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Dr. Shiching John Chang (張錫清博士)

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Dr. Shiching John Chang (張錫清博士)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Dr. Shiching John Chang
  • Chinese: 張錫清博士
  • Era: 1947
  • Geography: Changhua, Taiwan(台灣彰化)
  • Core roles: entrepreneur, scientist
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Dr. Shiching (John) Chang 張錫清博士 – History of Taiwanese American (T.A. Archives) 台美史料中心

Education

  • National Cheng Kung Univ. — 1970 — B.S.,Chemistry
  • Mississippi State Univ. — 1975 — M.S.,Chemistry
  • Kansas State Univ. — 1982 — Ph.D., Chemistry

Employment

  • PCR Specialty Chemicals — Senior Chemist — (1982-1986) — Midwest Research Institute — Scientist — (1986-1990) — Micro Distribution Center Of Kansas, Inc. — President — (1990-) — Community — Taiwanese Association of Florida (Gainesville) — President — Taiwanese Association of Kansas — President — City of Tainan Sister Cities of Kansas City, Missouri — Chairman — Asian American Chamber of Commerce — Founding Board Member — Taiwan Independence Cup annual Softball Tournament — Organizer

Timeline

  • 1947 — born in Changhua, Taiwan (台灣彰化)
  • 1970 — B.S., Chemistry, National Cheng Kung Univ.
  • 1975 — M.S., Chemistry, Mississippi State Univ.
  • 1982 — Ph.D., Chemistry, Kansas State Univ.; Senior Chemist, PCR Specialty Chemicals (1982–1986)
  • 1986–1990 — Scientist, Midwest Research Institute
  • 1990– — President, Micro Distribution Center Of Kansas, Inc.
  • Community — President, Taiwanese Association of Florida (Gainesville); President, Taiwanese Association of Kansas; Chairman, City of Tainan Sister Cities of Kansas City, Missouri; Founding Board Member, Asian American Chamber of Commerce; Organizer, Taiwan Independence Cup annual Softball Tournament
  • — associated with 台美史料中心 (T.A. Archives), see |TAHS

Family

  • Wife: Vandy
  • Daughter: Katherine
  • Son: Albert, Michael

Vault Record Absorbed (2026-09-10)

Chang is himself a TAH story contributor — four bylined pieces already in the vault document his community work (no new sourcing):

  • NATWA-Kansas military-family support. As an officer of the Kansas chapter of the |North American Taiwanese Women’s Association, he authored a report on monthly care packages for overseas-deployed servicemembers, Christmas gifts for 10–15 wounded veterans’ families, and emergency rent/utility/auto-loan aid for wounded-veteran households ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys137|TAH #137, 2015/05]]; chapter page: NATWA-Kansas).
  • Taiwan Independence Cup softball. He authored the record of the annual tournament he organizes ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/55-taiwan-independence-cup|TAH #55, 2018/11]]).
  • Taiwan-birthplace passport campaign. He authored the story of 林良炫, the first Taiwanese American to demand “Taiwan” as birthplace on a US passport ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories327|TAH #327, 2015/09]]).
  • Plains Region Fall Camp. He authored a note on the TAA Plains-region fall camp tradition, first held 1985 in Manhattan, Kansas ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/our-journeys-351|TAH #351, 2020/01]]) — the regional circle around his Taiwanese Association of Kansas presidency.

Vault records

His Kansas City community roles are corroborated by existing vault records:

  • |TAKC (Taiwanese Association of Greater Kansas City) — he is listed as president of the Taiwanese Association of Kansas
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/139-tainantaiwan-and-kansas-city-kansas-first-sister-city-program-1978|TAH #139: Tainan–Kansas City sister-city program (1978)]] — he chaired the Tainan Sister Cities committee
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/40-banner-of-taiwan-independence-cup-softball-tournament-kansas|TAH #40: Taiwan Independence Cup softball banner]] · [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/42-t-shirt-of-taiwan-independence-cup-softball-tournament-kansas|TAH #42: tournament T-shirt]] — he organized the tournament
  • TAH: Taiwanese American Heritage Week of Kansas · [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/43taiwanese-american-heritage-week-a-proclamation-of-kansas-city-mi|TAH #43: Kansas City MO proclamation]] — community context for his Kansas leadership era

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/26-dr-shiching-john-chang|TAH #26 encyclopedia]] · [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-75-shiching-john-chang|TAH #75 Who’s Who]]

Corpus re-grep (2026-10-10, deepen-x slice 10090600-28)

Full-corpus scan (張錫清 / Shiching / John Chang across works/articles/sources/events/topics) — two previously unlinked records absorbed:

  • His own archival collection at TAH. [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/collection-of-dr-shiching-john-chang|TAH #1: Collection of Dr. Shiching (John) Chang 張錫清博士的收藏 (2016-09-22)]] — he is a donor/archivist, not only a subject: TAH holds a named collection of his materials, the first numbered item in the story corpus.
  • Chapter-authored TAKC brief. 2017-10 — he authored the institutional history of his own chapter under the romanization Hsi-chi Chang, the key primary source for TAKC’s origins (also linked on TAKC). Note: this byline variant is corroborated as the same person by the chapter context.

Disambiguation (same-name records NOT this person, kept to prevent conflation):

Other hits (ourjourneys137, our-journeys-351, 55-taiwan-independence-cup, mystories327, 26/75 encyclopedia) already linked above; no new biography beyond existing records.

Re-scan 2026-10-11 (deepen-x slice 10101400-17)

Fresh 5-dir grep (張錫清 / Shiching / Hsi-chi Chang) returned only works already linked above plus index listings (works/index.md, sources/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org.md) and the duplicate-slug copy of TAH #55 (55-e5-8f-...-cup-softball, same story as 55-taiwan-independence-cup). No new material — page verified saturated.

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