Boshen Yan
Thesis title: Wartime Economy and Grain Politics in Nationalist China during the War of Resistance (1937-1945) and the Chinese Civil War (1945-1949)
PhD supervisors:
Qualifications
BSc International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2018-2021
MA Modern History, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2021-2022
MA Programe in Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2022-2023
Responsibilities & affiliations
The Co-Convener of the Year 1 PhD conference in History at Edinburgh (May 2026)
Current research interests
History of War, History of Political Economy, Social History, the Long WWIIParticipant
"Military Provisioning and Grain Politics in the War of Resistance, 1931-45", in the Panel "The Long Second World War and Its Aftermath in China: Mobilization, Displacement and Transnational Diaspora", AHA 2026, Chicago, IL, US, January 2026
"Feeding Ten Million Soldiers: Nationalist Army Food Provision in Republican China, 1927-1937", in the Panel "Grain, Tobacco, and Papermaking: State Building and Rural Economy in Wartime China (1927-45)," AAS-in-Asia 2025, Kathmandu, Nepal, June 2025
"Nationalist Army Logistics and Army Food Provision in Republican China, 1926-1937," The Society for Military History 2024 Conference, held by the Society for Military History, Arlington, VA, April 2024