Eugene Wen-chin Wu

Eugene Wen-chin Wu (Chinese: 吳文津; Eugene Wu; July 12, 1922, Sichuan, China – August 1, 2022, Menlo Park, California) was a China-born American scholar, bibliographer, and librarian. Wu was a key figure in organizing American Chinese and East Asian libraries, best known as head of the Harvard-Yenching Library from 1965 to 1997. After earning a degree in Library Science from University of Washington, Seattle he developed the Chinese collection at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He worked toward a PhD there, but instead became head of the Harvard-Yenching Library, where he stayed until retirement in 1997.