Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye | |
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Born | 1979 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Occupation(s) | senior lecturer, historian |
Employer | University of Auckland |
Known for | China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church |
Children | 4 |
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye (1979 - 2024) was a senior lecturer in Chinese studies at the University of Auckland and a historian for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). She was an expert in the social and cultural history of modern China, charismatic global Christianity, and women and religion.
Inouye grew up in Costa Mesa, California. She was a fourth-generation Chinese-Japanese American. [1] Her Chinese great-grandfather, Gin Gor Ju, came to the United States from Guangdong province and settled in Utah. Her father's family was originally from Japan. Her father's parents, Bessie Shizuko Murakami Inouye and Charles Ichiro Inouye, met and married in a World War II-era Japanese internment in Heart Mountain, Wyoming. [2]
In 2003, she graduated magna cum laude in East Asian studies from Harvard College, delivering the Harvard Oration at the class day graduation exercises. [3] She received a PhD in East Asian languages and civilizations from Harvard University in 2011. While researching and writing her dissertation, Miraculous Mundane: The True Jesus Church and Chinese Christianity in the Twentieth Century, she lived in Xiamen, China, and was an affiliate of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences from 2009 to 2010. She served as an associate editor of the Mormon Studies Review and as a frequent contributor on topics of religion. [4] [5] In 2019, she had her book China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church published by Oxford University Press.
Inouye was married and had four children. She lived in California, Taiwan, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Massachusetts, Utah, and New Zealand. [6] She was a member of the LDS Church and served as a missionary for the church in Taiwan. She was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2017 and died on April 23, 2024. [7]
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye | |
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Born | 1979 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Occupation(s) | senior lecturer, historian |
Employer | University of Auckland |
Known for | China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church |
Children | 4 |
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye (1979 - 2024) was a senior lecturer in Chinese studies at the University of Auckland and a historian for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). She was an expert in the social and cultural history of modern China, charismatic global Christianity, and women and religion.
Inouye grew up in Costa Mesa, California. She was a fourth-generation Chinese-Japanese American. [1] Her Chinese great-grandfather, Gin Gor Ju, came to the United States from Guangdong province and settled in Utah. Her father's family was originally from Japan. Her father's parents, Bessie Shizuko Murakami Inouye and Charles Ichiro Inouye, met and married in a World War II-era Japanese internment in Heart Mountain, Wyoming. [2]
In 2003, she graduated magna cum laude in East Asian studies from Harvard College, delivering the Harvard Oration at the class day graduation exercises. [3] She received a PhD in East Asian languages and civilizations from Harvard University in 2011. While researching and writing her dissertation, Miraculous Mundane: The True Jesus Church and Chinese Christianity in the Twentieth Century, she lived in Xiamen, China, and was an affiliate of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences from 2009 to 2010. She served as an associate editor of the Mormon Studies Review and as a frequent contributor on topics of religion. [4] [5] In 2019, she had her book China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church published by Oxford University Press.
Inouye was married and had four children. She lived in California, Taiwan, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Massachusetts, Utah, and New Zealand. [6] She was a member of the LDS Church and served as a missionary for the church in Taiwan. She was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2017 and died on April 23, 2024. [7]