A University of Iowa archival finding aid independently places Y.P. Mei at Wabash College among his post-1949 American teaching stops

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The University of Iowa Libraries' ArchivesSpace finding aid for the Yipao Mei papers (RG99.0047), authored by named archivist Denise Anderson in October 2007, states: "Mei taught at American universities after 1949. He was a visiting professor at universities in Chicago, Indiana, Cincinnati, and Princeton, and at Oberlin, Bowdoin and Wabash colleges, before becoming a visiting professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Iowa in 1953." This is an institution wholly unconnected to Liberty Fund, Wabash College, or the China Institute of America — a third independent voice, after Wabash's own commencement records (see claim-wabash-1951-honorary-degree-list-confirms-mei), confirming Mei's genuine connection to Wabash College within the correct window.

The finding aid bounds the Wabash stint only loosely — sometime between Mei's 1949 flight from mainland China and his 1953 move to Iowa — without itself narrowing it to the specific 1950-51 academic year the way Wabash's own honorary-degree list does. It corroborates that the underlying fact (Mei really did teach at Wabash) is genuine and independently documented, while leaving the sharper claims in claim-goodrich-china-institute-of-america-trustee-met-mei-at-wabash — the 1948-65 China Institute of America trustee range and the personal Goodrich-Mei meeting — still resting on Liberty Fund's account alone.