WilliamWei

  • Professor
  • MODERN CHINA
Address

听Muenzinger D140-H

Office Hours

Spring 2025

听By appointment


Professor Wei in an expert on the Republican period of modern Chinese history.


Professor Wei teaches various courses in modern Chinese history, including "Modern China: Collapse and Brilliance, 1644-1949"听and "Contemporary China: Radicalism and Reform, 1949 to Present."

Professor Wei earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1978. He received the Asian American Hero of Colorado Award from the Colorado Asian Culture and Education Network in听2022.听He is the 2024-2025 Colorado State Historian.

His first book,听Michigan Studies on China Series (University of Michigan Press, 1985), was awarded the University of Colorado's Eugene M. Kayden Faculty Book Manuscript Prize. His book, *, Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies (University of Washington Press, 2016), was a finalist for the 2017 Colorado Authors鈥 League Award for General Non-Fiction.听His most recent book is听(University Press of Colorado, 2021). He is currently engaged in a book-length study titled 鈥淗ong Kong Since the Handover: A History of Protests.鈥

听Professor Wei is not currently accepting graduate students.