Chen Yu

Chen Yu, born in 1957 in Tai'an, Shandong, is a researcher at the Academy of Military Sciences of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, a military historian and an expert on the history of the Long March, and a distinguished professor at Peking University. He served in the military for more than forty years and has devoted over thirty years to the study of military and war history. He was editor-in-chief of the journal Military History and has published more than eighty monographs, including Longhu in the Grasslands, On the Spirit of the Long March and An Interpretation of The Art of War, and has retraced the Long March route fifteen times. His writing focuses on military and war history and the history of the Long March, combining textual criticism with fieldwork. As for the works listed on this site, public information is limited: the titles available here cover class management, primary school lesson preparation, popular technology and inspirational growth, spanning a wide range of subjects. The editor has found no direct connection between these works and the military history research described above, and further verification is needed.