Chang Yu-fa (Chinese: 張玉法; pinyin: Zhāng Yùfǎ; born 1 February 1935) is a Chinese historian from Taiwan.

Chang Yu-fa
張玉法
Born (1935-02-01) 1 February 1935 (age 89)
EducationMaster's degree
Alma materNational Taiwan Normal University
Columbia University
National Chengchi University

He was born in Shandong on 1 February 1935, and moved to Taiwan in 1949. Chang earned a bachelor's degree from National Taiwan Normal University, and two master's degrees, one in history from Columbia University, and the other in journalism from National Chengchi University.[1] He served as director of Academia Sinica's Institute of Modern History [zh] from 1985 to 1991,[2] and was elected as academician of Academia Sinica in 1992.[3] After leaving the directorship, Chang remained at the Institute of Modern History as an adjunct research fellow.[4][5]

Selected publications edit

  • Chang, Yu-fa (1975). Revolutionary Organizations of the Ch'ing Period. Taipei: Academia Sinica.[6]
  • Chang, Yu-fa (1982). Modernization in China, 1860-1916: A Regional Study of Social, Political, and Economic Change in Shantung Province. Taipei: Academia Sinica.[7]

References edit

  1. ^ "張玉法(Chang Yu-fa)". Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Historians Unfettered". Free China Review. 1 September 1997. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  3. ^ "張玉法" (in Chinese). Academia Sinica. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  4. ^ Chu, Monique (24 February 2000). "Farewell to a revered publisher". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  5. ^ Wang, Cheng-chung; Kuo, Chung-han (10 July 2015). "ROC contributed to post-WWII decolonization in Asia: scholar". Taiwan News. Central News Agency. Archived from the original on 3 May 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2019. Alt URL
  6. ^ Rhoads, Edward (August 1976). "Review: Revolutionary Organizations of the Ch'ing Period". The Journal of Asian Studies. 35 (4): 672–673. doi:10.2307/2053681. JSTOR 2053681. S2CID 161180425.
  7. ^ Buck, David D. (February 1984). "Review: Modernization in China, 1860-1916: A Regional Study of Social, Political, and Economic Change in Shantung Province". The Journal of Asian Studies. 43 (2): 308–310. doi:10.2307/2055322. JSTOR 2055322. S2CID 156272671.