History Department, Occidental College
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Professor Wellington Chan has been a member of the History Department at Occidental College, since 1971. He has published extensively on the socio-economic history of modern and contemporary China in various academic presses and journals. His book, Merchants, Mandarins and Modern Enterprise in Late Ch'ing China, published by the Harvard University Press in 1977, was selected by the Institute of Modern History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, to be on their series of Modern Chinese History by Foreign Scholars in Translation and published in Chinese by the Chinese Academy Press, Beijing, China in 1997. Other recent publications as chapters in books and in peer-reviewed journals include: "Chinese American Business Networks and Trans-Pacific Economic Relations Since the 1970s," chapter in The Expanding Role of Chinese Americans in U.S. China Relations. Eds. Peter Koehn and Xiao-huang Yin. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002. pp. 145-161; "Selling Goods and Promoting a New Commercial Culture: Shanghai's Four Premier Department Stores on Nanjing Road, 1917-37," chapter in Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1864-1949. Ed. Sherman Cochran. Itheca, NY: Cornell East Asia Publications, Cornell University, 1999. pp. 19-36; "Tradition and Change in the Chinese Business Enterprise: The Family Firm Past and Present," Journal of Chinese Studies in History, vol. 31, nos. 3-4 (Spring-Summer 1998), pp. 127- 144 ; and "Personal Styles, Cultural Values and Management: The Sincere and Wing On Companies in Shangahi and Hong Kong, 1900-1941," Business History Review, vol.70, no.2 (Summer 1996), pp. 141-166.
Professor Chan will be a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Lingnan University during Spring Semester 2004 in Hong Kong. He is also a recipient of several national research fellowships and grants and received the 1994 Grahman L. Sterling Award conferred by his fellow Occidental faculty "in recognition of outstanding professional achievement, teaching, and service to the college."
- sabbatical
Spring
Hist 141 East Asian History Since 1600
Hist 242 Imperial China
Courses 2009-10 (click
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Fall