Business Career and Family
In 1970, Tang founded an investment firm known as Reich and Tang in New York City. He headed the firm until 1993. The firm was highly profitable. It is now part of the investment bank Natixis. After the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, Tang worked with other high-profile Chinese-Americans, including Yo-yo Ma and I.M. Pei, to "encourage rapport and understanding between two countries." His wife Frances Young Tang was a philanthropist who specialized in landmark preservation. In 1992, she died at the age of 53 from cancer. His daughter Dana Tang married Andrew Haid Darrell in 1998.
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