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Pearl Pi-Chu Yang Wu (楊碧珠)

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Pearl Pi-Chu Yang Wu (楊碧珠)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Pearl Pi-Chu Yang Wu
  • Chinese: 楊碧珠
  • Era: 1948
  • Geography: Tainan, Taiwan
  • Core roles: educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • Taipei Medical Univ. — B.S.

Family

  • Husband: Peter Wu (吳宗憲)
  • Daughter: Chen-Chen Wu (吳貞貞)
  • Son: Ryan Wu (吳南輝)

Role in the Community

楊碧珠 is herself a community record-author in the TAH corpus, not just a directory entry:

  • Authored 243. Second Generation Taiwanese Americans in Austin, Texas (1980’s to 1990’s) 德州奧斯汀台美人的第二代 (2016-08-26, value band A community history) — recalls raising the family in Austin and anti-Asian prejudice from a neighbor after moving off the university apartments.
  • Authored 370. FAPA TX-C中德州分會記事 2018- (2021-04-27, band A) — chapter chronicle documenting her involvement with FAPA Texas-Central.
  • Authored 758. 女兒的台語經歷 (2020-10-08) — a family language-history essay on her daughter’s Taiwanese (台語) experience.
  • Her community memorabilia are archived as 6. Collection of Mrs. Pearl Wu 楊碧珠女士的收藏 (2016-09-22).
  • She is a named source in a record connected to the North America Taiwanese Women’s Association (NATWA), per corpus subject links.
  • Authored 2020 (2020-06-07, band A) — her own account of the 30-year NATWA calendar fundraising program (“最後的國民外交”): the October 2019 DC board meeting proposed ending print production and the April 2020 videoconference annual meeting (moved online due to the pandemic) voted it out; she thanks every sister who handled production, printing, shipping, sales, and sponsorship over three decades.
  • Her own Who’s Who entry is preserved in the corpus as 1742. Pearl Pi-Chu Yang Wu 楊碧珠 (2017-07-04). Her encyclopedia record 278. Pearl Pi-Chu Yang Wu 楊碧珠 (2019-04-22) is likewise held in the corpus.
  • A named endorser of the 2021 Taiwanese American community response to the Pew Research reports on Taiwanese identity — Response to Pew Research Reports Hiding Taiwanese Identity (2021-05-01) lists “Pearl Wu” among the individual community endorsers, alongside Peter Wu (corpus-slice 09240600-11).
  • Authored/contributed 343. Taiwanese Americans in Austin, Texas (2019-02-04, band A) — the Austin community history records Peter Wu (吳宗憲, b. Tainan 1947, UT Austin pharmaceutical science Ph.D., Austin Taiwanese Association president 1991–1993) and her 1980 recollection of a neighbor telling her “all Asians only come here to get welfare” after the family moved off the university apartments to Quail Ridge.
  • Source of 229. A Taiwanese language course offered by UC Berkeley, April 15, 1996 (submitted 05/2016) — memorabilia of the first UC Berkeley 台語 course, contributed under her name via her daughter Chen-Chen Wu (吳貞貞), the record’s byliner. The daughter’s own 2019 companion record on the same course, 677. UC Berkeley’s Taiwanese Language Class 1992+ (2019-03-20, band B), is also in the corpus — the family’s two-record thread on the Berkeley 台語 language program.
  • 2026-09-25 re-check (slice 09250900-2): fresh ZH+EN grep 楊碧珠/Pearl Yang Wu/Pearl Wu over works/+articles/ returns the same record set already linked above (ourjourneys243, our-journeys-370, mystories-758, collection-of-mrs-pearl-wu, ourjourneys355, whos-who-1742 and the encyclopedia/biography records cited) — hit set saturated, SKIP-deepen; husband-name HOLD (吳宗憲 vs 吳平原) stands.
  • 2026-10-09 re-check (slice 10081009-12): fresh grep 楊碧珠/Pearl Yang Wu/Pearl Wu/Pi-Chu/碧珠 across works/articles/sources/events/topics returns the same 11-record set already linked above plus two false positives on the given-name 碧珠 belonging to other people — 李碧珠 in 316. 紐約台灣會館老人中心 (a Queens senior-center volunteer teacher) and 蔡碧珠 (Beatrice Tsai) in 232. 華府台美人參加2016年度獨立紀念日遊行記 (a DC parade float builder). Neither is her; no new material. Hit set confirmed saturated; husband-name HOLD (吳宗憲 vs 吳平原) stands.
  • 2026-10-12 re-check (slice 10110200-21): fresh grep 楊碧珠/Pearl Pi-Chu Yang Wu/Pearl Yang Wu/Pearl Wu/Pi-Chu/碧珠 across works/articles/sources/events/topics returns the same 12-record set already linked above, plus three false positives — 吳碧珠 (Taipei politician) in a taiwanjustice.net 2022 article, 李碧珠 in ourjourneys316, 蔡碧珠 in ourjourneys232 (the latter two already identified as other people on 2026-10-09). No new material; hit set confirmed saturated. Husband-name HOLD (吳宗憲 vs 吳平原) stands.
  • HOLD: conflict on husband’s Chinese name — TAH Who’s Who page lists 吳宗憲, while corpus record 2268. Dr. Peter Wu 吳平原博士 (2020-05-04) lists 吳平原; both refer to Peter Wu, UT Austin pharmacy Ph.D. and president of the Austin Taiwanese Association 1991–1993 per the Austin memoir.

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