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Dr. Chris Fan (范清亮博士)

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Dr. Chris Fan (范清亮博士)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Dr. Chris Fan
  • Chinese: 范清亮博士
  • Era: —
  • Geography: Hsinchu, Taiwan
  • Core roles: entrepreneur, scientist
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. President of Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego (聖地牙哥台美基金會董事長) 1999

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — B.S., Chemistry
  • Purdue Univ. — M.S., Biochemistry
  • Purdue Univ. — 1973 — Ph.D.,Biochemistry

Employment

  • Pacific Biotech — Chairman — (1982-) — Wyntek Corporation — Chairman — (2005-) — Community — Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego (聖地牙哥台美基金會) — President — Formosan Association For Human Rights (台灣人權協會) — President

Role in the Community

  • Recruited onto the Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego board on the recommendation of Dr. 陳秋山 and elevated to chairman; under him the Foundation professionalized, first proposing a salaried full-time center director at the Taiwan Center (the prior director 潘富鵬 had served unpaid and part-time while handling daily operations) Our Journeys 26.
  • His tenure saw the Taiwan Center transform and draw mainstream attention, with directors 賴淑卿 and 鄭德昌 (an experienced co-founding couple) joining the board and making it more dynamic Our Journeys 26.
  • Profiled by 楊遠薰 (2014/09) as a biotech entrepreneur in 「黃金白兔─生物科技創業家范清亮等人的故事」 黃金白兔.
  • As chairman he enlisted association member Tsung-han Yang as editor of the Taiwan Center’s quarterly newsletter and Ying-li Liu as art director and consultant, and led the board in the push for a permanent Taiwan Center: a site-search committee, then architect-drawn blueprints for a new Center while the current building was leased on Our Journeys 26 (EN).
  • Under him the Center’s programming shifted toward music, fine arts, and cultural activities, and San Diego government offices, civic organizations, and media established friendly relations with the Taiwan Center — with long-term impact on the permanent-location search and event negotiations Our Journeys 26 (EN).
  • HOLD: conflict in pinyin rendering — Our Journeys 26 English translation writes “Dr. Fan Ching-ling” vs. TAH record 32’s “Ching Liang” (范清亮, Ching-liang); treated as a translation typo, name forms not merged.
  • Community profiles: TAH record 32, TAH Who’s Who 880.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-16 (slice -14): hit set unchanged — Our Journeys 26 (+ EN), own records 880, and 「黃金白兔」 are all already absorbed above. No new memoir material; the existing Ching-ling vs Ching-liang HOLD stands.
  • Under his chairmanship the board rewrote its bylaws: director seats expanded to thirty, terms lengthened from two to three years, the one-year-cooldown-on-re-election rule removed, and each director assigned an annual fundraising quota (NT$3,000–5,000) so the Center’s ~NT$100,000/year fixed expenses were secured — directorship itself became a fundraising role Our Journeys 26.
  • Listed as a speaker (Mr. 范清亮) in the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church lecture roster 2009–2026 ITPC.
  • Twin vault profile Chris Fan (范清亮) records the biotech origin story: Pacific Biotech (太平洋生物科技公司) grew from rabbit serum into a full biotech enterprise — the 「黃金白兔」 (golden rabbit) image in 楊遠薰’s 2014 profile traces back to this 黃金白兔.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-10 (slice 10081500-31): fresh ZH+EN sweep across all 5 corpus dirs; hit set same files, but content-level read surfaced the charter-reform passage in Our Journeys 26 (absorbed above) plus the ITPC speaker roster and twin-page rabbit-serum detail. Ching-ling vs Ching-liang HOLD stands.
  • Listed among the 第二代 roster figures (范清亮 / Fan Qingliang, slug fan-qingliang) in the 2023 TAHS publication index 2023 TAHS publication; roster entry, no new biographical detail beyond the twin-page profile already absorbed.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-11 (slice 10101200-31): fresh ZH+EN+surname sweep (范清亮/Chris Fan/Ching Liang/Fan Ching) across all 5 corpus dirs — hit set unchanged (Our Journeys 26 +EN, records 880, 「黃金白兔」, index/roster listings). Content-level read confirms all memoir detail already absorbed above; page verified saturated. Ching-ling vs Ching-liang HOLD stands.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-12 (slice 10110805-31): fresh ZH+EN sweep across all 5 corpus dirs — hit set unchanged (Our Journeys 26 +EN, own records 880, 「黃金白兔」, works/index roster). Content-level read of the record pages confirms they remain bibliographic stubs (full text vault-side); no new memoir material. Page verified saturated; Ching-ling vs Ching-liang HOLD stands.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-13 (slice 10121100-17): fresh ZH+EN sweep (范清亮/Chris Fan/Ching Liang/Fan Ching/清亮) across all 5 corpus dirs — hit set unchanged (Our Journeys 26 +EN, records 880, 「黃金白兔」, works/index). Content-level read confirms all memoir detail already absorbed; 賴淑卿/鄭德昌 now wikilinked to their person pages. Page verified saturated; Ching-ling vs Ching-liang HOLD stands.

Family

  • Wife: 陳淑雲
  • Son: Felix (范雅志)

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-16 (slice -12): hit set unchanged; content-level grep of Our Journeys 26 (+EN) confirms no detail beyond the bullets already absorbed above. Ching-ling vs Ching-liang HOLD stands.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-16 (slice 09160500-10): hit set unchanged — Our Journeys 26 (+EN), own records [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/32-dr-ching-liang-chris-fan|#32]] / [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-880-chris-fan|#880]], and 「黃金白兔」. Content-level context matches the Role in the Community bullets already absorbed (recruitment by 陳秋山, first salaried Center director, 賴淑卿/鄭德昌 board joining, newsletter editor Tsung-han Yang / art director Ying-li Liu, permanent-Center push); nothing new, Ching-ling vs Ching-liang HOLD stands.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-16 (slice 09160600-1): hit set unchanged — Our Journeys 26 (+EN), own records 880, 「黃金白兔」. Content-level re-check of Our Journeys 26 confirms the absorbed bullets verbatim (同鄉范清亮博士在陳秋山博士推薦下加入董事並推舉為董事長；首位支薪專任中心主任；賴淑卿／鄭德昌夫婦加入董事); nothing new, Ching-ling vs Ching-liang HOLD stands.

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