Chen Jian

Chen Jian

Chen Jian is a top-level international relations scholar, historian and expert on China issues. At present, he is an outstanding professor of global affairs at New York University and New York University in Shanghai. At the same time, he is a professor of Chinese history and Sino US relations at Cornell University and director of China and Asia Pacific Research Program. Professor Chen Jian was invited to participate in the writing of the Chinese volume of Cambridge cold war history, and became one of the few Chinese historians who won this honor.

Modern Chen Jian

Introduction to Chen Jian

Chen Jian (1952 -) (English name)

ChenJian

）Born in Shanghai in 1952, he is a famous international relations scholar and historian.

Personal resume

Chen Jian's research fields include modern China, Sino US relations, international relations during the cold war, China's foreign policy and security strategy during the cold war, and so on. He has successively held the following academic positions: Philip Rome professor of history and international affairs, London School of economics and politics, UK (2008-2009) China and East Asia research, international cold war history project, Wilson Center, Washington, USA Research consultant c.k.yen, Professor of Sino US relations at the University of Virginia (2000) vice chairman and director of the Chinese historians Association of the United States (1991-1994) visiting research professor at the University of Hong Kong professor of Zijiang scholar program at East China Normal University

Academic achievements

Academic career

In 1990, he won the employment of professor at the State University of New York in the United States. In 1993, Professor Chen, who was honored as a tenured professor, was employed by Southern Illinois University. In the same year, the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway, recruited the best historical researchers in the world for the first time. At the seminar, Professor Chen fought with the others, passed the test, and monopolized the market. In 1996, he was employed as a senior research fellow of the National Peace Research Institute of the United States. Facing the clamor of "China Threat Theory", Professor Chen refuted it. Since then, the Institute of Sino US relations at the Miller center of the University of Virginia has extended an invitation to Professor Chen Jian to serve as a chair professor. It takes less than ten years for Professor Chen Jian to become a chair professor from his doctoral degree. He is not only the fastest rising Chinese student in the United States, but also rare in American academic circles. Professor Chen has also served as chief editor of Chinese historians, deputy chief editor of Journal of American East Asian relations, and consultant on China and East Asia issues of Wilson Center International cold war history project of Washington University. In 2005, Chen Jianrong won the American Emmy Award for his outstanding achievements in news and documentary research. The Emmy is the highest award in American TV. “EmmyAwardforOutstandingAchievementinNewsandDocumentaryResearch”("Dec lassified:NixoninChina "),2005.

Bibliography of works

Professor Chen is diligent in writing and fruitful. His works have made great contributions to the research of Sino US relations in the international academic community. At the same time, it promotes the focus of the study of the history of the international cold war to shift from the two poles of the United States and the Soviet Union to the regions beyond the two poles, which is regarded as an important part of the international "new study of the history of the cold war".

The main works are as follows

In the Cambridge History of the cold war, Professor Chen also wrote the section "China and the cold war Mao," in the Cambridge History of the cold war, ”Vol.3 China's road to the Korean War KoreanWar:TheMakingofChinese-AmericanConfrontation Mao's China and the cold war Chinese Communist foreign policy and the cold war Asia China's challenges in the 21st century War and its implications for the US foreign policy "TheChina" sChallengeof21st Century (English) "1964~1977 years' seventy-seven talks between Chinese and foreign leaders on the Indochina war", "the road to global war" - the origin of the two wars (Chinese) is being completed by the following monograph: ZhouEnlai:TheManandHisTimes (Biography of Zhou Enlai, published by Harvard University) (to be published soon). Chen also published hundreds of Chinese and English papers. In the 1990s, at the end of the cold war, the research on the history of the new cold war was booming. Professor Chen's research successfully combined the research results of the western academic circles for many years with a large number of new materials published by the Chinese side for an objective and comprehensive demonstration. His paper entitled "China's road to the Korean War: A Study on the formation of Sino US confrontation" has aroused great concern in the international academic circles Note. among them, China's challenges in the 21st century: also on how US foreign policy should respond to them, was presented to the White House as a result of the US National Peace Research Institute and served as an important reference for President Clinton's visit to China. This book is opposite to the popular "China Threat Theory" in the United States at that time. It holds that China is facing many problems of its own, which need to be solved by itself. The outside world needs to give China time, space and opportunities. What China needs is cooperation, not confrontation.

academic exchange

Professor Chen is committed to the mutual understanding between Chinese and American scholars. He believes that there are many outstanding talents and excellent academic articles in China's academia of international relations. Due to the language barrier, they can not be concerned by the American academia. Therefore, he takes the initiative to undertake the work of "communication Ambassador". He introduced some excellent western works to China, translated and introduced some articles of Chinese scholars to the United States, and translated some Memoirs of Chinese diplomats. The representative work of his translation, soul calling, was awarded the best translation by China times in 2000. Professor Chen has been invited to give lectures and lectures in hundreds of world famous universities and scientific research institutions such as Harvard University, Yale University, Oxford University and Cambridge University.

Study experience

In 1978, as the first college student after the cultural revolution, he was admitted to the Department of history of East China Normal University. In 1979, he recommended the master's degree of East China Normal University and studied World War II under the guidance of famous teachers such as Li Julian, pan Renjie and Wang sider. In 1986, he won a scholarship from Southern Illinois University and went to the United States to study for a doctorate in history