Judy Yung

Judy Yung (born 1946 San Francisco, California) is professor emerita in American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She specializes in oral history, women's history, and Asian American history.

Judy Yung is the fifth daughter of six children born to immigrant parents from China. She grew up in San Francisco Chinatown, where her father worked as a janitor and her mother as a seamstress to support the family. Yung was able to acquire a bilingual education by attending both public school and Chinese language school for ten years. She received her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds an M.A. in Library Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in English Literature and Chinese from San Francisco State University.

Prior to entering academia, Yung worked as librarian for the Chinatown branch of the San Francisco Public Library and the Asian branch of the Oakland Public Library, pioneering the development of Asian language materials and Asian American interest collections in the public library to better serve the Asian American community. She also spent four years working as associate editor of the East West newspaper.

Upon receiving her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies, Yung was hired to establish an Asian American Studies program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she taught courses in Asian American studies, women's history, oral history, and mixed race until she retired in 2004.

She currently lives in Santa Cruz with her husband Eddie Fung and their Scottish Fold, Sparkie.

• 2015, Immigrant Heritage Award in Education, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
• 2011, Caughey Western History Association Prize (for Angel Island)
• 2006, Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Asian American Studies
• 2003, Excellence Through Diversity Award, University of California, Santa Cruz
• 1999, Excellence in Teaching Award, University of California, Santa Cruz
• 1997, Jeanne Farr McDonnell Book Award (for Unbound Feet), Women’s Heritage Museum
• 1996, Robert G. Athearn Book Award (for Unbound Feet), Western History Association
• 1996, National Book Award in History (for Unbound Feet), Association for Asian American Studies
• 1996, Distinguished Award for Culture, Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco
• 1987, Outstanding Asian Women of the Year, Asian Women’s Resource Center, San Francisco
• 1982, American Book Award (for Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940), Before Columbus Foundation
• 1980, Outstanding Citizen Award, Oakland Museum

• Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, Judy Yung, eds. (1980). Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940. Hoc Doi. ISBN 978-0-936434-00-1.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
• Chinese Women of America: A Pictorial History. University of Washington Press. 1986. ISBN 0-295-96357-3. 
• Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco. University of California Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-520-08867-2. 
• Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese women in San Francisco. University of California Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-520-21860-4. 
• San Francisco's Chinatown. Arcadia Publishing. 2006. ISBN 0-7385-3130-8. 
• Judy Yung, Gordon H. Chang, Him Mark Lai, eds. (2006). Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24310-1.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
• The Adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War. University of Washington Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-295-98754-5. 
• Erika Lee and Judy Yung (2010). Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-973408-5.  CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
• Judy Yung, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Russell Leong, eds. (2011). Him Mark Lai: Autobiography of a Chinese American Historian. UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Chinese Historical Society of America. ISBN 978-0-934052-18-4.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
• Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, Judy Yung, eds. (2014). Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940, 2nd edition. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-99407-9.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

• Keough, William (5 August 1981). "Entering America: the ordeal of Chinese immigrants; Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island 1910-1940, by Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, Judy Yung.". Christian Science Monitor. p. 17. 
• Corr, William (15 September 1996). "How Chinese women came of age in San Francisco". The Daily Yomiuri. Judy Yung's contribution to the story of Chinese women in San Francisco took more than a decade of meticulous research and the resulting exhaustive tome was worth the effort.... It is to Yung's credit that she examines this unsavory aspect of Chinese life in the United States unflinchingly and honestly.... Yung's tale describes the strikes, lockouts and blacklistings in the garment industry that inevitably involved Chinese women on both sides of the conflict.