Tom Yang (楊東傑)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Tom Yang
- Chinese: 楊東傑
- Era: 1923
- Geography: 台灣台南市
- Core roles: entrepreneur, physician
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
Education
- 日本東京慈惠 — B.S.醫科
- 賓州大學 — 1955 — M.S.放射科
Employment
- 台大醫學院 — 圖書館分館主任
- 台大醫學院 — 放射線科主治醫師
- Arbington Memorial Hospital — 1955-1956 — Radiology Fellow
- 楊放射科診所 — 1957 — 創辦者
- 馬偕醫院 — 1972 — 放射科主任
- Columbia Presbyterian Hospital — 1978 — Radiology Fellow
- 馬偕醫院 — 1980 — 放射科主任，及台東分院院長
- 台北仁濟醫院 — 1993 — 顧問
Family
- Son: |楊明昊
Role in the Community
Primary material from fellow founders’ memoirs in the TAHS corpus positions Yang as a pioneer of the North American Taiwanese independence movement:
- Co-founder (eldest of five) of 台灣人自由台灣協會 (Formosans’ Free Formosa, “3F”), founded 1956 in Philadelphia with 林榮勳, 陳以德, 林錫湖 and 盧主義; 3F reorganized into the 台灣獨立聯盟 (UFI) in 1958 (盧主義).
- Group photograph of the five 3F members, dated 1956-01-01, preserved in the corpus (198. 林榮勳、林錫湖、陳以德、楊東傑和盧主義 (3F members)).
- Subject of 李正三’s essay on the “費城四傑” who first sounded the call for Taiwanese independence in North America (李正三).
- From 盧主義’s memoir: eldest son of 楊雲龍, an ophthalmologist in 台南; 台南一中 graduate; returned to Taiwan from 東京慈惠 in January 1947, just before the 228 incident; sailed for the US in 1953 and entered the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Medicine in 1954 to study radiology; shared a house near Penn with 林榮勳 and 陳以德, and worked as a church and textile-factory caretaker to cover living costs. Also mentioned in 張炎憲’s family memoir (張炎憲).
- Profiled in TAH Who’s Who #913 (2016/05) (913. Tom Yang 楊東傑).
- Corpus re-pass 2026-09-22 (deepen-x slice 09212352-10): fresh ZH+EN grep returns the same 3F/UFI memoir cluster already documented above; no new corpus material, no conflicts.
- Corpus re-pass 2026-09-23 (deepen-x slice 09221000-9): SKIP — fresh ZH+EN grep returns the same 3F/UFI memoir cluster already linked above (ourjourneys85 ZH+EN, ourjourneys33, 費城四傑 #10, 五人合影 #198, own #913); no new corpus material, no conflicts.
- Corpus re-pass 2026-09-21 (deepen-x slice 09210400-3): fresh grep returns the same 3F/UFI memoir cluster already documented above; 盧主義’s founding account is now also held in English ( Tsu-Yi Jay Loo) — same account, no new facts, no conflicts.
- Corpus re-pass 2026-09-24 (deepen-x slice 09230500-19): SKIP — fresh ZH+EN grep returns the same 3F/UFI memoir cluster already linked above (ourjourneys85 ZH+EN, ourjourneys33, 費城四傑 #10, 五人合影 #198, own #913); no new corpus material, no conflicts.
- 盧主義（Jay Loo）親述的延攬經過：1955 年 9 月初某晚，楊東傑主動到費城 Temple University 醫學院附近房間拜訪學弟盧主義（台南一中晚他九年的學長，奉另一位台南學長之託來延攬），隨後同赴西費城與就讀賓州大學的陳以德（Edward Chen，國際關係）、林錫湖（Echo Lin，有機化學博士班）、以及來自台北的林榮勳（John Lin，國際關係）會面；楊當時是 Abington Memorial Hospital 放射科住院醫師。五人自此每週末聚會，談論對國民黨腐敗與壓抑的憤怒，最終由盧主義喊出「我們可以 advocate 台灣獨立」而催生 3F（ Jay Loo 自傳, band A）。
- 2022-08-30 同志悼文〈懷念楊東傑醫師—Remembering Dr. Tom Yang〉收入 TAH 故事語料庫（ 2022-08-30）。
- HOLD: 3F 集會起始時間 — Jay Loo 自傳記 1955 年 9 月五人已每週聚會酝酿，既有記載為 1956 年費城成立；兩者未合併，各依出處。
- Corpus re-pass 2026-09-26 (deepen-x slice 09260317-30): fresh ZH+EN grep returns the same 3F/UFI cluster PLUS two new records now absorbed above (my-stories-897 Jay Loo 自傳英文版、my-stories-851 悼文書目).
- Corpus re-pass 2026-10-09 (deepen-x slice 10081009-21): SKIP — fresh ZH+EN+東傑 grep across works/articles/sources/events/topics returns 10 files, all already linked above (ourjourneys85 ZH+EN, ourjourneys33, 費城四傑 #10, 五人合影 #198, my-stories-851 悼文, my-stories-897 Jay Loo 自傳, whoswho913, plus works/index and source index listings); verified-saturated, no new corpus material, no conflicts.