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Education and Career
EDUCATION
Ph.D., history, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1988-1991
M.A., history, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 1986-1987
B.A., history, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, PRC, 1978-82
TEACHING EXPERIENCES
2004- : Professor of History, Division of Social Science, Truman State University
1996- 2003: Associate Professor of History, Division of Social Science, Truman
1998-1999: Visiting Professor, History Department, Washington University
1991-1995: Assistant Professor of History, Division of Social Science, Truman
1991: Instructor, History Department, Miami University
1988-1991: Graduate Teaching Fellow, History Department, Miami University
1986-1987: Graduate Teaching Fellow, History Department, University of Oregon
1985: Visiting Scholar, History Department, Georgetown University
1982-1985: Assistant Professor of History, History Department, Shanxi University, P.R.China
1974-1978: Teacher, Chinese Language and Literature, No.21 High School, Taiyuan, Shanxi,
P. R. China
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND COMMITTEE WORK
International
• Consultant, Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Guangdong Provincial Government, 2006-present
• Consultant, Female Writers Association, Shanxi Province, PRC, 2004-present
National
• Editorial Board, Journal of Asian American Studies, 2004-present
• Book Award Committee, the 46th Missouri Conference on History, 2004
• Board Director and the Representative of the Midwest/Mountain/Canada Region of the Association for Asian American Studies, 2001-2003
• Program Committee of the 19th Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, 2002
• Steering Committee, History Caucus, Association for Asian American Studies, 1999-present
Chair of panels at conferences by the International Society of Studies of Chinese Overseas
• Editorial Advisory Board for Making Sense of Women’s Lives (San Diego: Collegiate Press, 2003)
• Reviewer, The Choice, 2003-present
• Reviewer, The Journal of Urban History, 2002-present
• Reviewer, International Migration Review, 1999-present
• Reviewer, The Journal of American Ethnic History, 1997-present
• Reviewer, The Journal of American History, Organization of American Historians, 1993-present
• Reviewer, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, University of Chicago Press, 1994-present
• Reviewer, book manuscripts, University of Hawaii Press, Edwin Mellen Publisher
• Reviewer, textbooks, Prentice Hall, Wadsworth Publishing Co.
• Consultant, National Exhibit Advisory Council, Chinese Historical Society of America, 1997
• Consultant, TV series on Chinese American Women, 1993
Local
• Convener, History Department, Truman, 2004-2005
• Truman State University Press Board, 2005-2008
• Graduate Council, Truman, 1993-1999
• Asian Studies Minor Committee, 2001-present, Chair, 2005-present
• International Studies Minor Committee, Truman, 1996-present
• Truman State University Foundation Scholarship Review Committee, 2002-present
• Intercultural Committee, Truman, 1997-1999
• History Honors Committee, Truman, 1995-96, 2007-present
• David D. and Lois R. March Scholarship Committee, Truman, 1994-present
• IRB Review Committee in History, Truman, 1996-present
• Faculty Associate of Missouri South Residential College, Truman, 1991-1998
• Faculty Advisor of the sorority Sigma Chi Delta, Truman, 1992-97
• Board of Directors, The University Faculty Club, Truman, 1992-93
• Committee on Women Graduate Students of Graduate Council, Miami University, 1988-91
• President of Chinese Students and Scholars Association at Miami University, 1988-90
• International Student Leadership Conference, Columbus, Ohio, October, 26-28, 1988
Selected Awards/Recognitions on Community Service
• Futured article “Ping Piao Meiguo: A Prominent Historian Huping Ling,” by NengerJin, The World Journal (the largest Chinese language daily newspaper in North America), Jan. 15, 2006.
• Featured guest with host Harriett Woods (former Lieutenant Governor of Missouri) at KWMU 90.7 (NPR in St. Louis) “St. Louis on the Air,” July 5, 2005
• Featured guest at “Charles Brennan Show” KMOX Radio Station, “Voice of St. Louis” Feb. 4, 2005
• Featured article, “New Book Detail St. Louis Chinese Heritage,” by John M. McGuire, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Feb. 2, 2005
• Featured article, “Breaking Out,” by Sara Porter, West End Word, Feb. 4, 2005.
