Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye

Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye is an associate historian at the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and senior lecturer in Asian studies at the University of Auckland. She also serves as a senior fellow of the Foundation for Religious Diplomacy. Dr. Inouye has authored a history of Christianity in modern China, China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Her memoir, Crossings: A Bald Asian American Latter-day Saint Woman Scholar’s Ventures through Life, Death, Cancer, and Motherhood (Not Necessarily in That Order), was published by Deseret Book in 2019 and won honorable mention for the nonfiction category of the Latter-day Saint Publishing and Media Association Praiseworthy Awards in 2020.