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Min-Mei Chen (吳明美)

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Min-Mei Chen (吳明美)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Min-Mei Chen
  • Chinese: 吳明美
  • Era: 1942-2019
  • Geography: Chiayi, Taiwan
  • Core roles: entrepreneur, professor
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. Well-Know Writer for Writing Stories about the lives of the Taiwanese Americans.

Education

  • Tunghai Univ. — 1964 — B.S., Economics
  • Spalding Univ. Kentucky — 1969 — M.S., Library Science

Employment

  • Great Lakes Fishery Commission Library — (1969-) — Eastern Michigan Univ. Library — International Fine Arts College Library — Chief Librarian — Oriental Furniture (東方家具) — Owner

Family

  • Husband: Chun-Fun Chen(陳春帆)
  • Daughter: Edith, Emma

Role in the Community

  • Writer for the Taiwanese American community record: her essays live in the TAH My Stories / encyclopedia corpus — 2014-10, 2015-03, and 2017-10.
  • Honoured with her husband as the first Family of Outstanding Taiwanese Americans: 2019-03.
  • After her death (2019), remembered in her husband Prof. Chun-Fan Chen’s memoir 2019-03 and the tribute album 141. In Memory of Mrs. Min-Mei Wu Chen 生命的禮讚.
  • Corpus dates (1942–2019) agree with the Identity Snapshot era on this page.
  • Community organizer’s eye: her own band-A memoir 2015-02 reports the 29th U.S. Southeast Taiwanese Summer Conference (2007-07-06–09), a Carnival Fascination cruise out of Miami to the Bahamas with ~350 attendees from southeastern states and Taiwan.
  • Widely published essayist in the community press: besides those above, her corpus pages include 89. 風雨同舟, 155. 大難不死, 必有後福?, 2015-02, 2015-03, and 2015-03.
  • Portrait by peer: Ken Lee’s essay 2016-11 recalls her (綽號「皇后」) as a writer who, after surviving breast cancer some four–five years earlier, turned to chronicling suffering and cautionary experience “以蒼生為念” — crediting her with essays 劫後重生、防人之心不可無、小心一世，大意一時、猝不及防的禍患 (titles not separately filed in the vault; noted as reported).
  • Her papers/archive: 2017-10; a second memorial notice exists as 138. In Memory of Mrs. Min-Mei Wu Chen 懷念吳明美女士.
  • 複核（deepen-x slice 28, 2026-09-16）：full corpus re-grep (no head-truncation) surfaced the band-A cruise memoir, five further essay pages, the collection record #47, a second memorial #138, and the Ken Lee portrait — all absorbed above.
  • SKIP-with-reason (slice 09160500-5, 2026-09-16): grep re-run (吳明美／Min-Mei Chen, untruncated) returns the identical 17-file hit set; every hit is either already wikilinked above or is her own catalogue record (#199/#268, in Sources). No new absorbable community facts; page remains fully deepened.
  • 複核（deepen-x slice 10080958-7, 2026-10-09）: fresh untruncated grep (吳明美／Min-Mei Chen／Min-mei Chen／明美) across works/articles/sources/events/topics — all substantive hits already wikilinked above (21 TAH corpus pages). New apparent hits are false positives: ourjourneys69 matches 明美 only inside 明美癌症研究中心 (NATPA founding-room name, unrelated), ourjourneys74 inside 說明美麗島, ourjourneys333 inside 註明美國, and taiwanjustice-net articles match 明美 inside 特朗普. No new absorbable community facts.
  • 複核（deepen-x slice 10110000-20, 2026-10-12）: fresh grep (吳明美／Min-Mei Chen／Min-mei Chen) across all 5 corpus dirs — 19 hits, all already linked above or her own catalogue records. One absorbable fact from the catalogue records: her TAH Who’s Who entry was first published as #199 on 2015-01-14 and re-issued as #268 on 2019-03-18, i.e. her community profile spans the 2015–2019 corpus window — consistent with the 2019-03 memorials (#138/#141/676) clustering after her death. No other new material; page remains fully deepened.
  • Her Who’s Who profile record: published 2015-01-14 as 199. Min-Mei Chen 吳明美, re-issued 2019-03-18 as 268. Min-Mei Chen 吳明美.
  • 複核（deepen-x slice 10100400-15, 2026-10-10）: fresh grep (吳明美／Min-Mei Chen／Min-mei Chen／明美) across all 5 corpus dirs — the 17 real-person hits are all already wikilinked above or are her own catalogue records (#199/#268, in Sources). Remaining apparent hits are false positives (our-journeys-376 and ourjourneys333 match 明美 inside 說明美國／註明美國; taiwanjustice-net articles match inside 特朗普). No new absorbable community facts; page remains fully deepened.
  • 複核（deepen-x slice 10120315-19, 2026-10-12）: fresh untruncated grep (吳明美／Min-Mei Chen／Min-mei Chen plus loose 明美／Minmei variants) across all 5 corpus dirs — 19 real-person hits, all already wikilinked above or her own catalogue records. Loose-明美 extras re-checked in context and confirmed false positives: ourjourneys74 (說明美麗島), ourjourneys69 (明美癌症硏究中心, NATPA founding room), ourjourneys333 and our-journeys-376 (註明美國／說明美國), and taiwanjustice-net articles (特朗普／說明美方). No new absorbable community facts; page remains fully deepened.
  • 複核（deepen-x slice 10121400-20, 2026-10-13）: fresh grep (吳明美／Min-Mei Chen／Min-mei Chen／min-mei) across all 5 corpus dirs — 15 work hits plus the works/index and sources/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org registers, every substantive hit already wikilinked above or her own catalogue record. events/topics dirs return no hits. No new absorbable community facts; page remains fully deepened.

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