Chen Yung-Fa

Chen was born in Chengdu, Sichuan province. He moved with his family to Taiwan in 1949. After Chen earned bachelor's and master's degrees from National Taiwan University, he completed a doctorate in history at Stanford University, and became a professor at National Taiwan University. He was elected to the Academia Sinica in 2004 and served as the director of the academy's Institute of Modern History [zh] between 2002 and 2009. He has been sought for commentary regarding the history of the Republic of China. Beginning in 2011, Chen led a project to digitalize the diarial writings of Tan Yankai.

• Chen, Yung-fa (1986). Making Revolution: The Communist Movement in Eastern and Central China, 1937–1945. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520050020.
• Chen, Yung-fa; Benton, Gregor (1987). Moral Economy and the Chinese Revolution. Amsterdam: Antropologisch-Sociologisch Centrum, University of Amsterdam. ISBN 9789070313180.
• Chen, Yung-fa (2001) [1998]. 中國共產革命七十年 [Seventy Years of the Communist Revolution in China]. Vol. 2. ISBN 9789570822731.