C. M Yang (楊啓明)
Identity Snapshot
- English: C. M Yang
- Chinese: 楊啓明
- Era: 1928
- Geography: 屏東高樹鄉
- Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
Founded the Formosa Club of Eastern US (美東福爾摩莎俱樂部), the predecessor organization to the Taiwanese American Association of New York (TAA NY)
Education
- 台南工學院肄業
Role in the Community
- His 2019 TAH Who’s Who encyclopedia record — the community’s own account of his founding of the Formosa Club of Eastern US, precursor to TAA NY — is held in the corpus at 2019 (2019-11-04).
- The Formosa Club that Yang’s record describes as the seed of the Taiwanese American Association appears repeatedly in the TAH “Our Journeys” community memoir corpus, e.g. the TAA/Columbus chapter newsletter line “Formosa Club is our big family” (Newsletters of TAA/Columbus Chapter, 12/11/1972): 354. What did you do when you were young (年輕時做的活動), and club-or-association taggings in member memoirs such as 2016. These corroborate the Formosa Club → TAA organizational lineage his record claims.
Family
- Son: Keimay