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Tina Chang (張丁蘭)

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Tina Chang (張丁蘭)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Tina Chang
  • Chinese: 張丁蘭
  • Era: 1938
  • Geography: 台灣 宜蘭 壯圍
  • Core roles: professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • 中興大學 — 1960 — B.S. 社會系
  • 美國西蒙斯學院 — 1964 — M.S.社會工作
  • 美國華盛頓大學 — 博士班研究,社會工作

Employment

  • 中興大學 — 社會系講師
  • 台灣文化學院 — 社會工作副教授
  • 台灣醫院兒童心理衛生中心 — 社會工作員兼輔導
  • 美國紐約州政府心理衛生部 — 資深社會工作專家
  • 台灣國會辦公室 — 立法院法案研究員

Family

  • Husband: 張燦鍙
  • Daughter: 張惠琳
  • Daughter: 張惠君

Role in the Community

Corpus records place Tina Chang at the founding of the North American Taiwanese human-rights movement: she was the first president of 北美洲台灣人權協會 (Formosan Association for Human Rights, FAHR), founded 1976, per her TAH encyclopedia record [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/64-tina-chang-e5-bc-b5-e4-b8-81-e8-98-ad-the-first-president-of-e5-8c-97-e7-be-8|TAH #64: The First President of 北美洲台灣人權協會 / 1976]]. Her own 2014 account of the association’s founding and state, 台灣人權協會的開始與現況, is preserved as [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys75-eng|TAH #75 (Formosan Association for Human Rights)]].

Blacklisted by the KMT, she was among the overseas Taiwanese who smuggled themselves back to Taiwan on altered passports during the 1988–89 返鄉潮, per the movement memoir [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys230|Our Journeys #230]]; her own first-person account of that return, 返鄉記 (03/2016), is held at [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys210|TAH #210: 返鄉記]]. A memorial tribute by 毛清芬, 為台灣無怨無悔的張丁蘭 (2015/09), is at [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/329-e7-82-ba-e5-8f-b0-e7-81-a3-e7-84-a1-e6-80-a8-e7-84-a1-e6-82-94-e7-9a-84-e5-b|TAH #329]]. HOLD: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-1762-tina-chang|TAH #1762 “Tina Chang 張瑞菊”]] shares the English name but is a different person (張瑞菊) — not merged into this page.

Beyond the human-rights movement, she served the community in a social-work capacity: she was one of the 顧問 (advisors) of the 北美台灣婦女會 (NATWA) “婦女信箱” advice column in the 台灣公論報 — listed as 「張丁蘭：社工碩士，紐約州心理衛生部工作十二年」 — per the column’s 2001 千禧年專刊 collected in [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys79|TAH #79: 婦女信箱 (2014/12)]]. The 2014 Chinese edition of her FAHR founding account is also preserved as [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys75|TAH #75 (ZH): 台灣人權協會的開始與現況 / 張丁蘭 / 2014/12]].

She also contributed personal memoir to the corpus: an autobiography 張丁蘭的故事 written 2000-11 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/253-e5-bc-b5-e4-b8-81-e8-98-ad-e7-9a-84-e6-95-85-e4-ba-8b-e5-bc-b5-e4-b8-81-e8-9|TAH #253: 張丁蘭的故事]]) and the essay 力爭上游 / Striving up in the World ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories37-eng|TAH #37]]; Chinese edition at [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories37|TAH #37 (ZH): 力爭上游 / 張丁蘭]]). The community commemorated her after her passing in 2015-09 with the tribute 張丁蘭女士生命的禮讚 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/photo-albums-activities-97|TAH #97: In memory of Mrs. Tina Chang]]). See also her second encyclopedia entry [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/94-tina-chang-e5-bc-b5-e4-b8-81-e8-98-ad|TAH #94]].

Movement-activity record outside FAHR: 陳宏達’s account of the 故王康陸秘書長告別式及骨灰佈撒行程 (published 2018/06) records her — addressed as 「丁蘭女士」/「丁蘭姐」 — among the speakers at the memorial gathering at 高雄勞工公園 (「丁蘭女士，相繼上台演説，生動感人，頗受好評」), and later carrying a bag of ashes to scatter on the coastal rocks at her native 宜蘭 during the ash-scattering tour, per [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys334|TAH #334: 故王康陸秘書長告別式及骨灰佈撒行程記事 / 陳宏達 / 2018/06]]. HOLD: the account does not state whose ashes she carried at 宜蘭; not asserted to be her husband 張燦鍙’s.

Sources

SKIP 2026-09-15 (slice 09150700-24): corpus re-grep (works/ + articles/) returned the same 6-hit set already absorbed above (#64, #94, #253, mystories37-eng, ourjourneys75-eng, photo-albums-activities-97) — no new material; page already deepened by a prior slice.

SKIP 2026-09-16 (slice 09160109-19): re-grep again returned the identical 6-file hit set — nothing new absorbable.

SKIP 2026-09-16 (slice 09160316-18): re-grep returned the same 6-file set plus [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys305|Our Journeys #305 (TPC St. Louis)]] — that names “Mrs. Ya-Hueh Tina Chang Hsieh”, a different person (St. Louis church member), not 張丁蘭. No new material for this page.

SKIP 2026-09-16 (slice 09160500-6): re-grep returned the identical 6-file hit set (#64, #94, #253, mystories37-eng, ourjourneys75-eng, photo-albums-activities-97) — everything already absorbed in Role in the Community; no new material, no conflicts.

SKIP 2026-09-16 (slice 09160600-2): re-grep 張丁蘭/Tina Chang returned the identical 6-file hit set (#64, #94, #253, mystories37-eng, ourjourneys75-eng, photo-albums-activities-97) — all already absorbed in Role in the Community; no new material, no conflicts.

DEEPEN 2026-10-09 (slice 10080951-29): re-grep 張丁蘭/Tina Chang across works/articles/sources/events/topics (16 hits) surfaced 2 previously-unabsorbed records: ourjourneys79 (NATWA 婦女信箱 advisor roster, 2001 千禧年專刊) and ourjourneys75 (ZH edition of the FAHR founding account) — both absorbed into Role in the Community. Other hits (#64/#94/#253/#37/#97/#210/#230/#329, ourjourneys305 = different person Ya-Hueh Tina Chang Hsieh, whos-who-1762 = 張瑞菊) already covered or held. No new conflicts.

DEEPEN 2026-10-10 (slice 10100400-5): re-grep 張丁蘭/Tina Chang/丁蘭 across all 5 corpus dirs (16 hits) surfaced 1 previously-unabsorbed record: ourjourneys334 (陳宏達, 王康陸告別式及骨灰佈撒行程記事, 2018/06) — her as 「丁蘭女士/丁蘭姐」 speaking at the 高雄勞工公園 memorial and scattering ashes at native 宜蘭; absorbed with a HOLD on whose ashes. mystories37 (ZH edition of #37) also noted. Remaining hits all previously absorbed or held. 1 new corpus link.

SKIP 2026-10-12 (slice 10120315-9): re-grep 張丁蘭/Tina Chang/丁蘭 across all 5 corpus dirs returned the identical 17-file hit set already absorbed or held in prior passes (incl. surname-only 丁蘭 variant grep = no extra hits) — saturated, no new material, no new conflicts.

SKIP 2026-10-13 (slice 10121400-10): re-grep 張丁蘭/Tina Chang/丁蘭 across all 5 corpus dirs returned the identical 17-file hit set; the only files not already absorbed/held (works/index.md, sources/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org.md) are index listings, not source material — saturated, no new material, no new conflicts.

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