March 21, 2009: Princeton University Althea Ward Clark w'21 Reading Series - Reading at 4:30PM with Sheila Kohler at the James M. Stewart '32 Theater, Lewis Center for the Arts. (Princeton, NJ)

February 11-14, 2009: AWP Conference Panel Discussion - The Mama Drama (based on the Riding Shotgun series with more details November 14 below) including Heid Erdrich, Sheila O'Connor, Carrie Pomeroy, Wang Ping, and Morgan Grayce Willow. (Chicago, IL)

November 21, 2008: San Francisco Youth Museum - Reading from selected works at 7PM. (San Francisco, CA)

November 14, 2008: Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers - 7PM at Carleton College, authors Kathryn Kysar, Heid Erdrich, Shannon Olson, Sheila O'Connor, Faith Sullivan, and Wang Ping tackle a topic close to their hearts: Mom. Riding Shotgun is a collection of essays that explores being a daughter. Edited by Kathryn Kysar, the anthology includes 21 stories. (Northfield, MN)

November 6, 2008: Reading at the Gustavus Adolphus Interpretive Center from 7–9PM, sponsored by the English Department and Diversity Center. Free and open to the public. (Saint Peter, MN)

November 3, 2008: Rochester Community & Technical College - Reading from and discussion about The Last Communist Virgin at 11AM, followed by a children's literature class at noon about The Dragon Emperor. (Rochester, MN)

October 22, 2008: SUNY-Brockport Writers Forum - Founded in 1967, the Writers Forum is a unique audiovisual project and currently contains more than 300 interviews, readings, and discussions of craft with major contemporary authors. The collection has been called "a national treasure," and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation. (Brockport, NY)

October 14, 2008: Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers - 10AM at at Hennepin County Southdale Library, authors authors Kathryn Kysar, Barrie Jean Borich, Sheila O'Connor, Susan Power, and Wang Ping tackle a topic close to their hearts: Mom. See more details November 14 above about the Riding Shotgun series. (Northfield, MN)

October 5, 2008: Minnesota Book Awards Author Event at St. Paul Central Public Library - Moderated conversation at 2PM by Pioneer Press books critic Mary Ann Grossmann with Wang Ping, Charles Baxter, Doug Hoverson, and Deborah Keenan. (St. Paul, MN)

October 2, 2008: Minnesota Book Awards Author Event at Northfield Public Library - Speaking about The Last Communist Virgin and her writing, and time for questions. (Northfield, MN)

September 26, 2008: Carlton College - Event at 7PM, details TBD. (Northfield, MN)

September 19, 2008: Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers - 7:30PM at Hamline University, authors Kathryn Kysar, Barrie Jean Borich, Sheila O'Connor, Susan Power, and Wang Ping tackle a topic close to their hearts: Mom. See more details November 14 above about the Riding Shotgun series. (St. Paul, MN)

September 9, 2008: University of Minnesota - Presentation on the new Qinghai-Tibet railroad and its impact on the environment, people, and source of Asian water. (Minneapolis, MN)

July 29, 2008: Macalester Alumni College Summer Session Workshop (July 27-30) - Exploring global, local and personal perspectives on immigration, Macalester professors and special guests share their expertise on the subject with Wang Ping presenting on Chinese Labor in the Global Economy at 12 noon. (St. Paul, MN)

June 20 - July 19, 2008: Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts: Multimedia Exhibition - Featuring documentary photos, texts, and video about the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and developments there on China's rapid path to globalization. (Fridley, MN)

May 9, 2008: Reading at the Roeper School Community Building, an inner city experimental high school, for the Alex Frank Memorial Poetry Series. (Bloomfield Hills, MI)

Transcripts, recordings, presentations,
and Web sites from previous events

Macalester College
Environment Thursdays at Noon (October 11, 2007)
View a research presentation file on the new Qinghai-Tibet railroad and its impact on the environment, people, and source of Asian water. (PDF/12.4 MB - for best resolution allow full download before scrolling)

Minnesota Public Radio Interview
Wang Ping's Long Journey (May 1, 2007)
Go to Minnesota Public Radio online for an interview with Wang Ping by senior news editor Euan Kerr that aired during the Morning Edition program.

Black & White Violin
Artist Project Collaboration (May, 2007)
Listen to an audio file by New York composer Susie Ibarra that features the spoken poem "Golden Phoenix" by Wang Ping. (8:05 / 9MB)

Behind the Gate
Multimedia Exhibit (March, 2007)
Intended to introduce visitors of all ages to the benefits and dangers of the Three Gorges Dam, and to detail stories of individuals displaced by the project and its environmental impacts, visit the exhibit Web site for complete documentary photos, texts, and video.

Macalester Faculty Talks
January 2007
Wang Ping talks about her collection of short stories, The Last Communist Virgin, and how her experiences in rural China shaped the book. (13:11 / 15MB)

University of Chicago International House
China and the Future of the World (April 28-29, 2006)
See a PowerPoint file on a presentation, entitled "Women in Modern China - From Iron Maiden to Super Model", given for a spring colloquium arranged by the University of Chicago International House.

Also go to the International House Web site for additional downloads, including video, audio, and written transcripts from the event (Panel: Politics and Society in China).

Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Winter Book Poetry Anthology (December 2005)
Listen to two poems as recorded on the accompanying CD to the Minnesota Center for Book Arts 2005 Winter Book Poetry Anthology - There Is No Other Way to Speak:

1. Breaker (1:09 / 1.6MB) 2. Outcry (musical accompaniment by Jesse Katzman - 2:37 / 3.6MB)

Iowa Public Radio - Live from Prairie Lights
February 17, 2004
Host Julie Englander introduces Wang Ping at Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City. As she reads from her poetry collections during this 60-minute broadcast, Ping illustrates the traditions, both beautiful and brutal, of her native China. In doing so, she describes her transition to life in the U.S. and her inspirations for writing.

The audio file requires RealPlayer software, a free download available on real.com.

Random House - Bold Type
March 2002
In a conversation with Kelley Kawano about her interest in the topic of footbinding, Ping explained her motivation for the focus of her dissertation research and resulting cultural study book, Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China.

Between the Lines:
Asian American Women's Poetry (2001)
Watch a clip of Wang Ping explaining how she discovered writing and of a video interpretation of her reading "No Sense Of Direction" (from The Magic Whip) for a production by Yunah Hong. (3:50 / 9.7MB)

KARE 11 (KMSP TV - MN)
October 2000
Watch an interview from the nightly news on her book, Aching for Beauty, how she came to write it, what footbinding means, and what she hoped to accomplish. (4:25 / 9.4MB)

Poets on Poetry
March 19, 1999
Daniel Kane interviews Ping about poems, poetics, and how to teach poetry to students in grades K-12. Ping presented her poem "Syntax" and discussed how speakers of English as a second language can write good poems in English without worrying too much about grammar and syntax.