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Martin Tsai (蔡明峰)

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Martin Tsai (蔡明峰)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Martin Tsai
  • Chinese: 蔡明峰
  • Era: —
  • Geography: Taiwan
  • Core roles: engineer, entrepreneur, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
  1. President of The Greater New York Region Overseas Taiwanese Pen Club (大紐約區海外台灣人筆會會長) 2018

Employment

  • Tai Development Co. — President — Feng Chia Univ. — Associate Professor — Yamatake Honeywell — Chemical Engineer — Community — WWW.TAIWANUS.NET (台灣海外網) — Founder — The Greater New York Region Overseas Taiwanese Pen Club (大紐約區海外台灣人筆會) — President — New York Taiwan Center (紐約台灣會館) — Director General — Taiwanese Association of America / Northern New Jersey Chapter (北紐澤西同鄉會) — President — Taiwanese Association of America / Greater New York Chapter (大紐約區台灣同鄉會) — President

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Sources

Vault Cross-References (deepen 2026-09-14, vault-sourced)

Role in the Community (absorbed from corpus, 2026-09-14)

Corpus re-sweep (slice 09141500-1, 2026-09-14)

  • Full re-grep of content/works + content/articles returns the same six corpus records already absorbed above (Our Journeys 9 / 9-eng, 12, 30 / 30-eng, 316) — no new memoir material beyond the NY Taiwan Center founding, fundraising-group, elder-care-governance, Pen Club and Seattle-visit facts already recorded. Nothing further absorbable; no conflicts found.
  • NY Taiwan Center founding cadre (1983): as president of the Taiwanese American Association of New York, Martin Tsai pledged at a Taiwan Day event to fight for an overseas Taiwanese meeting place — the memoirist’s first encounter with the “Taiwan Center” idea (|Our Journeys 9, English edition). At the founding Executive Committee meeting of 1983-11-23 in Dr. Hong-Tien Lai’s office he was elected Deputy Chairman (with Cheng-Bin Ku) under Chairman Lung-Fong Chen, and took charge of the fundraising group, against a plan to raise US$500,000 in six months (same record; Chinese edition |Our Journeys 9).
  • NY Taiwan Center elder-care governance: in the 2003 reorganisation of the Center’s senior center (老人中心管理委員會, operating from 2004-01), 蔡明峰 sat as one of three board-of-director commissioners alongside 陳春蘭 and 尤欽德 (|Our Journeys 316).
  • Pen Club patron: the Pen Club’s ten-year memoir records him — as 海外台灣網 founder and former 紐約台灣會館董事長 — repeatedly telling its photographer that few club annual meetings he had attended matched the Pen Club’s success; the memoirist also recalls late-night manuscript checks at the Tsai home and 蔡夫人’s beef noodles (|Our Journeys 12 — Pen Club ten-year history).
  • Seattle visit: invited to the Seattle Taiwan Center’s opening period, his earlier skepticism about the dilapidated预定地 turned into admiration — “兩對夫婦30多年都這麼熱心，令人感動！” (|Our Journeys 30 — 西雅圖台灣會館; English edition |Our Journeys 30, English edition).

Corpus re-sweep (slice 10080958-4, 2026-10-09)

  • Voice of Formosa (台灣之音) patronage: as the second president of the Taiwanese American Association of New York, succeeding 林俊提 (Stephen Lin), his administration backed the telephone-radio station with a US$500 donation at the time it was becoming financially independent of the association — recorded in the station founder’s memoir (|Our Journeys 2).
  • Taigi-language media advocacy: as founder of 台灣海外網 (Taiwanus.net), he stated at the closing reception of a Cultural & Education Center Taigi seminar that his site would broadcast teacher 鄭安住’s Taigi-language instruction to the wider community (|Our Journeys 42).
  • 45th US Taiwanese Congress speaker: listed among the invited speakers as “Taiwanus.net 創辦主持人蔡明峰” at the 45th Congress (theme: U.S. security & Taiwan’s freedom) (|Our Journeys 260).
  • Formosa Betrayed essay (2015-03): authored “台美人全力支持的電影 FORMOSA BETRAYED (被出賣的台灣)” in the Care for Taiwan by Taiwanese American series (|record 119).
  • Name-collision note: corpus hits for 蔡明殿 (Ming Ten Dan Tsai) — works #13, #124, whos841, and the 蔡明憲/蔡明學 mentions in Our Journeys 392/66/206 — are different persons (a 人權工作者/文學 writer and unrelated namesakes), not this page’s subject. HOLD: no merge.

Corpus re-sweep (slice 10100400-12, 2026-10-10)

  • Full ZH+EN grep (蔡明峰 / Martin Tsai) across content/works content/articles content/sources content/events content/topics returned 13 non-self files: the ten Our Journeys memoir records already absorbed above (2, 9/9-eng, 12, 30/30-eng, 42, 260, 316), the two TAH encyclopedia works (#110, #365), the Formosa Betrayed essay record (#119), plus works/index.md and sources/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org.md (index/source listings, no new biographical material). No new absorbable corpus facts; no conflicts found.
  • The taiwanjustice.net 2020 台南市第4選舉區 candidate list hit is confirmed a different person (無黨籍 candidate, Tainan) — already disambiguated in that article; not linked. HOLD: no merge.

Corpus re-sweep (slice 10121400-17, 2026-10-13)

  • Full ZH+EN grep (蔡明峰 / Martin Tsai) across content/works content/articles content/sources content/events content/topics returned the identical 15-file non-self hit set already absorbed above: the ten Our Journeys memoir records (2, 9/9-eng, 12, 30/30-eng, 42, 260, 316), the two TAH encyclopedia works (#110, #365), the Formosa Betrayed essay record (#119), plus works/index.md, sources/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org.md (listings only), and the taiwanjustice.net candidate-list article (disambiguated, not linked). Spot-checked the memoir passages (Our Journeys 30 Seattle quote, 316 elder-care committee, 260 Congress speaker list, 42 Taigi seminar, 2 Voice of Formosa donation) — all facts already recorded verbatim. No new absorbable corpus material; no conflicts found. Page verified saturated.

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