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For VC Hans Tung, the personal becomes public in a growing campaign to ‘stop Asian hate’



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Longtime venture capitalist Hans Tung is a big guy. His size might just be lifesaving.
A first-generation Taiwanese-American who came to the U.S. and to LA specifically in 1984, it was a fraught time for the then 14-year-old. Two years earlier, a 27-year-old, Chinese-American draftsman named Vincent Chin was beaten to death in Detroit by a Chrysler plant supervisor and his stepson, a laid-off autoworker, who reportedly believed that Chin was of Japanese descent and were angry over the growing success of Japan’s auto industry. He was killed the night of his own bachelor party.
Anti-Asian sentiment may have …

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