Su Chen earned her BA and MA in Philosophy from Guizhou University and Huazhong University of Science & Technology in China and a MLIS from McGill University in Canada. Her career as a Librarian started at McGill University Library in February 1999. After serving as Head of the East Asian Library at the University of Minnesota for ten years, she was appointed as Head of the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library at University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) in August 2011. In 2015, her position was endowed by anonymous donors and named as Su Chen endowed Head of the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library. Her research interests are primarily in the trends of English monographs on Chinese studies; archival resources related to China in North America and history of East Asian libraries in USA and Canada. Su Chen’s major publications including authored/co-authored/edited are:

“基于三大数据库对海外中国研究专著的调查与分析 (2006-2016)” in《国际汉学》2020-03, pp. 60-76.

《海外中国研究现状与趋势分析 : 2006-2016》(美)陈肃, 杨慧玲, (美)叶鼎, 熊泽泉, 孙会军等著. 北京 : 学苑出版社, 2021.

Sourcebook of North American Historical and Archival Resources on China’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression《北美藏中国抗日战争历史档案文献提要》/Wang, Chengzhi and Su Chen.  上海:复旦大学出版社, 2017.

Archival Resources of Republican China in North America. 《北美藏民國檔案指要：1911-1949》/Wang, Chengzhi, Su Chen and others. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.

Archives of the Young Men’s Christian Association in China at the University of Minnesota Libraries: the Annual Report (1896-1949) with Biographical Sketch of Foreign Secretaries and City Association Building Descriptions. 《美國明尼蘇達大學圖書館藏基督教男青年會檔案: 中國年度報告 (1896-1949) 及國際幹事小傳及會所小史》. 桂林:广西师范大学出版社, 2012.

“The establishment and development of the East Asian Library at the University of Minnesota” in Collecting Asia: East Asian Libraries in North America, 1868-2008. p. 223-230. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Association for Asian Studies, INC. 2010.

“Who Has Published What in East Asian Studies? An Analysis of Publishers and Publishing Trends” in Library Resources and Technical Services. vol. 52, no.1 pp. 33-41. American Library Association, 2008.

Glossary of library and information science: English-Chinese / Chinese-English 《英漢漢英圖書館實用詞彙》. München : K.G. Saur, 2006. 

“The Gest Chinese Research Library at McGill 1926-1936” in East Asian Library Journal. Autumn, vol. 11, no. 2, pp.41-99.  Princeton, N.J. :  The East Asian Library and the Gest Collection of Princeton University, 2004.