Chen Jian | |
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陈兼 | |
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| Education | Southern Illinois University East China Normal University Fudan University |
| Occupation(s) | Hu Shih Professor of History and China-US Relations |
| Employer | Cornell University |
Chen Jian (Chinese:陈兼;pinyin:Chén Jiān; born 1952)[1] is a Chinese historian who holds theHu Shih emeritus professorship of History and China-US Relations atCornell University. His specialties include modern Chinese history, the history ofChinese-American relations, andCold War international history. He is alsoZijiang Distinguished Visiting Professor atEast China Normal University and Distinguished Global Network Professor of History atNew York University Shanghai.
Chen Jian has held the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs atLSE IDEAS (2008–2009), where he remains a Senior Fellow, and was a research scholar from 2009 to 2013 at theUniversity of Hong Kong. He was also a Global Fellow of theWoodrow Wilson Center (2013–2014),[2] where he has been a Senior Scholar since 2005. He has also been the Zijiang Distinguished Visiting Professor at East China Normal University since 2000.
Professor Chen received an M.A. fromFudan University andEast China Normal University in 1982 and his Ph.D. fromSouthern Illinois University in 1990.
Chen Jian was the recipient of the Jeffrey Sean Lehman Grant for Scholarly Exchange with China, Cornell University, 2007. His other fellowships include Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship for International Peace, United States Institute of Peace, 1996–1997 and the Norwegian Nobel Institute Fellowship, Oslo, Norway, 1993.[3]
In 2005, he shared in the honors for anEmmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in News and Documentary Research forDeclassified: Nixon in China.
Chen's first major book wasChina's Road to the Korean War, which received much praise and was widely cited.[4]Lucian Pye, writing inForeign Affairs saidMao's China and the Cold War has "taken some giant steps toward advancing the West's understanding of Mao Zedong's policies during the Cold War." Pye praised Chen for correcting the view ofMao andZhou Enlai as "relaxed and worldly wise" pragmatists, a view put forward byRichard Nixon andHenry Kissinger to justify the opening to China. In fact, Chen argues, "Mao was driven by ideology and insatiable ambition as he led the communists to power and soughtStalin's blessing for his leadership."[5]Allen Whiting's review of it inPolitical Science Quarterly called Chen's work a "superb study."[6]
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