Yujie Pu specializes in the history of late imperial China with an emphasis on crime, law and medicine. She is currently developing a book manuscript, Legal Justice, Medical Authority, and Madness in China, 1700-1930, which examines the intersection of legal and medical practices concerning insanity within the judicial system from the late imperial era to the early republican period. Her other projects include comparative studies of Euro-Asian histories of insanity, doctor-patient relationships, the intersections of medical and religious cultures, Manchu medical texts, and the history of the pharmaceutical industry in East Asia. At the University of Illinois, she teaches courses on East Asian history, premodern and modern Chinese history, and seminars on late imperial China.