Vivien Wai-ying Ng[1] is an American historian and filmmaker. Born to a Chinese-American family, she obtained her PhD at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and was a professor at the University of Oklahoma before moving to the University at Albany, SUNY, where she is associate professor emerita at the Department of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies.[2] A scholar of social history in China and later Asian-American studies, she was the president of the National Women's Studies Association from 1993 until 1994 and has served as the chair of SUNY Albany's Department of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies and women's studies program. Outside of academia, she also works on documentaries and short stories.
Vivien Ng | |
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| President of the National Women's Studies Association | |
| In office 1993–1994 | |
| Preceded by | Berenice A. Carroll and Sue Mansfield (co-chairs) |
| Succeeded by | Sandra Coyner |
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| Alma mater | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
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| Discipline | History |
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Biography edit
Vivien Ng was born into a Chinese-American family, with her great-grandfather running a restaurant in Springfield, Massachusetts, her paternal grandfather running a grocery store in Chinatown, Manhattan, and her maternal grandfather being a Columbia University-educated filmmaker and businessman.[3][2][4] She studied at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UH), where she was awarded the 1976 Lee Shao-sheng Award for Excellence in Chinese Studies.[5] Later, she obtained her PhD at UH;[2] her 1980 dissertation, Homicide and Insanity in Qing China, was supervised by Brian E. McKnight.[1]
After teaching at UH starting in 1981, she moved to the University of Oklahoma in 1982,[5] where she was assistant professor of history and women's studies by 1987.[6] She was a 1989 Southwestern Bell Humanities Fellow.[5] She was one of the two 1990-1991 Rockefeller Residency Fellows at Hunter College, with her project being a study on the impact of the end of the First Sino-Japanese War on Chinese women "The New Woman: Gender Reconstruction in Modern China, 1895-1911".[7][8]
She was present at the American Association of University Women (AAUW)'s 1986 Southwest Central Regional conference,[9] became president of the AAUW's Oklahoma division in May 1987,[6] and was part of the AAUW Educational Foundation's board from 1989 until 1993.[2] She was the president of the National Women's Studies Association from 1993 until 1994.[10]
In 1995, she moved to the University at Albany, SUNY,[5] where she became director of their women's studies program by 1998.[5] She was also chair of their Department of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies from 1995 until 2000 and from 2011 until 2017.[2]
Ng initially started with social history in China, with articles on LGBT rights and rape law.[2] In 1990, she published Madness in Late Imperial China: From Illness to Deviance, a book on the treatment of the criminally insane during Qing dynasty China which is "still being used in comparative law courses in several law schools."[2] As of 1998, she was reportedly undergoing work on another book, Essential Woman: Construction of Womanhood in Early 20th-Century.[5] Later, she shifted to Asian-American studies in the 1990s.[2]
Ng has also worked in documentaries, including as a researcher and producer for the Maryknoll Sisters-focused Trailblazers in Habits.[2] Work on two more documentaries, each focusing on Barbara Zuber and her maternal grandfather, is currently underway, as well as on a biography on Elizabeth Hirschboeck.[2] She has also published short stories in 13th Moon and the anthology "Telling Moments: Autobiographical Lesbian Short Stories".[2][11]
She lived in Norman, Oklahoma, as of 1986.[9]
Filmography edit
| Year | Title | Note | Ref. |
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| 2014 | Trailblazers in Habits | Associate producer, principal researcher | [2] |
| TBA | On Her Own Terms: The Life and Work of Barbara Zuber | Under production | [2] |
| TBA | Liminal State | Under production | [2] |
Publications edit
References edit
- ^ a b Ng, Vivien Wai-ying (1980). Homicide and Insanity in Qing China (PhD thesis). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Retrieved April 18, 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Vivien W. Ng". University at Albany. Retrieved April 18, 2024.
- ^ Ng, Vivien (June 27, 2018). "Researching Family History". Vivien Ng. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ "OU History Professor Vivien Ng selected for Rockefeller Fellowship Program". Okmulgee Daily Times. August 23, 1990. p. 9. Retrieved April 21, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d e f "SUNY Potsdam's Women's Studies Program Offers Workshop". Hill News. March 27, 1998. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ a b "Leadership Conference Set". The Daily Oklahoman. August 1, 1987. p. 14. Retrieved April 21, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Rockefeller Residency Fellowship Program" (PDF). The Faculty Voice. Vol. II, no. 8. Hunter College. May 15, 1990. p. 2. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ "OU Professor Gets Fellowship". Tulsa World. Associated Press. August 17, 1990. p. 12. Retrieved April 21, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Regional Conference Begins". The Daily Oklahoman. June 6, 1986. p. 18. Retrieved April 21, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "People". National Women's Studies Association. Archived from the original on May 12, 2023. Retrieved April 18, 2024.
- ^ Ng, Vivien (2003). "Farewell to Concubines". In Hall, Lynda (ed.). Telling Moments: Autobiographical Lesbian Short Stories (PDF). Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ Reynolds, Douglas R. (1993). "Book Review: Madness in Late Imperial China: From Illness to Deviance". International Criminal Justice Review. 3 (1): 119–121. doi:10.1177/105756779300300118. ISSN 1057-5677.
- ^ Sivin, N. (1992). "Vivien W. Ng. Madness in Late Imperial China: From Illness to Deviance". The American Historical Review. 97 (4): 1262–1263. doi:10.1086/ahr/97.4.1262. ISSN 1937-5239.
- ^ Kleinman, Joan; Kleinman, Arthur (1991). "Madness in Late Imperial China: From Illness to Deviance. By Vivien Ng. Norman, London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. $25.00". The Journal of Asian Studies. 50 (3): 668–669. doi:10.2307/2057589. ISSN 1752-0401.