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Amy Hsu (蘇惠美)

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Amy Hsu (蘇惠美)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Amy Hsu
  • Chinese: 蘇惠美
  • Era: 1941
  • Geography: 台灣 台北
  • Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
  1. Cal State Fullerton Faculty and Staff association-membership and public relations

Education

  • 政治大學 — 1963 — B.A. 財稅系

Employment

  • 華南銀行 — 1963-1968
  • University of Michigan — 1979-1989
  • California State University - Fullerton — 1989-2004

Role in the Community

  • 1960, University of Minnesota: reported to the incoming class in August 1960 together with 陳秉虔; both were already church believers in Taiwan, and they did not know each other before Minnesota. One of five co-organizers (with 殷宗舜, 李春美, 陳秉虔, 謝伯芳) of the weekly Friday 「Mpls 台灣人祈禱查經會」 launched fall 1960, which grew from about ten to over twenty Taiwanese students — an early node of Taiwanese student fellowship in Minneapolis — per the memoir 明州台灣人早期記憶. HOLD: conflict — memoir has 蘇惠美 enrolling at Minnesota in 1960 vs TAH bio showing a 政大 B.A. in 1963.

  • TAA Minnesota chapter: appears in the chapter’s annual leadership roster for 1997 in the chapter history 明州台美人百年大事 (Brief History of TAA–Minnesota).

  • 台灣獨立聯盟: contributed a record of the 台灣獨立建國券 (nation-building bonds issued 1983 by 台灣獨立聯盟 US headquarters, donated toward台灣建國) — preservation provenance 「源自 蘇惠美(許永華太太)」 in 台灣獨立聯盟建國券.

  • Author: her own essay 「看無人」 (03/2017) is held as a community historical record at 2017-03; her TAH Who’s Who entry is [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-508|TAH #508]].

  • **corpus scan 2026-09-22 — HOLD: conflict — the TJJ oral history 2018-10 names a 蘇惠美 who graduated 師大 as the wife of 謝伯芳 (himself a co-organizer of the Mpls 台灣人祈禱查經會 alongside this page’s subject); this page’s subject holds a 政大財稅 B.A. (1963) and is the wife of 許永華. Education and spouse both conflict — likely a different person of the same name; not absorbed.

Family

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-23 (DEEPEN-X slice 09221100-24): hit set unchanged — Our Journeys 369 / 123-eng / 147, mystories533, TAH #508; all absorbed above, both HOLDs stand (Minnesota-1960 vs 政大-1963; 師大 蘇惠美 same-name different person). SKIP-content.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-24 (DEEPEN-X slice 09230600-19): SKIP — fresh ZH+EN grep returns the same set (ourjourneys-369 / 123-eng / 147, mystories533, whos-who-508); nothing new absorbable, both HOLDs stand.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (DEEPEN-X slice 09240600-23): SKIP — fresh ZH+EN grep returns the same set (ourjourneys-369 / 123-eng / 147, mystories533, whos-who-508); nothing new absorbable, both HOLDs stand.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-26 (DEEPEN-X slice 09250900-23): same set plus two new files — the 2019 year-in-review 「19 Things」 hit is “Amy Hsuan Chiu” (false positive, different name); the 2021 Pew-response statement Response to Pew Research Reports Hiding Taiwanese Identity carries an “Amy Hsu” in its endorser list with no 漢名 or affiliation given — HOLD: cannot verify identity (at least one same-name 蘇惠美 already in corpus); not absorbed.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-26 (DEEPEN-X slice 09260317-28): SKIP — fresh ZH+EN grep returns the same set (ourjourneys-369 / 123-eng / 147, mystories533, whos-who-508, works index, plus the Pew-response endorser file); nothing new absorbable, both HOLDs stand (Minnesota-1960 vs 政大-1963; 師大 蘇惠美 same-name different person; Pew endorser identity unverifiable).
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-27 (DEEPEN-X slice 09260700-5): fresh ZH+EN grep (works+articles) returns the identical hit set already absorbed above; SKIP-with-reason: verified saturated, no new absorbable material, existing HOLDs unchanged.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-12 (DEEPEN-X slice 10110600-12): SKIP — fresh ZH+EN grep across all 5 corpus dirs returns the identical saturated set (ourjourneys-369 / 123-eng / 147, mystories533, whos-who-508, works index, 19-things false positive, Pew endorser file, taiwanjustice 師大 蘇惠美); 許永華-side works (collection-of-mr-yung-hwa-hsu, ourjourneys250/321/8-eng, publications1024, whos-who-298) contain no 蘇惠美/Amy Hsu mentions; alias probes (蘇慧美 / Sui-mei) surface nothing. Nothing new absorbable; all three HOLDs stand.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-10 (DEEPEN-X slice 10081300-1): SKIP — fresh ZH+EN grep across all 5 corpus dirs returns the identical saturated set (ourjourneys-369 / 123-eng / 147, mystories533, whos-who-508, works index, 19-things false positive, Pew endorser file, taiwanjustice 師大 蘇惠美); surname/alias probes (Sui-mei / 蘇慧美 / 許永華-side works) surface nothing naming her. Nothing new absorbable; all three HOLDs stand (Minnesota-1960 vs 政大-1963; 師大 蘇惠美 same-name different person; Pew endorser identity unverifiable).
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-13 (DEEPEN-X slice 10120800-29): SKIP — fresh ZH+EN grep across all 5 corpus dirs returns the identical saturated set (ourjourneys-369 / 123-eng / 147, mystories533, whos-who-508, works index); the broader 惠美 sweep additionally surfaces same-name different persons (黃惠美 winners53, 周惠美/Chou flute 157, 林惠美 Amy Lin pianist 262, 蘇慧美/Hwei-Mei variants) — none are this subject, not absorbed. Nothing new absorbable; all three HOLDs stand.

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