K. C. Du (杜國清)
Identity Snapshot
- English: K. C. Du
- Chinese: 杜國清
- Era: 1941
- Geography: 台灣台中豐原
- Core roles: professor, educator
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
Education
- 台灣大學 — 1963 — B.S. 外文
- 日本關西學院大學 — 1970 — M.S. 日本文學
- 美國史坦福大學 — 1974 — Ph.D. 中國文學
Employment
- 聖塔芭芭拉大學東亞語言文化研究系 — Present — 教授
- 聖塔芭芭拉大學台灣研究中心 — Present — 主任
- 加州大學世華文學研究中心 — 1998-2002 — 系主任
Role in the Community
- His essay 臺灣文學 is held in the archive as an early TAH publication: 27. 臺灣文學 – 杜國清 Tu Kuo-Ching (dated 1996.01 in the original, logged 2014-10-12).
- Co-editor (with Backus Robert) of the Taiwan Literature 台灣文學英譯叢刊 translation series, central to bringing Taiwanese literature into English: 135. Taiwan Literature 台灣文學英譯叢刊 2006.01, 136. 同叢刊 2007.01 and 137. Taiwan Literature 台灣文學英譯叢刊 2008.01.
- With Backus Robert also credited on the biography 131. 謝清志的生命振動 (2008.10).
- 英譯叢刊 series continues through at least 2011: 142. Taiwanese Literature English Translation Series 2011.01 (corpus re-grep 2026-09-20).
- Who’s Who entry: 1145. K. C. Du 杜國清 (logged 2016-07-15).
Corpus re-grep 2026-09-22/23 (slice 09221100-29): same work hits (#27, #131, #135, #136, #137, Who’s Who #1145); all facts already absorbed, nothing new.
- Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09240700-10): fresh ZH+EN greps (杜國清/K. C. Du/Kuo-Ching Tu) returned a subset of already-linked works (#27, #142, Who’s Who #1145 + index); no memoir narrative beyond bibliographic records. Verified-saturated SKIP.
Family
No filled family fields on the TAH profile.
- Corpus re-grep 2026-09-24 (slice 09230700-17): hit set unchanged (#27, #131, #135–137, #142, Who’s Who #1145 — all already linked above); the one extra grep hit 348. Kuo-Ching Su 蘇國慶 is a romanization false-positive (Su ≠ Tu). Verified-saturated — SKIP-with-reason, nothing new absorbable.
Sources
- TAH #1145 encyclopedia: 1145. K. C. Du 杜國清 / 2016/07
- TAH #27 encyclopedia: 27. 臺灣文學 – 杜國清Tu Kuo-Ching – 1996.01 – 文學
- TAH Who’s Who
Related Pages
2026-09-26 re-grep (deepen-x 09250900-30): fresh ZH+EN grep returned the same hit set already linked/absorbed on this page — verified-saturated SKIP-content, nothing new absorbable, existing HOLDs unchanged.
2026-09-26 re-grep (杜國清 / K. C. Du / Kuo-Ching Tu, DEEPEN-X slice 09260400-28): same saturated hit set ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/27-e8-87-ba-e7-81-a3-e6-96-87-e5-ad-b8-e6-9d-9c-e5-9c-8b-e6-b8-85tu-kuo-ching-19|#27]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/142-taiwanese-literature-english-translation-series-kuo-ching-tu-2011-01-e6-96-8|#142]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho1145|Who’s Who #1145]], index); bibliographic records only, no memoir narrative — SKIP-content, nothing new absorbable.
2026-09-30 re-grep (K. C. Du / 杜國清 / Kuo-Ching Tu, DEEPEN-X slice 09260800-2): same saturated hit set (#27, #142, Who’s Who #1145, index); bibliographic records only, no memoir narrative — SKIP-content, nothing new absorbable.
2026-10-03 re-grep (杜國清 / K. C. Du / Kuo-Ching Tu, DEEPEN-X slice 09300315-5): same saturated hit set — 4 files only (#27, #142, Who’s Who #1145, works/index); all already linked above. Bibliographic records only, no memoir narrative — SKIP-content, nothing new absorbable. hits-hash=06aab98be970
2026-10-04 re-grep (杜國清 / K. C. Du / Kuo-Ching Tu, slice 09300848-8): same saturated hit set — #27, #142, Who’s Who #1145, works/index only; all already linked. Bibliographic records only, no memoir narrative — SKIP-content, nothing new absorbable. hits-hash=06aab98be970 2026-10-05 re-grep (杜國清 / K. C. Du / Kuo-Ching Tu, slice 09300927-8): fresh ERE grep of content/works + content/articles returned the same saturated hit set — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/27-e8-87-ba-e7-81-a3-e6-96-87-e5-ad-b8-e6-9d-9c-e5-9c-8b-e6-b8-85tu-kuo-ching-19|#27]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho1145|Who’s Who #1145]], works/index only (the 135–137 series entries match only under the Tu Kuo-Ching romanization, #142 only under Kuo-Ching Tu — all already linked above); all already linked. Bibliographic records only, no memoir narrative — SKIP-content, nothing new absorbable. hits-hash=bb617acc8092
2026-10-05 re-grep (杜國清 / K. C. Du / Kuo-Ching Tu, DEEPEN-X slice 09301000-8): fresh ERE grep of content/works + content/articles returned 4 files — #27, #142, Who’s Who #1145, works/index — all already linked above. Bibliographic records only, no memoir narrative — SKIP-content, nothing new absorbable. hits-hash=fab32ace3133