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'''Jerome Chih-jang Ch'en''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|FRSC}} ({{zh|t=陳志讓|p=Chén Zhìràng}}; October 2, 1919 – June 17, 2019) was a Chinese-Canadian historian.<br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Ch'en was born as '''Ch'en Chih-jang''' in [[Chengdu]], [[Sichuan]], [[Republic of China (1912–49)|Republic of China]] in October 1919. He was educated at Tianjin [[Nankai University]], [[National Southwestern Associated University]] in [[Kunming]] during the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] and at the [[London School of Economics]] (LSE), which he attended funded by a [[Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program|Boxer Indemnity Scholarship]] and where he studied under [[Friedrich Hayek]].{{cn|date=August 2025}} <br />
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==Academic career==<br />
In the 1950s, Ch'en worked for the Chinese Service of the [[BBC]]. Before emigrating to Canada he was a [[Reader (academic rank)|Reader]] in history at the [[University of Leeds]] for a number of years. He was [[Professor]] of Chinese History at [[York University]] in [[Toronto]], 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.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/18/jerome-chen-obituary Jerome Ch’en obituary, Diana Lary, published in The Guardian 18 July 2019]</ref><br />
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==Honours==<br />
Ch'en was made a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Canada]] in 1981. In 1984, he was named [[Distinguished Research Professor]] at York.<ref>Lary, 2019.</ref><br />
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==Death==<br />
Ch'en died in [[St. Catharines]], [[Ontario]], Canada in June 2019 at the age of 99.<ref>[https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theglobeandmail/obituary.aspx?n=jerome-chen&pid=193180279 Jerome Ch'en Obituary]</ref><br />
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==Selected publications==<br />
* ''Yuan Shih-ka̕i, 1859-1916: Brutus Assumes the Purple'' (George Allen & Unwin, 1961).<br />
*''The Highlanders of Central China: a History 1895 &ndash; 1937''<br />
*''Mao and the Chinese Revolution''<br />
*''The Military-Gentry coalition—the Warlords Period in Modern Chinese History''<br />
*''China and the West: Society and Culture 1815 &ndash; 1937'' (Hutchinson, 1979)<br />
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Ch'en also edited:<br />
*''Great Lives Observed: Mao''<br />
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Some of his works have been translated into Chinese or Japanese.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* Lary, Diana. "Jerome Ch’en obituary: Historian of modern China, cut off from his roots, who rued the rise of the military and the Communist conquest" ''The Guardian'' 18 July 2019. [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/18/jerome-chen-obituary online]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://atom.library.yorku.ca/index.php/jerome-chen-fonds Jerome Ch'en archives] at the [[Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections]], [[York University Libraries]], [[Toronto|Toronto, Ontario]]<br />
* [http://www.yorku.ca/easp/library/jcea.htm Jerome Ch'en Resource Centre for East Asian Studies]<br />
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