Wing Chung Ng 伍榮仲 Department of History The University of Texas at San Antonio 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:
Associate Professor History, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2000-present Assistant Professor History, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1996-2000 Instructor History, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1993-1996 Chief Researcher Hong Kong Museum of History, 1987-1988, Oral History
Books:
The Rise of Cantonese Opera (University of Illinois Press and Hong Kong University Press, forthcoming).
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).
Refereed Articles and Book Chapters:
“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). Wong Sin Kiong ed., Ethnicity, History and Culture: Trans-regional and Cross-disciplinary Studies on Southeast Asia and East Asia (in honor of Wang Gungwu on his 81st birthday) Vol. II (Singapore: Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore; Global Publishing Ltd, 2011), 445-459.
2 “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 the Cantonese Operatic World, 1924-1934). Ming K. Chan & Mee-kaw Nyaw, eds., Perspectives on Modern Lingnan: Guangdong and its Hong Kong Ties, 1900-38 (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，鄭寧恩編 Chow Sze Sum & Cheng Ling Yan, eds., 《粵 劇囯際研討會論文集》上 (Collected Essays from the International Symposium on Cantonese Opera Vol. 1) (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.
"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 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. 3
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.
Conference papers and invited presentations:
“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.
“Thinking across Epochs in Chinese Diaspora History: From the Chinese Century of Early Modern to China’s Rise in the New Millennium.” Public Lecture, Elite Visitorship Programme, Advanced Institute for Contemporary China Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, July 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.
“Chinatown Theater and the Immigrant Public in the Early Twentieth Century.” Seminar, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hong Kong University, March 2013.
“粤剧式微的再探讨：从一九三零年代初都市商业剧场第一次崩溃说起” (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.
“从太平戏院说到省港班: 一个商业史的探索” (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
“社会秩序、娱乐空间: 对二十世纪初省港两地粤剧戏院管治的初步分析” (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 4 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 Stage: Chen Feinong and the Cantonese Operatic World, 1924-1934). International Symposium on Guangdong and Hong Kong in the Early Twentieth Century, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, April 11-12, 2008.
Keynote address: “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). International Symposium on Cantonese Opera: The Past Two Centuries, Hong Kong, September 5-9, 2007.
“Performing for Power: Chinatown Theater and Traditional Organizations before the Pacific War.” Annual meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, March 22-26, 2006 (Panel organizer).
“From Overseas Chinese to Ethnic Chinese: Issues and Sources on Chinese Immigration history since the late nineteenth century.” Conference on “Teaching History” at the University North Texas, September 17, 2005.
“Chinatown Theater as Transnational Business during the Exclusion Era: Recent Findings from Vancouver.” Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, Sam Houston State University, October 8- 9, 2004.
“Cantonese Opera in North American Chinatowns in the 1920s and 1930s: A Case Study of San Francisco and Vancouver.” Symposium on Chinese Theater Performance: Past, Present and Future, Cantonese Opera Research Program, Chinese University of Hong Kong, April 30 – May 2, 2004.
“Transnational Mediation of Enclave Culture: Chinatown Theater in Vancouver and San Francisco Before the Pacific War.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, New York City, March 2003.
“Cantonese Opera as Urban Theater: Companies, Actors and Plays.” Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, Sam Houston State University, October 18-19, 2002.
“The Rise of Sheng-Gang Companies: Cantonese Opera in Guangzhou and Hong Kong, 1919- 1928.” Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Brigham Young University, September 26-28, 2002. 5
“Urbanization of Cantonese Opera in the Early 20th Century: A Study of Theater Business and its Modern Crisis.” Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, Trinity University, October 12-13, 2001.
“Chinatown Theaters and Chinese Immigrant Culture in North America before 1945.” Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, University of Houston, October 13-14, 2000.
“Cantonese Opera in the Early 20th Century: Transnationalism and Cultural Networks.” International Conference on “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cantonese Opera Research,” Chinese University of Hong Kong, December 18-19, 1999.
