East Asian Studies professor emeritus Yu Ying-shih is one of two winners of the $1 million John W. Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity, the Library of Congress announced yesterday.
The prize was established in 2000 by Kluge, an entrepreneur who amassed a fortune buying and selling cellular and broadcasting properties. He designated the award for areas not covered by the Nobel Prize, including religion, history, sociology, political science, philosophy, anthropology and linguistics.
The prize will be awarded Dec. 5 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Yu is "the greatest Chinese intellectual historian of our generation," the library said in a press release, as well as "the most widely read contemporary historian writing in Chinese."
His work focuses largely on Confucian thought and the interplay of religious and secular thought among Chinese scholars. His most recent book is a landmark profile of the 12th-century Confucian scholar Zhu Xi.
Yu retired from the University in 2001 after having taught here since 1987. Before coming to Princeton, he was also on the faculty at Harvard, Yale and the University of Michigan.
In addition to being renowned for his works on Chinese history and intellectual thought, Yu is also an international figure in the continued struggle for democracy and human rights in China.
He has helped support Chinese refugees who fled mainland China after the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Despite his criticism of the Chinese government, Yu is widely read in mainland China, as well as in Taiwan, the press release said.
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