• Named as 2001 Chinese American Who's Who, by St. Louis Chinese American News, December 13, 2001
• Featured in St. Louis Chinese American News, December 28, 2000
• Featured in The World Journal, May 7, 1999
• Featured in St. Louis Chinese Journal, April 22, 1999
• Featured in St. Louis Chinese American News, April 22, 1999
• Featured in St. Louis Chinese American News, July 31, 1998
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Honors
TEACHING AWARDS
• Walker and Doris Allen Fellowship for Faculty Excellence, Winner, with a prize of $10,000, Truman, 2005-2006
• Walker and Doris Allen Fellowship for Faculty Excellence, Finalist, Truman, 2004-2005
• Golden Apple Award, Winner, Order of Omega and Truman State University’s Greek Community, 2004
• Educator of the Year, Semi-Finalist, Truman, 1998
• Educator of the Year, Semi-Finalist, Truman, 1996
• Educator of the Year, Semi-Finalist, Truman, 1995
• Who’s Who among American’s Teachers, 1998
• William O’Donnell Lee Advising Award, Norminee, Truman, 1995-96
• Jepson Fellowship Grant in Active Teaching, $3,000, Truman, 1993-94
• Jepson Fellowship Grant in World Literature Workshop, $1,000, Truman, 1993
FELLOWSHIPS AND OTHER AWARDS/PRIZES
• Fellowship of Teaching and Learning, Truman, 2007-08
• Included in Contemporary Authors, Thomson Gale, 2008.
• Featured in Prominent Overseas Chinese, Beijing, 2008.
• Speaker, 2007, 2008 Missouri History Speakers’ Bureau, State Historical Society of Missouri
• Listed in Who’s Who in America, 2007, 2008 editions
• Diversity Fellow, Truman, 2006-07
• Best Article Award, 48th Annual Missouri Conference on History 2006
• Japan Study Tour 2003, one of eight members selected through national competition and sponsored by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and Keizai Koho Center (Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs)
• Named as 2001 Chinese American Who's Who, published by St. Louis Chinese American News, 13 December 2001
• Publishing Award for American Studies Series, Ford Foundation and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 1998, Jin Shan Yao: A History of Chinese American Women (Beijing: Chinese Social Sciences Publishing House, 1999)
• Sabbatical Leave Grant, Truman, 1998-99
• Listed in 1998 Who’s Who among America’s Teachers, Educational Communications, Inc.
• American Fellow, American Association of University Women Educational Foundation, 1995-96
• Faculty Research Summer Grant, Truman, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001
• Jepson Fellowship Grant in Active Teaching, Truman, 1993-94
• Jepson Fellowship Grant in World Literature Workshop, Truman, 1993
• Memorial Award in Women’s Studies, Miami University, 1991
• Miami Student Recognition Awards, Miami University, 1990, 1991
• Graduate Achievement Fund, Miami University, 1989
• Teaching Fellowship, Miami University, 1988-91
• Teaching Assistant Scholarship, University of Oregon, 1986-87
• Loretta Shower Rossman Scholarship, University of Oregon, 1986, 1987
• Scholar Orientation Program of American Studies, National Committee on United States-China Relations, Inc., June 18-July 1, 1987
• The Summer 1986 Intensive Workshop in Chinese and Russian, U.S. Department of Education
• Shanxi Educational Commission Scholarship, 1985-87
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Publications
1. Books
• Author, Voices of the Heart: Asian American Women on Immigration, Work, and Family. Truman State University Press, 2007.
• Author, Chinese in St. Louis: 1857-2007. Arcadia Publishing, 2007.
• Editor, Emerging Voices: Experiences of the Underrepresented Asian Americans. Rutgers University Press, 2008.
