Jerome Ch'en

Jerome Ch'en (b. 1919) was a Chinese history professor at the York University in Toronto, Canada from 1971 to 1987. He was the director of the University of Toronto/York University Joint Centre on Modern East Asia from 1983 to 1985.

He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1980. In 1984, he was named Distinguished Research Professor at York.

Principle works include:

• The highlanders of Central China: a history 1895-1937
• Mao and the Chinese Revolution
• The military-gentry coalition -- the warlords period in modern Chinese history

External links

• the Jerome Ch'en Resource Centre for East Asian Studies