S. D. Chen (陳士東)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: S. D. Chen
  • Chinese: 陳士東
  • Era: 1908 - 1987
  • Geography: 台灣麻豆
  • Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

S. D. Chen (陳士東) is listed in the TAH Foundation Who’s Who Taiwanese American profiles.

Role in the Community

  • Recorded in the TAH Foundation Who’s Who; the personal record is held in the vault as 04 (published 2016-04-03, value band B — bibliographic record, full text stays in the vault).
  • Corpus sweeps 2026-09-20, 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-22: no mentions in memoirs/articles beyond this record; biography is limited to the Who’s Who entry and the family list below. No facts absorbed, no conflicts.
  • Son 陳隆豐 (listed below) appears to be the lawyer who co-founded the New York Taiwan Center (台灣會館) in 1986 and served as its first chairman for 10 years, elected chairman at the building committee’s first executive meeting on 1983-11-23 — see Dr. Lung-Fong Chen 陳隆豐博士 and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys09|Our Journeys #9]]; his 2024-04 obituary (CNA, via taiwanjustice.net) confirms birth in 1941-07-17 in Madou (麻豆), Tainan, matching this household’s geography 紐約台灣會館創辦人陳隆豐逝世. HOLD: the filiation 陳士東 → 陳隆豐 is inferred from the shared 麻豆 origin and matching name only — no document names 陳士東 as his father.
  • Son 陳隆志 is Prof. Lung-Chi Chen, a Yale-educated international-law scholar who joined the 全美台灣獨立聯盟 while at Yale (1967) and served as second vice-chair (外交) of its executive committee from 1969 108. Prof. Lung-Chi Chen 陳隆志教授, [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys81|Our Journeys #81]].

Family

  • Son: 陳隆吉
  • Son: 陳隆志
  • Son: 陳隆成
  • Son: 陳隆豐
  • Son: 陳隆滿
  • Son: 陳隆廷
  • Daughter: 陳素珠
  • Daughter: 陳美貴

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • Corpus check 2026-10-07 (slice 10052007-21, five dirs + 士東/S.D. Chen/Chen Shih variants): own record whoswho923 + index only; the sole variant hit is Chen Shih-chung 陳時中 (health minister) — different person. Verified-saturated, no absorbable material.