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Prof. Tsan-Iang Chuang (莊燦陽教授)

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Prof. Tsan-Iang Chuang (莊燦陽教授)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Prof. Tsan-Iang Chuang
  • Chinese: 莊燦陽教授
  • Era: 1932-1994
  • Geography: Hsinchu, Taiwan
  • Core roles: scientist, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Prof. Tsan-Iang Chuang 莊燦陽教授 – History of Taiwanese American (T.A. Archives) 台美史料中心

Education

  • National Taiwan Normal Univ. — 1951-1955 — B.S., Botany
  • National Taiwan Univ. — 1955-1957 — M.S., Botany
  • Univ. of California at Berkeley — 1962-1966 — Ph.D., Botany

Employment

  • Institute of Botany, National Academia Sinica — Assistant Researcher — (1959-1962) — University of Rhode Island (Kingston) — Assistant Professor — (1966-1966) — Central Illinois State University (Normal) — Assistant Professor, Associate Professor (1972), Professor (1977) and Director of the Herbarium — (1967-1994)

Family

  • Wife: 許惠美
  • Daughter: Ho, Susan
  • Son: Cal

Role in the Community

Chuang appears in the Band-A oral history 152. 柏克萊加大的『台灣寮』(陳仲欽, 2015-07), which adds first-hand community detail:

  • From Hsinchu, NTNU (師大) botany department; schoolmate memory: pitcher on the Hsinchu Middle School (新竹中學) baseball team; described by the author as quiet and diligent (木訥勤奮), and a distant relative (遠親) of the author.
  • Around 1963 he was among the Taiwanese graduate students living at the Berkeley “Taiwan House” (台灣寮) at 2452 Bancroft Way, south of Sather Gate — he had already married and left his wife and child in Taiwan; he moved out about a year later when his wife 惠美 joined him in the US.
  • Before going abroad he worked at the Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica (consistent with the 1959–1962 employment record). The two families stayed in close touch in the US: his wife’s elder sister was the elder sister of the author’s paternal uncle’s wife.
  • A plant-taxonomy authority (植物分類學的權威) at Central Illinois State University.
  • Death: he felt chest tightness suddenly during a ping-pong game; diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer; transferred to San Francisco care but too late — died May 1994, aged 62 (consistent with the 1932–1994 era field). Buried in a hillside cemetery in El Cerrito, California near Berkeley; the flush grave marker faces the Pacific toward Taiwan, with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge. The author visited the grave in 1998.

Also recorded in TAH’s own encyclopedia entry: 2153. Prof. Tsan-Iang Chuang 莊燦陽教授.

語料庫再比對（自 slice-20 至 slice 09160700-12，2026-09-16 結論一致）：命中集不變（#152 台灣寮回憶錄 + #2153 本人記錄 + works/index），上述 Role in the Community 已完整吸收 #152 記述（竹中投手、台灣寮 2452 Bancroft Way、中研院、中伊州大植物分類學、1994/05 逝世享年62、El Cerrito 墓）；無新增社群事實。SKIP-no-new-material。再核（slice 09162138-10, 2026-09-16）：命中集不變（#152、#2153、index），#152 記述已全數吸收。SKIP-no-new-material。再核（slice 09162200-8, 2026-09-16）：命中集不變（#152、#2153、index）。SKIP-no-new-material。再核（slice 09170130-6, 2026-09-17）：命中集不變（#152、#2153、index）；#152 記述已全數吸收於上方 Role in the Community。SKIP-no-new-material。再核（slice 09180131-5, 2026-09-18）：命中集不變（#152、#2153、index）。SKIP-no-new-material。

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org Re-grep (slice 09181500-5, 2026-09-20): hit set unchanged (#152, #2153, index); #152 narrative fully absorbed above. SKIP-no-new-material. 複核（deepen-x slice 09201300-5, 2026-09-21）：re-grep 命中集不變（#152、#2153、index）；#152 記述已全數吸收 — SKIP-with-reason：語料已飽和。 複核（deepen-x slice 09211300-3, 2026-09-22）：re-grep 命中集不變（#152 台灣寮回憶錄、#2153、index）；#152 記述（竹中投手、台灣寮 2452 Bancroft Way、中研院、中伊州大植物分類學、1994/05 逝世享年62、El Cerrito 墓）已全數吸收 — SKIP-with-reason：語料已飽和。

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