Oscar Tang

Oscar Liu-Chien Tang (Chinese: 唐騮千; pinyin: Táng Liúqiān; born 1938) is a Chinese-born American businessman, financier,[1] investor, and philanthropist.

[4] His future wife, Frances Young, attended Andover's sister school, Abbot Academy (’57),[5] and she went on to Skidmore College (’61).

[8] Tang was educated at Yale University, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

[10] Oscar Tang purchased Kampgrounds of America after the 1970s energy crisis battered the fortunes of travel-related companies, calling it "a very attractively priced asset.

Tang Ping-yuan received many honors in his lifetime including Justice of the Peace and Order of the British Empire.

[19][20][21][22] Tracy now is a philanthropist and the chairman of the board at the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, NY, her alma mater (’80, P’18).

In 2013 Tang married Agnes Hsu-Tang (née Hsin-Mei Hsu),[30] a Penn-, Cambridge-, and Stanford-educated archaeologist[31] and UNESCO advisor on the faculty at Columbia University.

[33][34] Chinese and Singaporean press has widely reported that Hsu is a descendant of the Ming dynasty Catholic imperial minister Xu Guangqi[35] who was beatified by the Vatican on April 15, 2011[36] and regarded by many to be the founder of modern Shanghai.

[37][failed verification] Hsu's maternal great-grandfather was Ji Xiaolan, the Qianlong Emperor's imperial minister of war and poet laureate.

[38][39] Tang's brother-in-law was Princeton University professor, Wen Fong, who was attributed to have "helped to create and shape the academic field of East Asian art history as we know it today.

In June 2016, Tang was honored by the Metropolitan Museum with its Business Committee Civic Leadership Award for his service and contribution as a longtime trustee and philanthropist.

[57] After the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, Tang worked with other high-profile Chinese-Americans to found the Committee of 100, including Yo-yo Ma and I.M.

[56] The gift was used to support "need-blind admission" allowing smart students from less affluent families to attend the elite boarding school, according to headmaster Barbara Landis Chase.

[59] "A physical and virtual hub for entrepreneurial exploration, the Tang Institute at Andover supports community ideas for innovative approaches to teaching and learning.

Focused on the Andover experience and advances in secondary education more broadly, the Institute encourages experimentation, interdisciplinary collaboration, new partnerships, connected learning, and ongoing assessment.

By harnessing the intellectual curiosity and creativity of faculty and students—both in and out of the classroom—the Tang Institute seeks to have a lasting impact on campus and beyond."

[60] He gave $14 million in 1997 to enable the museum to purchase rare and valuable Chinese paintings, most notably what is commonly known as the Riverbank by Dong Yuan.

[65] Both Peter May and Oscar Tang currently serve on the Board of Directors, and have supported Philharmonic projects including co-chairing Opening, Lunar New Year, and Spring Galas.

On September 12, 2023, the New York Philharmonic announced that the organization has received a gift of 40 millions, the largest endowment contribution in its history, from Co-Chairman Oscar Tang and his wife, Agnes Hsu-Tang.

Oscar and Agnes Hsu-Tang in 2013
This 962 A.D. painting by Chinese artist Dong Yuan is one of the earliest landscapes which created the illusion of depth and distance on a silk canvas. Tang bought it for New York's Metropolitan Museum in 1997.