{{short description|Taiwanese sociologist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Lucie Cheng | image = Lucie Cheng, 1956 (cropped).jpg | native_name = 成露茜 | other_names = Lucie Cheng Hirata | birth_date = {{birth date|1939|02|11}} | birth_place = British Hong Kong | death_date = {{death date and age|2010|01|27|1939|02|11}} | death_place = Zhongzheng District, Taipei, Taiwan | citizenship = Taiwanese, British, USA | field = Sociology | work_institutions = {{unbulleted list |University of California, Los Angeles |Shih Hsin University, Taiwan}} | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list |National Taiwan University (BA)| |University of Chicago (MS)|University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (MA, PhD)}} | thesis_title = Immigrant Integration in a Polyethnic Society | thesis_url = https://books.google.com/books/about/Immigrant_Integration_in_a_Polyethnic_So.html?id=lCMWAQAAIAAJ | thesis_year = 1971 | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = {{bulleted list |First director of Asian American Studies Center, UCLA|Founder of the Cheng She-Wo Institute for Chinese Journalism, Shih Hsin University}} }}
'''Lucie Cheng''' ({{lang-zh|c=成露茜|p=Chéng Lùxī}}) was a Taiwanese sociologist who was known for her work in Asian American studies, as well as being the first permanent director of the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).<ref name="ucla">{{cite web |title=Obituary: Lucie Cheng, 70, former director of UCLA Asian American Studies Center | url=http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/obituary-lucie-cheng-former-director-153576 |last=Marquez | first=Letisia | date=8 February 2010 | access-date=30 January 2018 | website=UCLA Newsroom}}</ref> She was also one of the first academics from the United States to visit mainland China after the country normalized its relations with China.<ref name=jinian/>
==Early life== Cheng was born to journalist Cheng Shewo and Hsiao Tsung-jang (蕭宗讓) in Hong Kong during the Second Sino-Japanese War. As a result of her father's job, Cheng moved frequently with her family during her youth to places around China, including Guilin, Chongqing, and Beiping.<ref name=jinian>{{cite web | title=紀念左翼前輩成露茜（台社紀念Lucie文）| trans-title=In memory of our leftist senior, Lucie Cheng (memorial text) | language=Chinese | editor-last=Liao | editor-first=Bruce | website=My Paper (個人新聞台) | date=3 March 2010 }}</ref> After the end of the war, the family returned to Hong Kong, though Cheng's older brother later returned to People's Republic of China to help further the socialist cause. In 1952, the family moved Cheng and her elder sister Catherine Chia-lin Cheng (成嘉玲) to Taiwan.<ref name=jinian/>
==Education== After attending Taipei First Girls' High School, Cheng graduated from National Taiwan University with a bachelor's degree in foreign languages. In her second year as an undergraduate, she studied music abroad at the University of Hawaii, despite her father's objections.<ref name=jinian/> During her stay, Cheng worked as a babysitter for a wealthy American family; the experience piqued her interest in class stratification.<ref name=jinian/> She then went on to earn an M.A. in sociology from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, an M.S. in library studies from the University of Chicago, and her Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii in 1970.<ref name=ucla/>
==Career== ===United States=== Cheng became an assistant professor of sociology at UCLA in 1970. Due to her engagements with politics and student movements, she became the first permanent director of the university's Asian American Studies Center since it was founded in 1969.<ref name=jinian/> Cheng developed and expanded the center, employing major scholars like Valerie Matsumoto, Robert A. Nakamura, and Russell Leong.<ref name=ucla/> Under Cheng, the center was run under socialist principles, with students and teachers rejecting hierarchical structures considered typical in capitalist America.<ref name=jinian/>
In 1978, alongside the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, Cheng organised the 'Southern California Chinese American Oral History Project'. The project focused on the oral testimonies of the cultural struggles that grassroots Chinese Americans faced in the United States.<ref name=jinian/>
