#310, mystories313/-eng, #176, ourjourneys154, mystories351) are all absorbed above; saturated, no new absorbable facts.

  • Contributor to the 公論報 點心擔 column of the North America Taiwanese Women’s Association; described as a reader of 公論報 since its first issue and a recurring contributor, per fellow columnist 陳桂蘭 in 陳桂蘭 (北美洲臺灣婦女會). When 公論報 ceased publication, she and 張秀滿 had just sent columns per prior arrangement and had to be told the news (per 陳桂蘭, same work).

  • 書源負責人 (book-source lead) of the 北美洲台灣婦女會〈贈書小組〉 book-donation project — founded by fellow member 賴淑娟 in 2004/05 as overall director; Agnes joined soon after as book-source lead, cultivating relationships with U.S. public libraries that gave her priority notice of withdrawn books (per 柯金寅’s account) — which reached the 100,000-book milestone and presented at the American Library Association and IFLA conferences — recounted in 柯金寅’s 書中包有台灣心, 柯金寅 (2015/01). The essay memorialises her son 楊傑茂 (Keimay Yang), a fellow 贈書小組 volunteer who died young — corroborating memorial 176.

  • 2026-09-23 (slice 09221500-8): corpus re-grepped — new fact absorbed above (贈書小組 role from ourjourneys91); remaining hits (#310, mystories313/-eng, #176, ourjourneys154, mystories351) already linked; saturated.

  • Co-authored with 柯金寅 the NATWA 舊書價值再生回饋鄉里計畫小組 “Turn Trash Into Treasure” children’s English book recycling project record: 姜瑞香、柯金寅 (2015-01-23) — companion record to the 贈書小組 milestone essay above.

  • 2026-10-09 (slice 10081018-8): fresh ZH+EN grep across all 5 corpus dirs returned 12 files; 10 already linked/absorbed, 2 index-only (works/index.md, sources hub); 1 new work link absorbed above (photo-albums-activities-51). Otherwise saturated.

  • 2026-09-25 (slice 09231000-6): corpus re-grep (姜瑞香 / Agnes Wu, works+articles) returns no new material — all 6 hits (#310, mystories313/-eng, #176, ourjourneys154, mystories351) already linked above; verified saturated, SKIP-no-new-facts.

  • Signatory of the 2021 Pew Research community response, listed as “Agnes Wu, North America Taiwanese Women’s Association” among the Taiwanese American community leaders who demanded disaggregated “Taiwanese” census data — Response to Pew Research Reports Hiding Taiwanese Identity (2021-05-01).

  • Her Keimay memorial also exists in English in the movement corpus as first-person narrative: In Memory of my Son, Keimay Yang — A Devoted Supporter of ITASA (taiwaneseamerican.org; same content as #176).

  • 複核（deepen-x slice-09250317-6, 2026-09-25）：re-grep 姜瑞香 / Agnes Wu — new hits absorbed above (Pew statement, taiwaneseamerican-org Keimay memorial); remaining hit set unchanged.

  • 複核（deepen-x slice-09251527-1, 2026-09-26）：fresh grep 姜瑞香 / Agnes Wu（works+articles）hit set identical (#310, mystories313/-eng, #176, ourjourneys154, mystories351) — all already linked above; verified saturated, SKIP-no-new-facts.

  • 2026-10-11 (slice 10100700-15): fresh ZH+EN grep across all 5 corpus dirs — 12-file hit set identical to prior passes (#310, mystories313/-eng, #176, ourjourneys154, mystories351, ourjourneys91, photo-albums-activities-51, Pew statement, taiwaneseamerican-org Keimay memorial; works/index + sources hub index-only). No new absorbable facts; verified saturated.

  • 2026-10-12 (slice 10110315-17): fresh ZH+EN grep across all 5 corpus dirs — same 12-file hit set. One new detail absorbed above from ourjourneys91: the 贈書小組 was founded by 賴淑娟 (2004/05, overall director) before Agnes joined as 書源負責人. No other new facts; saturated.

  • 2026-10-12 (slice 10120600-1): fresh ZH+EN grep across all 5 corpus dirs — same 12-file hit set, all already linked/absorbed above. Surname-variant sweep (瑞香) surfaced one apparent new hit (2018 台大通識抗爭連署名單, taiwanjustice-net), but the name is 傅瑞香 (醫科), a different person — false positive, not linked. Verified saturated, no new absorbable facts.

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