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Eileen Chang (楊宜宜)

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Eileen Chang (楊宜宜)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Eileen Chang
  • Chinese: 楊宜宜
  • Era: —
  • Geography: Kaohsiung, Taiwan(台灣高雄)
  • Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — B.S., Foreign Languages
  • Bethel Theological Seminary — Ph.D., Educational Pastor(教牧)

Employment

  • Taiwan Mission — President — (2007-) — Community — Voice of Taiwan (台灣之音) — Co-Founder — Taiwan Mission (台灣宣教基金會) — Founder and President — Oversea Taiwanese Christian Newsletter (海外台灣基督徒聯合通訊) — Editor-in-Chief

Family

Ministry & Diaspora Notes

Facts absorbed from the TAH encyclopedia entries already cited on this page:

  • First president of Taiwan Mission (台灣宣教基金會), which she founded (TAH #213).
  • Co-founder of Voice of Taiwan (台灣之音); the couple’s involvement with 台灣之音 is recorded for 1977-1982 in TAH #144.
  • Editor-in-chief of Oversea Taiwanese Christian Newsletter (海外台灣基督徒聯合通訊), recorded in TAH #143 as the first global newsletter of overseas Taiwanese Christians, covering 1973-1996.
  • Educated at National Taiwan University (B.S., Foreign Languages) and Bethel Theological Seminary (Ph.D., Educational Pastor / 教牧).

Timeline (from facts on this page)

  • Educated at National Taiwan University (B.S., Foreign Languages), then Bethel Theological Seminary (Ph.D., Educational Pastor / 教牧)
  • 1973–1996 — Editor-in-chief, Oversea Taiwanese Christian Newsletter (海外台灣基督徒聯合通訊), the first global newsletter of overseas Taiwanese Christians (TAH #143)
  • 1977–1982 — involvement with Voice of Taiwan (台灣之音) recorded in TAH #144; per Our Journeys #2 the New York hotline she co-founded with husband 張富雄 was already on air a year and 8 months by the 1978 US–Taiwan severance
  • 1983 — as 張楊宜宜, entrusted with full planning of the Taiwanese American House (台灣會館) purchase; presented purchase proposals at the fundraising dinner (Our Journeys #9)
  • 2007– — Founder and first president, Taiwan Mission (台灣宣教基金會) (TAH #213)

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/213-mrs-yi-yi-yang-e6-a5-8a-e5-ae-9c-e5-ae-9c-the-first-president-of-taiwan-miss||TAH Encyclopedia #213: Mrs. Yi Yi Yang 楊宜宜 — first president of Taiwan Mission]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/144-e6-a5-8a-e5-ae-9c-e5-ae-9c-e5-bc-b5-e5-af-8c-e9-9b-84-e5-8f-b0-e7-81-a3-e4-b|TAH Encyclopedia #144: 楊宜宜 張富雄 — 台灣之音, 1977–1982]]

Connected in the Vault

  • Husband and Voice-of-Taiwan co-founder Morgan Chang (張富雄) shares the TAH #144 and #143 encyclopedia entries cited above (台灣之音 hotline; 海外台灣基督徒聯合通訊).
  • The memoir [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys09|Our Journeys #9]] records that in 1983, then working in real estate as 張楊宜宜, she was entrusted with full planning of the purchase of the Taiwanese American House (台灣會館) and presented the purchase proposals at the fundraising dinner.
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys2|Our Journeys #2]] cites the couple’s founding of the New York 「台灣之音」 hot line and corrects its founding date relative to the 1978 US–Taiwan severance (the hotline had already been broadcasting a year and 8 months by then).
  • Bibliographic records held in the vault: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/197-eileen-chang|TAH #197]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-2202-eileen-chang|TAH #2202]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/218-voice-of-taiwan-e5-8f-b0-e7-81-a3-e4-b9-8b-e9-9f-b3-first-hot-line-1977|TAH #218: Voice of Taiwan first hot line, 1977]].

