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SueAnn Shiah (夏叔安)

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SueAnn Shiah (夏叔安)

Role in the Community

Taiwanese-American filmmaker and community organiser pursuing ordination in the Presbyterian Church; her own corpus writing is primary material on Taiwanese identity:

  • Her own first-person essay on Taiwanese identity and the Israel-Palestine analogy (author byline SueAnn Shiah, June 2023 Jerusalem trip) — Understanding the Jewish Struggle for Palestine: A Taiwanese American Perspective. From the essay itself (primary material): her paternal family lived stateless in Burma (“No Country, No Land” papers) after fleeing Yunnan during the Chinese Civil War; her grandfather was murdered by local Burmese when her father was nine; the family relocated to Taiwan under the ROC repatriation program for ethnically Chinese diaspora, and her grandmother later helped about half of her thirteen surviving siblings immigrate too. Her parents met as counselors on the OCAC Youth Study Tour (community nickname “Love Boat”), the analogue of Birthright Israel; SueAnn participated as a teenager in 2006. Her documentary HuanDao (~2013) records her father’s interview; she revisited Myanmar with him in 2019, his first return in almost 50 years. She describes herself as “the literal offspring of the ROC’s nationalist identity program.”
  • Quoted on the response to the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church shooting — Laguna Woods Taiwanese Church shooting
  • Her own TAH encyclopedia record #1613, published 2017-04-19 — 1613. SueAnn Shiah 夏叔安

Related name in the corpus: Jesse Shiah — 11 (HOLD: relationship stated in TAH pages, not confirmed in corpus text). Her documentary HuanDao (Huandao Documentary, per TAH employment table) is referenced in her essay; no separate work page yet.

Identity Snapshot

  • English: SueAnn Shiah
  • Chinese: 夏叔安
  • Era: Birth Place
  • Geography: First year, first city and state arrived in the U.S.
  • Core roles: entrepreneur
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • Belmont University — 2014 — B.A., Music Business

Employment

  • Huandao Documentary — 2014-Present — Producer/Director

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • Corpus re-check (deepen-x slice-09211200-3, 2026-09-22): fresh grep 夏叔安|SueAnn Shiah returns only the three already-cited records (TAH #1613, her own taiwaneseamerican-org essay, Laguna Woods church-shooting piece) — all wikilinked and absorbed above; no new community/memoir material, no new conflicts to hold.
  • Corpus re-check (deepen-x slice-09220700-7, 2026-09-22): fresh grep 夏叔安|SueAnn Shiah returns the same four files (TAH #1613, her own taiwaneseamerican-org essay, Laguna Woods church-shooting piece, index) — all absorbed above; saturated, SKIP-with-reason.
  • Corpus re-check (deepen-x slice-09221400-2, 2026-09-23): fresh grep 夏叔安|SueAnn Shiah returns the same four files (TAH #1613, her own taiwaneseamerican-org essay, Laguna Woods church-shooting piece, index) — all absorbed above; saturated, SKIP-with-reason.
  • Corpus re-check (deepen-x slice-09230800-2, 2026-09-24): fresh grep 夏叔安|SueAnn Shiah returns the same four files (TAH #1613, taiwaneseamerican-org essay, Laguna Woods church-shooting piece, index) — all absorbed above; saturated, SKIP-with-reason.
  • Corpus re-check (deepen-x slice-09240700-3, 2026-09-25): fresh grep 夏叔安|SueAnn Shiah returns the identical 4-file hit set (TAH #1613, taiwaneseamerican-org essay, Laguna Woods church-shooting piece, index) — all absorbed above; saturated, SKIP-with-reason.
  • Corpus re-check (deepen-x slice-09250900-7, 2026-09-25): fresh grep 夏叔安|SueAnn Shiah returns the identical 4-file hit set (TAH #1613, taiwaneseamerican-org essay, Laguna Woods church-shooting piece, index) — all absorbed above; saturated, SKIP-with-reason.
  • Corpus re-check (deepen-x slice 09260317-13, 2026-09-26): fresh grep 夏叔安|SueAnn Shiah returns the identical 4-file hit set (TAH #1613, taiwaneseamerican-org essay, Laguna Woods church-shooting piece, index) — all absorbed above; saturated, SKIP-with-reason.
  • Corpus re-check (deepen-x slice 10091404-11, 2026-10-10): fresh grep 夏叔安|SueAnn Shiah|Shiah across all five corpus dirs returns the same 6-file set (the 4 above plus sources/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org.md and index) — all absorbed and wikilinked above; no new community/memoir material; verified-saturated.

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