Chen Yung-fa ((September 1, 1944 -) is a history scholar. Chen was born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province to a farmer-worker family, and his family moved to Taiwan in 1949. Chen graduated from the Department of History of National Taiwan University with a master's degree. After earning his doctorate in history from Stanford University, he became a professor at National Taiwan University.
Chen has served as a researcher and director of the Institute of Modern History of the Academia Sinica of the Republic of China, a professor in the Department of History at National Taiwan University, and is currently a Corresponding Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History of Academia Sinica, where he was elected an academician in 2004.
Chen's main field of research is the history of the Chinese Communist Party. His works include Poppies under the Red Sun: The Opium Trade and the Yan'an Model, Yanan’s Shadow, and Seventy Years of China’s Communist Revolution.
