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Kang-Lu Wang (王康陸博士)

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Kang-Lu Wang (王康陸博士)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Kang-Lu Wang
  • Chinese: 王康陸博士
  • Era: 1941
  • Geography: 中國北京
  • Core roles: entrepreneur, scientist
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • 台中農學院 — 1958 — B. S. 園藝系
  • 堪薩斯州大學 — 1967 — M.S. 植物生理
  • 堪薩斯州大學 — 1971 — Ph.D. 植物生理
  • NYU Computer Institute — 1972

Employment

  • 味全食品公司 — 1963
  • AT&T — 1974
  • NYNex Corp. — 1974-1991

Family

  • Wife: 鄞美珠,Martha Wang
  • Son: 王寧文Alvin Wang

Role in the Community

  • TAA founding chapter president (Manhattan). The English TAA founding record lists the 28 founding chapters and their presidents; Kang Lu Wang was president of the Manhattan chapter at the founding of the Taiwanese Association of America — Mu-Sheng Wu.
  • 台獨聯盟秘书长; farewell 2018. Community record of his 秘書長告别式及骨灰佈撒行程 (陳宏達, 2018) — 334. 故王康陸秘書長告別式及骨灰佈撒行程記事. Community remembrance 台美人沒有忘記王康陸 (陳如媜, 2017) — 302. 台美人沒有忘記王康陸. Memorial photo album «In memory of Dr. Kang-Lu Wang 王康陸博士生命禮讚» (2014) — 26. In memory of Dr. Kang-Lu Wang.
  • 1992 fishing-boat return to Taiwan. 陳榮芳’s memoir: autumn 1992 the two flew via Hong Kong, wrote wills with a lawyer, evaded China Airlines staff spotted at their hotel, and crossed by fishing boat to attend the 臺灣獨立聯盟臺灣本部成立大會 (1992-10-18, 海霸王餐廳, 中山北路, 臺北); Wang was badly seasick on the two-day crossing — 陳榮芳.
  • 《台灣公論報》 editorial stance. In the 張月英 oral history of the paper’s founding, when 洪哲勝 replied to critics under the «本報» name, 王康陸 objected («這個不要登») — evidence of his stance on editorial accountability — 口述:張月英.
  • 複核（deepen-x slice 09201400-6，2026-09-21）：re-grep 王康陸 / Kang-Lu Wang 命中集不變（#76-eng、#302、#315、#334、#49、album-26）— 全數已吸收於上列條目，saturated，SKIP，無新社群材料可吸收。
  • 1974 Toronto softball team. Roger Liu’s memoir of the 1974 多倫多壘球賽 lists 王康陸 as a team pitcher (領隊劉怡明、教練董明欽、捕手黃一乗); the roster blurb already describes him as 前台灣獨立聯盟祕書長 — Roger Liu — an early community record predating his TAA/聯盟 leadership roles.
  • Memorial record set. Official memorial volume 永遠的台獨運動者 – 王康陸博士悼念文集 (台灣獨立建國聯盟) — 287. 永遠的台獨運動者; his TAH biographical entry — 63. Kang-Lu Wang 王康陸; and the 3. Dr. Kang-Lu Wang Memorial Foundation 王康陸博士紀念基金會 record page (the foundation chaired by his brother 王康厚, see From the record below). A further mention appears in 張炎憲, where the memoir’s subject later served as 王康陸基金會會長.
  • 複核（deepen-x slice-09211300-6，2026-09-22）：re-grep 命中集不變（album-26、#302、#334、#49、#76-eng、#315）— 全數已吸收，saturated，SKIP-no-new-material。
  • 複核（deepen-x slice-09221500-3，2026-09-23）：re-grep 命中集新增 #349、#287、#63、紀念基金會頁、ourjourneys33（皆已於上列吸收）、ourjourneys76 中文版（與 76-eng 同一記錄）— 其餘命中集不變，saturated。
  • HOLD: death circumstances — corpus record «Dr. Kang Lu Wang was died in a car accident in Taiwan on 10/12/1993 王康陸博士於台灣台北車禍身亡» — car-accident record — gives accident date 1993-10-12, consistent with the TAH #54 «died in a car accident / 1993» entry; the 2018/06 farewell-and-ash-scattering record (#334) and the 2014 memorial album (album-26) postdate it and are kept as separate events. Accident year confirmed; scattering/farewell timing not merged.
  • 1985 「四腳仔」 libel trial — lead strategist. 陳正修’s oral history of the 台灣公論報 years: in the Virginia suit (1985) Wang was the 靈魂人物 who coordinated strategy with Ramsey Clark (former U.S. Attorney General), personally translating all 公論報 articles touching the term 「四腳仔」 into English so the jury would not be misled by distorted translations; Clark later invited him to join his firm — 陳正修.
