Ka-che Yip, Professor (Ph.D. Columbia University)

A specialist in modern Chinese history, Professor Yip teaches courses on Chinese and East Asian history. Dr. Yip is a UMBC Presidential Research Professor. His distinguished teaching also earned him designation as a UMBC Presidential Teaching Professor. Dr.Yip is the first UMBC professor to hold both honors. In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of Religion, Nationalism and Chinese Students: the Anti-Christian Movement of 1922-1927, and Health and National Reconstruction in Nationalist China. Professor Yip is interested in the history of medicine, public health and diseases in China. His current projects include book manuscripts on the civilian and military medical systems during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), and the history of public health in Hong Kong.