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Jerome Chih-jang Ch'enFRSC (Chinese:陳志讓;pinyin:Chén Zhìràng; October 2, 1919 – June 17, 2019) was a Chinese-Canadian historian.
Ch'en was born asCh'en Chih-jang inChengdu,Sichuan,Republic of China in October 1919. He was educated at TianjinNankai University,National Southwestern Associated University inKunming during theSecond Sino-Japanese War and at theLondon School of Economics (LSE), which he attended funded by aBoxer Indemnity Scholarship and where he studied underFriedrich Hayek.[citation needed]
In the 1950s, Ch'en worked for the Chinese Service of theBBC. Before emigrating to Canada he was aReader in history at theUniversity of Leeds for a number of years. He wasProfessor of Chinese History atYork University inToronto, Canada from 1971 to 1987. He was the director of the University of Toronto/York University Joint Centre of Asia Pacific Studies (JCAPS) from 1983 to 1985.[1]
Ch'en was made a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Canada in 1981. In 1984, he was namedDistinguished Research Professor at York.[2]
Ch'en died inSt. Catharines,Ontario, Canada in June 2019 at the age of 99.[3]
Ch'en also edited:
Some of his works have been translated into Chinese or Japanese.
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