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Ming Ten Dan Tsai (蔡明殿)

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Ming Ten Dan Tsai (蔡明殿)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Ming Ten Dan Tsai
  • Chinese: 蔡明殿
  • Era: 1945 - 2014
  • Geography: 台灣縣朴子鎮
  • Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • 台灣大學 — B.S.農推系
  • 波士頓大學 — M.S.特殊教育

Family

Role in the Community

Tsai is recorded in the TAHS corpus as a human-rights worker (人權工作者) and writer who worked as a pair with his wife 王淑英 (Suing Wang). Eight items carry his name:

  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/13-e8-94-a1-e6-98-8e-e6-ae-bfming-ten-tsai-e4-ba-ba-e6-ac-8a-e5-b7-a5-e4-bd-9c-e|TAH #13. 蔡明殿 Ming Ten Tsai – 人權工作者]] (2016-01) — the movement record names his role outright
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publication944|TAH #944. 台灣在世界的臂彎 蔡明殿談憶錄（上）]] with 王淑英 (08/2015, Biography/傳記) — part 1 of his two-part memoir, “Taiwan in the arm-bend of the world”
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publication945|TAH #945. 菜蟲的現代寓言 蔡明殿談憶錄（下）]] with 王淑英 (08/2015, Biography/傳記) — part 2 of the memoir, told as a “modern fable of the vegetable worm”; the primary material for his life story
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories389|TAH #389. 蔡明殿大愛在人間]] by 黃嘉光 (2016-01) — a portrait written by someone outside the family, i.e. the community itself wrote his life sketch
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/124-e5-9c-a8-e6-b5-b7-e4-b9-8b-e8-a7-92-e8-94-a1-e6-98-8e-e6-ae-bf-1992-05-e6-96|TAH #124. 在海之角 – 蔡明殿 – 文學]] (1992-05) — literary piece, the earliest item under his name
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/155-e8-94-a1-e6-98-8e-e6-ae-bf-e7-8e-8b-e6-b7-91-e8-8b-b1-the-first-farm-farmers|TAH #155. The first farm & farmers, Newton, N.J.]] (1982) — his own account of founding a farm in New Jersey
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos841|TAH #841. Ming Ten Dan Tsai 蔡明殿]] (2016-02) — Who’s Who entry

HOLD (deepen-x slice 09150400-32, 2026-09-15): the corpus also names a 蔡明憲 — a 同鄉 mentioned in [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/our-journeys-392|Our Journeys #392]] (his and 蔡其芳’s mother spoke on stage at a 王成章牧師 gathering), and a member of the 1984 南加州台灣同鄉會 blacklist-breaking return delegation ( 謝清志). Different given-name character (憲 vs 殿) and romanization (Ming-Hsien vs Ming Ten); likely a different person, NOT merged here.

复核（deepen-x slice 09150500-17，2026-09-15）：全語料庫重掃（蔡明殿／Ming Ten）命中集合不變——僅上列六則本人署名書目頁與 works/index，無新回憶錄或社群材料可吸收；HOLD（蔡明憲）維持不併入。

复核（deepen-x slice 09150600-7，2026-09-15）：SKIP-with-reason——重掃命中集合不變（#13／#124／#155／#389／#841／#945 六頁均已連結於 Role in the Community）；HOLD（蔡明憲）維持不併入。

复核（deepen-x slice 09150700-3，2026-09-15）：SKIP-with-reason——重掃（蔡明殿／Ming Ten）命中集合不變（本人署名書目頁均已連結於 Role in the Community 及 Sources）；無新回憶錄或社群材料可吸收；HOLD（蔡明憲）維持不併入。

复核（deepen-x slice 09160109-1，2026-09-16）：重掃發現此前未連結之書目頁 [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publication944|TAH #944. 台灣在世界的臂彎 蔡明殿談憶錄（上）]]，已補入 Role in the Community（與 #945 同為上下兩篇談憶錄）；無其他新回憶錄敘事可吸收；HOLD（蔡明憲）維持不併入。

复核（deepen-x slice 10081200-32，2026-10-10）：SKIP-with-reason——全語料庫重掃（蔡明殿／Ming Ten／Ming-Ten 變體）命中集合不變，本人署名書目頁（#13／#124／#155／#389／#841／#944／#945）均已連結於 Role in the Community；無新回憶錄或社群材料可吸收；HOLD（蔡明憲）維持不併入。

复核（deepen-x slice 10100900-15，2026-10-11）：SKIP-with-reason——全語料庫重掃（蔡明殿／Ming Ten／明殿）命中集合不變：本人署名書目頁（#13／#124／#155／#389／#841／#944／#945）均已連結於 Role in the Community；新增命中 [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys212|Our Journeys #212]] 與 [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/458-e5-a4-a9-e4-bd-91-e5-8f-b0-e7-81-a3-e8-94-a1-e6-98-8e-e6-86-b2-e7-9a-84-e5-b|TAH #458]]／[[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/459-e8-94-a1-e6-98-8e-e6-86-b2-e8-88-87-e6-8d-8d-e8-a1-9b-e9-98-b2-e5-bc-b5-e7-8|TAH #459]] 皆為蔡明憲（同鄉會會友／國防部長），維持 HOLD 不併入；無新回憶錄或社群材料可吸收。

复核（deepen-x slice 10110600-17，2026-10-12）：SKIP-with-reason——全語料庫重掃（蔡明殿／Ming Ten／明殿）命中集合不變：本人署名書目頁（#13／#124／#155／#389／#841／#944／#945）均已連結於 Role in the Community，另 taiwaneseamericanhistory-org 僅為索引引用；無新回憶錄或社群材料可吸收。本次並確認 articles/ 之蔡明憲命中（前國防部長／台灣聯合國協進會會長，見 TJJ 兵役改革、東京奧運正名、二二八回復名譽等報導）皆屬蔡明憲一人，與本頁 蔡明殿（朴子、人權工作者、與王淑英合著憶錄）為不同人——HOLD 維持不併入。

复核（deepen-x slice 10120900-2，2026-10-13）：SKIP-with-reason——全語料庫重掃（蔡明殿／Ming Ten）命中集合不變：本人署名書目頁（#13／#124／#155／#389／#841／#944／#945）均已連結於 Role in the Community，其餘命中僅為 works/index 與 sources 索引引用；無新回憶錄或社群材料可吸收；HOLD（蔡明憲）維持不併入。

Read against the Education table, the corpus traces a single arc: 台大農推系 → Boston University special education → founding a farm in Newton, NJ (written up 1982) → literary output (在海之角 1992, 菜蟲的現代寓言 2015) → human-rights work. The movement treats his writing as movement writing, not a hobby. The era on this page (1945–2014) and the corpus items (1982–2016) raise no conflict.

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