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Dr. Jii James Shieh (謝己博士)

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Dr. Jii James Shieh (謝己博士)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Dr. Jii James Shieh
  • Chinese: 謝己博士
  • Era: 1941
  • Geography: Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • Core roles: scientist, professor
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Dr. Jii (James) Shieh 謝己博士 – History of Taiwanese American (T.A. Archives) 台美史料中心

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — 1964 — B.S., Agricultural Chemistry
  • Utah State Univ. — 1972 — Ph.D., Biochemistry
  • Univ. of Hawaii — 1976 — Biochemistry& Biophysics in Postdoc

Employment

  • Boston University — Research Assistant Professor — (1976-1980) — Army Natick R & D Center — Chemist, Researcher — (1976-1980) — US Department of Agriculture — Chemist — (1980-2015) — Community — Taiwanese American Association / Great Philadelphia Area — President — TAC/EC TANG — Coordinator — International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) — Consultant

Role in the Community

  • Oral-history subject: TAH Taiwanese Americans Oral History Project interview 185. President of TAAGPC –謝己 James Jii Shieh’s Journey (2025) records his leadership as President of the Taiwanese Association of America, Greater Philadelphia Chapter (TAAGPC, 2024) and Chairman of the Taiwanese American Conference East Coast (TAC/EC, 2024), on his journey of leadership and vision for empowering future generations.

  • Long-standing technical backbone of the TAC East Coast Summer Convention (美東夏令會): credited in [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys159|Our Journeys #159]] for running the computer/AV operations — troubleshooting equipment alongside the organizer, enabling the student-movement (服貿/學運) discussion panel to start on time, and co-operating the 台灣之夜 stage program (with 蔡宗元) despite last-minute CD failures.

  • 2017-07-04, at the closing of the 2017 TAC/EC 美東台灣人夏令會, the TAC/EC flag was handed to him as 召集人 of the 2018 convention (alongside incoming 理事長 翁進治) — the 2018 美東夏令會 was taken over by the Philadelphia/Delaware (費城/德拉瓦) community, which he convened. Reported by 楊遠薰: 2017-07-09.

  • Consistent with his TAH profile’s community roles: TAA Greater Philadelphia Area President and TAC/EC TANG Coordinator.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-16 (slice 09160400-24): hits = video-185, ourjourneys159, TAH #2101, index, and 楊遠薰’s 2017 夏令會 report (a second archived copy of the same handover event already absorbed above). No new community facts; SKIP.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-16 (slice 09160500-20): hit set unchanged (video-185, ourjourneys159, TAH #2101, index, plus a second taiwanjustice-net archived copy of 楊遠薰’s 2017 夏令會 handover report — same event already absorbed). Nothing new absorbable; no conflicts. SKIP.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-16 (slice 09160600-14): hit set unchanged (video-185, ourjourneys159, TAH #2101, index, plus taiwanjustice-net copies of 楊遠薰’s 2017 夏令會 report — the 2024-05-22 Wayback snapshot is the same handover event already absorbed). No new community facts; SKIP-no-new-material.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-16 (slice 09160700-10): hit set again unchanged (video-185, ourjourneys159, TAH #2101, index, taiwanjustice-net 2017 + 2024 copies of the same 楊遠薰 handover report). Nothing new absorbable; no conflicts. SKIP-with-reason.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-16 (slice 09162138-7): wider regex surfaced only false positives — ourjourneys305’s TPC member roster matches via ‘James Huang Chen … J.J. & Christine Shen Shieh’ (a different Shieh household: spouse Christine Shen, not Clara 黃小芳), and ourjourneys33 matches ‘Jiin Lin’ / ‘Philip Shieh 謝伯芳’. Real hit set unchanged. Nothing new absorbable; no conflicts. SKIP-no-new-material.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-16 (slice 09162200-3): real hit set unchanged (video-185, ourjourneys159, TAH #2101, index, taiwanjustice-net copies of 楊遠薰’s 2017 夏令會 report); broader ‘Jii’ regex again matched ourjourneys33 only via ‘Jiin Lin’ / ‘Philip Shieh’ false positives. Nothing new absorbable; no conflicts. SKIP-with-reason.

Family

  • Wife: Clara Shiao-Fang Shieh (黃小芳)
  • Son: 3

From the record

  • 2018-04-24 — TAH Foundation Who’s Who encyclopedia entry #2101 records his profile: Kaohsiung-born (1941) biochemist — NTU B.S. Agricultural Chemistry 1964, Utah State Ph.D. Biochemistry 1972, Univ. of Hawaii postdoc 1976, USDA chemist 1980–2015 — serving as President of the Taiwanese American Association, Greater Philadelphia Area and TAC/EC TANG Coordinator; this record is the source of the Education/Employment tables above. source

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