Chen Yung-fa (Chinese: 陳永發; pinyin: Chén Yǒngfā; born 1 September 1944) is a Taiwanese historian.
Life and career
Chen was born in Chengdu, Sichuan province. He moved with his family to Taiwan in 1949. After Chen earned bachelor's and master's degrees from National Taiwan University,[1] he completed a doctorate in history at Stanford University, and became a professor at National Taiwan University.[2] He was elected to the Academia Sinica in 2004 and served as the director of the academy's Institute of Modern History [zh] between 2002 and 2009.[3] He has been sought for commentary regarding the history of the Republic of China.[4][5] Beginning in 2011, Chen led a project to digitalize the diarial writings of Tan Yankai.[6]
Selected publications
Chen, Yung-fa (1986). Making Revolution: The Communist Movement in Eastern and Central China, 1937–1945. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN9780520050020.[7]
Chen, Yung-fa; Benton, Gregor (1987). Moral Economy and the Chinese Revolution. Amsterdam: Antropologisch-Sociologisch Centrum, University of Amsterdam. ISBN9789070313180.[8]
Chen, Yung-fa (2001) [1998]. 中國共產革命七十年 [Seventy Years of the Communist Revolution in China]. Vol. 2. ISBN9789570822731.[9]
^Houn, Franklin W. (December 1987). "YUNG-FA CHEN. Making Revolution: The Communist Movement in Eastern and Central China, 1937–1945. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1986. Pp. xxiv, 690". The American Historical Review. 92 (5). doi:10.1086/ahr/92.5.1258.
^Averill, Stephen C. (August 1988). "China's Art of Revolution: The Mobilization of Discontent, 1927 and 1928. By Marcia R. Ristaino. Durham: Duke University Press, 1987. xvi, 274 pp. $45.00. - Moral Economy and the Chinese Revolution. By Chen Yung-fa and Gregor Benton. Publikatieserie Zuid-en Zuidoost-Azie 32. Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam, Antropologisch-Sociologisch Centrum, 1986. viii, 112 pp". The Journal of Asian Studies. 47 (3): 615–616. doi:10.2307/2057011. JSTOR2057011.