Chang Yu-fa

Chang Yu-fa (Chinese: 張玉法; pinyin: Zhāng Yùfǎ; born 1 February 1935) is a Chinese historian from Taiwan.

Chang Yu-fa
張玉法
Born	(1935-02-01) 1 February 1935 (age 90) Shandong
Education	National Taiwan Normal University (BA) Columbia University (MA) National Chengchi University (MA)

Life and career

He was born in Shandong on 1 February 1935, and moved to Taiwan in 1949. Chang earned a bachelor's degree from National Taiwan Normal University, and two master's degrees, one in history from Columbia University, and the other in journalism from National Chengchi University.^[1] He served as director of Academia Sinica's Institute of Modern History [zh] from 1985 to 1991,^[2] and was elected as academician of Academia Sinica in 1992.^[3] After leaving the directorship, Chang remained at the Institute of Modern History as an adjunct research fellow.^[4][5]

Selected publications

• Chang, Yu-fa (1975). Revolutionary Organizations of the Ch'ing Period. Taipei: Academia Sinica.^[6]
• Chang, Yu-fa (1982). Modernization in China, 1860-1916: A Regional Study of Social, Political, and Economic Change in Shantung Province. Taipei: Academia Sinica.^[7]