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Wing Chung NG September 2016 Wing Chung Ng 伍榮仲 Professor Department of History The University of Texas at San Antonio One UTSA Circle San Antonio, Texas 78249-0652 Tel: (210) 458-5703; Fax: (210) 458-4796 Email: [email protected] Education: The University of British Columbia, Ph.D. History, 1993. The University of Hong Kong, M. Phil. History, 1987. The University of Hong Kong, B.A. Honors, History, 1984. Academic and Research Positions: Professor History, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2016-present Associate Professor History, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2000-2016 Assistant Professor History, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1996-2000 Instructor History, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1993-96 Chief Researcher Hong Kong Museum of History, 1987-88, Oral History Major Awards, Semester- or Year-long Fellowships: Fulbright Award, Hong Kong, 2012-13 Faculty Development Leave, UT San Antonio, Fall 2009 Faculty Research Award, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2004-5 Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Research Grant, 2001-2 Faculty Development Leave, UT San Antonio, Fall 2000 Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship, National Humanities Center, 1996-97 Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship, University of British Columbia, 1988-93 2 Books: The Rise of Cantonese Opera (Urbana: University of Illinois Press; Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2015). 陳非儂口述, 《粵劇六十年》(Sixty years of Cantonese opera: Chan Feinong’s memoir), 與陳 澤蕾重編，Co-edited with Chan Chak Lui, revised edition, (Hong Kong: Cantonese Opera Research Programme, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007). The Chinese in Vancouver, 1945-80: The Pursuit of Identity and Power (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999; paperback 2000). Finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award. Refereed Articles and Book Chapters: “從太平戲院商業檔案看二十世紀初粵劇的營運與省港班的發展” (Opera business and urban troupes in Guangzhou-Hong Kong in the early twentieth century: Mining the Taiping Theater Business Archives), in 容世誠 Yung Sai-Shing, ed., 《戲園、紅船、影畫：源氏珍藏「太平 戲院文物」研究》 (A Study of the Taiping Theatre Collection) (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Heritage Museum, 2015), 118-133. “粵劇網絡-文化走廊: 以二十世紀初東南亞地區廣府社群為例” (Cantonese opera network as cultural corridor: A case study of the Cantonese in Southeast Asia in the early twentieth century), in 黃賢強編 Wong Sin Kiong, ed., 《族群、歷史與文化：跨域研究東南亞和東亞》下册 (Ethnicity, history and culture: Trans-regional and cross-disciplinary studies on Southeast Asia and East Asia) Vol. II (Singapore: Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore; Global Publishing Ltd, 2011), 445-459. “陳非儂華南十載 (1924-34) 與粵劇世界的變遷” (A decade on the South China stage: Chen Feinong and changes in the Cantonese operatic world, 1924-1934), in 陳明銶、饒美蛟合編 Ming K. Chan & Mee-kaw Nyaw, eds., 《嶺南近代史論: 廣東與粤港關係 1900-1938》 (Perspectives on Modern Lingnan: Guangdong and its Hong Kong ties, 1900-1938) (Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 2010), 341-352. “從文化史看粵劇，從粵劇史看文化” (Cantonese opera as cultural history and culture in Cantonese opera history), in 周仕深，鄭寧恩合編 Chow Sze Sum & Cheng Ling Yan, eds., 《粵劇國際研討會論文集》上册 (Collected essays from the International Symposium on Cantonese Opera) Vol. I (Hong Kong: Cantonese Opera Research Programme, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008), 15-33. “Chinatown Theatre as Transnational Business: New Evidence from Vancouver during the Exclusion Era,” BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly Number 148 (Winter 2005-6), 25- 54. Translated and published in 《中華戯曲》 (Chinese Opera) (Beijing) Number 37 (2008), 1- 26. 3 "Canada," in Lynn Pan ed., The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas (Singapore: Chinese Heritage Centre, 1998, paperback 2006; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), 234- 47. "Becoming Chinese Canadian: The Genesis of a Cultural Category," in Elizabeth Sinn, ed., The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1998), 203- 15. "Challenging an Immigrant Discourse: The Rise of the Local-born Chinese in Vancouver, 1945- 70," The Journal of American-East Asian Relations 5.2 (1996), 113-34. "Urban Chinese Social Organization: Some Unexplored Aspects in Huiguan Development in Singapore, 1900-1941," Modern Asian Studies 26.3 (1992), 469-94. Reissued in Geoff Wade, ed., China and Southeast Asia: Routledge Library on Southeast Asia Vol. 5 (London: Routledge, 2008), 147-69. "Scholarship on Post-1945 North American Chinese Societies: A Thematic Discussion," in Chinese America: History and Perspectives 1992 (San Francisco: Chinese Historical Society of America, and Asian American Studies, San Francisco State University, 1992), 177-210. "Taiwan's Overseas Chinese Policy From 1949 to the Early 1980s," in Larry N. Shyu, et al, East Asia Inquiry: Selected Articles from the Annual Conferences of the Canadian Asian Studies Association 1988-1990 (Montreal: Canadian Asian Studies Association, 1991), 265-86. “十九二十世紀新加坡華工與會館關係：幫派主義與階級思想的發展與抗衡” (Chinese labor-huiguan relations in nineteenth and twentieth century Singapore: bang mentality versus class consciousness), in 陳明銶編 Ming K. Chan et al., 《中國與香港工運縱橫》 (Dimensions of the Chinese and Hong Kong labor movement) (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee, 1986), 258-64. Work in progress: 《中國戲曲志：香港卷》(Annals of Chinese opera: Hong Kong volume)，與李小良、余少 華、容世誠合編，Co-edited with Li Siu-Leung, Yu Siu-Wah, and Yung Sai-Shing, (Beijing: ISBN, in progress). 