Huping Ling

An internationally renowned historian and prolific award-winning writer, Huping Ling(Ping Linghu 令狐萍) is a Professor of History, the founder of the Asian Studies Program, and the past department chair at Truman State University. She is the Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Scholar Chair Professor of the Chinese Ministry of Education, and a Visiting Professor of the Institute of Overseas Chinese Studies at Jinan University. She is the funding and inaugural book series editor Asian American Studies Today for Rutgers University Press, on the Editorial Board of Overseas Chinese History Study, the Overseas Chinese History Research Institution, Beijing, China, and served as the Executive Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS 2008-2012). She is also on the Board of Directors of the Chinese Historical Society of Overseas Chinese Studies, the editorial board of Overseas Chinese History Studies, and 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 26 books and published over hundred 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 Top China (June 1, 2013), The World Journal (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.

Her recent books include A New Chinese American History (Chinese Overseas Publishing House, 2017), Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia (in Chinese, World Book Publishing Company 2016), Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community Since 1870 (in Chinese, World Book Publishing Company, 2015), Jinshan Yao: A History of Chinese American Women (Expanded and Revised Edition in Classical Chinese. Taipei: Showwei, 2015), Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community Since 1870 (Stanford U. Press, 2012), Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia (co-editor, 2 Vols. M. E. Sharpe, 2010, Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin Editors' Choice 2010 Award), Asian America: Forming New Communities, Expanding Boundaries (Rutgers U. Press, 2009), Emerging Voices: the Experiences of the Underrepresented Asian Americans (Rutgers U. Press, 2008), Voices of the Heart: Asian American Women on Immigration, Work, and Family (Truman State U. Press, 2007), Chinese in St. Louis: 1857-2007 (Arcadia, 2007), Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community (Temple U. Press, 2004), Pin Piao Mei Guo: New Immigrants in America (Beiyue Literature and Arts Publishing House, 2003), Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives (SUNY, 1998), and Jinshan Yao: A History of Chinese American Women (Chinese Social Science Publishing House, 1999, winner of Ford Foundation Book Award, in American Studies Series by the Chinese Academy of Social Science).

She has contributed over hundred articles to major professional journals, anthologies, textbooks, and encyclopedias such as The Journal of American Ethnic History, The Journal of Urban History, Missouri Historical Review, The History Teacher, The American Studies (by the Chinese Social Science Academy), The Review of Modern History of Chinese Women (by the Academia Sinica of Taiwan), Asian American Children (Greenwood Press, 2004), Imperial China, 617-1644 (Manly, Inc., 2002), Great Events of the Twenties Century (Salem Press, 2001), Modernity and Cultural Identity in Taiwan (Global Publishing Co. Inc., 2001), New Studies on Chinese Overseas and China (Leiden, Holland, 2000), Intercultural Relations, Cultural Transformation, and Identity (Manila, 2000), Ethnic Chinese at Turn of Centuries (Fujian: 1998), Asian American Encyclopedia (Marshall Cavendish Corp., 1995), and Origins and Destinations (UCLA, 1994). She was invited as a columnist by the St. Louis Chinese American News to write the history column Chinese St. Louisans consisting of 30 articles. She also contributes essays for the World Journal and St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

She is a recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor by the Chinese Ministry of Education, the Ford Foundation Book Award, Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin Editors' Choice 2010 Award, American Fellow of AAUW, Allen Fellowship for Faculty Excellence 2006 with $10,000 prize, Best Article Award at 2006 Missouri Conference on History, the Distinguished 76th Boya Lecturer at China Central Normal University, and Rosenberg Institute Visiting Scholar at Suffolk University in Boston, among others. She is the past board director and the Midwest/ Mountain/Canada representative of the Association for Asian American Studies.