• Editor, Asian American History and Cultures: An Encyclopedia. Two volumes (with Allan Austin) M. E. Sharpe, 2008.
• Editor, Negotiating Space: The New Asian American Communities. University of Hawaii Press, 2008
• Author, Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004.
• Author, Ping Piao Mei Guo: New Immigrants in America. Shanxi, China: Beiyue Literature and Art Publishing House, 2003.
• Author, Jinshan Yao: A History of Chinese American Women. Beijing: Chinese Social Sciences Publishing House, 1999. A winner of 1998 Ford Foundation Award for publication in the American Study Series by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
• Author, Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. (Top 1 Guide Picks-Books on Chinese American Women by About.com)
• Contributor, Asian American History and Cultures: An Encyclopedia. M. E. Sharpe, forthcoming 2007.
• Contributor, The Current Trend and Analysis of Historical Research in the West. Beijing University Press, 2007.
• Contributor, Taiwan in the Eyes of Chinese-American Scholars: Critical Analysis of Taiwanese Society in the 21th Century. Taipei: Showe Publishing House, 2004.
• Contributor, Asian American Children. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004.
• Contributor, The New Missouri History. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004.
• Contributor, Great Events from History: The Renaissance, 1454-1600. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2003.
• Contributor, Great Events from History: The Ancient World. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2003.
• Contributor, Imperial China, 617-1644. Columbia, S.C.: Manly, Inc., 2002.
• Contributor, Great Events of the Twentieth Century. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2001.
• Contributor, Modernity and Cultural Identity in Taiwan. River Edge, NJ: Global Publishing Co. Inc., 2001.
• Contributor, New Studies on Chinese Overseas and China. Leiden, Holland: International Institute for Asian Studies, 2000.
• Contributor, Intercultural Relations, Cultural Transformation, and Identity: The Ethnic Chinese. Manila: Kaisa Para Sa Kaunlaran, Inc., 2000.
• Contributor, Ethnic Chinese at Turn of Centuries. Fujian: Fujian People’s Publishing House, 1998.
• Contributor, Asian American Encyclopedia, New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp., 1995.
• Contributor, Origins and Destinations. Los Angeles: Chinese Historical Society of Southern California and UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1994.
• Reviewer, High School US History. Prentice Hall, 2008.
• Reviewer, A Brief History of Chinese Civilization. Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2005.
• Reviewer, Ancient Civilization. Prentice Hall, 2005.
• Reviewer, Medieval and Early Modern Times. Prentice Hall, 2005.
• Reviewer, History of Our World. Prentice Hall, 2005.
• Reviewer, World History. Prentice Hall, 2005.
• Reviewer, World Explorer. Prentice Hall, 2005.
• Reviewer, Asia and the Pacific. Prentice Hall, 2003.
• Reviewer, America: Pathways to the Present. Prentice Hall, 2000.
• Reviewer, America: Pathways to the Present. Prentice Hall, 1995.
2. Selected Scholarly Articles
• “From Chinatown to Cultural Community: A Historiographical Analysis of Chinese American Communities.” Journal of Asian American Studies (forthcoming).
• “New Perspectives on Chinese American Studies—Cultural Community Theory.” Overseas Chinese History Studies No.1 (2007).
• “New Perspectives on Chinese American Studies—Cultural Community Theory.” The Current Trend and Analysis of Historical Research in the West. Edited by Xiaobing Li and Xiansheng Tian, Beijing University Press, 2007 (reprint).
• “Reconceptualizing Chinese American Community in St. Louis: From Chinatown to Cultural Community.” Journal of American Ethnic History Vol. 24, No. 2 (Winter 2005): 65-101. Winner of the Best Article Award, 48th Annual Missouri Conference on History 2006.
• “Growing up in ‘Hop Alley:’ The Chinese American Youth in St. Louis during the Early-Twentieth Century.” In Asian American Children, ed. Benson Tong, 65-81. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004.
