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Yang Shih-kuang

Taiwanese politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ64997834 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yang Shih-kuang (Chinese: 楊世光; pinyin: Yáng Shìguāng; born 1976) is a Taiwanese television presenter.

Yang was a television host for the EBC Financial News Channel, and later served as the leader of the New Party Youth Corps. On 2 July 2019, Yang was nominated by the New Party as its candidate for the 2020 Taiwan presidential election. Yang ended his presidential campaign on 1 November 2019.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Yang Shih-kuang” as taiwanese politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976, 2019, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-10-24. The account is most persuasive where Yang, Shih-kuang and Taiwanese can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as taiwanese politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q64997834. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1976, 2019 and 2020.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  2. Expand the search: follow Yang Shih-kuang primary sources, Yang Shih-kuang archive and Yang research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “Yang Shih-kuang” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.