After the United States normalized its relations with China, Cheng visited a Chinese university with other members of UCLA and became one of the first academics from the country to visit the mainland.<ref name=jinian/> Cheng had, however, visited China throughout the 1970s in a personal capacity, searching for her brother and sister on her father's behalf. During one visit, she met with Zhou Enlai, who informed her that her father was no longer considered an enemy by the Communist Party.<ref name=jinian/>
In 1985, Cheng founded the Center of Pacific Rim Studies at UCLA.<ref name=jinian/>
===Taiwan=== Cheng took over her father's Taiwan-based paper, the ''Li pao'' ({{lang-zh|c=立報|p=lì bào}}), in 1991 and continued to support leftist causes.<ref name=jinian/> She then divided her time between the United States and Taiwan, teaching at Shih Hsin University, before becoming a professor there in 1993, when she founded a course on gender and development.<ref name=jinian/>
In 2006, she founded ''Sifang pao'' ({{lang-zh|c=四方報|p=sìfāng bào}}), a paper aimed at Vietnamese and Thai immigrants and migrant workers.<ref name=jinian/>
==Honours== *2011 35th Golden Tripod Award - special contribution.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}} *The Lucie Cheng Prize is awarded by the Amerasia Journal, and recognises outstanding student essays in Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies.<ref name=amerasia>{{cite web|title=Amerasia Journal: Lucie Cheng Prize Nominations| url=https://www.aasc.ucla.edu/ajprize/ | website=Asian American Studies Center | access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref>
==Selected works== ===Books=== *{{cite book | title=Labor Immigration Under Capitalism: Asian Workers in the United States Before World War II | author1=Lucie Cheng | author2=Edna Bonacich | publisher=University of California Press | date=1984 | isbn=9780520048294 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/laborimmigration00chen }} *{{cite book | title=Linking Our Lives: Chinese American Women of Los Angeles | author1=Lucie Cheng | publisher=The Society | date=1984 | isbn=9780930377007 }} *{{cite book | title=The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring | url=https://archive.org/details/newasianimmigrat00ongp | url-access=registration | author1=Paul Ong | author2= Edna Bonacich |author3=Lucie Cheng | publisher=Temple University Press | date=1994 }} *{{cite book | title=理論與實踐的開拓：成露茜論文集 | trans-title= Pioneer of Theory and Praxis: Selected Works of Lucie Cheng | language=Chinese | author1=Lucie Cheng | editor=Xia Xiaojuan 夏曉鵑 | publisher=Taiwan shehui yanjiu zazhi she | date=2012 | isbn=9789868673557 }}
===Articles=== *{{cite journal | title=Mental Illness Among the Chinese: Myth or Reality? | author1=Bernard B. Black | author2=Lucie Cheng Hirata | journal=Journal of Social Issues | volume=29 | issue=2 | date=1973 | pages=146–166 | doi=10.1111/j.1540-4560.1973.tb00078.x }} *{{cite journal | title=Free, Indentured, Enslaved: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century America | author1=Lucie Cheng Hirata | journal=Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | volume=5 | issue=1 | date=1979 | pages=3–29 | doi=10.1086/493680 | s2cid=143464846 }} *{{cite journal | title=Korean Businesses in Black and Hispanic Neighborhoods: A Study of Intergroup Relations | author1=Lucie Cheng | author2=Yen Espiritu | journal=Sociological Perspectives | volume=32 | issue=4 | date=1989 | pages=521–534 | doi=10.2307/1389136 | jstor=1389136 | s2cid=145565753 }} *{{cite journal | title=Contract with a Chinese Face: Socially Embedded Factors in the Transformation from Hierarchy to Market, 1978-1989 | author1=Lucie Cheng | author2=Arthur Rosett | journal=Journal of Chinese Law | volume=5 | issue=2 | date=1991 | pages=143–244 }} *{{cite book | chapter=Women, Export-oriented Growth, and the State: The Case of Taiwan | author1=Lucie Cheng | author2=Ping-Chun Hsiung | editor1=Joel D. Aberdach |editor2=David Dollar |editor3=Kenneth L. Sokoloff | title=The Role of the State in Taiwan's Development | date=1994 | pages=321–352 | location=New York |publisher=ME Sharpe | isbn=9780765636478 }} *{{cite book | chapter=Asians: The 'Model Minority' Deconstructed | author1=Lucie Cheng | author2=P. Q. Yang | editor1=R. Waldinger |editor2=M. Borzormehr | title=Ethnic Los Angeles | date=1996 | pages=305–344 | location=New York |publisher=Russell Sage Foundation | isbn=978-0871549020 }}
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