Bio of Prof. Dong WANG (DW, she/her/hers), Ph.D., Ph.D.
A naturalized U.S. citizen since 2006 and permanent German resident since 2012, Dong WANG (DW) is a long-trained historian, well-established academic/professor/author known for her original, prolific, deep and wide, quality research in seven different languages, fair/sustained judgment, based on all possible sources, be it primary or/and secondary evidence. She is also a designer, manager, artist, and avid practitioner of swimming, kayaking, gardening/horticulture, badminton/tennis, classical music, oil/watercolor painting/drawing, as well as Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and British cuisines.
Where is home? I
Born to strict teacher parents in 1967 who were deprived of rights to higher education due to their "default" class status (land-holding/skilled aristocrats & medical doctor) carried from the Republic of China (1912-present), Dr. Wang grew up in Loyang/Luoyang/Honan/Henan (meaning "the South bank of the River" on the Central Plain). At the age of five/six, Dr. Wang was sent to the elementary school by her orphan mom--who had to work full time-- because the young Dr. Wang loved wandering off to the nature, her only childhood toy. That is why she was always the youngest pupil/under-/graduate student in her own class.
Where is home? II
In August 1993, upon obtaining her first Ph.D. from the Institute of Modern History at CASS in Peking, she departed for Kansas City, MO under the aegis of the prestigious Pew Charitable Trusts fellowship to pursue her second Ph.D. in history/Asian studies/U.S. diplomatic/military history at the University of Kansas where the Pew grant was administered. Her career calling as a professional historian/writer in English came in 2001/2002 while she was working in Hong Kong as a main founder of the History Department at Lingnan University Hong Kong and when she accepted the job offer from Gordon College on the North Shore of Boston, MA, to come back to the United States of America--her adopted homeland. Thus, her question is whether one's birthplace should be equated to one's "Die Heimat"/home. See her reflection on this here.
Career
Dr. Dong WANG's career trajectory is nothing but conventional during the post-World War II era, somehow perhaps nearing that of the ideal pre-modern and early modern European humanists who pursued independent thinking for the sake of the common good within their capacities in a holistic manner. More to come
Honorary Academic and Civic Service
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