• “Governing ‘Hop Alley:’ On Leong Chinese Merchants and Laborers Association, 1906-1966.” Journal of American Ethnic History Vol. 23, No. 2 (Winter 2004): 50-84.
• “The Rise and Fall of the Study in America Movement in Taiwan.” In Taiwan in the Eyes of Chinese-American Scholars: Critical Analysis of Taiwanese Society in the 21th Century. Taipei: Showe Publishing House, 2004 (reprint).
• “The Rise and Fall of the Study in America Movement in Taiwan.” Overseas Chinese History Studies No. 4 (2003): 21-28.
• “Hop Alley: Myth and Reality of the St. Louis Chinatown, 1860s-1930s.” Journal of Urban History Vol. 28, No.2 (Jan 2002): 184-219.
• “Historiography and Research Methodologies of Chinese American Women.” Research on Women in Modern Chinese History No. 9 (August 2001): 235-253.
• “The Changing Patterns of Taiwanese Students in America and the Modernization in Taiwan.” In Modernity and Cultural Identity in Taiwan, River Edge, NJ: Global Publishing Co. Inc., 2001, 179-207.
• “`Mayors of Chinatown:’ On Leong and the Community-Building in St. Louis, 1906-1966.” In The New Missouri History (forthcoming).
• “Hop Alley: Myth and Reality of the St. Louis Chinatown, 1860s-1930s.” In Chinese Overseas and Asia-Pacific Rim Countries: Opportunities and Challenges in the New Millennium, proceedings of the ISSCO Seoul Conference 2000, Seoul: Sangna Institute of Management, Yonsei University, 2000.
• “Family and Marriage of Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Chinese Immigrant Women.” Journal of American Ethnic History Vol. 19, No. 2 (winter 2000): 43-63.
• “Chinese Female Students and the Sino-US Relations.” In New Studies on Chinese Overseas and China, Leiden, Holland: International Institute for Asian Studies, 2000, 103-137.
• “Debate Over Affirmative Action.” Chinese American Forum (Oct. 1999):33-35.
• “Chinese Women in America.” Zhong Gou Ren No. 2 (1999): 21-24.
• “A Study of the Motives for Immigration of Chinese Women in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century.” American Studies Vol. 13, No. 1 (1999): 95-121.
• “Isolated Assimilation: Chinese Women in the Midwest.” The Middle Ground: Women and the Transcendence of Domesticity in the Midwest, eds., Mary Frederickson and Susan Eacker (forthcoming).
• “Chinese American Professional and Business Women in a Midwest Small Town.” In Ethnic Chinese at Turn of Century, ed. Guotu Zhuang, 398-421. Fujian: Fujian People’s Publishing House, 1998, 398-421.
• “A History and Historiography of Chinese American Women in America.” American Studies Vol.11, No.1 (1997): 127-146.
• “A History of Chinese Female Students in the United States, 1880s-1990s.” Journal of American Ethnic History Vol.16, No.3 (Spring 1997): 81-109.
• “Sze-Kew Dun, A Chinese-American Woman in Kirksville.” Missouri Historical Review Vol. XCI (October, 1996): 35-51.
• “Chinese Merchant Wives in the United States: 1840-1945.” In Chinese Historical Society of Southern California and UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Origins and Destinations, 1994, 79-92.
• “Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A Review of Sources about Chinese American Women.” The History Teacher Vol. 26, No. 4, August (1993): 459-470.
• “Roosevelt and the Grand Alliance.” Shi Xue Yu Kan (Journal of History), 4 (1983): 67-72.
• “Roosevelt against Fascists Before America Entered World War II.” Shan Da Xue Bao (Journal of Shanxi University) 3 (1981): 70-79.
3. Selected Other Articles/Commentaries
• "Dong Ying San Ji [Reflections on My Japan Visit]." A series of 11 articles in The St. Louis Chinese American Journal, July 17 -September 18, 2003.
• "Rich Heritage is too Easily Paved Over by Commerce." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 25 April 2001.