From the record

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09260500-8, 2026-09-27）：slice 文章 c082b03671e7c8ee 正文再驗證——慈林「撕開黑幕的光」聯展 CNA 報導（2024-06-08）：楊宜宜與張富雄夫妻創立台灣之音之記述再確認見於正文，subject 連結為真，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；含該文 wikilink 的日期事實條目已在庫 — SKIP，已飽和。

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09251300-3, 2026-09-26）：本 slice 文章 c082b03671e7c8ee（慈林「撕開黑幕的光」聯展 CNA 報導, 2024-06-08）正文再驗證——subject 連結為真實提及，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；含該文 wikilink 的 2024-06-08 條目已在庫 — SKIP，已飽和。

  • 2024-06-08 — 慈林教育基金會「撕開黑幕的光：海內外人權救援暨北美台灣之音聯展」設「台灣之音—在縫隙裡聽見自由」單元，向1977年由張富雄、楊宜宜夫妻在紐約以電話答錄系統創立的「台灣之音 The Voice of Taiwan」致敬（TJJ, 2024-06-08）。

  • 2016-02-08 — TAH encyclopedia entry #143 (published 2016-02-08) records 楊宜宜 張富雄 as the pair behind 海外第一份全球性的「海外台灣基督徒聯合通訊」, covering 1973–1996 — the backlink to the work page is now reciprocal on this page（[[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ff143|TAH #143: 海外台灣基督徒聯合通訊, 1973–1996]]）.

  • 2024-06-08 — Second TJJ copy of the CNA report (中央社記者沈如峰) on the 慈林教育基金會联展（至年底）: the exhibition also covers 彭明敏’s 1964 「台灣人民自救運動宣言」 arrest and the 1970 「X計畫」 escape aided by 宗像隆幸’s forged Japanese passport (TJJ, 2024-06-08).

  • 2014-08-18 — 楊宜宜 published her own essay 「歸家」 in the My Stories corpus ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories3|My Stories #3, 歸家 / 楊宜宜, 2014-08-18]]); a second essay 「橄欖山頂的醒悟」 followed on 2014-08-19 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories4|My Stories #4, 橄欖山頂的醒悟 / 楊宜宜, 2014-08-19]]). Both are first-person writings by her, held as bibliographic records in the vault.

  • 2014-12 — 楊宜宜 authored 「『台灣宣教基金會』緣起」, her own account of the origins of Taiwan Mission, recorded in the corpus ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/73-e3-80-8c-e5-8f-b0-e7-81-a3-e5-ae-a3-e6-95-99-e5-9f-ba-e9-87-91-e6-9c-83-e3-80|corpus #73, 楊宜宜, 2014/12]]).

  • 1977-05-01–1982-02-26 — the New York 「台灣之音」 hotline founded by 張富雄 and 楊宜宜 ran from 1977-05-01 to 1982-02-26 (nearly five years), per the community-history essay in Our Journeys #357; the essay credits the phone-answering-machine concept to the New York couple (“這個創意，來自紐約的張富雄、楊宜宜夫婦”) and frames it as an appropriation of new technology that built an overseas Taiwanese “訊息圈” — the same reading appears again in the essay’s concluding passage ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/our-journeys-357|Our Journeys #357]]). The same record notes the Bay Area 「灣區協志會台灣之音」 branch (1979-04-01–1982-12-31) as the most prominent satellite station inspired by the New York original.

  • 1977–1982 — the corpus essay in Our Journeys #357 attributes the hotline’s outsized impact to the major events whose news it carried — the 1977-11 中壢事件, the 1978-12 US–Taiwan severance, the 1979-12 美麗島事件, the 1980-02 林宅血案 and the 1981-07 陳文成命案 — “不僅串起海外臺灣人的心，也建立海外與島內臺灣人的線”; by 1982 similar stations had also been established in Europe, Japan and South America, and the record frames the couple’s use of the telephone answering machine as an appropriation (“挪用、甚至翻轉”) of new technology that built a Taiwanese American 「訊息圈」, “已成為臺美人之所以不同於華美人或亞裔美人的史實” ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/our-journeys-357|Our Journeys #357]]).

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