Jian Ping grew up during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) in China, living through traumatic chaos and hardship. She worked in Beijing for four years after college and came to the U.S. to do her graduate studies in film and international studies the mid 1980s.
Since the publication of Mulberry Child: A Memoir of China, Jian Ping has been featured on Chicago Tonight Show with Phil Ponce at WTTW, the Asian American Network News, SuncasTV and numerous radio and newspaper interviews in the United States and Canada. She delivered a commencement speech at Loyola University in Chicago in 2011.
Jian Ping's directorial debut, Art Paul of Playboy: The Man behind the Bunny, a feature-length documentary film on the life and impact of Art Paul, founding art director of Playboy Magazine and creator of the iconic rabbit logo. The film is available on Amazon. She is associate producer of the award-winning documentary film Mulberry Child, which expands from the book to present her relationship with her daughter Lisa, an all American girl. Jian Ping is executive producer of an eight-part radio program, Passage to the Middle Kingdom, which introduces traditional Chinese music and musical instruments to the West. Jian Ping worked as consultant for WFMT Radio Network, facilitating cultural exchanges that resulted in the production of multiple Chinese music programs by the client for broadcast in North America, and multiple WFMT Radio Network's classical music programs broadcast in China. The broadcast of these programs continue today.
Jian Ping has a bachelor’s degree in English from Jilin University, Changchun, China and dual master’s degrees in Film and International Affairs from Ohio University.
Since the publication of Mulberry Child: A Memoir of China, Jian Ping has been featured on Chicago Tonight Show with Phil Ponce at WTTW, the Asian American Network News, SuncasTV and numerous radio and newspaper interviews in the United States and Canada. She delivered a commencement speech at Loyola University in Chicago in 2011.
Jian Ping's directorial debut, Art Paul of Playboy: The Man behind the Bunny, a feature-length documentary film on the life and impact of Art Paul, founding art director of Playboy Magazine and creator of the iconic rabbit logo. The film is available on Amazon. She is associate producer of the award-winning documentary film Mulberry Child, which expands from the book to present her relationship with her daughter Lisa, an all American girl. Jian Ping is executive producer of an eight-part radio program, Passage to the Middle Kingdom, which introduces traditional Chinese music and musical instruments to the West. Jian Ping worked as consultant for WFMT Radio Network, facilitating cultural exchanges that resulted in the production of multiple Chinese music programs by the client for broadcast in North America, and multiple WFMT Radio Network's classical music programs broadcast in China. The broadcast of these programs continue today.
Jian Ping has a bachelor’s degree in English from Jilin University, Changchun, China and dual master’s degrees in Film and International Affairs from Ohio University.