Xu Zhuoyun

Xu Zhuo (zhuō) Yun (September 3, 1930 - August 3, 2025), historian, native of Wuxi, Jiangsu, was born in Siming, Fujian. He moved to Taiwan in 1949. He taught at the Institute of History and Linguistics, Academia Sinica and the Department of History, National Taiwan University. In 1980, he was elected as an academician of Academia Sinica. He immigrated to the United States in 1970 and taught in the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh, where he served as emeritus chair professor. Later naturalized as a U.S. citizen.