title: “Phoebe Ga-Yi Chan: Formosa is Portuguese for “Beautiful”” type: work source_id: taiwaneseamerican-org value_band: C license: all-rights verification_status: pending last_reviewed: 2026-08-20 verified-saturation: “2026-10-13 (work-entity-linker: registry scan found no new entity links; 2 subject links already present)” ---# Phoebe Ga-Yi Chan: Formosa is Portuguese for “Beautiful”

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- Era: 2022 - Geography: Taiwanese America - Core roles: historical work (story; band C)

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- Date: 2022-01-15 - Byline: — - Original: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2022/01/phoebe-ga-yi-chan-formosa-is-portuguese-for-beautiful/ - Value band: C (A=oral/interview/community history · B=essay/feature · C=creative bib · D=chrome/skip) - License: all-rights

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