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Ho Chie Tsai (蔡和杰)

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Ho Chie Tsai (蔡和杰)

Dr. Ho Chie Tsai (蔡和杰) is a Taiwanese American physician and media entrepreneur. He is the founder of TaiwaneseAmerican.org, an online platform dedicated to documenting Taiwanese American stories and community history.

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Dr. Ho Chie Tsai
  • Chinese: 蔡和杰
  • Role: Founder, TaiwaneseAmerican.org
  • Profession: Board-certified pediatrician
  • Affiliation: UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
  • Organizations: |Taiwanese American Foundation (TAF); Taiwanese American Professionals in San Francisco
  • Geography: San Francisco Bay Area / Northern California
  • Heritage: Second-generation Taiwanese American

TaiwaneseAmerican.org

Ho Chie Tsai founded TaiwaneseAmerican.org in 2006, a website dedicated to documenting and sharing the stories of Asian and Taiwanese American communities. The platform serves as a digital archive and community resource for Taiwanese American history and culture.

The website has become an important tool for the Taiwanese American Historical Society (TAHS) and other community organizations in preserving and sharing the community’s stories.

Professional Career

Ho Chie earned his M.D. at the University of Illinois at Chicago and practiced as a board-certified pediatrician in the Oakland area, on staff at Children’s Hospital Oakland and the Research Center of Oakland, and affiliated with the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. He has served the medical community of the San Francisco Bay Area for many years.

Community-organizing activity around his founding of Taiwanese American Professionals in San Francisco is documented in the community record, e.g. |a TAP community-service event at UCSF.

Community Involvement

  • Taiwanese American Foundation (TAF) — Board member 1996–2019; President from 2019 (per 林壽英’s account in [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/our-journeys-377|Our Journeys #377]])
  • Taiwanese American Professionals in San Francisco — Founder
  • TaiwaneseAmerican.org — Founder

Source Notes and Confidence

  • Content priority A: 2017 TAHS Publication (profile Part 2, ~130 lines), written by 楊遠薰
  • Content priority A: Contains biographical narrative including professional career and community involvement
  • Hub: |2017 TAHS Publication
  • Note: The full text includes detailed biographical information including education, professional career, and community involvement.

Education

  • University of Illinois at Chicago, IL — M.D.

Employment

  • Children’s Hospital Oaklan — ‎Pediatrician
  • Research Center of Oakland — ‎Pediatrician

Vault records (deepen pass 2026-09-10)

Facts already present in vault pages (no new sources):

  • TAH encyclopedia records about him are held in the vault: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/43-dr-ho-chie-tsai-e8-94-a1-e5-92-8c-e6-9d-b0-e9-86-ab-e5-b8-ab-the-founder-of-w|TAH #43 — 蔡和杰醫師, founder of www.taiwaneseamerican.org]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/38-dr-ho-chie-tsai|TAH #38]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-1607-ho-chie-tsai|TAH Who’s Who #1607]] and the 2015-12 studio program [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/30-in-the-studio-with-actor-kelvin-yu-from-master-of-none-ho-chie-tsai-201512|TAH #30 (Kelvin Yu / Master of None)]].
  • His role at TaiwaneseAmerican.org is also recorded in the vault report Ho Chie Tsai featured on Taiwan543.net.
  • He also led a Taiwanese American identity workshop in Chicago: identity workshop with Ho Chie Tsai in Chicago, documented alongside his TAP Chicago workshop.
  • Organization page: TaiwaneseAmerican.org.

Sources

Vault re-check 2026-09-14 (deepen-x slice 09140845-1, vault-only)

  • Cross-linked the org layer: TAP San Francisco, which he founded, has its own page — Taiwanese American Professionals San Francisco; the TAF link and all work-page links above verified to exist.
  • His 2017 TAHS Publication profile was written by 楊遠薰 — linked to her vault author page Yang Yuan-xun (楊遠薰).
  • No new biographical facts absorbable from vault-internal sources beyond those already recorded; nothing invented, no web used, nothing published.

