Taiwanese Americans

Taiwanese Americans (Chinese: 臺灣裔美國人) are Americans who carry full or partial ancestry from Taiwan. This includes American-born citizens who descend from migrants from Taiwan.^[3]

As of the 2010 U.S. Census, 49% of Taiwanese Americans lived in the state of California. New York and Texas have the second and third largest Taiwanese American populations, respectively.^[4] Notable Taiwanese Americans include Joy Burke, Elaine Chao, Steve Chen, Andrew Cherng, Michael Chang, Yuan Chang, David Ho, James C. Ho, Tony Hsieh, Jensen Huang, Min H. Kao, Justin Lin, Jeremy Lin, Lisa Su, Katherine Tai, William Wang, Nymphia Wind, Constance Wu, Michelle Wu, Andrew Yang, and Jerry Yang.

(member of the Michigan Senate)

Stephanie Chang

(United States Secretary of Labor in the George W. Bush Administration, and Secretary of Transportation in the Donald Trump Administration)

Elaine Chao

(United States Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit)

Raymond Chen

(2022 California State Controller candidate and policy director and chief policy adviser to the 2012 Mitt Romney presidential campaign).

Lanhee Chen

(California State Controller)

John Chiang

(City Attorney of San Francisco and former member of the California State Assembly)

David Chiu

Shing-Fu Hsueh (Mayor of )^[28]^[29]

West Windsor, New Jersey

(member of the United States House of Representatives, representing California's 33rd congressional district.)

Ted Lieu

(Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California)

Goodwin Liu

(former United States Attorney for the District of Columbia)

Jessie K. Liu

(former Comptroller of New York City)

John Liu

(member of the United States House of Representatives, representing New York's 6th congressional district in the New York City borough of Queens, elected in 2008)

Grace Meng

(member of the New York State Assembly, representing the 65th District in Lower Manhattan, elected in November 2016)

Yuh-Line Niou

(former U.S. Representative, 1st Taiwan born Congressman)

David Wu

(civil rights activist and scientist)

Sherman Wu

(Mayor of Boston, elected 2021, former member of the Boston City Council).

Michelle Wu

(United States Trade Representative)

Katherine Tai

(Mayoral candidate in the 2021 New York City Democratic primary, presidential candidate in the 2020 Democratic primary, and founder of Venture for America)^[30]

Andrew Yang

(former Mayor of Palo Alto, California)

Yiaway Yeh

Taiwanese Americans have also gradually increased their political engagement in the public sphere of the U.S. in recent years.

Notable examples include:

List of Taiwanese Americans

Hong Kong Americans

Chinese Americans

Hoklo Americans

Hakka Americans

Taiwanese people

Han Taiwanese

Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office

Taiwan-United States relations

Taiwanese people in New York City

Taiwanese Americans in Los Angeles

Taiwanese Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area

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History of Taiwanese Americans

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Formosan Association for Public Affairs

ITASA - Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association

UMCP TASA - University of Maryland College Park Taiwanese American Student Association

Taiwanese American Citizens League

Taiwanese American Foundation

TaiwaneseAmerican.org

Taiwan Center of America

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