QuarterlyYAM. A Quarterly Publication of Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego

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1 A Quarterly Publication of Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego QuarterlyYAM JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH WINTER ISSUE 2008 Vol. 9 No. 4 Publisher: TAFSD Editor-in-Chief: Ted Fan Executive Editor: Evelyn Chang English Editor: Ching-Chih Chen Contributing Writers: Chong-Maw Chen, Ted Fan, Shie-Liang Hsieh, Michael Lin, K.C. Tu, Diara Wu For free subscription, please contact TACC: 7170 Convoy Court, San Diego, CA Tel: Fax: Website: taiwancenter@gmail.com *All articles are welcome for reprinting and quoting with a written notice to the editor. Team Taiwan Participates in the Susan Komen Race for the Cure on 12/2/07 Chin-Wen Chuang s Sculpture Exhibition Reception in TACC Gallery Donors Appreciation Concert & Dinner Andrea Yu Donors Appreciation Concert & Dinner Ruslan Biryukov & Mary Au

2 Chen Elected New President of TAFSD Chen Chong-Maw was elected to succeed Ching-Chih Chen as the President of TAFSD. Dr. Chong-Maw Chen received his B.S. degree in Biological Sciences from the National Taiwan Normal University, and Ph.D. in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry from the University of Kansas. Dr. Chen taught molecular biology at the University of Wisconsin, Parkside campus from 1971 to 2000, and served as an adjunct professor at Madison campus. During this period he established an Applied Molecular Biology Graduate Program/Research Institute, and served as the director of the Institute for ten years. Dr. Chen s specialty is in plant molecular biology. He has made important contributions in the field of plant gene expression, plant genetic engineering, gene control in cell cycle, and plant hormones. Dr. Chen was named as the University of Wisconsin System Distinguished Professor (1988 to 2000). He was frequently invited to present his scientific discoveries at various international symposia, and also taught molecular biology at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica in Taiwan (Summer, 1989), and at the Molecular Biology Institute, Nan Kai University in Tian-Jing (Summer, 1984). He served as a molecular biology consultant for pharmaceutical companies for many years. Dr. Chen & his wife Jo Ann have two daughters and one son. Honors & Awards Committee Announcement High School Scholarship Since 1997, TAFSD has been awarding yearly three or four scholarships to high school seniors of San Diego County. This year there will be at least four $500 scholarships. Applicants are evaluated in terms of their academic achievements, service to the community, and leadership ability. Two of the scholarships, however, are reserved for qualified applicants with financial needs. The deadline for application is April 15, Application forms can be downloaded from the TACC website: Taiwan Trip Award TAFSD presents annually a Taiwan Trip Award to a student selected from the Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair in March. The Award winner will receive up to $2,000 for a sponsored trip to Taiwan. The Award offers the winner an excellent opportunity to learn the richness and diversity of the Taiwanese culture. Mother s Day Special Award In 2002, TAFSD established a Kuan Chen Memorial Fund and began to grant a $2000 cash award annually to a deserving special mother in the Greater San Diego area. The recipient of the Award will be honored at the 2008 Mother s Day celebration. Mao-Chun Memorial Fund This fund was established in 2004 to provide assistance to children with cerebral palsy in the greater San Diego area. The Mao-Chun Memorial Fund will award $700 cash each year to one cerebral palsy suffering child under 14, or an organization engaged in the therapy, caring, or education of children with cerebral palsy. Career Mentoring Seminar What: In an effort to share our working-life experiences as young professionals, the San Diego Taiwanese-American Association (SDTAA) will be hosting a series of career mentoring seminars at our Taiwan Center starting in February Our goal is to help the next generation of young professionals get a head start by learning the path, risks and rewards of pursing traditional careers. For example, careers in law, medicine, engineering, business and education. Once a month, two professionals in each field will host a 1.5 hr. seminar at the Taiwan Center to introducing their educational path, daily work experience and their views on the industry s long-term outlook. A networking session will be available at the end of the seminar. Who: While every Taiwan-Center member is invited to our seminars, our target audience is aspiring professional who is currently in high school or college (17 to 25 years old). Topic & When: (Time: 11:30am-1:00pm) Engineering - Saturday, 02/16/08 Business - Saturday, 03/15/08 Law - Saturday, 04/12/08 Medicine - Saturday, 05/17/08 2 Website:

