CURRICULUM VITAE Allen Chen Ph.D.

Student, Department of East Asian Studies McGill University

3434 McTavish Street Montral, Qubec, Canada H3A 0E3

E-Mail: allen.chen@mail.mcgill.ca Education 09/2011 Present 09/2009 12/2012 Ph.D., East Asian Studies, McGill University M.A., Asian Studies, University of British Columba (Montral, Canada) (Vancouver, Canada)

Thesis: Development of the Sage-King Narratives: Idealized Concepts of Rulership in Warring States Chinese Thought

05/2009 06/2010

UBC NUS University Scholars Exchange Program Special Program on urban development strategies of Chinatowns in Vancouver and Singapore B.A., University of British Columbia Double Major in History and Asian Area Studies Universit Jean Moulin Lyon 3 Academic Exchange Program, French language

(Vancouver, Canada and Singapore)

09/2004 05/2009 01/2007 06/2007

(Vancouver, Canada)

(Lyon, France)

Scholarships and Awards 2013 2011 2015 2011 2009 2011 2009 2010 2009 2009 Graduate Excellence Award, McGill University ($2,000) Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ($105,000) Student Councillor of the Year, Alma Mater Student Society of UBC Recognized as an outstanding Student Leader by the President of UBC UBC Faculty of Arts Graduate Scholarship ($4,000) UBCNUS Lee Foundation Student Exchange Award ($3,000) Recognized by the UBC Dean of Arts as a Graduating Student Leader

Work Experience 01/2013 Current 09/2009 05/2011 05/2009 05/2011 05/2010 08/2010 05/2009 11/2009 09/2007 05/2008 05/2003 10/2009 Teaching Assistant, Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of British Columbia Research Assistant, Department Asian Studies, University of British Columbia Assistant, International Association of Tibetan Studies Conference Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia Research Assistant, Department of History, University of British Columbia Student Coordinator, UBC Go Global Student Exchange Learning Program Financial Services Representative, Coast Capital Savings Credit Union

Service and Volunteer 04/2012 Present 01/2012 Present 03/2010 03/2010 05/2009 04/2008 04/2008 05/2011 05/2011 04/2010 05/2009 05/2009 10/2008 Co-Coordinator, Post-Graduate Students Working Group, Queer McGill President and Symposium Co-Coordinator McGill Graduate Students in East Asian Studies Graduate Student Representative, UBC AMS Student Society Council Asian Studies Representative, UBC Graduate Students Society Council Co-Chairperson, Pride UBC: Resource Group for the GLBTQ Community History Representative, UBC Arts Undergraduate Society Arts Representative, UBC History Students Association Conference Assistant, UBC Conference on Daoist Studies

Conference Presentations 04/2013 01/2011 Sage-King Narratives in Warring States Chinese Thought First Annual Symposium on East Asian Studies, McGill University Mythical Sage-King Demystified: Contemporary Scholarship and Ancient Chinese Political Ideals 36th Annual Qualicum Student-Faculty History Conference, University of Victoria Authority and Legitimacy: the Sage-King in Early Chinese Political Thought 35th Annual Qualicum Student-Faculty History Conference, University of Victoria Total War and Total Power: Warfare and the Centralized State in Warring States China Northwestern Undergraduate History Conference, Thompson Rivers University

01/2010 01/2009

Research Interests Primary interests: Warring States (5th-3rd c. BCE) Chinese thought; early Chinese intellectual, legal, and political history; state formation and theories of rulership in early China. Other interests: trans-Pacific migration issues, oral history and folklore, history of the Overseas Chinese diaspora, urban (re)development and its effects on the historical preservation of Chinatown, also immigration and social justice issues in Canada. Research Languages Fluent in English, modern Mandarin Chinese, French, and Taiwanese (Hokkien) Advanced knowledge of Classical Literary Chinese Working knowledge of academic Japanese Basic knowledge of Cantonese

Updated April, 2013