Eugene Wen-chin Wu (Chinese: 吳文津; Eugene Wu; July 12, 1922, Sichuan, China – August 1, 2022, Menlo Park, California) was a Chinese-born American scholar, bibliographer, and librarian best known for being head of the Harvard-Yenching Library from 1965 to 1997.
[2] He studied English at Central University in Chongqing, as the city was subjected to constant bombing during Second Sino-Japanese War.
In 1945 the United States Army asked China to send 100 translators to help train American pilots.
When the university decided to catalogue the one or two thousand Chinese language volumes in their library, Wu became a student assistant.
He and Mary Clabaugh Wright worked for several years to assemble documents and publications on the history of the Chinese Communist Party, which became known as the Chen Cheng Collection.