Professor Ying-Shih Yu, historian and Sinologist known for his mastery of Chinese history, passed away in his sleep in his home in Princeton, New Jersey in the United States on August 1, 2021.

Professor Yu was an esteemed scholar and venerable public intellectual hailed as the greatest Chinese intellectual historian of his generation. For his tireless effort in academia, Professor Yu was elected Academician of Academia Sinica in 1974, awarded the 2006 Kluge Prize in recognition of his lifetime achievements in the humanities, and recognized with the inaugural Tang Prize in Sinology in 2014 for his mastery and insight into Chinese intellectual, political, and cultural history.