Xu Yong (; born September 1949) is a Chinese historian and professor at

Peking University Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charte ...

.Takahashi, Kosuke
"China scholars enter Okinawa fray,"
''Asia Times'' (HK). 23 October 2010; retrieved 2013-5-16. He was a member of the

Japan-China Joint History Research Committee is a scholarly study group created by the governments of Japan and China. It is made up of prominent historians from both countries.Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) retrieved 2013-5-16. History In 2006, the Chinese and Japanese foreign minis ...

established by Chinese and Japanese governments in 2006.Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
"The First Meeting of the Japan-China Joint History Research Committee (Summary)"
retrieved 2013-5-16. Some of Xu's work is controversial. He has argued in research papers and symposiums that the issue of sovereignty over Okinawa is unsettled. His view is that the approval of the Qing Dynasty of China was needed when Japan abolished the Kingdom of Ryukyu and set up Okinawa Prefecture in 1879. A series of historical events are highlighted by Xu's argument, including * the abolition of the kingdom by the Meiji government in 1879 * US control over Okinawa after

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

* Okinawa's reversion to Japanese sovereignty from US occupation in 1972. Xu's work supports China's right to claim Okinawa as part of the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, sli ...

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"The First Meeting of The Japan-China Joint History Research Committee (Summary)," December 2006"
Date of birth unknown Living people Academic staff of Peking University 20th-century Chinese historians Historians of China 1949 births {{China-academic-bio-stub