3 Culture and History Lecture Series (XXXV) Globalization and Taiwan Studies Speaker: K.C. Tu (Lai Ho and Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Date and Time: January 20, Sunday, 3 PM Place: TACC Auditorium As we know, before the 1980s Taiwan was not a distinct field of study and scholars whose research focused on Taiwan were rare. Active research in Taiwan had to wait until repeal of martial law in 1987, or even after penal law 100 on crime against internal order was abolished in 1992, and only then in the mid-1990s did it gradually develop. After 1995, departments of Taiwanese literature began to be established one after another and, in response to the change of the ruling party in 2000, nativist consciousness became more and more prominent, and Taiwan studies in Taiwan began to gain momentum. Today, research in Taiwan studies has actually become a global phenomenon. The historical and social context for the emergence of this phenomenon has been briefly explained in the Foreword to the fourth issue of the journal Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series, entitled Voices of Nativist Literature in Taiwan (January 1999). At the awakening of nativist consciousness in the 1980s, Taiwan-related research has been reoriented to adopt Taiwan s position and viewpoint and has newly rediscovered Taiwan s native culture and reviewed and reinterpreted its literature, history, and humanities, and society. Since the position has changed, the vision is bound to differ, and the perspectives and viewpoints on Taiwan literature and studies are entirely different from the past. This shift obviously was a response to the trend of the times influenced by the study and reexamination of colonialism and Orientalism since the 1980s. Thus, Taiwan studies has become an ascendant field, and many scholars in Taiwan and abroad have directed their research interests to Taiwan and are immersed in theoretical explorations, interpretations, and criticisms of Taiwan and its people, history, culture, society, politics, economics, as well as its past, present, and future. After all, what is Taiwan literature or Taiwanese culture? What are the subjectivity and particularities of Taiwan? How should one understand Taiwan s history and social development, interpret Taiwanese peoples and their life, customs, thinking, religions and beliefs, and how should one represent, interpret and evaluate the phenomena and achievements of Taiwan and its literature, arts, and culture? These, in fact, are the issues and topics to be discussed relevant to Taiwan studies. Kuo-Ch ing Tu was born in Taiwan. He studied English Literature at National Taiwan University (B.A. 1963), Japanese Literature at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan (M.A. 1970), and Chinese Literature at Stanford University (Ph.D. 1974) Tu is currently Chair Professor, Lai Ho and Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies, at the University of Califirnia, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and Director, The center for Taiwan Studies, UCSB. He is also a renowned poet himself. Other than academic research books and papers, and translations of literature works, he has published many volumes of poetry. Book Club Title: TAIWAN: The Threatened Democracy Author: Bruce Herschensohn Time: March 30, 2008, Sunday, 3pm Place: Taiwanese American Community Center Speaker: Wu-Hung Liu Health Seminar Arthritis in Elderly 02/10/2008, Sunday, 2:00 pm Speaker: Patricia Tsung M.D Dr. Patricia Tsung, daughter of Dr. Chun-Long (Jerry) Tsung, was bron in New York. She received her B.A. in Utilizing his long-held access to officials in both the United States and Taiwan, the author traces their relationship from the Maoist era through the cold war to today, looks into actions of the United State regarding Taiwan, explores the complex situation of Taiwan s world status, and projects what the future might be. Biology from Wellesley College and her M.D. degree from State University of NY in Stony Brook. Dr. Tsung did her rehabilitation medicine residency at Columbia University Presbyterian Hospital, currently she is with Kaiser Permanente Hospital in San Diego. YAM Quarterly 2008 Winter 3