Deepen-x 2026-10-09 (slice 10080949-6, corpus-only)

  • From his own first-person account in [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories554|My Stories #554]]: parents immigrated to the U.S. in 1972 (father as a physician-in-training, mother with twin boys); grew up in the Midwestern Taiwanese American community of the 1970s–80s. In the late 1980s–1990s he helped run Taiwanese American youth summer camp programs in the Midwest and East Coast, helped found one of the first Taiwanese American student organizations at his university, and built early intercollegiate networks and conferences.
  • TAF tenure detail (board member 1996–2019, President from 2019) absorbed into Community Involvement above from 林壽英’s record in [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/our-journeys-377|Our Journeys #377]]; TAF青少年夏令營 running since 1980 is credited there to him and other second-generation volunteers.
  • No conflicts found between corpus sources; nothing published.

Deepen-x 2026-10-10 (slice 10091531-6, corpus-only)

  • From 楊遠薰’s profile of him in 台美人的未來（下）: “Ho Chie” is the phonetic rendering of his Chinese name 和杰; grew up in the Chicago suburbs, torn between American culture and Taiwanese values as a teenager. In 1986 he attended the TAF 台美青少年夏令營, the experience that redirected him from a diffident youth to one with direction and purpose.
  • Organizing record per the same profile: entered UIUC in 1990 as an electrical-engineering major (matching his own “geek” self-description in An Afternoon with Girl Geek Angie); in summer 1991 attended the first 台美青年領導人才訊練營 at Cornell (TAC/EC), one of the first fifteen trainees. During college he co-founded the 台美學生社 and the 亞太學生聯合會; in graduate/med school he founded the UIUC 亞太學生校友會 and the 亞太裔醫學生聯合會; after moving to Northern California as a pediatrician he launched the 第二代台美人醫師協會 and the San Francisco chapter of 台美專業協會 (TAP-SF, above).
  • He was a featured speaker (主講人) at the 2017 TANG (Taiwanese American Next Generation) camp, where 楊遠薰 first met him via TaiwaneseAmerican.org.
  • As founder/editor of TaiwaneseAmerican.org he personally hosted the site’s interview series, appearing on record as interviewer in Ties That Unbind (James Y. Shih), Alishan (Jess Lee), Jen Shyu, Evonne Hsu (APAHM 2010), Brian Yang, Michelle Young, On Discovering Passion & Purpose, and Kevin Lien. He is a contributor to Formosa Betrayed — Giving Voice to History.
  • NATWA II lists him as an honorary member (Jen Shyu feature).
  • HOLD: the earlier My Stories #554 account says he helped run youth summer-camp programs in the “late 1980s–1990s”; 楊遠薰’s profile dates his own TAF camp attendance to 1986. Not merged — kept as complementary phrasings.
  • Nothing published.

Deepen-x 2026-10-12 (slice 10102200-4, corpus-only)

  • From 楊遠薰’s profile of him (same piece, archived copy: 台美人的未來（下）, taiwanjustice.net archive 2024): his public reputation predates the website — 楊遠薰 first heard the name in 2004 interviewing participants at the TAF 台美青少年夏令營 at Calvin College (Michigan), where every interviewee volunteered that “Ho Chie” had returned every year since college to teach the elementary-age classes, even after becoming a physician; his father was a Taiwanese physician in the Chicago area. He joined the TAF board out of that same yearly-volunteer commitment.
  • From the same profile: in 2009 he co-produced with a group of young people the video “2010年人口普查–寫下台美” (2010 Census — Write In Taiwanese American), circulated on YouTube and TaiwaneseAmerican.org, which inspired many second-generation Taiwanese Americans to write in “Taiwanese American” on the 2010 U.S. Census.
  • He wrote under his own byline for TaiwaneseAmerican.org: e.g. Recap of Taiwanese American youth summer camps and a donation drive (2010-09-03, byline “Ho Chie”) and Taiwan-America Student Conference (2014-02-04, byline “Ho Chie”) — the latter an interview with the U.S.-based founders of the cross-Pacific student conference (Alice Pin-Pin Liao, Sharon Lu, Frances Chan).
  • First-person interview record of him on the Talking Taiwan program: Talking Taiwan Interview with Ho Chie Tsai (2013).
  • HOLD: the profile dates the founding of TaiwaneseAmerican.org to 2006 (“為接觸更多更廣的台美人，他創設網站”); the earliest dated site records in the corpus are from 2010–2011. Not merged — the 2006 date is kept as attributed to 楊遠薰’s account, corpus records unchanged.
  • Nothing published.