• “Chinese St. Louisans.” A history column consisting of 30 articles on history of Chinese St. Louisans published in St. Louis Chinese American News, December 21, 2000-July 20, 2001.
• "Lu Qiao Qi Ren." St. Louis Chinese American Journal, 19 October 2000.
• "Hui Guo Jian Wen [Reflections on My Recent Visit to China]." St. Louis Chinese American News, 4, 11, and 24 December 1999.
4. Selected Book Reviews
• Jean Pfaelzer, Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans (New York: Random House, 2007), in Journal of American History (March 2008): 74.
• Shirley Jennifer Lim, A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women’s Public Culture, 1930-1960 (New York: New York University Press, 2006), in Journal of American Ethnic History vol. 4, no. 4 (Summer 2006).
• Wayne Hung Wong edited and with an introduction by Benson Tong. American Paper Son: A Chinese Immigrant in the Midwest (Champaign, Ill., University of Illinois Press, 2006), in Pacific Historical Journal (February 2007): 109-110.
• Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards, the Life of a Wartime Celebrity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), in The Journal of American History (2005).
• Shehong Chen, Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002), in the Journal of the West (2003).
• Xiaojian Zhao, Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940-1965 (New Brunswick: Rutger’s University Press, 2002) in The Journal of American History (2003).
• Xiaolan Bao, Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-92 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001) in The American Historical Review (June 2002): 905-906.
• Arif Dirlik ed., Chinese on the American Frontier (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, Inc., 2001) in Journal of American Ethnic History (2002).
• Weili Ye, Seeking Modernity in China’s Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001) in China Review International (2002).
• Yong Chen, Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000) in The Historian (2001): 735-736.
• George Anthony Peffer, If They Don’t Bring Their Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration before Exclusion (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999) in Journal of Asian American Studies Vol. 3, no. 2 (June 2000): 260-262.
• Bernard Thomas, Season of High Adventure: Edgar Snow in China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996) and Robert M. Farnsworth, From Vagabond to Journalist: Edgar Snow in Asian, 1928-1941 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996) in Missouri Historical Review Vol. XCII, No.2 (January 1998): 212-214.
• American Foreign Policy—Pattern and Process, in Shan Da Xue Bao (Journal of Shanxi University), 2 (1981).
5. Selected Exhibit, and Translation
• Exhibit: “Pioneer Asian American Women in Adair County, Missouri.” Adair County Historical Society Museum, March-May, 1995.
• Translation “America and the Boer War.” Fei Zhou Shi Yan Jiu (The Study of African History), 2 (1983): 72-80.
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL GUEST LECTURES/KEYNOTE SPEECHES
• “Living in America as a Chinese American.” Dr. Y.S. Tsiang in Chinese Studies of the Center for International Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Sept. 22, 2007.
• “From the Changing Images of the Chinese Americans to See the Rise of China.” The Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, Beijing, China, July 30, 2007.
• “The Critical Issues of Asian American Studies.” Institute of Overseas Chinese Studies, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, July 9, 2007.
• “A Critical Review of Chinese American Studies.” Institute of Overseas Chinese Studies, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, July 11, 2007.
• “Cultural Community—A New Theory on Ethnic American History.” Institute of Overseas Chinese Studies, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, July 12, 2007.
• “Chinese American Studies and Cultural Community Theory.” 2nd Conference on Overseas Chinese and China’s Development”, sponsored by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council and Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, June 22-24, 2007.
• “Reconceptualizing Chinese American Community in St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community.” Center for International Studies, the University of Missouri-St. Louis, September 7, 2005.
• “Chinese in St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community.” St. Louis Public Library-Carpenter Branch, July 25, 2005.
• “Chinese Community in St. Louis.” Featured guest with host Harriett Woods (former Lieutenant Governor of Missouri) at KWMU 90.7 (NPR in St. Louis) “St. Louis on the Air,” July 5, 2005.
• “Chinese in St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community.” The Coalition of Asian and Pacific Americans, St. Louis, Missouri, May 7, 2005.
