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Alan Yang (楊維榕)

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Alan Yang (楊維榕)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Alan Yang
  • Chinese: 楊維榕
  • Era: 1983
  • Geography: Riverside, CA
  • Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment 1.Master of None – 2016 Primetime Emmy outstanding writing for a comedy series

Education

  • Harvard Univ. — B.S., Biology

Employment

  • NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation — Writer and producer — (2009-2015) — Master of None — Co-creator, writer, director — (2015-2017) — Amazon Forever — Co-creator, writer, director — (2018-2019) — Netflix Tigertail — Director, writer, producer — (2020-2020)

Role in the Community

Corpus records place Alan Yang as a touchstone for the Taiwanese American creative generation — the pivot from prestigious-university science degrees into storytelling.

  • Michelle Kuo’s TA.org interview names him alongside Jeremy Lin, Vienna Teng, and Julie Wu as TAs who “graduated from prestigious universities with technical degrees and pivoted onto creative/unconventional paths” — TA.org: Michelle Kuo interview.
  • Credited as co-creator/producer of Aziz Ansari’s Master of None in the community profile of fellow TA actor Kelvin Yu, who played the show’s Taiwanese American lead — TA.org: Kelvin Yu.
  • His 2020 Netflix film Tigertail (虎尾), an immigrant-suffering story, was covered in TAH’s own record — 353. 「虎尾」登上Netflix，台裔導演楊維榕新片談移民艱辛 — and made Rolling Stone’s Best 20 Movies of 2020 in TA.org’s film roundup — TA.org: Best of the Best 2020.
  • Co-wrote the first episode of Master of None with Kelvin Yu and novelist Charles Yu; the episode is dedicated to Betty L. Yu and Jin C. Yu for their service to the Taiwanese American community (TACL LID Youth Camp, South Bay Taiwanese-American School, NATEA-SC) — TA.org: American-born Chinese at Disney.
  • Own TAH encyclopedia record — 2253. Alan Yang 楊維榕.
  • In his April 2020 CNA interview (多倫多), 中央社記者胡玉立 records that Tigertail is his first feature film, self-written and self-directed, with the entire inspiration coming from his father — a retired obstetrician/gynecologist from 虎尾鎮, 雲林縣 — and that it is “迄今唯一一部橫跨台美兩地時空、探討台灣人移民美國艱辛歷程的電影,” a claim he said he took pride in. He was then 36, already an Emmy-winning writer, described as 當紅炸子雞 in American TV — TJJ: 「虎尾」登上Netflix (CNA 專訪全文), indexed under tag Tag: 台裔導演楊維榕.
  • The same interview carries his own account of growing up as a Taiwan-origin immigrant child “在一個周遭沒有什麼亞洲小孩的環境長大” — Asian identity not central to his childhood, later resolved in the acceptance that “你永遠不可能改變自己是誰,” with his Chinese improving to the point of texting his parents in Chinese. Tigertail is told in three languages (台語、國語、英語), and he cites 楊德昌, 侯孝賢, and 王家衛 as stylistic influences he studied by watching their films — he had not been back to Taiwan for 20 years before returning with his father for the shoot, and has returned 5–6 times in the three years since — corroborated in TAH’s own record — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/our-journeys-353|TAH #353]].

Family

Sources

From the record

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09260400-19, 2026-09-26）：本 slice 文章 2ac7d756（台灣鄉情與文化分類頁 p3, 2020-06-28 快照）正文再驗證——subject 連結為真實提及，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；含該文 wikilink 的日期事實已在庫 — SKIP，已飽和。

  • 複核（TJJ-A09250400-7, 2026-09-25）：slice 文章 2ac7d75679fda7fe（台灣鄉情與文化 p3, 2020-06-28 快照）正文再驗證——「『虎尾』登上Netflix，台裔導演楊維榕新片談移民艱辛」確認見於正文，subject 連結為真，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；含該文 wikilink 的日期事實條目已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 複核（TJJ-A09231000-5, 2026-09-25）：slice 文章 2ac7d75679fda7fe（台灣鄉情與文化 p3, 2020-06-28 快照）正文再驗證——「『虎尾』登上Netflix，台裔導演楊維榕新片談移民艱辛」確認見於正文，subject 連結為真，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；2020-04-10 條目（含該文 wikilink）已在庫 — SKIP，已飽和。

  • 複核（TJJ-A09162345-19, 2026-09-24）：本 slice 文章 2ac7d756（台灣鄉情與文化分類頁 p3，2020-06-28 存檔）正文再驗證——「『虎尾』登上Netflix，台裔導演楊維榕新片談移民艱辛[影]」確認見於正文清單，subject 連結為真，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；2020-04-10 日期事實條目（含該文 wikilink）已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 複核（TJJ-A09171200-5, 2026-09-24）：本 slice 文章 2ac7d75679fda7fe（台灣鄉情與文化頁 2020-06-28 快照）正文再驗證——「『虎尾』登上Netflix，台裔導演楊維榕新片談移民艱辛」確認見於正文，subject 連結為真，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；2020-04-10 日期事實條目已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 複核（TJJ-A09221500-7, 2026-09-23）：本 slice 文章 2ac7d75679fda7fe（台灣鄉情與文化頁 2020-06-28 快照）正文再驗證——「『虎尾』登上Netflix，台裔導演楊維榕新片談移民艱辛」確認見於正文，subject 連結為真，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；2020-04-10 日期事實條目已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • Re-verify 2026-09-22 (TJJ-A09220700-8): link-check against slice article 2ac7d75679fda7fe（台灣鄉情與文化頁 2020-06-28 快照）—「『虎尾』登上Netflix，台裔導演楊維榕新片談移民艱辛」再確認見於正文，連結為真；2020-04-10 日期事實條目已在庫，無新材料。