“Regional Culture, Transnational Culture: A study of the Overseas Circuitry of the Cantonese Opera before the Pacific War.” Joint Meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies and Historical Society for 20th Century China, Southwest Texas State University, October 21-23, 1999; revised for presentation at the 36th International Congress of Asian and North African Studies, Universite de Montreal, August 27-September 2, 2000.
"The Golden Age of Cantonese Opera: The Sheng-Gang (Guangzhou-Hong Kong) Troupes at Home and Their Overseas Circuitry in the 1920s and 1930s." Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Washington, D.C., March 26-29, 1998.
"Will 'Hong Kong Man' Disappear? Reflections of Hong Kong Culture and Identity." Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, San Antonio, Texas, October 17-18, 1997.
"Business as Ritual: Negotiating Modernity in Traditional Organizations in Vancouver Chinatown, 1945-1970." Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display, Bowling Green State University, May 29-31, 1997.
"Old World, New World, and Immigrant Consciousness: The Chinese in Vancouver, 1945- 1970." Symposium on International Migration, Duke University, April 11, 1997.
"Renewed Immigration and Cultural Redefinition in Vancouver's Chinatown, 1945-1970." 111th annual meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, January 2-5, 1997.
"Becoming Chinese Canadian: The Genesis of a Cultural Category." International Conference on the Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas, University of Hong Kong, December 19-21, 1994.
"Contesting Chineseness: Local-born Descendants in the Chinese Diaspora." Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, Texas A & M University, October 28-29, 1994.
"Collective Ritual and the Resilience of Traditional Organizations: A Case Study of Vancouver since World War II." Luodi Shenggen: An International Conference on Overseas Chinese, San Francisco, November 26-29, 1992. (Panel Organizer)
6 "Comparing Chinese American and Chinese Canadian History after World War II: Some General Comments with Reference to San Francisco and Vancouver, B.C." Third National Conference on Chinese American Studies, California State University, Los Angeles, August 28- 30, 1992.
"Generations of Local-born Chinese in Vancouver from 1946 to 1980." Canadian Asian Studies Association Annual Meeting, Brock University, October 4-6, 1991.
"New Immigrants and Social Organizations: Some Highlights from Vancouver's Chinese Society, 1946-1980." Twelfth Conference, the International Association of Historians of Asia, University of Hong Kong, June 24-28, 1991. (Panel Organizer)
"New Immigrants in Chinese-Canadian Society after the Second World War: A Study of Intramural Relationships." Eighth National Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 29-31, 1991.
"Some Unexplored Aspects in Huiguan Demography in Singapore, 1900-1941: Towards an Explanatory Model of Immigrant Organizations in Urban Chinese Communities." Annual Meeting of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, Stanford University, June 29 - July 1, 1990.
"Chinese Organizations in Vancouver, 1947-1960." Canadian Asian Studies Association Annual Meeting, University of Victoria, May 29-31, 1990.
"Chinese Huiguan in Singapore." Conference on the Overseas Chinese and the Ethnic Chinese, Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou, December 1985.
Other Publications:
“Cantonese Opera,” in Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves Saunier, eds., Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
“Chinese Overseas: Sending Areas,” in David Pong, ed., Encyclopedia of Modern China (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2009), 241.
“Asian Immigration in San Antonio Over the Last Half Century: A Brief Sketch,” in Mel Brown, ed., TexAsia: San Antonio’s Asian Communities, 1978-2008 (Austin: aLAMo Holdings Press, 2008), 1-14.
Guest editor. The Journal of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies 4 (2003).
"Chinese in Canada," in Franklin Ng, ed., Asian American Encyclopedia (New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1995), 290-92.
7 "Chinese Canadian Society," in Sophia Leung and Paul Robertson, eds., S. Wah Leung: Celebration of a Splendid Life (Vancouver: Dr. S. Wah Leung Endowment Fund, Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia, 1992), 76-81.