• Featured guest at “Charles Brennan Show” KMOX Radio Station, “Voice of St. Louis” Feb. 4, 2005.
• “Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community,” St. Louis County Public Library Headquarter and East Bank Books, Feb. 4, 2005.
• “Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community,” Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 8871 Ladue Road, St. Louis, Feb. 4, 2005.
• “New Perspectives on Chinese American Studies—Cultural Community Theory.” The Chinese Institute for Overseas Chinese History Studies, Beijing, China, Jan. 14, 2005.
• “Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community,” St. Louis Chinese Association, St. Louis Modern Chinese School, St. Louis Chinese Culture Association, St. Louis Chinese American News, and Chinese American Forum, Nov. 21, 2004.
• Keynote Address, “Chinese Women in St. Louis: From ‘Hop Alley’ to a Cultural Community.” Women’s History Month, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, March 8, 2004.
• “Will Japan Still Maintain Its Leading Role in the Asian Economy?” Japan Study Tour 2003, sponsored by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and Keizai Koho Center.
• “Historiography and Research Methodologies of Chinese American Studies.” Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of the PRC, Beijing, December 23-26, 2002.
• “Red Guards and the Cultural Revolution.” Chinese Interdisciplinary Seminar, Art History Society, Truman State University, November 15, 2001.
• “Historiography and Research Methodologies of Chinese American Women.” Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, May 4, 2001.
• “Stories of Hop Alley and Beyond.” St. Louis Modern Chinese Language School, St. Louis Chinese American News Company, St. Louis, March 17, 2001.
• “Hop Alley: Myth and Reality of the St. Louis Chinatown, 1860s-1930s.” 4th Annual Conference for the Preservation of the Midwest’s Ethnic Heritage, St. Louis, March 16, 2001.
• “Asian Women, Migration, and American Dream.” Asian Affairs Center and Multicultural Affairs Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, November 15, 2000
• “A Review of the Studies of Chinese American Women.” Center for Overseas Chinese Studies, Peking University, August 16, 2000
• Chinese Historians Delegation to Taiwan, July 27-August 7, 2000
• "Surviving on the Gold Mountain and Issues on Asian Americans." Mid-Missouri Chinese Association, Columbia, MO, September 11, 1999.
• “Chinese Americans: Past and Present.” St. Louis Chinese Association, St. Louis, MO, April 17, 1999.
• “Family and Marriage among Chinese Immigrant Women in Late 19th and Early 20th Century U.S.” Brown-Bag Colloquium, Department of History, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, April 15, 1999.
PUBLIC APPEARANCES
• Presentation and Book Signing, Chinese in St. Louis, 1857-2007, The St. Louis Modern Chinese School, Sept. 23, 2007.
• Speaker, “Reconceptualizing the St. Louis Chinese American Community: From Chinatown to Cultural Community.”2007 Missouri History Speakers’ Bureau, State Historical Society of Missouri.
• Book Signing, Missouri Historical Society Holiday Fair, November 20, 2005
• Presentation and Book Signing, Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community, the 22nd Annual Conference of the Midwest Chinese American Science & Technology Association (MCASTA 2005), Doubletree Hotel in St. Louis, MO, October 15, 2005.
• Presentation and Book Sighing, Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community, Center for International Studies, the University of Missouri-St. Louis (Room SSB 331), 11am-12, September 7, 2005.
• Presentation and Book signing, Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community, Carpenter Branch of St. Louis City Public Library (3309 S. Grand Blvd) in conjunction with the International Institute's Festival of Nation, July 25, 2005.
• Featured guest with host Harriett Woods (former Lieutenant Governor of Missouri) at KWMU 90.7 (NPR in St. Louis) “St. Louis on the Air,” July 5, 2005.
• Presentation and Book signing, Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004), The Coalition for Asian and Pacific Americans, St. Louis, May 7, 2005.
• Presentation and Book signing, Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004), The 22nd Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, Los Angeles, April 23, 2005.
