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Jeff Yang (楊致和)

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Jeff Yang (楊致和)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Jeff Yang
  • Chinese: 楊致和
  • Era: 1968
  • Geography: New York
  • Core roles: journalist
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. The 35th Ten Outstanding Young People of the International Youth Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of China (國際青年商會中華民國總會第35屆十大傑出青年) 1997

Education

  • Harvard Univ. — B.A., Psychology, English & American Literature

Employment

  • San Francisco Chronicle — “Asian Pop” Columnist — The Wall Street Journal — “Tao Jones” Columnist — A Magazine — Publisher — (1989-)

Role in the Community

  • Founder/publisher of A Magazine (1989–), a landmark Asian American media venture; profiled in the community memoir 2019.
  • In Michelle Young’s memoir, Jeff Yang is her cousin; she began her journalism career interning at A Magazine at his office (Michelle Young — The Art Spy).
  • Interviewed among Taiwanese American / Asian American artists on stereotypes and racism for the 2009 Taiwanese American Foundation Summer Conference (APA Artists on Overcoming Racism & Stereotypes).
  • Father of Hudson Yang; father and son were profiled together during Hudson’s childhood TV work in San Francisco (Hudson Yang).
  • Held in the community record as one of the “godfathers” of Asian America: the Hudson Yang profile describes him as well-known within the Asian American community as the Wall Street Journal “Tao Jones” columnist (Hudson Yang).
  • His own TAH Who’s Who entry is held in the corpus as 2266. Jeff Yang 楊致和 (published 2020-05-04).
  • 2025 — Still active in the Taiwanese American literary circle: gave a Zoom talk with cousin Michelle Young for the Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance, and appears in her memoir’s group photo of Taiwanese American writers/Harvard alumni at the AWP 2025 dinner (Michelle Young — The Art Spy).
  • Cited as a reference point for Taiwanese American visibility in U.S. press in the TAHS community blog: the post notes his WSJ column on Asian Americans marrying other Asian Americans more often, attributing the trend to shared cultural ground and a better image of Asians in the media (To Date or Not to Date).
  • Corpus re-check 2026-09-24 (deepen-x slice 09230700-11): fresh ‘Jeff Yang’ / 楊致和 greps — the new hit to-date-or-not-to-date yielded the WSJ-marriage-column citation above, now absorbed; remaining hits are the previously linked work pages plus harvest index.

Family

  • Son: Hudson, Skyler
  • Father: 楊彰興

Sources

Worklog

  • 2026-09-26 (deepen-x slice 09251000-15): fresh ZH+EN re-grep — hits unchanged (my-stories-694, whos-who-2266, michelle-young-the-art-spy, hudson-yang, apa-artists, to-date-or-not-to-date, index), all already linked and absorbed in Role in the Community. SKIP-content: verified-saturated.
  • 2026-09-26 (deepen-x slice 09260500-11): fresh ZH+EN re-grep — hits unchanged (my-stories-694, whos-who-2266, michelle-young-the-art-spy, hudson-yang, apa-artists, index), all already linked and absorbed. SKIP-content: verified-saturated.

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