《中國戲曲音樂集成：香港卷》(Anthology of Chinese opera music: Hong Kong volume)， 與李小良、余少華、容世誠合編，Co-edited with Li Siu-Leung, Yu Siu-Wah, and Yung Sai- Shing, (Beijing: ISBN, in progress). 4 Exhibition: Exhibition/Talk: “The Art of Politics: Mao’s Messages to China” sponsored by World Affairs Council and the San Antonio Museum of Art, February 15, 2007. Translations: “The Regretful Tale of the Butterfly Lovers (1955),” in Siu Leung Li ed., Anthology of Hong Kong Cantonese Opera: The Fong Yim Fun Volume, (Hong Kong: Infolink, 2014), 183-266. E- version was released as part of the “Major Plays of Hong Kong Cantonese Opera: A Translation Project” under the Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Programme, Lingnan University, December 2012. “Lin Hei’er” (by Ma Honglin) and “Wang Cong’er” (by Zhang Xiaolin), in Clara Ho et al., eds., Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, The Qing Period, 1644-1911 (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1998), 131-33, 208-11. Conference papers and invited presentations: “Diaspora in the Age(s) of China’s Rise.” Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, University of Incarnate Word, San Antonio, October 2016 (Panel organizer). “The Soundscape of Cantonese Pacific: Chinatown Theater and Immigrant Life in the Early Twentieth Century.” Voyages, Migration and the Maritime Silk Road: An International Symposium on China’s Global Role in History, Hong Kong Baptist University, December 2015. “Thinking Across Epochs in Chinese Diaspora History: From the Chinese Century of Early Modern to China’s Rise in the New Millennium.” Chinese Diaspora Studies in the Age of Global Modernity hosted by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, November 2015; Public Lecture, Elite Visitorship Programme, Advanced Institute for Contemporary China Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, July 2014. “Cantonese Operatic Music in Chinatown Life: An Organization, a Maestro, and a Genre.” International Symposium on International migration and Qiaoxiang Studies: Trans-migration and Everyday Life, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, China, December 2014. “Perspectives on Twentieth-first Century Taiwan.” Public Lecture, East Asia Institute, University of Texas at San Antonio, November 2013. “Regional Theater in the Age of Nationalism: Cantonese Opera and the Mei-Ou Challenge,” Seminar, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Hong Kong University, April 2013; Department of History, Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou, May 2013; Department of History, National Taipei University, June 2013. 5 “Chinatown Theater and the Immigrant Public in the Early Twentieth Century.” Seminar, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hong Kong University, March 2013. “粤劇式微的再探討：從一九三零年代初都市商業劇場第一次崩溃說起” (Reconsidering the demise of Cantonese opera: Perspectives from the first market crash of urban commercial theater in the early 1930s). Conference on the Future of Cantonese Culture in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Baptist University, February 1-3, 2013. “從太平戲院説到省港班: 一個商業史的探索” (The Taiping Theater and the urban troupes: An inquiry in business history). Workshops on Hong Kong Taiping Theater I and II: The Cultural Enterprise of the Yuan Family. Lingnan University, December 8, 2012, and Hong Kong Heritage Museum, April 15, 2013 “社會秩序、娱樂空間: 對二十世纪初省港两地粤劇戲院管治的初步分析” (Social order and entertainment arena: A preliminary discussion of the state control of Cantonese opera theater houses in Guangzhou and Hong Kong in the early twentieth century). Canton-Hong Kong- Macau Reconnected: Symposium on Popular Culture and Urban Transformation since the nineteenth century, Zhongshan, September 28-30, 2012. “Transnational Theater and its Local Niche: Cantonese Opera in Early Twentieth Century North America.” Crossroads 2010 Conference/Association for Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, June 2010 (spotlight panel). “粵劇網絡-文化走廊: 以二十世紀初東南亞地區廣府社群為例” (Cantonese opera network as cultural corridor: A case study of the Cantonese in Southeast Asia in the early twentieth century). The Third Asia Forum for Ethnic, Historical, and Cultural Studies – Ethnic Relations and Regional Comparison of the Chinese Communities, National University of Singapore, November 13-15, 2009. “陳非儂華南十載 (1924-34) 與粵劇世界的變遷” (A decade on the South China
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