  • Archival collections. His own holdings are preserved as records: 18. Collection of Dr. Kang Lu Wang 王康陸博士的收藏 — collection — and 65. VHS collected by Dr. Kang Lu Wang — VHS collection.
  • 複核（deepen-x slice 10100400-32, 2026-10-10）: re-grep 王康陸/Kang-Lu Wang/Kang Lu Wang across all 5 corpus dirs returned 36 hits; all prior hits already absorbed; new material absorbed above (ourjourneys63 libel-trial role, 1993-10-12 accident record, collections 65). ourjourneys356-eng and whos-who-1787 (王康隆, different person) checked — no new facts.
  • 複核（deepen-x slice 10120316-10, 2026-10-12）: re-grep 王康陸/Kang-Lu Wang/Kang Lu Wang across all 5 corpus dirs returned 36 hits (29 works records + 3 TJJ articles + index/manifest/source pages); every narrative hit already absorbed above — saturated, SKIP-no-new-material. 王康隆 (whos-who-1787) re-checked: different person, excluded.
  • 複核（deepen-x slice 10110100-5, 2026-10-12）: re-grep 王康陸/Kang-Lu Wang/Kang Lu Wang across all 5 corpus dirs returned 35 hits; all narrative hits already absorbed above. The two TAH encyclopedia records previously carried only as external Source links are now absorbed as work records: 54. Dr. Kang Lu Wang 王康陸博士 (A Taiwan independence fighter, died in a car accident in Taiwan / 1993; record dated 2015-12-04) — 54. Dr. Kang Lu Wang 王康陸博士 — and 589. 台灣獨立運動鬥士－－王康陸博士 (林茗顯, 2017-10-10) — 589. 台灣獨立運動鬥士——王康陸博士; both are bibliographic records (full text in vault), consistent with the existing 1993-10-12 accident date — no new facts, no conflicts.
  • Kansas years — 台灣同學會會長. 王泰和’s 2025 memoir recalls arriving at the University of Kansas and being sent to the home of 王康陸, then president of the campus 台灣同學會 — 化作千風 — 懷念台美人的人權鬥士王泰和. A companion memoir of the 1968 league decision to move its headquarters from Philadelphia to New York lists 王康陸 among the主力幹部 (張燦鍙、羅福全、蔡同榮、洪哲勝 etc.) who reported to the NY headquarters after completing their studies — 234. 台獨聯盟紐約總部.
  • 1968 UFAI sales roster (Manhattan). The Manhattan/Kansas UFAI sales report records 王康陸 among the 18 named volunteers who sold 1,158 volumes through 1968-03-08, alongside his wife 鄞美珠 — ourjourneys58.
  • 1991 blacklist return and arrest. The 黑名單返鄉 record lists 王康陸 among those who “翻牆” home in the 1988–1991 wave, and in October 1991 he was arrested and detained on Taiwan along with 陳婉真、林永生、賴貫一、江蓋世 and other 台建/聯盟 cadres after returning from overseas — ourjourneys230. HOLD: ourjourneys230 places his post-return arrest in October 1991, while 315 records the 1992-10 fishing-boat crossing for the 臺灣獨立聯盟臺灣本部成立大會 — both records kept, dates not merged.
  • Co-author, 《展現民力 — 非暴力的理論與實踐》. Co-authored with 江蓋世 (1991/10, 政治) — 299. 展現民力 — 非暴力的理論與實踐.
  • Commemoration after his death. The 27. 王康陸人權獎 is named for him; the award was presented at the 2017-12-09 全美台灣人權協會 annual meeting in San Diego (with the 鄭南榕紀念獎) to 鄭文龍、王泰和、黃根深 — TJJ 2017-11-29. The 王康陸紀念文教基金會 published the 1995 memorial volume 王康陸博士紀念文集 — 8. 王康陸博士紀念文集 — and the foundation issued its 王康陸博士紀念基金會獎學金頒發手册 (2015/11) — 931. 獎學金頒發手册. The 美東台灣人夏令會 has held a 「王康陸博士紀念音樂會」 — Ithaca NY 2005-07-02 and West Chester PA 2017-07-02 — 23. 王康陸博士紀念音樂會; the 2017 concert included a live call-in from 正晶限時批 — ourjourneys153. The 王康陸基金會 (WANG Foundation) appears in the New Jersey community-organizations list — ourjourneys356.
  • 複核（deepen-x slice 10121500-8, 2026-10-13）: re-grep 王康陸/Kang-Lu Wang/Kang Lu Wang across all 5 corpus dirs returned 35 hits (29 works records + 3 TJJ articles + index/manifest/source pages); every narrative hit already absorbed above — saturated, SKIP-no-new-material. The 28-chapter founding roster in ourjourneys76 中文版 re-confirmed as the same record as 76-eng (Manhattan 會長 王康陸), no new facts.

