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Yu Yifu

Chinese politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ10880637 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yu Yifu (Chinese: 于毅夫) (May 19, 1903 – June 11, 1982), original name Yu Chengze (Chinese: 于成泽), was a Chinese politician. He was born in Shuangchengbao, Jilin Province. He attended Tongji University. He was governor of Heilongjiang Province.

Editorial summary

“Yu Yifu” enters the record as chinese politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yifu, Chinese and politician can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1903, 1982—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1903-05-09, 1903-05-19—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Yifu, Chinese and politician.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Yu Yifu” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Yifu, Chinese and politician provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10880637. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1903 and 1982.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Yu Yifu”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Yu Yifu primary sources, Yu Yifu archive and Yifu research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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This entry incorporates text from “Yu Yifu” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.