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Professor Cheng published: · The article “Landscapes of Beauty and Plunder: Japanese American Flower Growers and an Elite Public Garden in Suburban Los Angeles,” in Environment Planning D: Society and Space (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2020); · Two book chapters in “Of Railroads, Camps, and Strip Malls: Symbolic Landscapes of Asian America,” in the edited volume, California Dreaming: Movement and Place in the Asian American Imaginary (Christine Bacareza Balance and Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, eds., University of Hawai’i Press, 2020); · “Epilogue: Suburban Cosmopolitanism in the San Gabriel Valley,” in East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte (eds. Romeo Guzman et al., Rutgers University Press).
This spring, she was awarded a $10,000 project innovation grant from the Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego to support research and translation for her book manuscript-in-progress, Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants and Cold War Politics in the United States (contracted with University of Washington Press).
She served as Program Co-Chair for the 2020 Association for Asian American Studies Conference, which was to be held in April in Washington, DC but was cancelled in March due to covid-19. Since November 2019, she has been serving on the City of Los Angeles’s Working Group on Civic Memory. |
