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)

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

Current research interests

History of War, History of Political Economy, Social History, the Long WWII

Participant

"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