Xin Yu, PhD

Apr 15, 2024

3/29/2024 I served as chair and discussant for UWM Graduate Student Conference

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Apr 15, 2024

4/13/2024 I served as discussant for UIUC Graduate Student Conference

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Jun 13, 2020

An Introduction to Genealogical Sources

All this information is based on my own experience. If you have difficulty accessing the materials mentioned in this post, please shoot me an email (yu35@uwm.edu). The FamilySearch Center 猶他家譜學會(familysearch.org).… Read more ⇢
Apr 30, 2020

What did it mean to be the son of a merchant in Ming China?

Cheng Shigang (1442-1519) was lucky enough to be born into a wealthy family in Huizhou, a hilly prefecture that nurtured the renowned Huizhou merchants that would dominate long-distance trade for… Read more ⇢
Mar 13, 2020

Genealogies as political objects in Early Modern China

An introduction to my research on the department website. I have reformulated the central argument of my research since then, but it still captures what I do with genealogies. Click… Read more ⇢
Jan 21, 2020

Blair, Ann M. Too Much to Know

Blair, Ann M. Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. Keywords: compilation practices; finding devices; note-taking; the sixteenth-century information lust;… Read more ⇢

3/29/2024 I served as chair and discussant for UWM Graduate Student Conference