Chen Yung-fa explained

Chen Yung-fa (; born 1 September 1944) is a Taiwanese historian.

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 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

• Book: 9780520050020 . Chen . Yung-fa . Making Revolution: The Communist Movement in Eastern and Central China, 1937–1945. . 1986 . University of California Press . Berkeley and Los Angeles. ^[7]
• Book: 9789070313180 . Chen . Yung-fa . Gregor Benton . Benton . Gregor . Moral Economy and the Chinese Revolution . 1987 . Antropologisch-Sociologisch Centrum, University of Amsterdam . Amsterdam. ^[8]
• Book: 9789570822731 . Chen . Yung-fa . 中國共產革命七十年 . 1998 . 2 . 2001 . Seventy Years of the Communist Revolution in China. ^[9]

Notes and References

1. News: Yung-fa Chen . 19 July 2020 . Academia Sinica.
2. News: 陳永發(Chen Yung-fa) . 3 May 2019 . Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica.
3. News: Chen Yung-fa . 3 May 2019 . Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, University of Cambridge.
4. News: Lin . Chia-nan . Academia Sinica begins May Fourth Movement event . 3 May 2019 . Taipei Times . 3 May 2019.
5. News: Yeh . Lindy . Newsmakers: The life and times of Old China's 'Young Marshal' . 3 May 2019 . Taipei Times . 16 October 2001.
6. News: Academia Sinica launches online digital archives . 3 May 2019 . Taipei Times . 5 March 2011.
7. Houn . Franklin W. . 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 . December 1987 . 92 . 5 . 10.1086/ahr/92.5.1258.
8. Averill . Stephen C. . 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 . August 1988 . 47 . 3 . 615–616 . 10.2307/2057011. 2057011 .
9. Thi Minh-Hoang Ngo . Chen Yung-Fa, Zhongguo gongchan geming qishi nian . China Perspectives . January–February 2004 . 2004 . 51.