Faculty
Wang Ping
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., M.A. (Comparative Literature) New York University, 1999, 1994
M.A. (English Literature) Long Island University,1987
B.A. (English Literature) Beijing University, 1984
Old Main 217, (651) 696-6512
Email: ping-at-macalester.edu
Wang Ping was born in Shanghai and grew up on a small island in the East China Sea. After three years of farming in a mountain village, she attended Beijing University. In 1985 she left China to study in the U.S., earning her Ph.D. from New York University. She is the acclaimed author of the short story collection American Visa (1994), the novel Foreign Devil (1996), two poetry collections Of Flesh & Spirit (1998) and The Magic Whip (2003), the cultural study Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China (2000), and most recently Emperor Dragon (2006), a traditional Chinese folk tale, and The Last Communist Virgin (April 2007), a second collection of stories. Wang Ping is also the editor and co-translator of the anthology New Generation: Poetry from China Today (1999), and her writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the New York State Council for the Arts for poetry, and the Minnesota State Arts Board for fiction.
Areas of Study
- Creative writing, poetry and fiction
- The Chinese-American immigrant experience
- Footbinding, sexuality and eroticism in Chinese culture
- Women in modern China
- Chinese migrant workers and industrialization
- Environmental issues
- Photography
Fall 2009 Course
Past Macalester Courses
Awards
- Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
- Grant, the New York Foundation for the Arts
- Grant, the New York State Council for the Arts
- Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board
- Loft career initiative grant
- Bush foundation grant
- Eugene M. Kayden Book Award
Major Publications
- The Last Communist Virgin, novellas and short stories (Coffee House Press, 2007)
- The Dragon Emperor, Chinese folklore (Lerner Publications, 2006)
- The Magic Whip, a book of poetry (Coffee House Press, 2003)
- Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China (University of Minnesota Press, 2000; Random House paperback edition, 2002)
- Editor and co-translator, New Generation: Poetry from China Today (Hanging Loose Press 1999)
- Of Flesh and Spirit (Coffee House Press, 1998)
- Foreign Devil (Coffee House Press, 1996)
- American Visa (Coffee House Press, 1994)
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