Wenjun Yu is an economic and political historian. She received her PhD degree at Utrecht University in 2017, her doctoral dissertation studies the ideas and practice of “rights” in modern China. Besides, she is also interested in household economy as well as gender history in China. In her post-doctoral research, she has worked on household-level survey data and published some papers about household welfare ratio and population pressure between 1910s and 1930s in China.
In the project “Race to the Bottom”, she is responsible to investigate the regional developments of household textile production in China. Particularly, she is interested to look at how the trajectories of household hand spinning and weaving shaped different strategies of gendered labor allocation in the north and south of China, as well as the earning power of textile women over a long run in China.