Yuzhou Bai
Yuzhou Bai is the Special Collections Librarian and Archivist at the Harvard-Yenching Library, where he manages one of North America’s most significant collections of East Asian rare books and manuscripts. Prior to this role, he worked as a Chinese cataloging specialist at Princeton University and as a special collections cataloging librarian at Williams College, gaining experiences in supporting rare book scholarship in both East Asian and Western contexts. Yuzhou is currently on the editorial team for the Cataloging Guidelines for Chinese Rare Books (CGCRB) and is a member of the DEI Steering Group for the RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Religious Studies from Peking University, and his Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from Princeton, where he studied the history of early medieval China (c. 220-589).