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Ming-che Lin (林明哲)

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Ming-che Lin (林明哲)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Ming-che Lin
  • Chinese: 林明哲
  • Era: 1933
  • Geography: 台灣/台南
  • Core roles: engineer
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • 成功大學 — 1956 — B.S. 土木系
  • University of Missouri — 1967 — M.S. 土木系

Employment

  • Pioneer Construction Engineering Limited — 1967 — 結構工程師

Family

  • Wife: 秀瑞
  • Daughter: Jean, Diana
  • Son: David

Role in the Community

  • Listed among the 15 attendees of the Feb 13 founding discussion that decided to form a diplomacy-focused organization (the birth of FAPA), alongside Tan-Sun (Mark) Chen, Tu Chen, and Chien-hui Hsu (65. The Birth of FAPA; Chinese counterpart 65 (ZH)). The English record names all 15 attendees (Charles Ting, Kenjohn Wang, Ming-an Chou, Philip Chen, Yu-hsin Kuo, Ming Min Peng, Jen-Tai Tsai, Chia-yu Yang, Tsung-chang Yang, Fu-Chen Lo).
  • President of the 全美台灣同鄉會 (NANSTAAN) — 1981-01-01 to 1982-12-31 (2014). HOLD: conflict in recorded term — the English transcription of the same leadership list (76 (EN)) gives 「Ming-che Lin: January 1st, 1980 to December 31st, 1982」; never auto-merged.
  • Appears in the 歷屆芝加哥台灣同鄉會會長 list under 1974 (378. 芝加哥台灣同鄉會50年的歳月). HOLD: possible conflation of a NYC NANSTAAN president with a Chicago namesake — verify before merging.
  • His 1991 闖關 return to Taiwan after 28 years is recounted by 林茗顯: Lin coordinated the meetup in Hong Kong with the boat-party awaiting 王幸男’s green-island contacts ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories587|TAH #587 林明哲1991年闖關回到久別28年的台灣]]).
  • Corroborated by a second memoir: 陳榮芳’s 我要回家—黑名單人士的返鄉之行 recounts the same Hong Kong staging — after spotting China Airlines crew at their hotel the group moved and contacted 林明哲 to meet up, then waited for the boat-party signal and confirmed the contact was 王幸男’s 綠島 friend before moving into the boat owner 鄭先生’s residence. ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys315|TAH #315 我要回家-黑名單人士的返鄉之行 / 陳榮芳 /10/2017]])
  • 1981-11-06 — As 全美會 (NANSTAAN) 會長, co-invited (with 世台會理事長 陳唐山) US Taiwanese community representatives to a Washington meeting with Rep. 甘迺迪 and 索拉茲 pressing for the 二萬名台灣人移民配額 interpretation of the 台灣關係法 (11). Corroborates active NANSTAAN presidency in Nov 1981 — consistent with the 1981 start in the leadership list above.
  • 2016 — 許永華’s memoir of the 世台會巴西車禍 records 芝加哥林明哲 telling her through tears 「李友義走了」 (2016) — places him in the Chicago 世台會 circle at the 2016 disaster, alongside the 歷屆芝加哥台灣同鄉會會長 1974 entry above.
  • HOLD: snapshot era 1933 vs 成大 1956 B.S. graduation (age 23) — plausible but unreconciled.

複核（deepen-x 2026-09-23, slice 09220900-7）：corpus re-grep（林明哲 / Ming-che Lin，works+articles）命中集合不變（ourjourneys65/-eng、ourjourneys76/-eng、our-journeys-378、mystories587、ourjourneys315、ourjourneys249、ourjourneys59、whos1099、index），全數已吸收並 wikilink，verified-saturated，無新增社群材料。

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • 複核 2026-09-24 (DEEPEN-X slice 09230400-2): fresh ZH+EN corpus re-grep (content/works content/articles) hit set identical to prior check; all hits already linked on this page; no new memoir or club material absorbable. verified-saturated.
  • 複核 2026-09-25 (DEEPEN-X slice 09240317-1): fresh ZH+EN re-grep（林明哲 / Ming-che Lin）hit set identical（ourjourneys65/-eng、ourjourneys76/-eng、our-journeys-378、mystories587、ourjourneys315、ourjourneys249、ourjourneys59、whos1099、index）；全數已吸收，含 NANSTAAN 任期 1981 vs 1980 及 Chicago namesake 兩處 HOLD。verified-saturated.
  • 複核 2026-10-09 (DEEPEN-X slice 10081000-5): fresh ZH+EN re-grep across works/articles/sources/events/topics — hit set identical, all 10 hits already absorbed and wikilinked. One new near-miss surfaced: 「我是李明哲」(Lee Ming-che, 李明哲 — mainland democracy activist imprisoned in China) appears in the-228-inheritance book excerpt; NOT this person, excluded. verified-saturated.
  • 複核 2026-10-11 (DEEPEN-X slice 10100500-11): fresh ZH+EN re-grep across works/articles/sources/events/topics — 12 hits (ourjourneys65/-eng, ourjourneys76/-eng, ourjourneys315, ourjourneys249, ourjourneys59, our-journeys-378, mystories587, whos1099, index, sources), hit set identical to prior check, all absorbed and wikilinked. No new corpus material. verified-saturated.
  • 複核 2026-10-12 (DEEPEN-X slice 10110100-17): fresh ZH+EN re-grep across all 5 corpus dirs — 12 hits, hit set identical to every prior pass (ourjourneys65/-eng, ourjourneys76/-eng, ourjourneys315, ourjourneys249, ourjourneys59, our-journeys-378, mystories587, whos1099, index, sources); all absorbed and wikilinked, both HOLDs (NANSTAAN term 1981 vs 1980; Chicago namesake) still open. verified-saturated.
  • 複核 2026-10-13 (DEEPEN-X slice 10121500-20): fresh ZH+EN re-grep across all 5 corpus dirs — 12 hits, hit set identical to every prior pass (ourjourneys65/-eng, ourjourneys76/-eng, ourjourneys315, ourjourneys249, ourjourneys59, our-journeys-378, mystories587, whos1099, index, sources); broad surname-pattern sweep confirmed remaining matches are other people (李明哲/李明哲-variants, chin-ming-chen etc.), not this subject. All material absorbed and wikilinked; both HOLDs still open. verified-saturated.

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