Translations:
“The Regretful Tale of the Butterfly Lovers (1955).” Siu Leung Li ed., Anthology of Hong Kong Cantonese Opera: The Fong Yim Fun Volume, (Hong Kong: Infolink, 2014), 183-266. An 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.
Book Reviews:
Rise of a Japanese Chinatown, Yokohama, 1894-1972 by Eric C. Han. The Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’historie, forthcoming.
Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong by Elizabeth Sinn. Journal of Chinese Overseas, 10 (2014), 109-111.
Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora edited by Tan Chee-Beng. The China Quarterly 215 (2013), 793-94.
Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture edited by Sucheng Chan and Madeline Hsu, Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation by Min Zhou, and Chinese Community Leadership: Case Study of Victoria in Canada by David Chuenyan Lai. China Review International, 18.2 (2011), 166-73.
The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67 by Patricia E. Roy. International History Review 30.3 (2008), 675-76.
“His Dominion” and the “Yellow Peril”: Protestant Missions to Chinese Immigrants to Canada, 1859-1967 by Jiwu Wang. Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 36.3-4 (2007), 633-34.
Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon by Marie Rose Wong. Journal of American Ethnic History 24.3 (2005), 93-94.
At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 by Erika Lee. 8 Journal of Asian Studies 64.1 (2005), 159-61.
Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe by Frank Pieke et al. China Review International 11.2 (2004), 108-12.
Port of Last Resort: The Diaspora Communities of Shanghai by Marcia Reynders Ristaino. Journal of Asian Studies 62.3 (2003), 940-42.
Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor by Peter Kwong. Pacific Affairs 74.1 (2001), 151-52.
Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas, Pengmin, and Their Neighbors by Sow- Theng Leong, edited by Tim Wright. Social History 24.1 (1999).
Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan edited by Melissa J. Brown. Pacific Affairs 71.2 (1998), 249-51.
South China: State, Culture and Social Change during the 20th Century edited by Leo Douw and Peter Post. China Information 12.3 (winter 1997-98), 134-35.
Reluctant Exiles? Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese edited by Ronald Skeldon. Pacific Affairs 68.4 (1995-96), 625-26.
Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco by Benson Tong. Western Historical Quarterly 26.4 (1995), 531.
Sowing the Seeds of Change: Chinese Students, Japanese Teachers, 1895-1905 by Paula Harrell. Pacific Affairs 67.1 (1994), 109-11.
Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980 by Kay Anderson. Histoire Sociale/Social History 26 (1993), 135-36.
Smoke and Fire: The Chinese in Montreal by Chan Kwok Bun. Journal of Oriental Studies 30.1- 2 (1992), 241-42.
The Forbidden City Within Victoria: Myth, Symbol and Streetscape of Canada's Earliest Chinatown by David Chuenyan Lai. Western Historical Quarterly 23.4 (1992), 518-19.
The Kuomintang Movement in British Malaya 1912-1949 by C.F. Yong and R.B. McKenna. Journal of Oriental Studies 29.2 (1991), 282-84.
Chinatowns: Towns within Cities in Canada by David Chuenyan Lai, and Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver by Paul Yee. British Columbia Historical News 22.3 (1989), 26-27.
9 Social Change and the Chinese in Singapore: A Socio-Economic Geography with Special Reference to Bang Structure, by Cheng Lim-Keak. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 18.1 (1987), 149-50.
