Lucie Cheng

Lucie Cheng
Lucie Cheng
成露茜
Born	February 11, 1939; British Hong Kong
Died	January 27, 2010 (aged 70); Zhongzheng District, Taipei, Taiwan
Other names	Lucie Cheng Hirata
Citizenship	Taiwanese, British, USA
Alma mater	National Taiwan University (BA); University of Chicago (MS); University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (MA, PhD);
Known for	First director of Asian American Studies Center, UCLA; Founder of the Cheng She-Wo Institute for Chinese Journalism, Shih Hsin University;
	Scientific career
Fields	Sociology
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles; Shih Hsin University, Taiwan;
Thesis	Immigrant Integration in a Polyethnic Society (1971)

Lucie Cheng (Chinese: 成露茜; pinyin: Chéng Lùxī) was a Taiwanese sociologist who was known for her work in Asian American studies, as well as being the first permanent director of the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She was also one of the first academics from the United States to visit mainland China after the country normalized its relations with China.