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Kuo Shu-qing (郭淑卿)

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Kuo Shu-qing (郭淑卿)

Kuo Shu-qing (郭淑卿) was a Taiwanese American community figure and the spouse of biochemist 廖述宗 (Liao Shu-zong).

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Kuo Shu-qing
  • Chinese: 郭淑卿
  • Spouse: 廖述宗 (Liao Shu-zong, 1931–2017), renowned biochemist, NATPA founder
  • Education: Tokyo Jishu Women’s University; later studied at Chicago Jishu Women’s Seminary
  • Children: 4 daughters — 慈瑛, 慈芬, 慈明, 慈卿
  • Geography: Chicago, Illinois

Family Life

Kuo Shu-qing married 廖述宗 in 1960 after her mother-in-law 林瓊仙 (Lin Qiong-xian) arranged the match through a fellow townsman’s daughter. The couple raised four daughters in Chicago while 廖述宗 pursued his academic career at the University of Chicago’s Ben May Department of Molecular Biology.

Role in the Community

  • Married into the 廖繼春—林瓊仙 family network that our own memoir corpus records: Our Journeys 350 (張瑞雄牧師 memoir) states that painter 廖繼春’s wife was the sister of 台大 geology professor 林朝棨, and that their son 廖述宗 — her husband — was the founding chair of NATPA (北美洲台灣人教授協會). Through this marriage she sits inside the 「豐原三傑」 (張炳松、廖五湖、林朝棨) regional network described in the same memoir.
  • Her husband’s NATPA founding is commemorated in the corpus by 13. NATPA Professor Liao Shutsung Research Award 廖述宗教授研究獎金 — a community institution her family name is attached to.
  • HOLD (identity, carried from TAH Archive Note): Shuching Liao 廖郭淑卿 (TAH Who’s Who, Era 1934–2015, 台中) appears to be this same person in her married-name form; romanization/era fields differ — not auto-merged.
  • Corpus grep 2026-09-21 (slice 09210051-7): her own archive entry remains [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/478-shuching-liao-e5-bb-96-e9-83-ad-e6-b7-91-e5-8d-bf-201507|TAH #478 Shuching Liao 廖郭淑卿/2015-07]]; narrative 淑卿 hits again belong to other individuals (賴淑卿 / 張淑卿 / 楊淑卿 — see below).

Source Notes and Confidence

  • Content priority A: 2017 TAHS Publication 生命的執著 (The Persistence of Life) — Liao Shu-zong profile, Part 2
  • Content priority A: Memorial by |楊嘉猷 (Charles Yang), 2017 TAHS Publication, mentions family
  • Hub: |2017 TAHS Publication

TAH Archive Note

  • Holds her own entry in the TAH archive under her married-name form: 07. HOLD: romanization conflict — this page “Kuo Shu-qing” vs archive “Shuching”; not auto-merged.
  • Corpus grep (2026-09-20 re-run, 淑卿/Shuching/廖郭淑卿): narrative hits in works/articles all belong to different 淑卿 individuals — 賴淑卿 (Taiwan Center 台美基金會 director, 882. Shu-ching Cheng 賴淑卿), 張淑卿 (Evanston memoir couple 張幸吉、淑卿, in Our Journeys 26), 楊淑卿 (885. S. C. Yang 楊淑卿) — none are her. Only her own archive entry above matches. SKIP-for-deepening: no absorbable first-person corpus material.
  • |廖述宗 (Liao Shu-zong) — spouse
  • |廖繼春 (Liao Jichun) — father-in-law, painter
  • |林瓊仙 (Lin Qiong-xian) — mother-in-law
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-22 (slice 09212352-4): hit set fully linked, no new absorbable material.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-24 (slice 09230500-15): hit set identical to previously absorbed records; no new corpus material; verified saturated.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09240500-13): SKIP — fresh ZH+EN grep returns only her own TAH #478 entry + works index (already linked above); no new corpus material; verified saturated.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09250800-10): SKIP — fresh ZH+EN grep of works+articles returns only her own TAH #478 entry + works index; hit set identical, no new corpus material; verified saturated.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-26 (slice 09260317-21): SKIP — fresh ZH+EN grep（郭淑卿／Kuo Shu-qing／Shuching Liao／廖郭淑卿, works+articles）returns only her own TAH #478 entry + works index, both already linked; no new corpus material; verified saturated.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-27 (slice 09260700-6): SKIP — fresh ZH+EN grep（郭淑卿／Kuo Shu-qing／Shuching Liao／廖郭淑卿, works+articles）returns only her own TAH #478 entry + works index, both already linked; no new corpus material; verified saturated.

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