About

Since 2005 Chen Yung-fa has been a distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, and Professor of History at the National Taiwan University.  From 2001 to 2009 he was the Director of the Institute of Modern History.

His major publications include Making Revolution: The Communist Movement in Eastern and Central China, 1937-1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986, 690p; Yanan’s Shadow (延安的陰影 Yanande Yinying), Taipei: the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Monograph 60, 1990, 6, 354p;  Seventy Years of China’s Communist Revolution (中國共產革命七年:從革命奪權到告別革命 Zhongguo gongchan gemingqishinian: cong geming duoquan dao gaobie geming), Taipei: the Lianjing Press, 1st ed. 1998, 1014p. revised ed. 2001, 1146p; Pursuing Excellence: Eighty Years of the Academia Sinica, Vol. 1, (追求卓越: 中央研究院八十年》,卷一,任重道遠【全院篇】(Zhuiqiu Zhuoyue: Zhongyang yajiuyuan bashinian ) Taipei: Academia Sinica, 2008, 7, 333p.

Lectures and Symposium

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Maoist Rectification during Wartime
21 May 2013 5:00pm - 6:30pm, SG1, Alison Richard Building

Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chinese Studies 2013 Chen Yung-fa will give a series of three public lectures and a concluding symposium on The Meaning of the Chinese Communist Revolution.

Chiang Kaishek’s Experience with Britain and his Private Thoughts, 1917-1949
23 May 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, SG1, Alison Richard Building

Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chinese Studies 2013 Chen Yung-fa will give a series of three public lectures and a concluding symposium on The Meaning of the Chinese Communist Revolution.

Chiang Kaishek and the Japanese Ichigo Offensive of 1944
29 May 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, SG1, Alison Richard Building

Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chinese Studies 2013 Chen Yung-fa will give a series of three public lectures and a concluding symposium on The Meaning of the Chinese Communist Revolution.

The Meaning of the Chinese Communist Revolution
30 May 2013 2:00pm - 6:00pm, SG1/2 Alison Richard Building

The concluding symposium with Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chinese Studies 2013 Chen Yung-fa

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