Clements Department of History and an associate in SMU’s John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies. Professor Ling researches on the history of social and intellectual movements in modern China, Chinese Communism, and Gender and Chinese Society. She has written numerous conference papers and reviews in journals, including Twentieth Century China and Enterprise & Society, and she is now working on a book titled, “Printing, Reading and Revolution: Kaiming Press and Cultural Transformation of Republican China, 1920s-1940s.” She received her PhD in History from Brown University.