Professor Provides Insight on China
Dr.
Liping Bu, Alma College associate professor of History, is an expert on
China and can provide insight on Chinese history, societal change,
family values and Chinese/Western relations.
A native of China and a graduate of Beijing University, Bu is the author of Making the World Like Us: Education, Cultural Expansion, and the American Century (Praeger, 2003) and co-editor of The Cultural Turn: Essays in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations (Imprint, 2001). She is working on her third book Public Health and Nation-Building in Early 20th Century China. She is a frequent visitor to her homeland, researching various subjects and taking students to China for Spring Term classes to study the history and culture.
Bu was recently awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for 2006 by Needham Research Institute (NRI) at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. NRI is a recognized global center for the study of the history of East Asian science, technology and medicine. Home of the Science and Civilisation in China Project, it houses the East Asian History of Science Library containing a unique collection of books and other published materials on the history of science, technology and medicine in East Asia.
She has received several other fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Humanities summer fellowship in 1999. In 2002, she earned Alma's Posey Award for Faculty Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship. She will present "Public Health and Modernization in Early 20th Century China" at the symposium on "Global Health Histories" sponsored by the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Contact Dr. Bu at (989) 463-7986 or bulipi@alma.edu
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Posted: Thu, June 30th, 2005 at 11:30AM
