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Wendy Cheng

Wendy Cheng

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A People’s Guide Book Series

I am coeditor of a UC Press book series, with Laura Barraclough and Laura Pulido. Tourism is one of the…

Current Projects

Of Abject Fathers and Angry Mothers: Chia-Chia Lin’s The Unpassing

March 2020. Published at tropicsofmeta.com. Chia-Chia Lin’s The Unpassing (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2019) is the most Taiwanese American book I’ve ever…

CNFPW, Creative Writing, Public Writing, Taiwanese/American

East of East: The global cosmopolitans of suburban LA

Spring 2015. Article published in Boom: A Journal of California. While Los Angeles’s San Gabriel Valley is best known for…

Changs Next Door to the Diazes, CNFPW, Public Writing, SGV

A Brief History (and Geography) of the San Gabriel Valley

August 4, 2014. Article published by kcet.org. The SGV is not only east of East L.A. — and a notable…

Changs Next Door to the Diazes, CNFPW, Public Writing, SGV

Local Academics, Gilda Ochoa and Wendy Cheng Tackle Community Relations in Southern California

Jan. 22, 2014 Interview by Uprisingradio.org. Southern California has its own unique racial makeup, not just in urban areas, but…

Media

The Black Panther Party Headquarters and Other Invisible Places

August 13, 2012. Los Angeles Review of Books. “WHY SHOULD WE visit invisible places?” someone asked at a recent bookstore…

CNFPW, People's Guide to LA, Public Writing

A people’s guide to Los Angeles sheds light on less-frequented but important sites in LA

May 25, 2012 Radio interview with KPCC Tourists who come to Los Angeles tend to visit the same places: Venice…

Media, People's Guide, People's Guide to LA

Karen Tei Yamashita: A Twist on the Mix

Interview with novelist Karen Tei Yamashita, Loggernaut.org (September 2005). “I have heard Brazilian children say that whatever passes through the…

CNFPW, Public Writing

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