Wendy Cheng (鄭昕)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Wendy Cheng
  • Chinese: 鄭昕
  • Era: Contemporary
  • Geography: 聖地牙哥
  • Core roles: professor, artist, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • Harvard University — A.B.English
  • UC Berkeley — M.A. Geography
  • USC — Ph.D. American Studies and Ethnicity

Employment

  • Asian Pacific American studies — present — assistant professor
  • writer and photographer — present

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

  • Father: |Dr. Edward Cheng (鄭德昌) — 其女王溫蒂(Wendy Cheng)撰悼念文 [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories300|TAH #300 In memory of Dr. Edward Cheng(2015/07)]],據此確立父女關係。
  • Mother: |賴淑卿 (Shu-ching Cheng) — 黃正源回憶錄記台美基金會董事會選出 賴淑卿 與 鄭德昌 夫婦為董事;與上條父職相合,推定為母(據夫婦關係+同姓氏,未見直接「母女」字樣,屬高置信推定)。

Role in the Community

  • TAH 收錄其著作兩部:509. The Changs Next door to The Diazes(2013, 文學)、510. A People’s Guide to Los Angeles(2012, 文學)。
  • 學術研究被海外臺灣運動史引用:其 Amerasia Journal 論文〈The Taiwan Revolutionary Party and Sinophone Political Praxis in New York, 1970–1986〉(2019)見 357. 舊金山灣區臺灣人的社團活動與家國意識之形成/何義麟 註腳,研究臺獨聯盟與刺蔣行動時期的臺灣民族主義。
  • 現職教職期間持續參與臺灣研究公開活動:UCSD Center of Taiwan Studies 創辦人年終訊息 390. 2023 in Review 提及 2024 年 1 月其關於 Cold War Taiwan 新書的书評座談(book talk)。
  • 本人 TAH Who’s Who 條目:02。
  • 貢獻紀念性文字於TAHS故事庫:悼念文〈In memory of Dr. Edward Cheng〉(2015/07,300. In memory of Dr. Edward Cheng/Wendy Cheng),悼念對象見 Dr. Edward Cheng 條目。
  • HOLD: conflict — tah-tables 現職為「assistant professor」(2015 年條目),2023 UCSD 訊息以「Prof. Wendy Cheng」且列為 Center of Taiwan Studies 相關講者;職稱沿革未合併。
  • 2023 年著作《Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism》獲臺美人媒體書評列為臺美人必讀(priority A):Wendy Cheng’s “ISLAND X” is essential reading for Taiwanese Americans(2023-11-26);書中處理 1960–1980 年代留美臺灣學生與Cold War臺獨運動,與本庫運動史主題直接相關。
  • Corpus re-verify (deepen-x 09220400-13, 2026-09-22): fresh scan of works/ + articles/ — new hit wendy-cheng-island-x absorbed above; other records already covered (TAH #275 entry, our-journeys-357 footnote, our-journeys-390, publications 509/510, mystories300).
  • 學說被 TAH 運動史書評直接引用為框架:06)引其論述「among these students, were many who identified, or would soon come to identify, as Taiwanese」,以定義1970–80年代留美學生的臺灣認同形成(先於《Island X》出版)。
  • Corpus re-verify (deepen-x 09221200-9, 2026-09-23): fresh scan works/ + articles/ — new hit our-journeys-372 absorbed above; remaining hits (357/390/509/510/mystories300/island-x) already linked.
  • 《Island X》另被 TAHS 社群推薦書單收錄:Community Resources for Taiwanese American Parents & Families 將其列為台美家庭認識臺灣/臺美人歷史的學術推薦(該紀錄並提及 Grace Lin、Michelle Kuo 等作者)。
  • Corpus re-verify (deepen-x 09230600-9, 2026-09-24): fresh scan works/ + articles/ — new hit community-resources 書單收錄 Island X,已吸收於上;其餘命中(whos/357/372/390/509/510/mystories300/island-x)皆已連結。無衝突須 HOLD。
  • Corpus re-scan(deepen-x slice 09240600-5, 2026-09-25):新增命中 Taiwanese American Film(2007 影人專欄) 記「Wendy Seo-Ling Cheng」為 NYU Tisch 電影碩士生(Cornell 文學背景、獲兩項獎學金、劇作〈Moon Lady〉製作中)。HOLD: conflict — 該簡歷(Cornell/Tisch 電影創作)與本頁 TAH #275 學術簡歷(Harvard A.B.、UC Berkeley M.A.、USC Ph.D.)不合,同名未確認,不併入 Identity Snapshot。其餘命中(whos/357/372/390/509/510/mystories300/island-x/community-resources)皆已連結,無其他新材料。
  • Corpus re-verify(deepen-x slice 10100600-9, 2026-10-11):fresh grep 鄭昕/Wendy Cheng/Wendy Seo-Ling Cheng across works/articles/sources/events/topics — 12 檔命中全數已連結(whos-275/357/372/390/509/510/mystories300/island-x/community-resources/taiwanese-american-film/works-index/sources hub)。本輪核對 372 引文原文(「identified, or would soon come to identify, as Taiwanese」)與 390 書評座談日期無誤;無新命中、無新衝突須 HOLD。
  • Corpus re-verify(deepen-x slice 10110200-14, 2026-10-12):fresh exact-name grep 鄭昕/Wendy Cheng/Wendy Seo-Ling across all 5 corpus dirs — same 12 hits, all already linked; spot-checked 357 footnote(Amerasia Journal 2019 引用無誤)與 mystories300 悼念文作者署名無誤。無新命中、無新衝突須 HOLD。

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