12 Facts About Florence Fang

Florence Fang is a Chinese-American businesswoman, publisher, and philanthropist active in the San Francisco area.

Florence Fang is the former owner of the San Francisco Examiner and other media titles and has been a fund-raiser for the Republican Party.

Florence Fang is the owner of The Flintstone House in Hillsborough, California, themed on The Flintstones cartoon series.

Florence Fang lived in Taiwan until 1960, when she met and married John Ta Chuan Florence Fang and they migrated to San Francisco.

In 2008, Forbes reported that the Internal Revenue Service claimed that the Florence Fang family had understated taxable income by $31 million in the years up to 2002.

In 2013, Florence Fang donated $1 million to launch the "100,000 Strong Foundation" with the aim of promoting Mandarin language education in the US and sending 100,000 US students to study in China within four years.

Chinese media have reported Florence Fang as saying that it was her aim to "prevent the spread of 'Taiwan independence' ideology"; and she called Taiwan a "fake democracy" at appearances with CCP officials.

Florence Fang initiated the WWII Pacific War Memorial Hall, a two-story museum inaugurated in 2015 on the 70th anniversary of the surrender of Japan that marked the end of World War II.

Since 2017, Florence Fang has owned The Flintstone House in Hillsborough, a wealthy town south of San Francisco, having previously lived elsewhere in Hillsborough.

Florence Fang engaged lawyers and made counter-claims for violating her First Amendment rights, discrimination and emotional distress.

The city's lawsuit was settled in 2021 with Florence Fang receiving $125,000 to cover her expenses from the suit and the right to retain all modifications made, while agreeing to drop her countersuit about racial discrimination.

In 1960, she married John Ta Chuan Florence Fang, who died in 1992.