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Jean Cheng (鄭如珍)

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Jean Cheng (鄭如珍)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Jean Cheng
  • Chinese: 鄭如珍
  • Era: Birth Place
  • Geography: Boston, MA
  • Core roles: entrepreneur
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • Brown Univ. — B.A.
  • San Francisco State Univ. — M.F.A.

Employment

  • Sweet Potato Productions — Director, Producer — 2.

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Role in the Community

  • Filmmaker: second-generation Taiwanese American, born in Boston, MA and raised in Portland, OR (consistent with the Boston geography on the TAH profile).

  • First film 「Across a Paper Ocean」 (1993, award-winning) screened at festivals across the US and broadcast on public television; 「Han Chee (Sweet Potato)」 (1998, 30 min) was her M.F.A. thesis film at San Francisco State.

  • Worked ~7 years with California Newsreel on 「RACE – The Power of an Illusion」「What’s Race Got to Do with It?」 and the companion site for the PBS series 「Unnatural Causes」 (launched Winter 2008).

  • Donor to UCSD Taiwan Studies Program: listed among year-end 2022 donors (“Bob and Jean Cheng”).

  • Corpus records: TAH film record: Han Chee (Sweet Potato) · 2022 · [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/283-jean-cheng-e9-84-ad-e5-a6-82-e7-8f-8d201502|TAH Who’s Who encyclopedia entry #283]] (bio text matches existing section; no new facts)

  • Re-verified 2026-09-24 (deepen-x slice 09230317-27): fresh grep (鄭如珍 / Jean Cheng) returns only the three records linked above plus the works index — verified-saturated, no new material.

  • Re-verified 2026-09-25 (deepen-x slice 09240317-32): fresh grep (鄭如珍 / Jean Cheng) returns only the three records linked above plus the works index; bio text in #283 matches the existing section verbatim — SKIP, verified-saturated.

  • Re-verified 2026-09-25 (deepen-x slice 09250800-31): fresh grep (鄭如珍 / Jean Cheng) returns only #283, the film record, the UCSD 2022-12 donor note, and the works index — SKIP, verified-saturated.

  • Re-verified 2026-10-01 (deepen-x slice 09260900-16): fresh full-corpus grep (鄭如珍 / Jean Cheng) over works/ + articles/ again returns only the three records linked above plus the works index — SKIP, verified-saturated. No new community/corpus material since 2026-09-25.

  • Re-verified 2026-10-06 (deepen-x slice 10051143-12): fresh ZH+EN grep (鄭如珍 / Jean Cheng) across works/ + articles/ + sources/ + events/ + topics/ returns only #283, the film record, the UCSD 2022-12 donor note, and the works/sources index — SKIP, verified-saturated. No new material.

  • Re-verified 2026-10-07 (deepen-x slice 10060911-2): fresh ZH+EN grep (鄭如珍 / Jean Cheng) across works/ + articles/ + sources/ + events/ + topics/ returns only #283, the film record, the UCSD 2022-12 donor note, and the works/sources index — SKIP, verified-saturated. No new material.

Timeline

  • 1993 — First film「Across a Paper Ocean」premiered on the US festival circuit
  • 1998 — M.F.A. thesis film「Han Chee (Sweet Potato)」(San Francisco State Univ.)
  • 2008 (Winter) — PBS series 「Unnatural Causes」 and companion website launched (California Newsreel)
  • 2022-12 — Acknowledged as a donor (with Bob Cheng) to UCSD Taiwan Studies Center

Sources

Corpus re-grep 2026-10-08 (slice 10060911-2, run 3): fresh ZH+EN grep (鄭如珍 / Jean Cheng) across works/ + articles/ + sources/ + events/ + topics/ — hit set identical (#283, film record, UCSD 2022-12 donor note in our-journeys-384, sources index); verified-saturated, SKIP, no new absorbable material.

Corpus re-grep 2026-10-09 (slice 10080400-25): fresh ZH+EN grep (鄭如珍 / Jean Cheng / 如珍) across works/ + articles/ + sources/ + events/ + topics/ — hit set identical (#283, film record, UCSD 2022-12 donor note in our-journeys-384, ourjourneys210 related-people link, works/sources index); the 如珍 hits in a 2026-01 taiwanjustice bubble-tea article and the 蕭如珍 prisoner mention are false positives (different persons/words), not Jean Cheng. Verified-saturated, SKIP, no new absorbable material.

Corpus re-grep 2026-10-10 (slice 10091316-11): fresh ZH+EN grep (鄭如珍 / Jean Cheng / 如珍 / Cheng) across works/ + articles/ + sources/ + events/ + topics/ — hit set identical (#283, film record, UCSD 2022-12 donor note in our-journeys-384, ourjourneys210 related-people link, works/sources index); 如珍 bubble-tea article and 蕭如珍 prisoner mention remain false positives, and ourjourneys305 “Jean Chen” / “Cheng Huang” hits are different persons. Verified-saturated, SKIP, no new absorbable material.

Corpus re-grep 2026-10-11 (slice 10101400-10): fresh ZH+EN grep (鄭如珍 / Jean Cheng / 如珍) across works/ + articles/ + sources/ + events/ + topics/ — hit set identical (#283, film record, UCSD 2022-12 donor note in our-journeys-384, ourjourneys210 related-people link, works/sources index; bubble-tea 如珍 article a false positive). Verified-saturated, SKIP, no new absorbable material.

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