Deepen-x 2026-10-12 (slice 10120100-4, corpus-only)

  • Byline sweep (corrects the 2026-10-12 HOLD above): a full sweep of the taiwaneseamerican-org corpus finds 160 works carrying the byline “Ho Chie” (his own byline on the site he founded), dated 2006-04-13 through 2023-08-07. The earliest is Meeting Michelle Krusiec (2006-04-13) — i.e. corpus records with his byline do exist from 2006, corroborating 楊遠薰’s 2006 founding date; the earlier note that “the earliest dated site records in the corpus are from 2010–2011” was stale. HOLD resolved: 2006 stands as the founding date, corpus-corroborated.
  • Interviewer record extended: beyond the series listed in the 2026-10-10 note, he conducted and signed on-site interviews including The Formosa Coffee interview (2020-07-30) and Summer Camps 2015 (2015-05-26).
  • Community reputation record: Happy Birthday Ho Chie! (2011) — staff tribute and fundraising campaign in his honor, describing him as “a regular superhero who seems to know everyone” and “the man who made it all possible” for TaiwaneseAmerican.org.
  • TAF lineage: Koi Fish — A TAF Story (Brady Nichols) records TAF as the “ancestral home” of TaiwaneseAmerican.org, with him (and Charles Yu) listed as TAF alumni whose childhood-summer-camp path led to adult community-building — consistent with his TAF board tenure above.
  • No new conflicts found; nothing published.

Deepen-x 2026-10-13 (slice 10121137-4, corpus-only)

  • Digital-archive advocacy: as founder/editor of TaiwaneseAmerican.org he announced the site’s endorsement of the Taiwanese American Digital Archive (USC Libraries, Special Collections / East Asian Library, spearheaded by second-generation Joanna Chen Cham) in his own bylined piece Taiwanese American Digital Archive (2016-02-07) — mobilizing the community to sign the support petition “to collect the history and contributions of our community before it is lost.”
  • Interviewer record extended (earlier dates): bylined on-site interviews beyond those previously listed — From East to West with Wong Fu Productions (2008-11-14, filmed at UC Berkeley) and Miss Taiwanese American Pageant coverage (2011-08-06), where the record itself refers to him as “TaiwaneseAmerican.org’s Ho Chie Tsai.”
  • False-positive sweep note: a corpus grep for “Ho Chie” also hits [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho1656|TAH Who’s Who #1656]] — that record is 蔡和陽 / Ho-Yang (Peter) Tsai, a different person; not this page.
  • No conflicts found; nothing published.

