Ling-Chi Wang
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Ling-Chi Wang | |
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Born | 1938 |
Occupation | Professor Emeritus |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (B.A.) University of Chicago (M.A.) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Asian studies Ethnic studies |
Ling-Chi Wang is a Chinese-born American civil rights activist and ethnologist. He is a civil rights activist and Professor Emeritus of Asian-American studies and ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley.[1]
Biography
[edit]Wang was born in Xiamen, Fujian, China, in 1938 and emigrated to the United States in 1957 at the age of 19.
He received a master's degree in Near Eastern studies from the University of Chicago. However, as a response to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, Wang switched his interests to Asian American studies.[2]
During the 1980s and 1990s, Wang was influential in the field of Asian American studies.[3]: 159
In response to the Wen Ho Lee spying allegations, Wang and an Asian American academic organization instituted a boycott of the two labs run by the University of California, in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. He also helped organize a class-action lawsuit against the labs in response to racial profiling allegations.
Wang led a movement that exposed the involvement of the Taiwan government's role in the murder of Henry Liu in Daly City, California by Bamboo Union agents.
Analysis
[edit]In Wang's analysis, the Taiwan government's murders of Henry Liu and Chen Wen-chen were part of a longer history and structure of "dual domination" in which Chinese in the United States were subject both to surveillance by Taiwan's Nationalist government and racially subordinated in U.S. society.[3]: 159
Wang has been called the "Asian Martin Luther King" for his four decades of activism.[4][5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Kwong, Peter (9 November 2008). "L. Ling-chi Wang: The Quintessential Scholar/Activist (review)". Journal of Chinese Overseas. 4 (2): 288–291. doi:10.1353/jco.0.0016 – via Project MUSE.
- ^ "INTERVIEW WITH LING-CHI WANG, APRIL 1997 - The Fixers - FRONTLINE - PBS". www.pbs.org.
- ^ a b Cheng, Wendy (2023). Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295752051.
- ^ "NEWSMAKER PROFILE / Ling-chi Wang / Activist fights for Asian Americans at U.S. labs / Berkeley professor leads boycott aimed at alleged inequities". 27 March 2002.
- ^ KANG, K. CONNIE (6 July 2001). "Activist for a New Era of Civil Rights" – via LA Times.
- 1938 births
- Living people
- American ethnologists
- Chinese emigrants to the United States
- East Asian studies scholars
- People from Xiamen
- UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- University of Chicago alumni
- American civil rights activists
- Asian-American movement activists