4 Culture and History Lecture Series (XXXIV) Speaker: Diana Wu Date and Time: January 13, Sunday, 2:00 pm Place: TACC Auditorium Japanese drumming, better known as taiko, was first brought to North America in 1968 by Grand Master Seiichi Tanaka and has become established as a quintessential characteristic of Asian American culture. Although primarily associated with Japan, the art form of drumming spans many countries outside of it, including Taiwan itself, as evidenced by the performance group U Theatre located near Taipei. Diana Wu is a recent graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where she was an active member of its collegiate taiko group, Raijin Taiko. Currently residing in San Diego and working in the biotech field, she is a strong advocate of also exercising art and creativity in a person s lifestyle. Having had a tremendous experience with taiko in college, she would like to spread this activity to others in the community and has also proposed to start a taiko group here at the Taiwan center for those who are interested. This presentation will expose the audience to more of the history and culture of taiko drumming both past and present. It will then be followed by a hands-on workshop where everyone will have the opportunity to learn the basics of taiko form and style. No prior experience is necessary, just plenty of enthusiasm! contact NaruwanTaiko@gmail.com for a sign-up form if you are interested in participating, so that we may get an idea of number of participants. All ages are welcome, but please sign up soon because space could become limited. At the end of the workshop, there will be an announcement about starting a permanent taiko group at the Taiwan center and those who are interested in continuing to learn taiko as well as those with prior experience can stay after to obtain more information. Understanding Science Seminar Series (IX) Glycoimmunology: An Emerging Discipline in Host-Pathogen Interaction Speaker: Professor Shie-Liang Hsieh (Director, Immunology Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan) Date and Time: February 16, Saturday, 2 pm Place: Auditorium, TACC *Lecture organized by the TAFSD and co-sponsored by the North America Taiwanese Professors Association, Southern California Chapter. How host recognizes foreign antigens in the first encounter, before antibody production and T cell responses, is an unsolved mystery. Immune cells express abundant surface lectin receptors that are able to recognize the structure of glycans. However, the functions of these receptors have not been investigated systemically. Glycosylation is one of the common and complex post-translational modifications, and polysaccharides expressed on the surface of pathogens and cancer cells are important in the recognition by immune cells and in vaccine development. The SARS near pandemic in 2003 raised my curiosity on how host cells recognize this novel pathogen at the first contact. To solve this problem, a platform technology was developed to identify the potential ligands on the surface of viruses and other pathogens, and to obtain the fingerprinting of the sugar components of Chinese herbal drugs. Currently, their potential in vaccine and drug development is under investigation. Shie-Liang Hsieh, born in Taipei, Taiwan, received his M.D. degree at the National Yang-Ming University (1984), and Ph.D. degree in immunology and biochemistry at University of Oxford, United Kingdom (1992). Under the fellowship support of Johnson & Johnson, he spent one year (1993) as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University where he worked with Professor Hugh O. McDevitt. Currently Professor Hsieh is the Director of Immunology Research Center at the National Yang-Ming University. He is also a joint appointment research fellow with the Genomics Research Center at the Academic Sinica of Taiwan. Among many teaching and research awards, he was recognized by the National Science Council of Taiwan in 1999 and Website:

5 TAFSD Key Financial Information Year to Date ended Sept 30, 2007 TAFSD/TACC General Permanent Kuan Chen Children Speical Fund Site Fund Memorial Fund Needs Fund Total Contribution 23, $23,016 Other Support 105, $105,727 Investment Income 10, ,260 4, $147,739 Expenses (-) (194,843) (4,000) 0 $(198,843) Net Operating Surplus (55,889) 132, $77,639 Fund Balance $496,167 $2,922,815 $63,754 $9,151 $3,491,887 台灣中心 2008 冬季課程表 /TACC WINTER 2008 CLASS TABLE 課程 Class 日期 Date 時間 Time 內容 Class Description 老師 費用 Fee 備註 Note 太極拳班 Tai Ji Quan 週三 (Wed) 7:30pm - 8:30pm ( 鄭式 ) 週六 (Sat) 10:00am - 11:30pm ( 吳式 ) 鄭子太極拳三十七式 Traditional 37-posture Tai Ji Quan for self-defense and health 吳氏氣功太極拳三十七式及氣功太極劍 Traditional 37-posture Tai Ji Quan for self-defense and health 林佳美 胡應禮 免費 Free $50 for 10 classes 劍道班 Kendo 請預先向台灣中心報名 6:00pm~7:30pm Beginner 7:30pm~9:30pm Regular 由林富德老師 ( 劍道五段 ) 擔任指導, 歡迎各年齡層對劍道有興趣者參加 Welcome all ages and levels Chief instructor Frederick Lin,(Kendo 5-den) 林富德 Fred Lin $40 for 8 classes 有氧舞蹈班 Aerobics Class 週二 (Tue) 10:00am - 12:00pm 10:00am - 12:00pm 有氧運動, 地板操, 新潮舞步 Aerobics, Flooring, New Dance 吳淑宜 Suzy Wu $50 for 10 classes 初級台語班 Taiwanese 7:30pm 台語會話 Taiwanese Conversation 黃獻麟 Steve Huang 酌收工本費 Material Cost 英文口音矯正班 Accent Reduction 矯正你的英文口音 Reduce your English accent 陳姿安 Joanne Chen 古箏班 Guzheng Class 詳情 週六 (Sat) 10:00am - 6:00pm 基本彈箏技巧 * 可向老師租購古箏 The basics of playing traditional Chinese Instrument, Guzheng. **Rental is available 李清 Cathy Lee : 李清 Cathy Lee