King-Kok Cheung
King-Kok Cheung is UCLA Research Professor of English, Professor Emeritus of English and Asian and [...]
King-Kok Cheung is UCLA Research Professor of English, Professor Emeritus of English and Asian American Studies, and Special Advisor of the US-China Education Trust (USCET). Born and raised in Hong Kong, she received her PhD in English from UC Berkeley (1984); she was UCEAP Study Center Director in Beijing (2008-2010) and Shanghai (2015-2017), Fulbright lecturer and Lingnan Fellow at Hong Kong University (1999-2001), and Chair Professor of Renmin University of China (2018-20). She is author of Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa (Cornell UP,1993; Japanese edition, 2015; Chinese edition, 2023; bilingual edition, 2025) and Asian American Literature without Borders (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017; Chinese edition, 2023; expanded Chinese edition, 2025); editor of Words Matter: Conversations with Asian American Writers (U of Hawaii Press, 2000), An Interethnic Companion to Asian American literature (Cambridge, 1996), “Seventeen Syllables” (Rutgers, 1994), Asian American literature: An Annotated Bibliography (MLA, 1988) and co-editor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature. She has received an ACLS fellowship, a Mellon fellowship, a Fulbright lecturing and research award, and a resident fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford), and the 2012-2013 UCLA Hoshide Teaching Award in Asian American Studies, and recipient of the 2023 Association of Asian American Studies Lifetime Career Achievement Award.
