Jerome Chen
Jerome Chen (born October 2, 1919 in Chengdu , Sichuan , China , † June 17, 2019 ) was a Chinese-Canadian historian .
Life
Jerome Chen studied at Nankai University in Tientsin and at the National Associated Southwest University and at the London School of Economics and Political Science during the anti-Japanese war . He worked for the BBC in the 1950s . Before emigrating to Canada , he taught history at the University of Leeds (Great Britain) for a few years .
Chen was Professor of Chinese History at York University in Toronto , Canada from 1971 to 1987 and Director of the York University Joint Center of Asia Pacific Studies from 1983 to 1985 .
In 1981 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 1984 he was Distinguished Research Professor at York University.
Publications (in German)
- Jerome Chen: Mao papers. Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, Munich 1972. ISBN 3-485-01823-6
Individual evidence
- ^ The Canadian Who's who , University of Toronto Press, 2003, p. 239
- ↑ [1]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chen, Jerome |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sino-Canadian historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chengdu , Sichuan , China |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th June 2019 |