- Betty Peh T’i Wei
Betty Peh T’i Wei (1930-) (
Traditional Chinese : 魏白蒂) is a historian and a writer.Biography
Born in China to
Hsioh-ren Wei , a Chinese scientist, educator and diplomat, Wei moved to New York City at the age of 16. She was the first Asian student to study atChapin School .She has a Bachelor degree Political Science from
Bryn Mawr College and a Masters degree in International Relations and Law fromNew York University .In 1975, she moved to Hong Kong with her husband and later went to pursue a doctorate degree in Modern Chinese History at the
University of Hong Kong .She has served as the Head of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at the
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts from 1994 until her retirement in 2003.She is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre of Asian Studies at the
University of Hong Kong , Honorary Professor at the Institute of Qing History,Renmin University of China and a member of theRoyal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch.Publications
Shanghai: Crucible of Modern China (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987)
Old Shanghai (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)
Liu Chi-Wen : biography of a revolutionary leader (Hong Kong: The Liu Chi-Wen Family, 2005)Ruan Yuan, 1764-1849: The Life And Work of a Major Scholar-official in Nineteenth Century China Before the Opium War (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006)
External links
* [http://www.royalasiaticsociety.org.hk/profiles.htm Betty Wei's Profile at the Royal Asiatic Society]
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