Chen Yung-fa
{{Short description|Taiwanese historian}}
Chen Yung-fa ({{zh|t=陳永發|p=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,{{cite news |title=Yung-fa Chen |url=https://academicians.sinica.edu.tw/index.php?r=academician-n%2Fshow&id=65 |accessdate=19 July 2020 |agency=Academia Sinica}} he completed a doctorate in history at Stanford University, and became a professor at National Taiwan University.{{cite news |title=陳永發(Chen Yung-fa) |url=http://www.mh.sinica.edu.tw/MHWeb/UserDetail.aspx?userID=83&mid=79&tmid=2 |accessdate=3 May 2019 |publisher=Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica}} He was elected to the Academia Sinica in 2004 and served as the director of the academy's {{ill|Institute of Modern History|zh|中央研究院近代史研究所}} between 2002 and 2009.{{cite news |title=Chen Yung-fa |url=http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/people/profile/chen-yung-fa |accessdate=3 May 2019 |publisher=Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, University of Cambridge}} He has been sought for commentary regarding the history of the Republic of China.{{cite news |last1=Lin |first1=Chia-nan |title=Academia Sinica begins May Fourth Movement event |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2019/05/03/2003714475 |accessdate=3 May 2019 |work=Taipei Times |date=3 May 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Yeh |first1=Lindy |title=Newsmakers: The life and times of Old China's 'Young Marshal' |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/local/archives/2001/10/16/0000107338 |accessdate=3 May 2019 |work=Taipei Times |date=16 October 2001}} Beginning in 2011, Chen led a project to digitalize the diarial writings of Tan Yankai.{{cite news |title=Academia Sinica launches online digital archives |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/03/05/2003497433 |accessdate=3 May 2019 |work=Taipei Times |date=5 March 2011}}
Selected publications
- {{cite book|isbn=9780520050020 |last1=Chen |first1=Yung-fa |title=Making Revolution: The Communist Movement in Eastern and Central China, 1937–1945. |date=1986 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley and Los Angeles}}{{cite journal |last1=Houn |first1=Franklin W. |title=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 |journal=The American Historical Review |date=December 1987 |volume=92 |issue=5 |doi=10.1086/ahr/92.5.1258}}
- {{cite book|isbn=9789070313180 |last1=Chen |first1=Yung-fa |authorlink2=Gregor Benton |last2=Benton |first2=Gregor |title=Moral Economy and the Chinese Revolution |date=1987 |publisher=Antropologisch-Sociologisch Centrum, University of Amsterdam |location=Amsterdam}}{{cite journal |last1=Averill |first1=Stephen C. |title=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. |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |date=August 1988 |volume=47 |issue=3 |pages=615–616 |doi=10.2307/2057011|jstor=2057011 }}
- {{cite book|isbn=9789570822731 |last1=Chen |first1=Yung-fa |title=中國共產革命七十年 |orig-year=1998 |volume=2 |date=2001 |trans-title=Seventy Years of the Communist Revolution in China}}{{cite journal |author1=Thi Minh-Hoang Ngo |title=Chen Yung-Fa, Zhongguo gongchan geming qishi nian |journal=China Perspectives |date=January–February 2004 |volume=2004 |url=https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/793 |issue=51}}
References
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Category:20th-century Chinese historians
Category:Stanford University alumni
Category:Academic staff of the National Taiwan University
Category:Members of Academia Sinica
Category:21st-century Chinese historians
Category:National Taiwan University alumni
Category:20th-century Taiwanese historians
Category:21st-century Taiwanese historians
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