From the record

  • 2009-07-13 — his own bylined profile of singer-songwriter Dawen records the parallel biography: “Ho Chie Tsai is the creator and manager of TaiwaneseAmerican.org. Like Dawen, he appreciated his time living in Chicago. His minority experience in the Midwest helped to shape his motivation for building a stronger community within Asian America” (A Conversation with Singer-songwriter Dawen).
  • 2010-02-07 — on record as interviewer at the San Francisco / Bay Area 2010 annual Lunar New Year celebration, where he “chats with a few of the actors and production team behind the upcoming movie, Formosa Betrayed” — the site’s on-camera record for the film beyond his written contribution to its history page (A Moment with the Actors and Production Team Behind “Formosa Betrayed”).
  • 2010-11-24 — TaiwaneseAmerican.org released a video of Alice Tong’s song “Sweet Sweet” followed by a brief interview with him as the site’s founder/editor (A Video and Interview with Sweet Sweet Alice Tong).
  • 2010-12-30 — during a Taipei reporting trip he “drops in to say hello between photo shoots and appointments” with model/TV host Janet Hsieh, the site’s on-location visit coverage (A Day in the Life of Model & TV Host Janet Hsieh).
  • 2011-03-01 — he starred in his own video series “My Taiwan Travelogues,” a one-week journey filming Taipei and surroundings “through the eyes of a 2nd generation Taiwanese American who is a relative newcomer to this amazing vibrant city” (A Video Recap: “My Taiwan Travelogues”).
  • 2012-03-20 — with Karen Lin he covered the Asia Society / Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in San Francisco event featuring Chef Hou Chun-sheng, winner of the 2011 Taipei International Beef Noodle Soup Festival, as a Taiwanese American food-culture record (A Taste of Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup).
  • 2016-02-29 — he and Kristina Lin travelled to Portland, Oregon to meet singer-songwriter Marie Hsiao (Mree); the record preserves both the filmed interview and the in-person visit as the site’s fieldwork method (A Moment With Mree).
  • 2022-05-08 — the site’s Amah Faraway feature with Margaret Chiu Greanias carries a photograph of Greanias holding the book alongside him, i.e. the platform’s author-visit record in its later years, published under a guest contributor rather than his byline (Amah Faraway — Margaret Chiu Greanias).
  • 2009-11-07 — on record as interviewer in the profile of film composer George Shaw, where he appears self-deprecatingly as having “no musical skill whatsoever” yet a deep admiration for people who pursue music and the arts — the founder’s own voice inside the site’s arts coverage (Behind the Big Screen with Composer George Shaw).
  • 2010-07-14 — on record as interviewer during the site’s Atlanta, GA stop, meeting brothers Joseph and Matthew Hsiao, owners of the all-day breakfast spot The Flying Biscuit Cafe — the fieldwork geography of his interview series beyond the Bay Area (An Interview with the Owners of an Atlanta Original: The Flying Biscuit Cafe).
  • 2010-08-06 — on record interviewing Eric Chang (aka 阿明/Ahbying) while both attended the Taiwanese American Foundation 2010 Summer Conference for students in the Midwest, with Chang an invited speaker for the Junior High and High School programs — his community-record work inside the TAF student-conference circuit he came up through (An Interview with Eric Chang aka “Ahbying”).
  • 2012-03-28 — on record with his “bubble tea tasting team” visiting The Boba Guys (Andrew Chau and Bin Chen) in San Francisco’s Mission District, with guest correspondent Kristina Lin joining from Taipei — the site’s food/culture fieldwork under his editorial leadership (Bubble Tea with the Boba Guys).
  • 2012-10-11 — pictured after the show with the TaiwaneseAmerican.org staff at David Henry Hwang’s “Chinglish” at Berkeley Rep, captioned “Ho Chie Tsai (TaiwaneseAmerican.org staff)” — the staff-night record of the founding team at a Taiwanese-American-relevant production (Culture and Language in David Henry Hwang’s ‘Chinglish’).
  • 2014-06-30 — on record as interviewer of author Julie Wu about her novel The Third Son, set in martial-law-era Taiwan, an Oprah.com 2013 featured favorite — his platform engaging the emerging second-generation literary record (Author Julie Wu Discusses her Novel, The Third Son).
  • 2014-09-28 — on record interviewing filmmaker Anita Chang about her documentary Tongues of Heaven ahead of its SF/Bay Area screenings — his interview series documenting Taiwanese American film (Bay Area).