Major Grants, 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
Other Grants, Fellowships, and Scholarships:
Summer Faculty Research Grant, College of Liberal and Fine Arts, UT San Antonio, 2001
Faculty Research Award, 1998-99, 1994-95, UT San Antonio
Faculty Development Grant, Summer 1996, UT San Antonio
Chinese Railroad Workers of Canada Commemorative Scholarship in History, University of British Columbia, 1991
Swire Scholarship, St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1988-1991 (declined)
Swire Scholarship, University of Hong Kong, 1984-85, 1985-86
Sir Man Kam Lo and Jardine Scholarship, University of Hong Kong, 1982-83, 1983-84
Huey Suen Fat Prize in History, University of Hong Kong, 1984
Ho Fook Prize, Faculty of Arts, University of Hong Kong, 1982
Chong Chi Kong Prize in History, University of Hong Kong, 1982
10 Courses Taught:
Graduate seminars: Cultural and Ethnic Identities in Modern China Modern China: Themes in local and transnational histories The Chinese Diaspora Historical Approaches and Interpretations
Upper-division courses: Migration and History: The Global Chinese Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia Chinese America China in Revolution Late Imperial China Modern Japan 1600-present Asian American History
Lower-division courses: East Asian Civilization World Civilization to 1500 Historical Methods
Services to the University:
Member, History Department Undergraduate Program Committee, 2014-present
Senator, University Faculty Senate, 2013-present
Member, Academic Policy Review Committee, Faculty Senate, 2013-present
Faculty Secretary, History Department, 2103-present
Member, Search Committee on Latin American History, 2013-14
Chair, History Department Faculty Review Advisory Committee, 2013-14
Member, History Department Search Committee on Teaching Fellow, 2011-12
Member, History Department Committee on merit guidelines, fall 2010
Member, History Department Undergraduate Committee, 2010-11
Member, College of Liberal and Fine Arts, Merit Review Advisory Committee, 2010-11 11
Member, History Department Merit Review Advisory Committee, 2009-11
Member, Search Committee on Latino/s history and African American history, 2007-8
Member, University Graduate Council, 2005-7
Chair, Committee on Graduate Programs and Courses, University Graduate Council, 2006-7
Member, Administrative and Agenda Committee, University Graduate Council, 2006-7
Member, Academic Policy and Curriculum Committee, College of Liberal and Fine Art, 2005-7
Member, History Department Graduate Committee, 2005-8
Chair, History Department Faculty Review Advisory Committee 2005-6
Chair, Department of History, 2001-4
Chair, History Department PhD Proposal Committee, 2004-7
Member, Strategic Planning Committee, College of Liberal and Fine Arts, 2002-3
Member, University Committee on Women and Gender Studies, 2001-2
Member, Division Faculty Merit Review Committee, 2000-1
Member, Search committee in World History, 1999-2000
Member, University International Programs Advisory Council, 1998-2000
Discipline Coordinator for History, 1998-2000
Co-chair of the fifth annual College Symposium on “Multiculturalism at the Century’s End,” College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, June 1998-March 1999
Member, Division Faculty Advisory Committee, 1997-99
Coordinator, History brown-bag seminars, 1994-96, 97-99
Member, Search committee in military history, 1995-96
Project Coordinator, Fulbright-Hays Grant to China, 1994-95
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Services to the Profession:
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the South Seas Society, 2013-present
Member, Accreditation Panel for Diploma and B.F.A. in Chinese Opera, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, 2012-13
Museum Expert Advisor, Department of Leisure and Cultural Activities, Hong Kong Government, 2010-present
Board Member, Council of Conferences, Association for Asian Studies, 2002-2005
External Reviewer for faculty promotion and tenure, Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore, 2002
External Reviewer, Cantonese Opera Research Program, Music Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001-2
President, 2000-1; Vice-President, 1999-2000; Board Member, 1997-2000, 2001-4, 2005-2008, Southwest Conference on Asian Studies
Member, National Exhibit Advisory Council, the Chinese Historical Society of America, 1997- 2000
External examiner for M.A.: McGill University (1998), National University of Singapore (2005)
Manuscript reviewer for the publishers, including The Journal of American-East Asian Relations, BC Studies (Canada), Asian Studies Review (Australia), Journal of Ethnic and Migration History, University of Texas Press, University of British Columbia Press, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, Houghton Mifflin, Pearson Prentice Hall, Palgrave Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, W.W. Norton & Co.
Reviewer for grant proposals for the following entity: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Prestigious Fellowship Scheme, Research Grant Council, Hong Kong RGC-Fulbright Hong Kong Scholar Program University of Macau, Multi-Year Research Grant National Humanities Center, NC, U.S.A.
December 2014