Scholars@Duke
Yuan Chen

Yuan Chen

Postdoctoral Associate
John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
yuan.j.chen@duke.edu
114 S Buchanan Blvd, Durham, NC 27701

Overview

PhD in History, Yale University (2020)

Current Appointments & Affiliations

In the News

Published January 12, 2021
Feeding and Supplying the World’s Largest City: The Environmental Impact of Northern Song Kaifeng
Published November 12, 2018
Udstrakte sømarker venter på regnen
Published June 2, 2016
An extinct language finds a new audience at Yale

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Recent Publications

Between the Islamic and Chinese Universal Empires: The Ottoman Empire, Ming Dynasty, and Global Age of Explorations

Journal Article Journal of Early Modern History · January 1, 2021 This article studies two sixteenth-century Asian texts: Khitay namah, a Persian travelogue about the Ming dynasty written by the Muslim merchant Ali Akbar and presented to the Ottoman sultan, and Xiyu, an illustrated Chinese geographical treatise with deta ... Full text Cite

FRONTIER, FORTIFICATION, and FORESTATION: DEFENSIVE WOODLAND on the SONG-LIAO BORDER in the LONG ELEVENTH CENTURY

Journal Article Journal of Chinese History · July 1, 2018 This article examines the creation, preservation, and destruction of the defensive forest that the Northern Song built in Hebei along the Song-Liao border. Created as a landscape barrier against the Kitan attacks, this forest established the necessary stra ... Full text Cite
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