S. W. Hung (洪順伍博士)
Identity Snapshot
- English: S. W. Hung
- Chinese: 洪順伍博士
- Era: -
- Geography: 台灣/-
- Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
S. W. Hung (洪順伍博士) is listed in the TAH Foundation Who’s Who Taiwanese American profiles.
Role in the Community
- Listed in the TAH Foundation Who’s Who profile record 06 (2016/06).
- Name variant: corpus memoirs consistently write 洪順五 (page frontmatter: 洪順伍); treated as the same person.
- President of 台灣協志會 (Bay Area Taiwanese Alliance for Interculture) circa the Formosa Incident: within a week of the 1979-12-10 Kaohsiung incident he went to New York and, without a general-assembly vote, signed the society into the newly formed 臺灣建國聯合陣線 (Coalition of Taiwan Independence) — making 協志會 a KMT-designated “rebel organization,” with members’ return visas harassed and many blacklisted (37. 台灣協志會成立與大事記 · English version · 357. 舊金山灣區臺灣人的社團活動與家國意識之形成).
- DPP West Coast Committee Chairperson (民進黨美西主委) among the society’s alumni leadership (38. 北加州台灣同鄉聯合會三十年回顧).
- 23rd president of the Taiwanese American Federation of Northern California: barred from returning to Taiwan at Taoyuan airport on 1986-11-30 with Hsin-liang Hsu, sparking a police–civilian confrontation (38. 北加州台灣同鄉聯合會三十年回顧); led thousands of Taiwanese Americans in San Francisco street protests against China’s 1996 Keelung missile launches on March 9 and 16 (38. 北加州台灣同鄉聯合會三十年回顧); see also TAFNC.
- Co-founded AnaSpec (peptide-synthesis reagents) in 1993 with wife 傅紅玉; noted for contributions to the global fight against SARS (19. 在矽谷創業臺美人).
- Also remembered as a Penglai Opera Troupe performer in the 協志會 satires that became visa-interrogation pretexts for members (39. 蓬萊歌劇團); listed among 協志會 presidents who were blacklisted (106. Political Activities of Taiwanese Americans: 2, 黑名單).
- 2026-10-09 (deepen-x slice 10070717-3): five-dir grep on 洪順伍/洪順五/S. W. Hung surfaced the our-journeys memoir material above, previously missed.
Family
No filled family fields on the TAH profile.