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Wellington K. K. Chan
B.A.(Yale)
 M.Litt.(Oxford) 
A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard)


  
Office:  South Swan 318
Phone:  (323) 259-2581
Fax:  (323) 341-4977
E-mail:  wkchan@oxy.edu


Wellington K.K. Chan, National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, and Professor of History at Occidental College, Los Angeles, USA, specializes in social and economic modern Chinese history, and in business history.  He has published extensively in academic journals, such as the Business History Review, Modern Asian Studies and the Journal of Asian Studies, and as chapters in books, including the Cambridge History of China. He is the author of three books, including his Merchants, Mandarins and Modern Enterprise in Late Ch’ing China (Cambridge, MA:

East Asian Research Center, Harvard University, 1977); his most recent writing is “Chinese Entrepreneurship since its Late Imperial Period,” chapter 16 of The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times, edited by David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr and William J. Baumol (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010), pp. 469-500.      

Professor Chan received his B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University, a B.Litt. from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in East Asian History from Harvard University. He is a recipient of several U.S. national awards and fellowships, including those from the American Council of Learned Societies, Social Science Research Council, The American Philosophical Society, the Committee on Scholarly Communications with the PRC, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.       

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Professor Chan served as a Fulbright Visiting Professor at Lingnan University in 2004, and had also taught as the Harvard-Yenching Lecturer at Chung Chi College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Curriculum Vitae


    Courses 2009-10
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    Fall

  • sabbatical

    Spring

    Hist 141  East Asian History Since 1600
    Hist 242  Imperial China