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Liping Bu, Ph.D. (卜丽萍)

Liping  Bu, Ph.D. (卜丽萍)

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 (卜丽萍) is professor of history. 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 two books and over 30 journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Bu is the recipient of prestigious fellowships and grants including an NIH grant, an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship,a Rockefeller Archive Center grant, and a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. She also received Alma College's Posey Award for Faculty Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship in 2002. Her recent work as scholar in residence at the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, resulted in 2 online exhibitions: (1) Chinese public health posters at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/chineseposters/index.html, and (2) Chinese Anti-Malaria Posters, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/chineseantimalaria/index.html. She also contributed to the exhibition on global health “Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health” at http://apps.nlm.nih.gov/againsttheodds/exhibit/community_health/serving_community.cfm

Research Interests

Her research interests include modernization and nation-building, international cultural relations, and public health. She is writing a book on Public Health and Modernization of China in the 20th Century.

Recent Courses Taught

  • China's 20th Century Revolutions.  HST353.
  • Foreign Policy Seminar.  HST407.
  • American Foreign Relations.  HST207.
  • Immigration and Ethnicity in America.  HST228.

Selected Book Publications

  • 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 and Elizabeth Fee.  "Unite to Fight Malaria."  American Journal of Public Health.  2010. vol. 100, no. 4.
  • Liping Bu and Elizabeth Fee.  "Preventing High Blood Pressure and Promoting Longevity."  American Journal of Public Health.  2010. vol. 100, no. 5.
  • Liping Bu, Ph.D. and Elizabeth Fee, Ph.D..  "Health is Heavenly: The Vision of Chinese Anti-Malaria Posters."  American Journal of Public Health.  volume 100, no.3.  March 1, 2010.
  • Liping Bu, Ph.D..  "Social Darwinism, Public Health and Modernization in Early 20th-Century China."  In Uneasy Encounters:The Politics of Medicine and Health in China 1900-1937.  Iris Borowy, ed., Peter Lang,  2009.
  • Liping Bu, Ph.D..  "Cultural Communication in Picturing Health: W. W. Peter and the Public Health Campaigns in China, 1912-1926."  In Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture.  David Serlin, ed., University of Minnesota Press,  2009.
  • Liping Bu, Ph.D..  "Public Health and Modernization: The First Campaigns in China, 1915-1916."  Social History of Medicine.  vol.22, no.2 (August 2009)
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Selected Reviews

  • Liping Bu, Ph.D..  Review of A Leader for Peace: How Edwin Ginn Tried to Change the WorldJournal of American History.  vol. 94, no.2  Sept.2007.

Recent Presentations

Selected External Research Grants

  • Liping Bu.  "Public Health Education and Campaigns in China, 1910-1990."  National Institutes of Health, NIH Grant 1G13LM009601-01A1.  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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