Huping Ling

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ABOUT HUPING LING

An internationally renowned historian and prolific award-winning writer, Huping Ling() is Professor Emerita of History, the founder of the Asian Studies Program, and the past department chair at Truman State University. She is the Lifetime Achievement Award Winner 2024, Association for Asian American Studies She was the Visiting Research Fellow at Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Scholar Chair Professor of the Chinese Ministry of Education, a Visiting Professor of the Institute of Overseas Chinese Studies at Jinan University, and a Visiting Research Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. She is the funding and inaugural book series editor Asian American Studies Today for Rutgers University Press and served as the Executive Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS 20••••12). She also serves as a consultant to the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Guangdong Provincial Government and on the Board of Directors of Women Writers Association in Shanxi Province of the Chinese National Writers Association. A Ford Foundation Prize-winning author, she has authored/edited more than 37 books and published over 200 articles on Asian American studies, including topics on immigration and ethnicity, assimilation and adaptation, transnationalism, family and marriage, employment patterns, and community structures. She has been featured in PBS (May 4the, 2023), Top China (June 1, 2013), The World Journal (May 22, 2011, June 28, 2020, Jan. 22, 2017, Dec.17, 2016, Feb. 2, 2012, and Jan. 15, 2006,), Chicago Daily Herald, Dallas Morning News, West End Word (Feb. 4, 2005), St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Feb. 2, 2005), St. Louis Chinese American News, St. Louis Chinese Journal, the Overseas Chinese World, River Front Times, among others, and appeared at “Charles Brennan Show” KMOX 1120, “Voice of St. Louis” (Feb. 4, 2005), KWMU 90.7 (NPR in St. Louis) “St. Louis on the Air” (July 5, 2005), among others. She has also been included in many books/encyclopedias on famous Chinese Americans and authors. She is frequently invited to lecture on Asian cultures and Asian American experiences at conferences, universities, schools, libraries, government and private agencies, and community organizations, nationally and internationally.