• Featured article, “New Book Detail St. Louis Chinese Heritage,” by John M. McGuire, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Feb. 2, 2005.
• Featured article, “Breaking Out,” by Sara Porter, West End Word, Feb. 4, 2005.
• Featured guest at “Charles Brennan Show” KMOX Radio Station, “Voice of St. Louis” Feb. 4, 2005.
• Presentation and Book signing, Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004), St. Louis County Public Library Headquarter and East Bank Books, Feb. 4, 2005.
• Presentation and Book signing, Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004), Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 8871 Ladue Road, St. Louis, Feb. 4, 2005.
• Presentation and Book signing, Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004), sponsored by St. Louis Chinese Association, St. Louis Modern Chinese School, St. Louis Chinese Culture Association, St. Louis Chinese American News, and Chinese American Forum, Nov. 21, 2004.
• Presentation and Book signing, Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004), Truman State University Bookstore, Oct. 25, 2004.
• Presentation and Book signing, Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives (Albany: The State University of New York Press, 1998), Truman State University Bookstore, Sept. 8, 1999.
PAPERS PRESENTED (selected)
• “New Asian American Urban Communities.” The 24th Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, New York, April 5-8, 2007.
• “The Third Coast-Teaching Asian American Studies in the Midwest and South.” The 24th Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, New York, April 5-8, 2007.
• “Reconceptualizing Chinese American Community in St. Louis: From Chinatown to Cultural Community.” The International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO), Pretoria, South Africa, December 4-6, 2006.
• “The Social Integration of the New PRC Immigrants in the U.S: In the Case of Chinese in St. Louis.” The International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO), Pretoria, South Africa, December 4-6, 2006.
• “Teaching Asian American Studies in a Midwest Setting.” The 23nd Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, Atlanta, March 22-26, 2006.
• “The Recent Development in the St. Louis Chinese American Community.” The 22nd Annual Conference of the Midwest Chinese American Science & Technology Association (MCASTA 2005), Doubletree Hotel in St. Louis, MO, October 15, 2005.
• “A New Model for Asian American Community: Cultural Community.” The Chinese Studies Association of Australia Ninth Biennial Conference and the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO), Bendigo, Australia, June 30-July 3, 2005.
• “Reconceptualizing Chinese American Community.” The 22nd Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, Los Angeles, April 20-24, 2005.
• “Reconceptualizing Chinese American Community in St. Louis: From Chinatown to Cultural Community.” The 21th Annual Conference of the Midwest Chinese American Science & technology Association (MCASTA 2004), St. Louis, MO, August 21, 2004.
• “Reconceptualizing Chinese Immigration in North America.” Chair, organizer, and presenter, the 5th International ISSCO Conference, Elsinore, Denmark, May 10-15, 2004.
• “Reconceptualizing Chinese American Community: From Enclave to Cultural Community.” The 21th Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, Boston, MA, March 24-28, 2004.
• “Negotiating Urban Space: The Occupational Patterns of Chinese Immigrants in St. Louis, 19603-1930.” The 20th Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, San Francisco, May 7-10, 2003.
• “Reconceptualizing Chinese American Community: From Chinatown to Cultural Community.” The American Historians Association 2003 Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 3, 2003.
• “A Cultural Community: Reconceptualizing Chinese American Community in St. Louis.” The 19th Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 24-28, 2002.
• “The Chinese St. Louisans: From Hop Alley to a Cultural Community.” The 44th Missouri Conference on History, Kansas City, Missouri, April 18-20, 2002.
• “Surviving on the Gold Mountain: Chinese American Women’s Lives through Oral History.” 2001 Meeting of the Oral History Association, St. Louis, Missouri, October 17-21, 2001.
• "St. Louis Chinatown, 1860s-1930s." the 4th International Conference on Overseas Chinese, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, April 25-29, 2001.
• “Myth and Reality of the St. Louis Chinatown, 1860s-1930s.” Social Science Seminar Series, Truman, March 19, 2001.
