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Sin-I Hsiao (蕭欣義)

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Sin-I Hsiao (蕭欣義)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Sin-I Hsiao
  • Chinese: 蕭欣義
  • Era: -
  • Geography: 台灣
  • Core roles: professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • 東海大學 — B.S.
  • Harvard University — M.S. East Asian
  • Harvard University — Ph.D. Intellectual History

Employment

  • Boston大學亞洲宗教 — Teaching
  • Victoria大學 — 亞太學系主任

Role in the Community

  • As a Harvard graduate student he took part in the independence-movement enlightenment work, distributing 《台灣青年》 and 《台灣通訊》 on campus alongside peers at other campuses (234. 台獨聯盟美國本部).
  • 1965-10-29/30 — attended the secret unification congress at the University of Wisconsin (麥迪遜結盟大會) as the 波士頓同鄉會 representative; delegates signed bilingual oaths against KMT infiltration (81. 早期威大台灣學生在台灣建國運動所扮演的角色). The corpus preserves an English edition of this record, 81 (EN). The Role of Early Wisconsin Taiwanese Students…, which names him as “Sin-I Hsiao of the Boston Taiwanese Association” among the oath-signing delegates — useful for English-language citation of the same event.
  • 1966-06-18 — again the Boston delegate at the Philadelphia talks where 「台灣獨立聯盟UFI」 and 「台灣問題硏究會FASG」 agreed to merge; this resolved into the 1966-07-04 founding of 全美台灣獨立聯盟 (UFAI) (same record, 周烒明起稿 memoir).
  • 1985 — in the「四腳仔官司」trial in Virginia, he was arranged by the defense as the opening witness (then teaching history at University of Victoria, Canada) to lecture the American jury on four centuries of outside rule over Taiwan, establishing that「四腳仔」was a term for the外来 ruling regime and its adherents, not a bestial insult; 蔡武雄 followed with the Vichy «collaborator» analogy ( 2014-11).
  • Listed under Massachusetts in the first 《全美台灣同鄉通訊錄》 alongside 林文忠 and 鄭忠雄 ( 陳希寬).
  • 1990 — of the 84 applicants for the first NAIT (台灣人教授協會) homecoming annual meeting in Taipei, 18 were named by the authorities as having visa「技術性問題」(blacklisted), a list that included Hsiao; after nearly six months of negotiation with 海工會/僑委會/外交部 the blacklist shrank to three (吳明基、李應元、郭榮桔), with the reason narrowed from「莫須有」to「現任暴力型革命組織的中央委員」. Hsiao was among the first members — named alongside 周烒明 — able to return to Taiwan that year ( 朱耀源).
  • 1992-07 — delivered the keynote「台灣的轉機」at the 14th 美東南區台灣人夏令會 (Methodist College, Spartanburg, SC), per the summer-camp history (2016).
  • 1990-08 — during the first NATPA (台灣人教授協會) homecoming annual meeting’s five-day southbound tour (07/30–08/03), he gave an evening talk in Tainan at the banquet hosted by 鄭楓木醫師, per the meeting memoir ( 2014-10).

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

2026-09-26 corpus re-grep (蕭欣義 / Sin-I Hsiao, DEEPEN-X slice 09250900-8): hit-set unchanged (whoswho1013, ourjourneys81, ourjourneys259, ourjourneys58, ourjourneys234, ourjourneys245) — every hit already cited above; verbatim re-checks (麥迪遜結盟代表名簿、1966費城合併會、1990黑名單18人、通訊錄Massachusetts欄) all match existing text. Saturated; SKIP-with-reason.

Sources

2026-09-27 corpus re-grep (蕭欣義 / Sin-I Hsiao, DEEPEN-X slice 09260700-11): fresh grep over works/ + articles/ — hit-set unchanged (whoswho1013, ourjourneys81/-eng, 259, 58, 234, 245, 63, 47, index); every hit already cited above. Saturated; SKIP-with-reason.

2026-10-09 corpus re-grep (蕭欣義 / Sin-I Hsiao / 欣義, DEEPEN-X slice 10081000-11): same hit-set plus surname-only sweep (欣義 in ourjourneys76-eng = false positive, 黃信義/Hsin-I Huang of the Seattle TAA chapter — not this person). Newly absorbed detail from the same records: the 通訊錄 Massachusetts column also lists 林文忠 and 鄭忠雄 alongside him; the 1990 blacklist note (259) gives the full frame — 84 applicants, 18 named with visa「技術性問題」, resolved to 3 (吳明基、李應元、郭榮桔) with the reason narrowed to「現任暴力型革命組織的中央委員」, and names 周烒明 and 蕭欣義 together as first-time returnees. No conflicts found; no new works. Saturated.

2026-10-11 corpus re-grep (蕭欣義 / Sin-I Hsiao / 欣義, DEEPEN-X slice 10100500-17): full sweep of works/ + articles/ + sources/ + events/ + topics/ — hit-set unchanged (whoswho1013, ourjourneys81/-eng, 259, 58, 234, 245, 63, 47, index, sources/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org). Verbatim spot-checks of the four core records (麥迪遜結盟 delegate list 波士頓同鄉會的蕭欣義; 1966-06-18 費城合併會 delegate roster; 259 blacklist passage naming 周烒明、蕭欣義 as first returnees; 245 keynote「台灣的轉機」) all match existing text. No new records, no conflicts. Saturated; SKIP-with-reason.

2026-10-12 corpus re-grep (蕭欣義 / Sin-I Hsiao / 欣義, DEEPEN-X slice 10120316-27): sixth full sweep of works/ + articles/ + sources/ + events/ + topics/ — hit-set identical (whoswho1013, ourjourneys81/-eng, 259, 58, 234, 245, 63, 47, index, sources/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org); surname-only sweep (蕭) hits are other Hsiao/HSIAO individuals (蕭泰然 Tyzen Hsiao, 蕭信修 Frank S.T. Hsiao, 蕭洵 Su-hsun Hsiao), none this person. No new records, no conflicts. Saturated; SKIP-with-reason.

2026-10-12 corpus re-grep (蕭欣義 / Sin-I Hsiao / 欣義, DEEPEN-X slice 10110100-22): fifth full sweep of works/ + articles/ + sources/ + events/ + topics/ — hit-set identical to all prior passes (whoswho1013, ourjourneys81/-eng, 259, 58, 234, 245, 63, 47, index, sources/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org). Verbatim re-checks of the core passages (234 campus-distribution roster 波士頓哈佛大學的蕭欣義; 81 delegate list 波士頓同鄉會的蕭欣義; 63 四腳仔 trial witness arrangement; 47 台南鄭楓木晚宴演講; 259 blacklist 周烒明、蕭欣義; 245 keynote「台灣的轉機」; 58 Massachusetts column) all match existing text. No new records, no conflicts. Saturated; SKIP-with-reason.

2026-10-13 corpus re-grep (蕭欣義 / Sin-I Hsiao / 欣義, DEEPEN-X slice 10121500-25): seventh full sweep of works/ + articles/ + sources/ + events/ + topics/ — hit-set identical (whoswho1013, ourjourneys81/-eng, 259, 58, 234, 245, 63, 47, index, sources/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org). Verbatim re-checks of every cited passage (234 roster, 81/-eng delegate lists, 63 trial testimony, 47 Tainan banquet, 259 blacklist frame, 245 keynote, 58 Massachusetts column) all match existing text. No new records, no conflicts. Saturated; SKIP-with-reason.

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