Professor Cheng published: Β·Β Β Β Β Β The article βLandscapes of Beauty and Plunder: Japanese American Flower Growers and an Elite Public Garden in Suburban Los Angeles,β inΒ Environment Planning D:Β Society and SpaceΒ (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2020); Β·Β Β Β Β Β Two book chapters in βOf Railroads, Camps, and Strip Malls: Symbolic Landscapes of Asian America,β 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 Hawaiβi Press, 2020); Β·Β Β Β Β Β βEpilogue: Suburban Cosmopolitanism in the San Gabriel Valley,β 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 Angelesβs Working Group on Civic Memory. |