Ying-shih Yu
Department/Program(s): East Asian Program
Position: Emeriti/ae
Title: Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Emeritus. Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Emeritus.
Field: Chinese Thought
Office: 211 Jones Hall
Phone: 609-258-4276
Email: ysyu@princeton.edu
Ying-shih Yu, Princeton’s Gordon Wu ’58 Professor Emeritus of Chinese Studies, joined the Princeton faculty in 1987 and retired in 2001. In 2006, Yu was co-winner of the third John W. Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the study of humanity. Yu was recognized for playing a pioneering role in bringing previously neglected, major aspects of Chinese history into the mainstream of the scholarship and public consciousness. One of the world’s authorities on the Tang Dynasty, he has researched and written extensively on every period of Chinese history, from ancient to modern. He is the author of some 30 books that span more than 2,000 years of history.