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Dr. Fu-Mei Chang (張富美博士)

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Dr. Fu-Mei Chang (張富美博士)

Dr. Fu-Mei Chang (張富美博士) is a lawyer and educator from 雲林, 台灣, listed in the |TAH Foundation Who’s Who, who served as the first president of the North America Taiwanese Women Association (北美洲台灣婦女會, 1988) and worked at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution; later corpus records place her back in Taiwan serving as 僑委會委員長 (Minister, Overseas Community Affairs Council) after the 2000 political rotation.

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Dr. Fu-Mei Chang
  • Chinese: 張富美博士
  • Era: 1938
  • Geography: 台灣 雲林
  • Core roles: lawyer, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
  1. The First President of the North America Taiwanese Women Association (北美洲台灣婦女會第一任會長)1988

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — B.S., Law
  • Northwestern Univ. — M.S., Jurisprudence
  • Harvard Univ. — Ph.D., Linguistics

Employment

  • Hoover Institution Library | Stanford University Libraries — -1992

Role in the Community

  • Recruited into the 全美台灣獨立聯盟 (Formosan League of American Community) during its 1966-67 “自由長征” campus tours, which consolidated Taiwanese student organizations and brought in members such as Harvard’s 張富美 and Yale’s 陳隆志 and 陳東壁 Our Journeys 81.
  • Through 康寧祥’s 1974 visit to the U.S., she became one of the Bay Area community leaders (with 艾琳達) who maintained long-term ties with the island’s tang-wai (outside) opposition movement Our Journeys 357 (協志會).
  • In April 1978, the Bay Area churches, 協志會 and the 同鄉聯合會 formed the “Joint Committee of Taiwanese American for 1980 U.S. Census” and elected 張富美 as one of seven commissioners, urging Taiwanese to write in “Taiwanese American” on the census — a landmark in Taiwanese American identity-building Our Journeys 350.
  • In 1993 she is recorded as National Assembly Member (張富美, legislator Annette Lu同期) attending the “China: A Turning Point in History” seminar at the University of Minnesota and speaking for the Taiwanese American community Our Journeys 123 (EN).
  • A 北美台灣人教授協會 retrospective on the post-1990 return wave lists 國代張富美 among 台美人 who entered island politics alongside 台南縣長陳唐山、立委蔡同榮、許添財 — a second independent memoir record for the 國民大會代表 identity Our Journeys 259.
  • HOLD: corpus identifies a 国民大会代表 “Chang Fu-Mei / 張富美” in 1993 (ourjourneys123-eng) — whether this is the same person as this lawyer/educator profile is unconfirmed; not auto-merged.
  • Community profiles: TAH record 145, TAH record 19, [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos1263|TAH #1263 Fu-Mei Chang 張富美 (2016/08)]]。
  • Founding-era NATPA: elected the first 西部區域理事 at the 北美洲台灣人教授協會 founding board (with 張旭成 南部, 蔡丁財 東部, 廖述宗 中西部) — Our Journeys 69. At NATPA’s first return-to-Taiwan annual meeting (2004) she served as 文化組召集人 — Our Journeys 47.
  • After the 美麗島事件 (1979-12-10), she invited Republican think-tank Professor Richard Kagan to Taiwan to observe the trials; Kagan’s report back concluded the 黨外 marches were not rebellion — Our Journeys 38.
  • Named on the 北加州 blacklist (黑名單) of 1980s Taiwanese Americans whose ROC visas were refused or revoked — Our Journeys 106.
