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J. Y. Tsai (蔡金裕)

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J. Y. Tsai (蔡金裕)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: J. Y. Tsai
  • Chinese: 蔡金裕
  • Era: 1931-2018
  • Geography: Nantou, Taiwan
  • Core roles: entrepreneur
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. Founded Taiwan Hotel & Motel Association of Southern California (創立南加州台灣旅舘同業公會), 1973

Education

  • Taichung Agricultural College (台中農學院) — B.A., Agricultural Economy
  • Ohio State Univ. — M.A., Agricultural Economy

Employment

  • Self-Employed (Motel) — Owner — Community — Taiwan Hotel & Motel Association of Southern California — Founding President

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Role in the Community

  • Founding of the Taiwan Hotel & Motel Association of Southern California (taiwan-hotel-motel-association-of-southern-california): per the association’s 30th-anniversary memoir (2005) preserved in the corpus, the founding meeting was held 1974-08-17 at the Los Angeles Taiwanese Presbyterian Church, prompted by Rev. 許錦鉻 and brokered by 陳銓仁; ~30–40 (aspiring) hoteliers attended and elected the experienced motel operator 蔡金裕 as convening chair of the meeting — the first commercial professional guild of Taiwanese Americans in the US (Our Journeys 295).

  • Portrait record: 2017) — “pioneer of the Taiwanese hotel business”.

  • Directory record: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-2061-j-y-tsai|TAH #2061]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ff262|TAH #262: 蔡金裕 / 南加州台灣旅館業同業公會創會會長 / 1974]].

  • HOLD: founding year conflict — page’s accomplishment line says 1973; corpus records #262 and the 30th-anniversary memoir both say 1974-08-17. Not auto-merged.

  • Re-verified 2026-09-21: corpus re-grep returns only #2061, #262, mystories552, ourjourneys295 already linked above; the 1974-08-17 founding account is unchanged. SKIP: verified-saturated (HOLD 1973 vs 1974 stands).

  • Re-verified 2026-09-22 (slice 09211400-24): hit set unchanged (same four works + works index). SKIP: verified-saturated; HOLD 1973 vs 1974 stands.

  • Re-verified 2026-09-23 (slice 09220900-21): hit set unchanged (whos-who-2061, mystories552, ourjourneys295, ff262). SKIP: verified-saturated; HOLD 1973 vs 1974 stands.

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation

  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org

  • Re-verified 2026-09-24 (slice 09230400-19): hit set unchanged (whos-who-2061, mystories552, ourjourneys295, ff262). SKIP: verified-saturated; HOLD 1973 vs 1974 stands.

  • Re-verified 2026-09-25 (slice 09240400-8): fresh grep 蔡金裕/J. Y. Tsai over content/works + content/articles — hit set unchanged (whos-who-2061, mystories552, ourjourneys295, ff262). SKIP: verified-saturated; HOLD 1973 vs 1974 stands.

  • Re-verified 2026-09-25 (slice 09250800-17): fresh ZH+EN grep hit set unchanged (whos-who-2061, mystories552, ourjourneys295, ff262). SKIP: verified-saturated; HOLD 1973 vs 1974 stands.

  • Corpus re-grep (deepen-x slice 09260500-26, 2026-09-26): fresh ZH+EN grep hit set unchanged — all hits already wikilinked and absorbed above. SKIP: verified-saturated.

  • Corpus re-grep (deepen-x slice 09270315-4, 2026-10-02): fresh ZH+EN grep over content/works + content/articles — hit set unchanged (whos-who-2061, mystories552, ourjourneys295, ff262, works index), all already wikilinked/absorbed above. SKIP: verified-saturated; HOLD 1973 vs 1974 stands. hits-hash=1835c2f134e8

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