2017 TAHS Publication
Identity Snapshot
- Type: Community yearbook / elite profiles publication (台美菁英錄)
- Publisher: Taiwanese American Historical Society (|台美人歷史協會, TAHS)
- Year: 2017
- Pages: 1–118 (bilingual Chinese/English)
- Editors/Compilers: |周威廉, |周威霖, Edda Huang, 楊文顯, 楊遠薰, |陳婉真, |鄭炳全, etc.
Overview
Primary Tier-2/Tier-1 source for 2017 TAHS profiles of first- and second-generation Taiwanese Americans, plus founding essays, activity summary, and donor lists. Published by TAHS to document the community’s history and celebrate prominent members.
Coverage
Priority A people (pages)
- |楊嘉猷 (Charles Yang) — Founding President, TAHS
- |廖述宗 — Biochemist, NATPA founder, UC Chicago professor
- |楊信 — Former government advisor, entrepreneur
- |田詒鴻 (Alan Thian) — 皇佳銀行總裁; expanded from existing page
- |蘇姿丰 (Lisa T. Su) — AMD CEO
- |江俊輝 (John Chiang) — California State Controller
- |Franklin Ping Cheng — TAHS President 2014–2017
Priority B people (pages)
- |林福坤 (Lin Fu-kun) — Biotech entrepreneur (Amgen, EPO/Epogen)
- |徐新宏 (Hsu Hsin-hung) — 加州佳和企業集團董事長兼總裁
- |林元清 (Lin Yuan-qing) — Physician, 集集小孩
- |王桂榮 (Wang Gui-rong) — Entrepreneur, philanthropist
- |施劉秀枝 (Anne Shih) — Bowers Museum Chairman
- |王能祥 (Wang Neng-xiang) — Religious elder, Taiwan democracy lobbyist
- |蘇春槐 (Su Chun-huai) — Father of Lisa Su
- |張善良 (Sam Chang) — Hotel developer, 紐約台裔
- |蔡和杰 (Dr. Ho Chie Tsai) — |TaiwaneseAmerican.org founder
- |瑪莎·范德瑞爾 (Martha VanDriel) — Colonel, U.S. Army
- |陳宏傑 (Jack J. Chen) — Clinical Pharmacist PhD
- |黃愷怡 (Katherine Huang) — Attorney
- |吳瑞椿 (Bob J. Wu) — General surgeon
- |黃咏婷 (Tiffany Huang) — Filmmaker
- |楊小娜 (Shawna Yang Ryan) — Novelist, 2017 American Book Awards
Priority C / bylines (no page)
|黃樹人, |廖清山, 周威廉, 周威霖, 楊文顯, Edda Huang, 鄭炳全, 楊遠薰, 陳婉真, |曾恆利, |賴慧娜, 台美人歷史協會 整理
Institutions mentioned
- |TAHS
- NATPA (北美洲台灣人教授協會) — founded 1980 by 廖述宗 (disambiguate: national org, not SC chapter)
- |TAHS founding context from 緣起與展望 essay
Archives
- PDF pp.1–57:
knowledge/web-archives/2017-tahs-publication-p001-057.pdf - PDF pp.58–118:
knowledge/web-archives/2017-tahs-publication-p058-118.pdf - Text part1:
knowledge/web-archives/2017-tahs-publication-part1.md - Text part2:
knowledge/web-archives/2017-tahs-publication-part2.md - MANIFEST:
knowledge/web-archives/2017-tahs-publication-MANIFEST.json - Fact sheet:
knowledge/research/2017-tahs-publication-facts.md - TOC inventory:
knowledge/research/2017-tahs-publication-toc.md - Section map:
knowledge/research/2017-tahs-publication-sections.md
Archive Statistics
Verified against files on disk 2026-10-15 (kanban t_bb20f390, playbook P8).
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Source files | 9 (2 PDF + 2 text + 1 MANIFEST + 4 research) |
| Total size on disk | ~30.4 MB (31,841,824 bytes) |
| PDF part 1 (pp. 1–57) | 18,940,158 bytes |
| PDF part 2 (pp. 58–118) | 12,427,360 bytes |
| Extracted text | 261,832 chars (part1 130,639 + part2 131,193) |
| Pages covered | 118 (1–57 + 58–118) |
| URL count | 0 (local PDF extraction — no URL crawl; MANIFEST records no source URL) |
| Extraction | pdftotext -layout, 2026-07-17 (two-column interleave warning applies) |
| Checksums | 4/4 sha256 match MANIFEST (verified 2026-10-15) |
| Profiles listed | 22 (7 Priority A + 15 Priority B) — all migrated to living pages |
| Disk date | 2026-08-02 |
Source Notes and Confidence
- Content priority A: Named roles, dated claims, and biographical facts printed in publication
- Layout: Two-column
pdftotextextraction — long prose not fully reconstructed; fact bullets only - Self-profiles (Martha VanDriel, 陳宏傑, 黃愷怡, 吳瑞椿): higher factual reliability for personal details
- Living persons: default
verification_status: pending— needs steward review - Resolved: 周威廉 and 周威霖 are two distinct individuals (both listed as editors/compilers). 周威廉 wrote 緣起與展望 and the Sam Chang profile; 周威霖 (TAHS 秘書長) authored the 徐新宏, 王桂榮, and 王能祥 profiles. See
people/zhou-wei-liang.mdandpeople/zhou-wei-lin.md.
Evolution to Echopedia
This publication’s 22 profiles have been migrated into Echopedia as living person pages. Where the yearbook was a static snapshot, Echopedia is the continuously evolving memory of the Taiwanese American community.
Profiles migrated: All 22 people profiles are now living pages in Echopedia, with depth-floor-compliant facts and hyperlinked connections to organizations, sources, and related people.
Follow-up: The |2023 TAHS Publication (台美菁英錄 第二輯) is ingested as a source page and follows the same migration path.
Related Pages
- |Taiwanese American Historical Society (TAHS)
- Echopedia — Community Knowledge Hub
- |楊嘉猷 (Charles Yang)
- |廖述宗