  • 協志會 20th-year record lists her as 民進黨海外國大代表, and as one of the scholars presenting at the 1987 二二八四十週年學術討論會 (Palo Alto, with 彭明敏、林宗義、陳芳明 等) — Our Journeys 37.
  • NATWA founding memoir: at the 1988-03-13 organizing meeting under 呂秀蓮’s leadership, attendees elected 張富美 first 會長 and 吳秀惠 副會長 (自動接任第二屆), with 呂秀蓮 名譽會長; charter ratified by all 45 members July 1988 — Our Journeys 60.
  • Guest at the 第十屆台灣人夏令會 (1988-06-23, Converse College, SC; theme 台灣社會改革與婦女運動) alongside 艾琳達、黃美惠 — Our Journeys 245; speaker at a 北加州聯合會 鄉情座談會 with 陳芳明、艾琳達 (1994, per the internal-dispute memoir) — Our Journeys 142.
  • Community biographical note (婦女信箱 column): 「法學博士，史丹佛大學胡佛圖書館副館長」 — matches this profile’s Hoover Institution employment — Our Journeys 79.
  • Deepen re-check (slice 09150600-12, 2026-09-15): absorbed the above from OA 245 + TAH #1263; 1993 國大代表 identity stays HOLD but is now corroborated by a third independent record (民進黨海外國大代表, OA #37). Recent press mention 陳文成紀念廣場簽約（張富美當面批管中閔, 2025）noted, identity unresolved.
  • 語料庫再比對（deepen-x slice-30，2026-09-15）：新增 ourjourneys259 佐證條目；1993 國民大會代表身分維持 HOLD，未自動併入。
  • 台灣出版社 co-editor: in the 台灣文庫 founding memoir, 林衡哲 names 張富美 (with 陳芳明) as his 「親密文化戰友」and co-editor when 台灣出版社 was established in Southern California (1983-10-31, Cerritos), publishing banned Taiwan books during martial law — Our Journeys 70. Her 1987/04 政治 volume 「台灣問題論文集」 is catalogued in the TAH record — TAH record 450.
  • 2003-04, as 僑委會委員長, she and 芝加哥辦事處處長陳俊賢 called on the Minnesota state government and met 僑胞 — corroborates the overseas-office career path for 張富美 — Our Journeys 123 (明州台美人百年大事).
  • NATPA retrospective (EN): after the 2000 political rotation, Directors 張富美 and 張旭成 returned to Taiwan — 張富美 as 僑委會委員長 (Minister, Overseas Community Affairs Council), 張旭成 as DPP 立委/NSC 副秘書長 — Our Journeys 69 (EN).
  • 2026-10-13 deepen-x re-check (slice 10121100-28): re-swept all 5 corpus dirs (張富美/Fu-Mei/Fu Mei/富美) — hit set consistent with prior passes; false positives re-excluded (陳吳富美 mystories 27/157/190/498, publications 1154/1264; 黃富美 whoswho1040; 虞曾富美 works 58/861; 莊富美/陳富美 OA 161 rosters). Two corroborations: (1) ourjourneys81-eng gives the English memoir text for the 1966-67 「自由長征」 recruitment — 「Harvard’s Fu-Mei Chang, as well as Yale’s Lung-Chi Chen and Tung-pi Chen」 — same event already recorded above, now with an EN-language source Our Journeys 81 (EN). (2) DPP 全代會 宣言 coverage (2020-07-19): 張富美 named on the party’s 第九屆廉政委員名單 — a later institutional post consistent with her DPP-affiliated public-service track; identity unconfirmed against the 僑委會委員長 profile, noted not merged taiwanjustice.net archive.
  • 2026-10-12 deepen-x re-check (slice 10112243-10): two new corpus hits. (1) 美麗島事件 trial record (EN): 「The accused included Tu Chen, Winston H. Chen, Fu-Mei Chang, Thomas H. Chen, and Yung-hao Hsieh」 — she is named among those prosecuted after the 1979 crackdown, alongside the Kagan observation visit already recorded above Our Journeys 38 (EN). (2) 台灣會館會訊 #11 (2016-12-17) event calendar: 「Oct. 7, 2016 — 張富美前委員長來訪」 (台灣會館) — a post-OCAC- Chairmanship community appearance in the 台灣會館 record taiwanjustice.net archive. False positives excluded on this pass: 陳吳富美 (mystories 27/157/190/498, publications 1154/1264), 黃富美 (whoswho1040), 虞曾富美 (works 58/861), 莊富美/陳富美 (OA 161 rosters) — all distinct persons, not linked.

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