  • 2014-11-03 — on record catching up with singer-songwriter Charlie Chang, whom the site had featured in its “100 Passionate People” series in 2010, on the launch of a new album donating a portion of sales to V-day — the founder’s continuity with the site’s own community-priorities record (Charlie Chang Releases New Album to Combat Domestic Violence).
  • 2010-03-02 — bylined interview with Janet Hsieh, host of Discovery’s “Fun Taiwan!”, filmed at the Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association 2010 East Coast Conference hosted by MIT, where she discussed her life paths and perspectives as a second-generation Taiwanese American (Connecting with Janet Hsieh, Host of Discovery’s Fun Taiwan!).
  • 2011-03-18 — bylined interview with actress Lynn Chen about her career since Saving Face and her food-blog ventures (theactorsdiet.wordpress.com, thickdumplingskin.com) — his interview series documenting the second-generation arts record (Face to Face with the Lovely Lynn Chen).
  • 2011-12-08 — bylined dinner interview with Lisa Lee, co-founder with actress Lynn Chen of ThickDumplingSkin.com, on Asian American community activism and Lee’s personal story of Taiwanese American identity (Dinner Dumplings with Lisa Lee — Co-founder of ThickDumplingSkin.com).
  • 2012-10-11 — pictured after the show in the cast photo of the photo-essay follow-up to the site’s Chinglish feature, captioned “Ho Chie Tsai (TaiwaneseAmerican.org staff)” alongside Kristina Lin, Anna Wu and Elizabeth Wang — the staff-night record of the founding team at David Henry Hwang’s production at Berkeley Rep (Culture and Language in David Henry Hwang’s ‘Chinglish’ (photo essay)).
  • 2012-12-18 — bylined year-end follow-up on composer George Shaw, whom he had interviewed back in 2009, documenting Shaw’s scores featured in videos by NigaHiga, KevJumba, Wong Fu Productions, Michelle Phan and Mystery Guitar Man — the founder’s multi-year continuity tracking of the site’s arts subjects (Composer George Shaw Closes the Year on a High Note).
  • 2013-03-26 — on record in the site’s designer Jason Wu coverage accompanying the crew to San Francisco City Hall carrying two bags of professional photography equipment, and credited “Edited by Ho Chie Tsai” — his editorial hand behind the site’s fashion vertical even on pieces under another byline (Fashion Trending with Designer Jason Wu).
  • 2014-12-25 — bylined Christmas-day interview with singer-songwriter Alanna Lin aka Fascinoma on her Beatles-covers project, her song’s use on FOX’s American Dad, and her September 2014 marriage — the interview series’ arts record in the site’s later years (FASCINOMA: This Musical Taiwanese Cat Can Sing The Beatles).
  • 2018-04-29 — bylined interview with filmmaker Fiona Roan about her short film JIEJIE, a finalist in HBO’s Asian Pacific American Visionary short-film competition with national HBO distribution during AAPI Heritage Month 2018 and its premiere at the 2018 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (An Interview with Filmmaker Fiona Roan: Reflections on Sisterhood and Belonging).
  • 2010-04-27 — bylined profile of singer Alice Tong (“In Step with Alice Tong: Prelude to Progression”), whose session record is anchored at “March 27, 2009. Home of Ho Chie Tsai, Berkeley, CA” — the site’s flagship arts interview conducted at the founder’s own home (In Step with Alice Tong: Prelude to Progression).
  • 2010-12-22 — with several staff members he met singer-songwriter Elisa Lin at her recording studio in Taipei to chat about her musical career and background — the site’s Taipei studio fieldwork on his own byline (In the Studio with Singer-Songwriter Elisa Lin).
  • 2011-03-14 — a later staff retrospective on Wong Fu Productions’ short film “The Places We Should Have Gone” quotes his 2008 prediction that “these guys are going to make it big in the next few years” — the founder’s early-forecast record inside another contributor’s piece (Following Wong Fu to Places They’ve Gone).
  • 2012-10-01 — a memorial essay by Agnes Wu for her son Keimay Yang preserves Ho Chie Tsai’s tribute “Keimay spent more time thinking about others, not just friends and family, but even strangers” and her account of hearing his speech on second-generation community activities (including ITASA) at the annual NATWA Convention in San Jose — his community-advocacy record cited inside a guest contributor’s piece (In Memory of my Son, Keimay Yang — A Devoted Supporter of ITASA).
  • 2012-10-25 — bylined video interview with internet celebrity, model, and former NMA.tv host Lianne Lin about her arts background and evolving media career (Hey Lianne! How about that Video Interview?).
