Huping Ling is a professor of history and past department chair at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri, where she founded the Asian studies program. Her research focuses on Asian American studies, including immigration and ethnicity, assimilation and adaptation, family and marriage, feminism, employment patterns, and community structures. 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.
Education and career
Ling began her career in teaching as a high school teacher in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, from 1974 through 1978. In 1982, she graduated from Taiyuan's Shanxi University first in her class with a bachelor's degree in history. From 1982-85, she worked as an assistant professor of history at Shanxi University. In 1985, she was a visiting scholar at 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. She began teaching as an assistant professor of history at Truman State University from 1991-1995. In 1996, she became associate professor of history and full professor in 2004. She is a visiting professor with the Institute of Overseas Chinese Studies at Jinan University in Guangzhou, China. 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 in Wuhan. She also serves as:
Consultant for the Female Writers Association in Shanxi Province.
Member of the Board of Directors of Women Writers Association in Shanxi Province of the Chinese National Writers Association.
Executive editor of the Journal of Asian American Studies, the official journal of the Association for Asian American Studies. For the same organization, she has served as the Board Director and Representative of the Midwest/Mountain/Canada Region" from 2001-2003. Since 1999, she has been part of the "Steering Committee as a History Caucus."
She has published 11 books and more than 100 articles on Asian American studies, including immigration and ethnicity, assimilation and adaptation, transnationalism, family and marriage, employment patterns, and community structures. Those published works include:
"Chinese Chicago: Transnational Migration and Community, 1945-2010s." In Chinatown around the World, edited by Chee-Beng Tan and Bernard Wong, 2012.
"Negotiating Migration: Marriage and Changing Gender Roles among the Chinese Diaspora," In Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora, edited by Chee-Beng Tan, Routledge, 2012.
"Asian Americans in Missouri." In Asian America: A State by State Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Jun Xing, Greenwood Press, 2012.
"The Transnational World of Chinese Entrepreneurs in Chicago, 1870s to 1940s: New Sources and Perspectives on Southern Chinese Emigration." In Frontier History in China, Vol.6, No.3 : 370-406.
"The Changing Public Image of Chinese Americans and the Rise of China." In 21st Century International Review, : 10-15.
"Chinese-American women," In Women in American History: An Encyclopedia, edited by Hasia R. Diner, Facts on File, 2011.
"Chinese Immigrants," In Encyclopedia of the American Immigration, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen, Salem Press, 2010.
"Chinese Chicago: Transnational Migration and Businesses, 1890s-1930s." In Journal of Chinese Overseas Vol. 6 : 250-285.
She has also edited anthologies and was co-editor of Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia.
Honors
Ford Foundation Book Award.
2006: Walker and Doris Allen Fellowship award for faculty excellence, with a prize of $10,000. She was also a finalist for the same award for the previous year.
2006 Best Article Award at Missouri Conference on History
She has also been a semi-finalist several times for Truman's Educator of the Year award
Public appearances
Ling has made many public appearances. She has been featured in Top China, The World Journal, Chicago Daily Herald, Dallas Morning News, West End Word, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis Chinese American News, St. Louis Chinese Journal, the Overseas Chinese World, River Front Times, among others. She has appeared on radio talk programs including "Charles Brennan Show" KMOX 1120, "Voice of St. Louis", and KWMU 90.7 "St. Louis on the Air". 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. She has been featured in The World Journal, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, West End Word, St. Louis Chinese American News, St. Louis Chinese Journal, the Overseas Chinese World, River Front Times, among others. She has also been included in many books/encyclopedias on famous Chinese Americans and authors, and has been frequently invited to lecture on Asian cultures and Asian American experiences at conferences, universities, schools, libraries, government and private agencies, and community organizations
