Zhongping Chen

Zhongping Chen is a Professor of History at the University of Victoria, focusing on Late Imperial/Republican China, the Chinese diaspora, and environmental history. His federally funded research includes digital projects like 'Victoria’s Chinatown' and studies of the Indian Ocean trade nexus. He earned degrees from Nanjing University and the University of Hawaii.

Chen's publications explore transnational reform movements, land policies in rural China, and Chinese labor in North America. His book 'Modern China’s Network Revolution' (2011) received critical acclaim for analyzing chambers of commerce. Recent work examines Zheng He’s voyages in global contexts.

He mentors graduate students researching themes from Egyptian land surveys to Canadian policy rhetoric. Chen has won the Gates Memorial Award for his work on Chinese labor in the Canadian Pacific Railway.