Biography of President Justin C. Yu

updated February 2008

Justin Chin-Shan Yu was born in 1945 in Chunking, China. Yu’s family was originally from Manchuria, in the North East part of China. He lived in Beijing until the age of four when he and his family moved to Taiwan, the Republic of China, because of the Chinese Civil War. Yu is the son of the late Cecilia Hsiu-Ya Chang, a renowned Chinese author, and the nephew of the late Paul Cardinal Yu-Pin, Archbishop of Nanking.

Yu obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from National Taiwan University and immigrated to the United States of American in 1970 to pursue his studies, earning a Master of Science from Pratt Institute. He made his home in Chinatown, New York in 1977 after living in Jackson Heights, Flushing, Brooklyn and Fort Lee, NJ.

Before retiring in 2006, Yu worked for twenty-five years as a reporter specializing in immigration issues for World Journal Daily, the largest Chinese newspaper in North America. Prior to joining the World Journal, he was employed with Greenwood Textiles, located in Manhattan.

For the last thirty years, he along with his wife Lena Yu, have also been small business owners. Yu has been active within the community for the last three decades. He served as President of the Chinese Language Journalist Association, Confucius Plaza Housing, and Chairperson of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Currently, Yu is the President of the Lin Sing Association, one of the largest Chinese American civic organizations, and his term ends on March 1, 2008. He is also President of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

On March 1, 2008, Yu will commerce a two-year tenure as President of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of New York, an umbrella organization encompassing over sixty Chinese American organizations, of which Lin Sing Association is a member organization.

Yu is the author of numerous Chinese books and booklets, including The Key to Immigrating to the United States, The Story of Sister Ping, Immigration to Canada and All Aspects of H1-B Visas.

Yu enjoys classical and country music, Chinese calligraphy, reading and traveling. He has two daughters Rosemary and Pauline.