P. Scott Corbett

One of the defining elements of my life has been the legacy I derive from my family's three generations of involvement with China as missionaries. It inspired a life-long fascination with and love of China and Asia in general.

In my adult years, I navigated our nation's higher education system through the 1960s to receiving my Ph.D. in 1983. I studied Chinese history at Kent State University and American Diplomatic History at the University of Kansas.

In 1985 I struck out to learn more about my family's roots and became a Foreign Expert at various institutions in Beijing. While doing so, I met and married my wonderful wife Cui Yi.

We returned to the United States for a few years and bounced back to Asia when I accepted a position in Singapore.

In 1996, I became a faculty member in the Ventura County Community College system and at California State University Channel Islands until my retirement in 2020.

Upon retiring, I mustered up the courage to dispel all my fears, set aside all my excuses, silence the nay-saying voices in my head, and launch my career as a novelist. My efforts to date have produced A Thousand Cranes, Uniformly Undeserved, and Ashes and Memories. I am currently working on a trilogy about an American family in China for the better part of the 20th and into the 21st centuries.

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