April 2023

Huping Ling is the author of a new book, Voices of the Heart: Asian American Women on Immigration, Work, and Family, published by Truman State University Press. It is the first comprehensive and comparative record of the oral histories of American women of Asian ancestry living in the Midwest. Ling includes interviews with 55 Asian

The first empirical and comprehensive study on a Midwest Asian American community, it reconstructsthe history of Chinese Americans in St. Louis from the mid-19th century to the present. Drawn uponevidence from archival manuscripts, census data, media reports, oral interviews, and mortuary records,it portrays the saga of a Chinese American community from a Chinatown centered around

“Huping Ling’s book is a testament to the growing maturity of Asian American historical literature inthe last several decades…Aside from being the first book on Chinese American women to cover anexpansive time frame, this study is also pathbreaking because it details this female experience in anumber of different geographical regions…Ling’s coverage of the Midwest is