Ling Wang 王玲

Professor Ling Wang is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Chinese Studies at UC, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the well-being of Chinese Only-children as family caregivers in the context of filial piety cultural hegemony, their digital homing, resilience, and perceived social support. She once served as a Leslie Kirkley Visiting Academic at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, focusing on cultural care and social support for family caregivers; as a visiting scholar funded by China Scholarship Council at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Germany, where her research focused on curriculum and instruction at German universities of applied sciences. She is an Associate Professor of pedagogy in China. Her background in pedagogy is mainly reflected in her early publications and funded projects on the curriculum and instruction of higher vocational education. As Principal Investigator, she has successfully conducted 24 funded projects, including 8 international projects, 5 national projects, and 12 provincial projects in China; she published 28 academic articles in the list of CSSCI source journals and Chinese core journals. She is also a guest researcher and PhD candidate at Leiden University. She co-founded Beijing Zuofu Culture and Technology Co., Ltd as a co-founder in 2015. The Beijing company, as the initiator, co-founded the German-Chinese Institute for Elderly Care with two German partners. This institute has 6 branches in 6 college partners in China. The institute is dedicated to education, training, curriculum, and instruction for nurses and nursing staff; comparative research on long-term care systems; and management models and standards for advanced nursing homes, and so on.

Research Project: Digital homing, resilience, and social support of the Chinese Only-children as family caregivers in the context of filial piety cultural hegemony