Yang Guozhen, Professor of Chinese History at Xiamen University
Research interests: History of Ming and Qing Dynasties, Chinese Socioeconomic History, and Maritime History.
Education and Employment:
1961 B.A. at the Department of History, Xiamen University
1961-1978 Assistant professor at the Department of History, Xiamen University
1978-1983 Lecturer at the Institute of History, Xiamen University
1984-1986 Vice director at the Institute of History, Xiamen University
April-July, 1985 Visiting Scholar to Kyoto University
Sept, 1985-Sept, 1986 Visting Scholar to East Asian Study Center at Stanford University
1985 Professor of History at Xiamen University
1986 Ph.D. Supervisor
1994 titled “Distinguished Young Scholar at National Level”
1987-2006 Director of History Research Center at Xiamen University
2010 Emeritus Professor
Currently
Chief Editor of Journal of Chinese Socioeconomic History
Member of the Academic Consultation Committee at the Institute of Chinese History
Visiting Professor of Capital Normal University at Beijing, National Central University and National Chengchi University at Taiwan
Chief Expert of the “985 Project” of the Innovation Research base of maritime development at Ocean University of China
Besides, Prof. Yang has been invited to give talks at Kyoto University, Stanford University, Oxford University, etc.
Selected Publications:
Prof. Yang is Author of A Biography of Lin Zexu (2010), A Life of Tan Kah Kee (1981), A Comprehensive Record of Legal Documents of Southern Fujian (2009), Fujian at Sea: Tracing Fujian Maritime History (1998), Oriental Water and Land: Marine Environment and Economic Development in Southeast China (2003),Maritime Compass: Chinese Maritime Theory, History and Culture (2019), etc.
He is also Compiler of A Selection of Qing Dynasty Title Deeds in Northern Fujian, A Collection of Southern Fujian Title Deeds, etc. As Editor-in-Chief, he is known for “Chinese Maritime Civilization Studies” (10 volumes, 2016), “The Sea and China Study Series” (25 monographs, 2019), etc.