Judith "Judy" Yung (January 25, 1946 – December 14, 2020) was a librarian, community activist, historian and professor emerita in American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
She grew up in San Francisco Chinatown, where her father worked as a janitor and her mother as a seamstress to support the family.
[3] In 1975, inspired by the discovery of Chinese poetry on the walls of the Angel Island detention barracks, Yung embarked on a research project with Him Mark Lai and Genny Lim to translate the poems and interview former Chinese detainees about their immigration experiences.
She has since devoted her time to writing more books about Chinese American history and serving as a historical consultant with a number of community organizations and film projects.
In 2002, while working on Chinese American Voices, Judy Yung met Eddie Fung, a POW during World War II.