Lekki Chua (蔡烈輝)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Lekki Chua
  • Chinese: 蔡烈輝
  • Era: 1936
  • Geography: Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • Core roles: entrepreneur, artist
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. Renowned Photographer: the Photographer for Special Photographic Collections of Greatest Golfer Jack Nicklaus

Education

  • Tokyo Chiyoda Photo College(日本東京千代田寫真專門學院) — 1970 — B.A. Commercial Photography

Employment

  • Studio Misa — Manager and Photographer — (1970-1999) — Community — Hu-Tu Art Association (糊塗畫會) — Co-Founder

Family

  • Wife: Mei Tsao Lin (林美棗)
  • Son: Wuyi Chua (蔡吾一)

Sources

Role in the Community

  • Community-record profile: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-lekki-chua|TAH Who’s Who #485]] (record dated 2015-07-11); a second directory profile 246. Lekki Chua 蔡烈輝 is dated 2019-02-09.
  • 傳記, 2014-11-03 — his own account of the life shared with wife 林美棗.
  • 2019 — retrospective at age 82, consistent with the 1936 birth year on this page.
  • Memoir essays authored by Chua in the story corpus: 2019, 2019, 2019.
  • Self-portrait essay in his own hand: 2015-07-21.
  • 2014-09-05 — his first-hand account of a protracted struggle with the Veterans Affairs system, adding a civic-advocacy dimension to the photographer story.
  • 2018-12-22 — the community record of his personal collection, documenting him as a collector as well as photographer/painter.
  • Movement-side artwork: 2014-12-07 — his art in service of the UN-for-Taiwan campaign.
  • 2018 — a second movement-side artwork by him in the corpus.
  • His own short biography in his hand: 2018; pioneer memoir 「9. 我的西部開拓史」.
  • 2012 — a 2012 notice of his literary writing, alongside the photographer/painter record.
  • Artist directory record as corpus page: 2015-07.
  • Cited in the physician-community overview 黃哲陽’s 2017-05-19, whose reading list includes his own 傳記《攜手走過來時路》 — evidence his memoir circulated in the Taiwanese-American medical community.

複核(deepen-x slice 09212352-1, 2026-09-22):corpus re-grep 命中 my-stories-691/675/706、33-lekki-now-then、publications254、whos-who-lekki-chua 等皆已連結 — SKIP-with-reason:語料已飽和。 複核(deepen-x slice 09221000-1, 2026-09-23):fresh ZH+EN re-grep 命中集 18 檔(my-stories-691/675/706、33-lekki-now-then、publications254/1258、whos-who-lekki-chua、ota-246、artist51、mystories9/45/310/663、collection-of-mr-lekki-chua、footsteps-15、ourfootstapes-24、ourjourneys291、index)— 全部已連結於上方 — SKIP-with-reason:語料飽和再確認,無新社群語料。 複核(deepen-x slice 10080958-18, 2026-10-09):fresh ZH+EN re-grep(蔡烈輝|Lekki Chua|Liehue Chua|蔡吾一|林美棗)命中 17 檔 works + sources/index — 與前兩輪命中集相同,全部已以 wikilink 收錄於 Role in the Community — SKIP-with-reason:語料飽和,無新語料可吸收。 複核(deepen-x slice 10100400-26, 2026-10-10):fresh ZH+EN re-grep(蔡烈輝|Lekki Chua|Liehue Chua|蔡吾一|林美棗)命中 17 works + sources/index — 與歷輪命中集相同,全部已以 wikilink 收錄於 Role in the Community — SKIP-with-reason:語料飽和,無新語料可吸收。 複核(deepen-x slice 10120316-4, 2026-10-12):fresh ZH+EN re-grep(蔡烈輝|Lekki Chua|Liehue Chua|蔡吾一|林美棗|蔡烈辉)命中 17 works + sources/index — 與歷輪命中集完全相同,全部已以 wikilink 收錄於 Role in the Community — SKIP-with-reason:語料飽和,無新語料可吸收。

複核(deepen-x slice 10121400-31, 2026-10-13):fresh ZH+EN re-grep(蔡烈輝|Lekki Chua|Liehue Chua|蔡吾一|林美棗|蔡烈辉)命中 17 works + sources/index — 與歷輪命中集完全相同,全部已以 wikilink 收錄於 Role in the Community — SKIP-with-reason:語料飽和,無新語料可吸收。