Wang Ling-chi

2003 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival
Wang Ling-chi

Prof. Wang Ling-chi was born in Gulangyu, Fujian Province and raised
in Hong Kong. He received his college education in the US. He has an
undergraduate degree in music and graduate degrees in Old Testament
Studies and Ancient Semitic Languages and Literatures. Originally, he
planned to teach Semitic languages and literatures but he abandoned
this idea in 1969, becoming a civil rights and community activist.
He also changed his academic interest to Asian American history and civil
rights. In 1969 he participated in the founding of the Asian American and
Ethnic Studies
course at the UC Berkeley, teaching it full time from 1973.
He was Head of Asian American Studies for over twenty years and Chairman
of the Department of
Ethnic Studies for nine years. In addition to teaching and research,
Prof.
Wang has remained active in community issues, most notably, in
education, media, employment, and civil rights throughout the past 35
years.

He is the founder of Chinese for Affirmative Action, a founder of
Asian/Pacific Americans in Higher Education
(APAHE), has been active in promoting equal educational opportunity for
immigrants (Lau vs. Nichols 1974), is a strong advocate for
bilingual-bicultural education, and has lead in the fight against
discriminatory college admissions policies.

He is the founder and head of the International Society for the Study of
Chinese Overseas (ISSCO).

Prof. Wang's research interests include Asian American and minority
histories
in the U.S, Chinese diaspora studies, and US-China relations.

He edited a 2-volume work on the Chinese diaspora and publishes
extensively on educational and civil
rights issues in the U.S.

In November 2002, he organized the first international conference
on the literatures of the Chinese diaspora and he is planning a national
conference on Chinese Americans in science and technology next year.

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