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Wendy Cheng – American Studies

Professor Cheng published:

Β·Β Β Β Β Β  The article β€œLandscapes of Beauty and Plunder: Japanese American Flower Growers and an Elite Public Garden in Suburban Los Angeles,” inΒ Environment Planning D:Β Society and SpaceΒ (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2020);

Β·Β Β Β Β Β  Two book chapters in β€œOf Railroads, Camps, and Strip Malls: Symbolic Landscapes of Asian America,” in the edited volume,Β California Dreaming: Movement and Place in the Asian American ImaginaryΒ (Christine Bacareza Balance and Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, eds., University of Hawai’i Press, 2020);

Β·Β Β Β Β Β  β€œEpilogue: Suburban Cosmopolitanism in the San Gabriel Valley,” inΒ East of East: The Making of Greater El MonteΒ (eds. Romeo Guzman et al., Rutgers University Press).

 

This spring, she was awarded a $10,000 project innovation grant from the Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego to support research and translation for her book manuscript-in-progress,Β Island X:Β Taiwanese Student Migrants and Cold War Politics in the United States (contracted with University of Washington Press).

 

She served as Program Co-Chair for the 2020 Association for Asian American Studies Conference, which was to beΒ held in April in Washington, DC but was cancelled in March due to covid-19. Since November 2019, she has been serving on the City of Los Angeles’s Working Group on Civic Memory.

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