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About Dong Wang
Dong WANG specializes in history, geopolitics, geoculture, U.S.-China relations, modern and contemporary China, foreign relations, and Germans in America. She is a naturalized American citizen since 2006 and permanent German resident with bases in the Boston area, Mass. and Northwest Germany. A full professor of history at Gordon College on the North Shore of Boston, University of Turku Finland, and Shanghai University during the last two decades, she is also a recipient of fellowships/grants respectively from the U.S. Pew Charitable Trusts (1993-98) and the European Institute for Chinese Studies Paris/L’Institut d’études avancées de Paris (2020-21), U.S. National Endowment of Humanities of 2014-15, and Free University Berlin 2023. She conducts original research in Chinese, English, French, German, and Japanese while studying Russian and Turkish.
Books in English that she single-authored including bestsellers are: Tse Tsan Tai (1872-1938): An Australian-Cantonese in British Hong Kong (2023); Longmen’s Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage: When Antiquity Met Modernity in China (2020), The United States and China: A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (2013, winner of The American Library Association’s “Choice Top 25 Outstanding Academic Titles”; 2nd and rev. ed. 2021, an amazon bestseller 2022), Managing God’s Higher Learning: U.S.-China Cultural Encounter and Canton Christian College (Lingnan University), 1888-1952 (2007), and China’s Unequal Treaties: Narrating National History (2005, an amazon Germany bestseller 2013). Among other edited works, she edited “The United States, Asia, and the Pacific, 1815-1919,” which was published in The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Guide: An Annotated Bibliography of American Foreign Relations since 1600 (2017, rev. ed. 2021).
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NBN Episodes hosted by Dong:
August 9, 2025
Chiang Kai-Shek's Politics of Shame
Once a powerful figure who reversed the disintegration of China and steered the country to Allied victory in World War II, Chiang Kai-shek fled into e…
October 14, 2023
The Collapse of Nationalist China
Parks M. Coble's book The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War (Cambridge UP, 2023) revisits one of the most stun…
August 17, 2023
Slavery in East Asia
Today I talked to Don J. Wyatt about his book Slavery in East Asia (Cambridge UP, 2022). In premodern China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, just as in th…
May 13, 2023
China in the Global South
Using a multidisciplinary approach and case studies based on fieldwork in nine countries scattered across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, …
December 13, 2022
China's Next Act
If the COVID-19 pandemic taught us anything, it is that the world is bound together by shared challenges—and that at the center of those challenges st…
July 20, 2022
Cadre Country
Since the founding of the Communist Party in China just over a century ago there is much the country has achieved. But who does the heavy lifting in C…
April 21, 2022
Americans in China
Americans in China: Encounters with the People’s Republic (Oxford UP, 2022) tells the stories of men and women who have lived and worked in China from…
February 7, 2022
Postcolonial Security
In light of the discrepancy between Britain’s and France’s postcolonial security roles in Africa, which seemed already determined half a decade after …