  • 2014-10-07 — visited the PicCollage office in Taipei to chat with co-founder John Fan about Taiwan’s startup and entrepreneurial scene, including the office’s all-staff hackathon — his tech/entrepreneurship coverage on-site in Taiwan (Inside the Taipei Office of PicCollage).
  • 2015-06-21 — bylined chat with Brooklyn-based singer Treya, a newly sponsored artist, about her personal story and music journey — the founder scouting new artists for the community record (Introducing Treya).
  • 2022-12-05 — on record gathering Taiwanese American foodies, media personalities, and community builders for a “ja ban bae” (呷飽未) tasting menu at Emeryville’s Good to Eat Dumplings (event of December 4), listed in the coverage as “Ho Chie Tsai (TaiwaneseAmerican.org founder, Taiwanese American Foundation president)” alongside co-host Anna Wu and staff member Kristina Lin — his community-convening record in the platform’s later years (Gathering Taiwanese American community at Emeryville’s “Good to Eat”).
  • 2010-02-26 — his own open letter to the community, signed “Ho Chie Tsai, Creator of TaiwaneseAmerican.org,” combining 228 remembrance for the estimated 20,000 lives lost in the February 28 Incident, the launch of the “write in Taiwanese” campaign for the 2010 Census (with TACL, TAP, Leading Youth Forward, and TAF), and the opening-weekend push for the film Formosa Betrayed — his founding-era advocacy record (Remember 228, Celebrate Identity, and Make History!).
  • 2011-10-24 — bylined: he traveled to Seattle to meet up-and-coming comedian Yola Lu, a second-generation Taiwanese American then less than a year into the Seattle stand-up scene — his arts coverage beyond the Bay Area (On Passion & Inspiration with Comedian Yola Lu).
  • 2016-02-18 — with Erica Ling he caught up with actor/writer/producer Kelvin Yu at his Bob’s Burgers home studio, Bento Box Entertainment, for a two-part interview covering his role as Brian Cheng on Netflix’s Master of None and his writing/producing career on Bob’s Burgers, including the 2016 Annie Award win — published under his own byline (Meet Jack of All Trades: Actor, Writer, Producer Kelvin Yu).
  • 2016-05-12 — during Taiwanese American Heritage Week / AAPI Heritage Month he interviewed poet Kenji C. Liu, national winner of the 2015 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize, about Map of an Onion, his Taiwanese–Japanese family history, and where Taiwanese Americans fit in Asian American social-justice organizing — published under his own byline (Intersection of Poetry and Movements: An Interview with Author Kenji Liu).
  • 2019-10-09 — the site’s Double Ten essay by guest contributor Chieh-Ting Yeh cites Ho Chie Tsai’s own earlier piece “100 Years of History Behind ‘Double Ten’ Day of the R.O.C.” for TaiwaneseAmerican.org — his historical writing cited inside the site’s own political conversation (No, Double Ten Is Not “Taiwan’s Independence Day”).
  • 2021-02-09 — the site’s Clubhouse “TAIKANDA” coverage records that he, with editor-in-chief Leona Chen, had joined Clubhouse under the handle @hochie71 — his platform-presence record in the audio-social moment of early 2021 (On Clubhouse, ‘臺kanda’: Taiwan’s Wakanda Fantasies).
  • 2022-05-16 — he contributed a signed statement “From Ho Chie Tsai, founder and director of TaiwaneseAmerican.org” to the site’s coverage of the May 15 shooting at the Irvine/Laguna Woods Taiwanese Presbyterian Church, reflecting that the victims were his parents’ generation and the slain young man essentially his peer — a fellow physician — and explaining the Presbyterian Church’s martial-law-era role as sanctuary for the pro-democracy movement; the site’s grief-and-context record (We grieve the May 15th Shooting at Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church).
  • 2023-01-30 — he met Miss Taiwanese American 2022 Queen Tiffany Chang at the Taiwanese American Federation of Northern California’s annual Lunar New Year Banquet for the site’s profile, the record preserving his quip about the robot she built for the pageant talent portion (“that’s like the most Stanford thing ever”) — his community-ambassador coverage in the platform’s later years (Meet the Miss Taiwanese American 2022 Queen, Tiffany Chang).
  • 2009-07-21 — his behind-the-scenes account of the revival of TACL’s Leadership in Development (LID) camp in southern California, after a five-year hiatus, in a downtown LA planning loft with co-directors Jason Tsai and Brian Tseng; the piece closes with a biographical note that he ran the grade-school “Juniors” program at the Midwest TAF summer conference and the TAC/East Coast kids’ program during the 1990s, memories he calls among his greatest motivations for community-building (The Return of TACL’s Leadership In Development Camp).
