William Wei is a
Professor of History at
the University of
Colorado at Boulder. He
received his Ph.D. in 1978
from the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor,
and is an authority on
modern Chinese history
and Asian American
Studies. He is the author
of Counterrevolution in
China: The Nationalists in
Jiangxi during the Soviet
Period (Michigan, 1985)
and The Asian American Movement (Temple, 1993), and many
other publications. His latest book is Asians in Colorado:
Persecution and Perseverance in the Centennial State (University
of Washington Press, Spring 2016). He has held a Rockefeller
Fellowship, Mellon Fellowship, and Fulbright-Hays Fellowship. In
the summer of 1997, he worked as a journalist covering the
historic handover of Hong Kong to China. In the summer of 2003
he was on the faculty of and in the summer of 2006 he was the
Academic Dean of the Semester at Sea Program, visiting various
countries around the Pacific Rim.