• “Hop Alley: Myth and Reality of the St. Louis Chinatown, 1860s-1930s.” 2000 Conference of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO), Sangnam Institute of Management, Yonsei University, Seoul, June 12-14, 2000.
• “Chinese Women of St. Louis: From Chinatown to Suburbia.” The 17th National Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, Scottsdale, Arizona, May 24-28, 2000.
• “Chinese St. Louisans: From Chinatown Residents to Suburban Chinese Americans.” 47th Annual Meeting of Missouri Conference on History, St. Louis, MO, March 30-April 2, 2000.
• “Chinese St. Louisans: From Chinatown Residents to Suburban Chinese Americans.” The Association for Asian American Studies 16th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, March 31-April 3, 1999.
• “Family and Marriage of Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Chinese Immigrant Women.” International Conference on the Ethnic Chinese, Manila, Philippines, November 26-28, 1998.
• “Chinese Female Students and the Sino-U.S. Relations.” International Conference on Qiaoxiang Studies, Jinjiang, Fujian, China, October 27-31, 1998.
• “Sze-Kew Dun, A Chinese American Woman’s Experiences in Kirksville, Missouri.” 40th Missouri Conference on History, Columbia, Missouri, April 17-18, 1998.
• Referee, “Transnational Chinese Families and Chinese Exclusion, 1875-1943,” for the Journal of American Ethnic History, 1997.
• “Women’s Involvement in Politics and Economy in China.” Women and Politics: A Truman Conference in Honor of Women’s History Month, Truman, March 22-23, 1997.
• “Chinese American Professional Women in the Midwest.” International Conference on the Ethnic Chinese, History and Prospective: Ethnic Chinese at Turn of Century, Xiamen, China, November 18-22, 1996.
• “Women’s Political Participation in China.” Women and Politics, Women’s Resource Center, Truman, October 24, 1996
• “Chinese American Business Women in Midwestern Small Towns.” The 13th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies, Washington, D.C., May 29-June 2, 1996.
• “Chinese American Professional and Business Women in Midwestern Small Towns.” The 38th Missouri Conference on History, Truman, April 11-13, 1996.
• Invited by the Organization of American History to Review The Era of Roosevelt, 1929-1945, by Xuyi Liu for its annual best book prize, September 1995.
• “Women in Ethnicity Forum.” The Women’s Resource Center, Truman, April 5, 1995
• “Studying Asian American Women in Midwest Small Towns.” History Colloquium Series, Truman, March 22, 1995
• “History of Chinese Women Students in the United States, 1880s-1990s.” International Conference, the Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas Conference, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December 19-21, 1994.
• “Chinese American Women in Midwestern Small Towns.” Chinese American Experience Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 17-19, 1994.
• “Chinese Stone Seal Carving: An Ancient Art.” Truman, March 24, 1993
• “A Discourse on China’s Future by Scholars from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.” Organizer and chair, Social Science Lecture, Truman, October 22, 1992
• “Chinese Merchant Wives in the United States, 1840-1945.” Conference on Chinese Americans, California State University, Los Angeles, August 28-30, 1992.
• “Chinese Women Students in the United States.” Association for Asian American Studies 1992 Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, May 28-31, 1992.
• “Women’s History in China and America: A Comparison.” Women’s Resource Center, Truman, March 31, 1992
• “Chinese Diaspora—Chinese Women Students in the United States.” Seminar “Women: A World View,” Truman, January 15, 1992
• Speaker at the Symposium on “I Have a Dream” in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in January 1992 at Northeast Missouri State University.
• “Asian American Women—Interracial marriage among Asian American Women.” Social Science Lecture, Truman, October 31, 1991
• “Early Chinese Immigrant Women and Their Family Lives.” Association for Asian American Studies 1991 Annual Meeting, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 29-31, 1991.
• Chair of the panel “Women, Work and Political Activism,” Association for Asian American Studies 1990 Annual Meeting, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 18-20, 1990.
• “Chinese Women in America.” Ohio Social History Conference, University of Cincinnati, October 22, 1988.
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