Julie Wu (吳茗秀醫師)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Julie Wu
  • Chinese: 吳茗秀醫師
  • Era: 1968
  • Geography: Boston, MA
  • Core roles: physician
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • Harvard Univ. — B.A., literature
  • Columbia Univ. College of Physicians and Surgeons — MD

Role in the Community

  • Physician-author: wrote the novel The Third Son (2013), recorded in the TAH encyclopedia as Literature. Her own TAH profile entry is 01.

  • Presented The Third Son at Harvard: Julie Wu Presents “The Third Son” Novel at Harvard, and spoke on the novel in a 2014-08 TA.org program: Taiwanese American Author Julie Wu Speaks on “The Third Son” Novel.

  • Featured at a FAPA NorCal summer potluck: FAPA Summer Potluck Featuring Author Julie Wu in NorCal (2014-08).

  • Celebrated in TA.org’s interview with Michelle Kuo as a TA who pivoted from a prestigious technical/medical path onto a creative one: Interview with Michelle Kuo (named alongside Jeremy Lin, Alan Yang, Vienna Teng).

  • Corpus re-check 2026-09-22 (deepen-x slice 28): the remaining Julie Wu hits in content/works are duplicate harvest variants of the Harvard-presentation and 2014-08 talk records already linked above (...-at-harvard-2, ...-speaks-on-the-third-son-novel-2); no new memoir/articles material.

  • Cited in Joyce Bergvelt’s interview as one of the historical novels that created awareness of the White Terror “dark period… long kept hidden from the outside world,” alongside Shawna Yang Ryan’s Green Island and Vern Schneider’s A Pail of Oysters: Interview with Joyce Bergvelt, Lord of Formosa.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-23 (slice 09221500-16): hits = index, Michelle Kuo interview (absorbed above), Bergvelt interview (absorbed this pass). Saturated.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09231000-7): hits = index, own entries 235/511, Michelle Kuo interview, Harvard presentation (+dup -2 variant) — all already linked/absorbed above; saturated, no new absorbable facts.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09250317-8): identical hit set (235, 511, index, Michelle Kuo interview, Harvard presentation +dup); saturated, SKIP-no-new-facts.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-26 (slice 09251500-2): identical hit set (235, 511, index, Michelle Kuo interview, Harvard presentation +dup variant); all already linked/absorbed; saturated, SKIP-no-new-facts.

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation

  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-27 (slice 09260600-20): identical hit set (235, 511, index, Michelle Kuo interview, Harvard presentation +dup-2 variant); all already linked/absorbed; saturated, SKIP-no-new-facts.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-03 (slice 09270700-12): identical hit set (235, 511, index, Michelle Kuo interview, Harvard presentation +dup-2 variant, FAPA potluck, Bergvelt interview); all already linked/absorbed; saturated, SKIP-no-new-facts. hits-hash=c2e175aa6f25