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Liping Bu, Ph.D.

Liping Bu, Ph.D.

Professor of History
Joined Alma College Faculty in 1999
Swanson Academic Center 321
(989) 463-7986
Office Hours: T Th 11:20-1:00, 2:30-3:30
Homepage: http://www.alma.edu/special/spring_terms/china/

Dr. Liping Bu is professor of history. Her research interests include international cultural relations, modernization and nation-building, and public health. She teaches modern Chinese and Japanese history as well as American foreign relations and immigration history. She received her PhD in history and policy from Carnegie Mellon University in 1995 after studies at Peking University and Smith College. She has published three books and more than 30 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters on a wide range of subjects of cultural relations and public health. She is currently working on her new book on public health and modernization of China in the 20th century.

Professor Bu has received prestigious fellowships and grants: NIH grant, Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Rockefeller Archive Center grant, and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. She also received Alma College's Posey Award for Faculty Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship, and the Service Learning Fellow Award.

Professor Bu was invited in 2010 by Austria to be the keynote lecturer at the international conference on academic exchange and international relations, in celebration of the 60th anniversary of Austrian-American Fulbright Exchange. In 2011, she was invited to be the keynote speaker at the annual conference of the Institute of Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin, Germany.

As scholar in residence at the National Library of Medicine, NIH, she created a higher education module on public health campaigns in China and several exhibits on public health.
Module: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/about/exhibition/education/chinesepublichealthposters/highereducation/aboutthemodule.html
Exhibits:
1) "Chinese public health posters" http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/chineseposters/index.html;(2) "Chinese Anti-Malaria Posters" http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/chineseantimalaria/; 3) "Health for the People: Continuity and Change in Asian Medicine" http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/healthforthepeople/; (4)"Consumptive Disease": Chinese Anti-Tuberculosis Posters, 1950-1980" http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/chineseantitb/index.html;
(5)"Family Planning and Socioeconomic Development" http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/chinesefamilyplanning/

Research Interests

Her research interests include modernization and nation-building, international cultural relations, and public health.

Recent Courses Taught

  • Public Health and Modern Societies: A Global Perspective.  HST271.
  • East Asian Studies: Modern China and Japan.  HST 253.
  • China's 20th Century Revolutions.  HST353.
  • Immigration and Ethnicity in America.  HST228.
  • U.S. Foreign Policy.  HST 407.
  • U.S. Foreign Relations.  HST 207.
  • U.S. History, 1865-present.  HST 105.

Directed Student Presentations and Achievements

  • Supervisor of Ryan Utter's independent research, â��Re-visioning Chinese Socialism: Deng Xiaopingâ��s Economic Reformsâ��
  • Supervised Tristan Smith's history senior thesis, "Prohibition in the Age of Excess: Social and Scientific Influences on the Vitality of the Eighteenth Amendment."
  • Supervised Eva Schneider's history senior thesis, "The Explosion of Rage against Racial Inequality: The 1943 Riot in Detroit."

Selected Book Publications

  • Liping Bu, Ph.D. (edited with Darwin Stapleton and Ka-che Yip).  Science, Public Health, and the State In Modern Asia.  London: Routledge.  2012.
  • Liping Bu, Ph.D..  Making the World Like US.  Praeger.  First ed.  2003.
  • Frank Ninkovich and Liping Bu, eds.,.  The Cultural Turn: Essays in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations.  Chicago: Imprint Publications.  2001.

Selected Articles

  • Liping Bu, Ph.D. .  "From Public Health to State Medicine: John B. Grant and China"s Health Profession."  Harvard Asia Quarterly .  14, no. 4 (December 2012): 8-15
  • Liping Bu, Ph.D. (with Elizabeth Fee) .  "Family Planning and Economic Development in China."  American Journal of Public Health .  102, no. 10 (October 2012): 1858-1859.
  • Liping Bu, Ph.D. (with Elizabeth Fee).  "Get Well and Go Back to Work!."  American Journal of Public Health .  101, no. S1 (December 2011): S165
  • Liping Bu, Ph.D. (with Elizabeth Fee).  "Isaac Williams Brewer (1867-1928): An Unsung Hero."  American Journal of Public Health.  100, no. 3 (March 2010):423
  • Liping Bu, Ph.D..  "Science, Public Health, and Modernization of China in Social Darwinian Context, 1895-1925."  Minguo Yan Jiu (Studies on Republican China).  vol. 16 (winter 2009): 215-244
  • Liping Bu, Ph.D., with Elizabeth Fee.  "The Origins of Public Health Nursing: The Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service."  American Journal of Public Health.  100, no.7 (July 2010):1206-1207.
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Selected Reviews

  • Liping Bu, Ph.D. .  Review of Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia, by Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth, eds.  Social History of Medicine .  December 2011, 24.3, 819-821
  • Liping Bu, Ph.D. .  Review of Modernity and National Identity in the United States and East Asia, 1895-1919,, by Carol C. Chin.  American Historical Review .  October 2011, 116.4, 1087-1088
  • Liping Bu, Ph.D..  Review of A Leader for Peace: How Edwin Ginn Tried to Change the World, by Robert I. Rotberg.  Journal of American History.  vol. 94, no.2  Sept.2007.

Selected Chapter Book Publications

  • "Education and International Cultural Understanding: The Elite American Approach, 1920-1937." In Teaching America to the World and the World to America: Education and Foreign Relations since 1870 , edited by Richard Garlitz and Lisa Jarvinen, 111-134. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
  • "Korean War Anti-Germ Warfare Posters." In Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, edited by Michael Sappol, 198-199. Blast Books, 2012.
  • "Chinese Anti-Tuberculosis Flyers,." In Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, edited by Michael Sappol, 166-167. Blast Books, 2012.
  • "Introduction: Interpreting Science and Public Health in Modern Asia, ." In Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia , edited by Liping Bu, Darwin Stapleton and Ka-che Yip, 1-15. London: Routledge, 2012.
  • "Beijing First Health Station: Innovative Public Health Education and Influence on China's Health Profession, ." In Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia, edited by Liping Bu, Darwin Stapleton and Ka-che Yip, 129-143. London: Routledge, 2012.
  • "Social Darwinism, Public Health and Modernization in China, 1895-1925." In Uneasy Encounters: The Politics of Medicine and Health in China 1900-1937, edited by Iris Borowy, 93-124. Germany: Peter Lang,,  2009.
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Selected Creative Works

Recent Presentations

Selected External Research Grants

  • Liping Bu.  "Public Health Education and Campaigns in China, 1910-1990."  National Institutes of Health, Scholarly Publications Grant, 2009-2011.  Effective: 2009-4-1.
  • "Research Grant."  Rockefeller Archive Center.  Effective: 2006-2007.
  • "Andrew Mellon Fellowship."  Needham Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK.  Effective: 2006.

 

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