Huping Ling

Huping Ling (Chinese: 令狐萍; pinyin: Lìnghú Píng) (born 1956) is a Professor of History, the founder of the Asian Studies Program, and the past department chair at Truman State University. She is the Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor by the Chinese Ministry of Education at Wuhan Theoretical Research Center of Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council and China Central Normal University, and a Visiting Professor of the Institute of Overseas Chinese Studies at Jinan University. She is the inaugural book series editor Asian American Studies Today for Rutgers University Press and served as the Executive Editor for the Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS 2008-2012). 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 published eleven books and over hundred articles on Asian American studies, including immigration and ethnicity, assimilation and adaptation, transnationalism, family and marriage, employment patterns, and community structures.

Ling first began her career in teaching as a high school teacher in Taiyuan,Shanxi, China from 1974 through 1978. She graduated from Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, PRC, with her bachelor's degree in history,ranked first in her class, in 1982. During the time of 1982-1985, she worked as an assistant professor of history at Shanxi University. In 1985, she was a visiting scholar for the history department at Georgetown University. She earned her master's in 1987 at the University of Oregon, and completed her Ph.D. at Miami University (1991). She began teaching as an assistant professor of history at Truman State University from 1991-1995. From 1996-2003 she was promoted to associate professor of history at Truman State University and then promoted as a professor of history in 2004. She is a visiting professor for Jinan University (Guangzhou, China) and for Central China Normal University (Wuhan, China). Internationally, she serves as a "consultant to the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Guangdong Provincial Government" and as a "consultant for the Female Writers Association in Shanxi Province". Nationally, in 2004 she was on the "Book Award Committee for the 46th Missouri Conference on History."

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