found: American visa, c1994:CIP t.p. (Wang Ping) data sheet (writes name in Chinese style with family name 1st; b. 8/14/57) pub. info. (b. in Shanghai; res. New York City)
found: Wikipedia, viewed 27 June 2018:under Wang Ping, author (Wang Ping (born 14 August 1957 in Shanghai) is a Chinese-American poet, writer, photographer, performance and installation artist, dancer, singer, and professor of English at Macalester College. Wang spent much of the 1990s as a writing instructor or poet in residence, and in 1999 she obtained a position as assistant professor at Macalester College. She is currently a full Professor of English at Macalester, and teaches courses in creative writing and poetry.)
found: Her website, viewed 27 June 2018(Wang Ping was born in Shanghai. In 1985 she left China to study in the U.S., earning her M.F.A. from Long Island University and Ph.D. from New York University. Her books include three collections of poetry "The magic whip", "Of flesh & spirit", and "Ten thousand waves", the cultural study "Aching for beauty: footbinding in China", the novel "Foreign devil", two collections of fiction stories entitled "American visa" and "The last communist virgin", a book of Chinese folk lore "The Dragon Emperor", and a book of creative nonfiction "Life of miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi". She is also the editor and co-translator of the anthology "New generation: poetry from China today" and co-translator of "Flames" by Xue Di. She is also a photographer and film maker, public performance and installation artist. She now lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, and is a professor of English at Macalester College and founder of Kinship of Rivers project.)
