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Ling-Chi Wang

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Ling-Chi Wang
Born1938
OccupationProfessor Emeritus
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (B.A.)
University of Chicago (M.A.)
Academic work
DisciplineAsian 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

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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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "INTERVIEW WITH LING-CHI WANG, APRIL 1997 - The Fixers - FRONTLINE - PBS". www.pbs.org.
  3. ^ a b Cheng, Wendy (2023). Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295752051.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ KANG, K. CONNIE (6 July 2001). "Activist for a New Era of Civil Rights" – via LA Times.