Education
New York University; Bryn Mawr College.
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Old Shanghai (Images of Asia)
(A popular history of Shanghai, focusing in particular on ...)
A popular history of Shanghai, focusing in particular on its golden age in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book traces the complex texture of Chinese and foreign life from Shanghai's days as a market town. Wei tells the story of gangsters, traders, and bankers, as well as the artists, political activists, missionaries, and armies of laborers who made Shanghai one of the world's foremost business cities, and the flashpoint of political and social change in China. Asia's largest city, Shanghai pulsated with wealth sophistication and suffering, through its international heyday to the communist takeover in 1949.
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Betty Wei
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Career
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 at the Chapin School. She holds a bachelor"s degree in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College and a master"s degree in International Relations and Law from New York University.
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.
Works
book
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Old Shanghai (Images of Asia)
(A popular history of Shanghai, focusing in particular on ...)
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Old Shanghai (Images of Asia)
Membership
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 the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch.
