Judy Yung

Judith "Judy" Yung
Born(1946-01-25)January 25, 1946
San Francisco, California, U.S.
DiedDecember 14, 2020(2020-12-14) (aged 74)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Alma materSan Francisco State University (B.A. 1967); University of California, Berkeley (M.L.S. 1968; Ph.D. 1994)
Spouse(s)Eddie Fung, 2003-2018
Scientific career
FieldsEthnic Studies
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Cruz, 1990-2004

Judith "Judy" Yung (January 25, 1946 – December 14, 2020) was a librarian, community activist, historian and professor emerita in American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She specialized in oral history, women's history, and Asian American history.[1][2] She died on December 14, 2020, in San Francisco, where she had returned in 2018.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Chinese American Heroines: Judy Yung". Asia Week. April 11, 2009. Archived from the original on October 30, 2009.
  2. ^ Rappaport, Scott (3 March 2003). "American studies professor to present slide/talk on Chinese American women's history". UC Santa Cruz Currents Online. Archived from the original on 30 April 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
  3. ^ Whiting, Sam (December 23, 2020). "Judy Yung, S.F. Chinatown native and early scholar of Chinese American life, dies at 74". San Francisco Chronicle.
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