Wang Ping

Macalester College

• Associate Professor of English
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Expertise

• 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

Honors & Awards

• : Best Book for the Teen Age selection, New York Public Library, 1994, for _American Visa_
• National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for poetry, 1995
• New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships for poetry, 1997
• New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships for translation, 1997
• Eugene M. Kayden Book Award for the Best Book in the Humanities, 2001, for _Aching for Beauty : Footbinding in China_
• Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship for Fiction, 2001
• Bush Artist fellowship for Poetry, 2003
• The Loft Career Initiative grant, 2003
• Minnesota Book Award finalist, 2004, for _The Magic Whip_