Crystal (Weiting) Yu is a master’s student in Chinese archaeology. She is broadly interested in the archaeology of early pastoral and agropastoral communities in East and Central Asia, especially the social and economic interactions between communities in this region. Combining approaches from archaeobotany and residue analysis, her current project studies the development of cereal-based brewing practices in Neolithic North China, which reflects intriguing relations between humans, plants, and microbes as well as interregional interactions in Neolithic China. Before coming to Stanford, she received her BA in Chinese Language and Literature from Fudan University in Shanghai, where she studied cross-cultural exchanges in modern Chinese literature.