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| Ling-Chi Wang | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1938 Amoy, Fujian, Republic of China |
| 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.
Biography
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.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Wang was influential in the field of Asian American studies.
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
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.
Wang has been called the "Asian Martin Luther King" for his four decades of activism.
See also
References
- 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.
- ^ 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