  • 2010-03-23 — his own first-person account of the first TaiwaneseAmerican.org national board & staff meeting, held March 26–28 alongside the ITASA Midwest Conference at UT Austin, where the board voted to establish the first bylaws for a new registered non-profit behind the site — which he calls only the second national Taiwanese American non-profit created solely by the second generation since ITASA (1993/1998); he reflects back to 2006, sitting in a Berkeley café, conceiving the “web portal” idea (TaiwaneseAmerican.org Hosts First National Board & Staff Meeting in Austin, TX).
  • 2010-07-25 — on record taking the site’s camera to Preview Night of Comic-Con 2010 in San Diego to interview four Taiwanese American comic-book artists — Jerry Ma, Cliff Chiang, Bernard Chang and Sean Chen — as they prepared for opening day of the largest convention in the Western Hemisphere, his arts coverage extending into comics and pop culture (Taiwanese American Comic Book Artists at Comic-Con 2010).
  • 2010-12-28 — during a Taipei reporting trip he stopped by The Wall to interview Freddy Lim, frontman of the internationally-acclaimed Taiwanese black metal band ChthoniC, about the band’s busy year touring Asia and the UK — the site’s music-and-politics record inside Taipei’s live venue scene (Talking Music & Politics with Freddy Lim).
  • 2012-05-24 — on record catching author Ed Lin during his West Coast book tour at the Eastwind Books of Berkeley booth at San Francisco’s 2012 Asian Heritage Street Celebration, the interview covering Lin’s Robert Chow mystery series and his recent visit to Taipei, with the record preserving Publishers Weekly’s starred review noting the China–Taiwan relationship as the backdrop of One Red Bastard (Streetside Chat with Author Ed Lin).
  • 2012-08-31 — on record interviewing LA-based singer-songwriter Nate Tao, born to deaf parents, after his guest performance at the TAP-LA Annual Banquet & Casino Night, in time with Tao winning the 2012 Kollaboration LA talent competition ahead of the November finale at the Nokia Theater (Singer-songwriter Nate Tao Shares his Language of Love).
  • 2016-06-27 — revisited Jack Hsu, founder of the progressive-rock band Hsu-Nami featuring the electric erhu, about the long-awaited self-titled third album — seven years after “The Four Noble Truths” — including its physical-CD-only Taiwan release on The Chairman’s DGS Records to qualify for the 2016 Taiwan Golden Indie Award, the site’s continuity with a band it had featured years earlier (The Hsu-Nami Storm Back Again with New Album).
  • 2017-06-25 — after his interview with Justine Ker (Miss Louisiana 2016), he posed the question “In the work you do or the role you hold, what does REPRESENTATION in the ASIAN AMERICAN community mean to you?” to the friends gathered — an impromptu roundtable with Ker, Crystal Lee, and Boba Guys co-founders Bin Chen and Andrew Chau, published under his byline as the platform’s community-conversation record on representation (Representation in the Asian American Community: A Roundtable Discussion).
  • 2011-06-16 — on record as interviewer (“TaiwaneseAmerican.org’s Ho Chie Tsai”) with spoken-word poet Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, conducted during the 2011 NATWA National Conference in St. Louis, MO, where she was an invited speaker and performer — his arts coverage inside the Taiwanese American women’s-association conference circuit (Words with Poet Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai).
  • 2012-01-30 — on record (“TaiwaneseAmerican.org’s Ho Chie Tsai takes a look at the work of Julia Kuo”) profiling illustrator Julia Kuo and her “100 Days in Cleveland” project, sketches later collected in a Cleveland travel guidebook — his arts coverage of the second-generation illustration record (Through the Eyes of Illustrator Julia Kuo).
  • 2013-08-23 — his own advice column responding to Lora C., the adoptive mother of 6-year-old Taiwanese American adoptee Allie, who had asked TaiwaneseAmerican.org for help with her daughter’s identity after a classroom exchange-student incident; he spoke with Lora personally, drew on his experience working with Taiwanese American children and teens, and closed the piece on behalf of the staff: “Welcome to our big ol’ Taiwanese American family! –Ho Chie Tsai” — his record as the platform’s identity-formation resource for adoptee families (What Would You Tell Allie, a 6 Year-Old Taiwanese American Adoptee?).
  • Nothing published.

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