From the record

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09260400-19, 2026-09-26）：本 slice 文章 53455d7e（挺港聯合聲明, 2024-02-21 快照, 2019-09-04 發布）正文再驗證——subject 連結為真實提及（正文中英雙語署名清單逐一對照），無錯鏈、無虛鏈；含該文 wikilink 的 2019-09-03 日期事實已在庫 — SKIP，已飽和。

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09240400-2, 2026-09-25）：本 slice 文章 53455d7e（挺港聯合聲明, 2024-02-21 快照, 2019-09-04 發布）正文再驗證——本會為其弟王康厚任會長之王康陸紀念基金會連署事實確認見於正文署名清單，連結為真，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；2019-09-03 條目已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09162345-18, 2026-09-24）：本 slice 文章 挺港聯合聲明 53455d7e 正文再驗證——subject 連結為真實提及，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；對應日期事實（含該文 wikilink）已在庫 — SKIP，已飽和。

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09171200-4, 2026-09-24）：本 slice 四篇 TJJ 文章（台美人台加人索引 6f2b431c、NATMA 標籤頁 08b82976、挺港聯合聲明 53455d7e、台美人分類頁 1a2bdc08）正文再驗證——subject 連結為真實提及，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；對應日期事實（含該文 wikilink）已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09170400-12, 2026-09-23）：本 slice TJJ 文章正文再驗證——subject 連結與本條目所載日期事實相符，無錯鏈、無虛鏈，無新材料— SKIP，已飽和。

  • 2019-09-03 — The 王康陸紀念基金會 (Kang-Lu Wang Memorial Foundation), named for him and chaired by his brother 王康厚, was a signatory of the overseas Taiwanese organizations’ joint statement 「拒一國兩制！海外台灣人社團：支持香港反對中國暴政」 (TJJ record, 2024-02-21 archive of the 2019-09-04 posting).

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09221500-6, 2026-09-24）：本 slice 四篇（台美人台加人p354 6f2b431c、NATMA標籤頁 08b82976、拒一國兩制聯合聲明 53455d7e、台美人category p3 1a2bdc08）正文再驗證 — 本頁條目確認見於正文，連結為真；日期事實已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • 複核（deepen-x slice-09220700-4, 2026-09-22）：re-grep 王康陸|Kang-Lu Wang 命中集不變（album-26、#302、#334、#49、#76-eng、#315）— 全數已吸收於上列條目，saturated，SKIP-no-new-material。
  • 覆核（TJJ-A09300400-22, 2026-10-04）：本 slice 四篇快照頁 53455d7e（挺港聯合聲明, 2024-02-21 快照）、c9dd9fb7（Covid-19 浩劫餘生錄, 2021-11-29 快照）、9a66943e（台美人台加人 p353, 2024-04-21 快照）、2ac7d756（鄉情與文化 p3, 2020-06-28 快照）正文再驗證——subject 連結為真實提及（署名清單／專欄標題逐一對照），無錯鏈、無虛鏈；含該文 wikilink 的日期事實條目已在庫 — SKIP，已飽和。

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