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Debra Liu (謝金朱)

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Debra Liu (謝金朱)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Debra Liu
  • Chinese: 謝金朱
  • Era: Contemporary
  • Geography: North Carolina (from 2022 memoir: 40+ years in NC)
  • Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who) · community writer · 婦女信箱 columnist
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Debra Liu (謝金朱) is listed in the TAH Foundation Who’s Who Taiwanese American profiles.

Role in the Community

  • 北卡台灣同鄉會 50-year retrospective author (2022): Wrote 「我的青春在北卡／北卡台灣同鄉會50年回顧」 (我的青春在北卡 — 北卡台灣同鄉會50年回顧, 2022-06-19). She recalls arriving in North Carolina alone in the early 1970s (“來到北卡不覺也40多年了”), and describes how distance from Taiwan dissolved the party-state “Free China” narrative; the memoir also records the association’s founding in 1971 and visits by pro-democracy speakers such as 陳隆志 and 史明.
  • 婦女信箱 host (1994–1995): Co-hosted the North America Taiwanese Women’s Association column 「婦女信箱」 (formosa-reporter, launched 1991) alongside 吳淳雅、林千千、詹麗茹, per the column history in 阿香(吳美芬).
  • 北卡台灣同鄉會 cultural activism (2020–2021): Served as 粉絲團啦啦隊長 for the NC team in the 全美台灣同鄉會 online New Year singing contest, documented in 花絮—北卡台灣同鄉會參加2020全美台灣同鄉會跨年活動.
  • Who’s Who record: 2020 (bibliographic record).
  • Re-grep 2026-10-01 (slice 09260900-26): fresh ZH+EN grep of works/ + articles/ (謝金朱|Debra Liu) returns the identical hit set — our-journeys-381, ourjourneys161, our-journeys-365, whos-who-2245 — all already linked above; verified-saturated, nothing new absorbable.
  • Re-grep 2026-09-24 (slice 09230317-30): hit set unchanged — corpus hits remain our-journeys-381, ourjourneys161, our-journeys-365 and whos-who-2245, all already linked above; verified saturated, nothing new absorbable.

Family

  • Spouse: Kocheng Kent Liu (劉格正) — engineer/entrepreneur, TAH Who’s Who; his page records her as his wife, and he is the member whose FBI interview over the 1982 Triangle-poster incident appears in the chapter’s 50-year retrospective (北卡台灣同鄉會)
  • Children: per kocheng-kent-liu: Janet Formosa (劉怡真), Yileen Formosa (劉怡鈴)
    • HOLD: conflict — this page previously listed “Son: Yileen”; Kocheng Kent Liu’s page lists “Daughter: Yileen Formosa (劉怡鈴)“. Not auto-merged.

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • Corpus re-verified 2026-09-25 (deepen-x slice 09240400-14): fresh ZH+EN grep of works/ + articles/ returned hit sets identical to the links already absorbed above — verified-saturated, nothing new absorbable.
  • Corpus re-verified 2026-10-01 (deepen-x slice 09260900-26): fresh ZH+EN grep returned the identical hit set (our-journeys-381, ourjourneys161, our-journeys-365, whos-who-2245, works/index) — all already linked above; verified-saturated, nothing new absorbable.
  • Corpus re-verified 2026-09-26 (deepen-x slice 09251023-16): fresh ZH+EN grep of works/ + articles/ returned the identical hit set (our-journeys-381, ourjourneys161, whos-who-2245, our-journeys-365, works/index) — all already linked above; verified-saturated, nothing new absorbable.
  • Corpus re-grep (slice 10051143-5, 2026-10-06): fresh ZH+EN grep across works/articles/sources/events/topics — hit set identical (our-journeys-381, ourjourneys161, our-journeys-365, whos-who-2245); all already linked above; verified-saturated, nothing new absorbable.
  • Corpus re-grep (slice 10060900-1, 2026-10-07): fresh ZH+EN grep across works/articles/sources/events/topics — hit set identical (our-journeys-381, ourjourneys161, our-journeys-365, whos-who-2245); all already linked above; verified-saturated, nothing new absorbable.

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