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Yu, Ying-Shih was born on January 22, 1930 in Tientsin, China. Son of Hsieh-chung and Ya-yen (Yew) Yu.
Yu, Ying-Shih was born on January 22, 1930 in Tientsin, China. Son of Hsieh-chung and Ya-yen (Yew) Yu.
Bachelor, New Asia College, Chinese University, Hong Kong, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy in History, Harvard University, 1962. Honorary Doctor of Laws, Chinese University Hong Kong, 1977.
Doctor of Letters, Middlebury College, 1984.
Assistant professor history University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1962-1966. Associate professor Chinese history Harvard University, Cambridge, 1966-1969, professor, 1969-1977. President New Asia College, 1973-1975.
Charles Seymour professor history Yale University, New Haven, 1977-1987. Michael Henry Strater university professor Princeton University, New Jersey, 1987—2001, emeritus professor Eastern Asian studies & history, since 2001. Senior distinguished scholar John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington, since 2005.
Overseas consultant Project of Confucian Ethics, Singapore, 1983-1988.
Author: Trade and Expansion in Han China: A Study in the Structure of Sino-Barbarian Economic Relations, 1967, History and Thought, 1976, The Two Worlds of the Red Chamber Dream, 1978, Religious Ethic and Merchant Class in Early Modern China, 1986. Co-author: (with Robert Irick and Kwang-ching Liu) American-Chinese Relations, 1784-1941, 1960. (with Willard J. Peterson and Andrew Plaks) The Power of Culture: Studies in Chinese Cultural History, 1994.
Author, editor: Early Chinese History in People's Republic of China, 1981. Co-editor Asia Major, since 1987.
Member Academia Sinica, American Philosophical Society.
Married Monica Shu-ping Chen, June 6, 1964. Children: Sylvia, Judy.