  • 2020-04-10 — taiwanjustice.net「台灣鄉情與文化」專欄報導「『虎尾』登上Netflix，台裔導演楊維榕新片談移民艱辛」，記其電影《虎尾》登上Netflix、影片述及台裔移民的艱辛（專欄第3頁 2020-06-28 快照）—— TJJ 台灣鄉情與文化頁，2020-06-28 存档。

  • 2020-04-10 — 同一報導「『虎尾』登上Netflix，台裔導演楊維榕新片談移民艱辛[影]」亦見於 taiwanjustice.net「藝文」分類頁第2頁（2020-06-23 快照），頁內 subject 連結為真實提及—— TJJ 藝文分類頁 p2，2020-06-23 存档。

  • 2020-04-10 — 該報導以「移民艱辛」為標籤索引（2026-01-13 快照），subject 欄列 楊維榕 為文中提及—— Tag: 移民艱辛。

  • 2020-04-10 — 該報導另以「『虎尾』登上Netflix」為標籤索引（2026-01-13 快照），subject 欄同列楊維榕—— Tag: 「虎尾」登上Netflix。

  • Quote gap check (slice 10122300-3, 2026-10-13): 候選句為 taiwanjustice.net 藝文專欄條目清單之標題（「『虎尾』登上Netflix，台裔導演楊維榕新片談移民艱辛[影]」等），非本人言論——非此人之語，依規不貼入 Quotes；其本人第一人稱語料已在庫（CNA 專訪全文，見上）。

  • Corpus re-grep (slice 09230600-5, 2026-09-24): hit set unchanged — own TAH #2253, 虎尾 coverage #353, the four TA.org records (interview-michellekuo, kelvin-yu, best-of-the-best-2020-lists-taiwan, american-born-chinese-disney), works index, and the TJJ manifest entry for the already-absorbed 虎尾 report. All linked above; no new corpus material — SKIP (verified-saturated).

  • Corpus re-grep (slice 10110315-8, 2026-10-12): 15-file hit set across all 5 corpus dirs — own TAH #2253, 虎尾 coverage #353, the four TA.org records, works/sources index, TJJ manifest, the already-absorbed 虎尾 report, its tag-index pages (Tag: 移民艱辛, Tag: 「虎尾」登上Netflix, Tag: 台裔導演楊維榕), and the 藝文 (2ac7d756) plus 文學 (f2451922) category pages listing the same April 10, 2020 headline. All facts already linked above; category pages carry no new material — SKIP (verified-saturated).

  • Corpus re-grep (slice 10100700-5, 2026-10-11): 15-file hit set across all 5 corpus dirs — own TAH #2253, 虎尾 coverage #353, the four TA.org records, works/sources index, TJJ manifest, and the already-absorbed 虎尾 report plus its tag-index pages (Tag: 移民艱辛, Tag: 「虎尾」登上Netflix, Tag: 台裔導演楊維榕) and the 藝文 category page linking 楊維榕. All facts already linked above; tag pages carry the same April 10, 2020 headline, no new material — SKIP (verified-saturated).

  • Deepen (slice 10120500-24, 2026-10-12): re-grep hit set unchanged; the CNA 專訪全文 (20251211220526) carries first-person material not previously absorbed — his immigrant-childhood account (no Asian kids around; “你永遠不可能改變自己是誰”), the three-language structure of Tigertail (台語/國語/英語), his 楊德昌/侯孝賢/王家衛 influences, and the 20-years-away return with his father — absorbed into Role in the Community, corroborated by TAH #353.

  • Corpus re-grep (slice 09221100-23, 2026-09-23): hit set unchanged — own record [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-2253-alan-yang|TAH #2253]], 虎尾 coverage [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/our-journeys-353|TAH #353]], and the TA.org pages (interview-michellekuo, kelvin-yu, best-of-the-best-2020-lists-taiwan), plus index. All already linked above; no new corpus material — SKIP (verified-saturated).

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • 覆核（TJJ-A09300400-22, 2026-10-04）：本 slice 四篇快照頁 53455d7e（挺港聯合聲明, 2024-02-21 快照）、c9dd9fb7（Covid-19 浩劫餘生錄, 2021-11-29 快照）、9a66943e（台美人台加人 p353, 2024-04-21 快照）、2ac7d756（鄉情與文化 p3, 2020-06-28 快照）正文再驗證——subject 連結為真實提及（署名清單／專欄標題逐一對照），無錯鏈、無虛鏈；含該文 wikilink 的日期事實條目已在庫 — SKIP，已飽和。

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