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Eric Liu (劉柏川)

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Eric Liu (劉柏川)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Eric Liu
  • Chinese: 劉柏川
  • Era: 1968
  • Geography: Poughkeepsie, NY
  • Core roles: journalist, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Author of Guiding Lights: The People Who Lead Us Toward Our Purpose in Life (2005)

Education

  • Yale University
  • Harvard Law School

Employment

  • Author, educator, strategist, journalist
  • University of Washington — Lecturer
  • President Bill Clinton — Speech writer
  • President Bill Clinton — Deputy domestic policy adviser
  • RealNetworks — Executive
  • Citizen University — Founder
  • The True Patriot Network — Co-founder
  • Seattle Voices — TV host

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Role in the Community

  • Fresh corpus grep 2026-09-22: hits are only this page’s own TAH record, the works index, and the two already-absorbed essays below — nothing new to absorb (idempotent re-verify).
  • Eric Liu 的著作被台美人第二世代引用來討論身分認同：“What are you?” Thoughts on Taiwanese American Identity 一文引《The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker》，論「Asian American」身分是因應歧視經驗而被建構的防衛性範疇，並以此對照「Taiwanese American」身分的可能走向。
  • Charis Chu 的散文 On Stubborn Roots 引用 Liu 名句 “The forgetting is relentless.” 描寫二代與母土的記憶斷裂。
  • TAH 基金會名人錄條目：179. Eric Liu 劉柏川。

^- Corpus re-check 2026-09-25 (slice deepen-x-09240400-13): fresh ZH+EN grep 劉柏川 / Eric Liu against works/articles returned only the own-name record #179, the works index, and the two already-absorbed essays (「What are you?」, On Stubborn Roots) — verified-saturated again, nothing new absorbable. SKIP. ^- Corpus re-check 2026-09-24: fresh ZH+EN grep against works/articles returned only the already-absorbed records above plus substring false matches (place names like Rowland Heights, month words like “June line-up”, the works index) — verified-saturated, nothing new absorbable.

  • Corpus re-check 2026-09-25 (slice 09250800-31): fresh ZH+EN grep 劉柏川 / Eric Liu returns only #179, the works index, and the two already-absorbed essays (「What are you?」, On Stubborn Roots) — SKIP, verified-saturated.

  • Corpus re-check 2026-10-01 (slice 09260900-16): fresh ZH+EN grep 劉柏川 / Eric Liu over works/ + articles/ returns only #179, the works index, and the two already-absorbed essays (「What are you?」, On Stubborn Roots) — SKIP, verified-saturated. Liu is cited in the corpus as a literary source for second-generation identity essays, not as a community participant; no primary community record exists for him locally.

  • Corpus re-check 2026-10-06 (slice 10051340-14): fresh ZH+EN grep 劉柏川 / Eric Liu across works/articles/sources/events/topics returns only #179, the works index, and the two already-absorbed essays — alias sweep (柏川) hit one unrelated Honduras-election article. SKIP, verified-saturated.

  • Corpus re-check 2026-10-08 (slice 10070018-5): fresh ZH+EN grep 劉柏川 / Eric Liu across works/articles/sources/events/topics returns only #179, the works index, and the two already-absorbed essays (「What are you?」, On Stubborn Roots). SKIP, verified-saturated.

  • Corpus re-check 2026-10-09 (slice 10080700-27): fresh ZH+EN+alias grep 劉柏川 / Eric Liu / 柏川 across works/articles/sources/events/topics returns only #179, the works index, and the two already-absorbed essays (「What are you?」, On Stubborn Roots); the alias sweep hit one unrelated Honduras-election article. SKIP, verified-saturated.

  • Corpus re-check 2026-10-10 (slice 10092054-8): fresh ZH+EN+alias grep 劉柏川 / Eric Liu / 柏川 across all 5 corpus dirs returns only #179, the works index, and the two already-absorbed essays; alias sweep again hits only the Honduras-election article (柏川德, Kilvett Bertrand — unrelated). SKIP, verified-saturated.

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