Lucie Cheng

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Lucie Cheng
成露茜
Born(1939-02-11)February 11, 1939
UCLA
  • Asian American studies
  • Founder of the Cheng She-Wo Institute for Chinese Journalism, Shih Hsin University
  • Scientific career
    FieldsSociology, Journalism
    Institutions, Taiwan

    Lucie Cheng (

    UCLA.[1] She was also one of the first academics from the United States to visit the mainland after the country normalized its relations with China.[2]

    Early life

    Cheng was born to journalist

    Beiping.[2] After the end of the war, the family returned to Hong Kong, though Cheng's older brother later returned to People's Republic of China to help further the socialist cause. In 1952, the family moved Cheng and her elder sister Catherine Chia-lin Cheng (成嘉玲) to Taiwan.[2]

    Education

    Cheng attended

    PhD at the University of Hawaii in 1970.[1]

    Career

    United States

    Cheng became assistant professor of sociology at

    UCLA in 1970. Due to her engagements with politics and student movements, she became the first permanent director of the university's Asian American Studies Center since it was founded in 1969.[2] Cheng developed and expanded the center, employing major scholars like Valerie Matsumoto, Robert A. Nakamura, and Russell Leong.[1] Under Cheng, the center was run under socialist principles, with students and teachers rejecting hierarchical structures considered typical in capitalist America.[2]

    In 1978, alongside the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, Cheng organised the 'Southern California Chinese American Oral History Project'. The project focused on the oral testimonies of the cultural struggles that grassroots Chinese Americans faced in the United States.[2]

    After the United States normalized its relations with China, Cheng visited a Chinese university with other members of UCLA and became one of the first academics from the country to visit the mainland.[2] Cheng had, however, visited China throughout the 1970s in a personal capacity, searching for her brother and sister on her father's behalf. During one visit, she met with Zhou Enlai, who informed her that her father was no longer considered an enemy by the Communist Party.[2]

    In 1985, Cheng founded the Center of Pacific Rim Studies at UCLA.[2]

    Taiwan

    Cheng took over her father's Taiwan-based paper, the Li pao (Chinese: 立報; pinyin: lì bào), in 1991 and continued to support leftist causes.[2] She then divided her time between the United States and Taiwan, teaching at Shih Hsin University, before becoming a professor there in 1993, when she founded a course on gender and development.[2]

    In 2006, she founded Sifang pao (Chinese: 四方報; pinyin: sìfāng bào), a paper aimed at Vietnamese and Thai immigrants and migrant workers.[2]

    Honours

    Selected works

    Books

    • Lucie Cheng; Edna Bonacich (1984). Labor Immigration Under Capitalism: Asian Workers in the United States Before World War II. University of California Press. .
    • Lucie Cheng (1984). Linking Our Lives: Chinese American Women of Los Angeles. The Society. .
    • Paul Ong; Edna Bonacich; Lucie Cheng (1994). The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring. Temple University Press.
    • Lucie Cheng (2012). Xia Xiaojuan 夏曉鵑 (ed.). 理論與實踐的開拓:成露茜論文集 [Pioneer of Theory and Praxis: Selected Works of Lucie Cheng] (in Chinese). Taiwan shehui yanjiu zazhi she. .

    Articles

    References

    1. ^ a b c Marquez, Letisia (8 February 2010). "Obituary: Lucie Cheng, 70, former director of UCLA Asian American Studies Center". UCLA Newsroom. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
    2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Liao, Bruce, ed. (3 March 2010). "紀念左翼前輩成露茜(台社紀念Lucie文)" [In memory of our leftist senior, Lucie Cheng (memorial text)]. My Paper (個人新聞台) (in Chinese). {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
    3. ^ "Amerasia Journal: Lucie Cheng Prize Nominations". Asian American Studies Center. Retrieved 30 January 2018.