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Appointed under the new HKU Visiting Research Professor scheme. Professor Chen Jian, Michael J. Zak Chair of the History of US China Relations at Cornell University, one of the world's top scholars in this field, will be spending six weeks a year at the Department of History over the coming four academic years, 2009-2013. Events centring around Professor Chen's presence in the Department of History will include public lectures and seminars, and a workshop focusing upon current research work in Hong Kong in the broad area of International History and Asia-West Relations. (Details will be announced later.) Professor Chen will also be available to consult individually with academic staff and postgraduate students on their current and future research projects. He will also help the Department and University to formulate a strategy for the further development of International History at the University of Hong Kong. Books and Monographs The China Challenge in the 21st Century: Implications for US Foreign Policy (Washington, DC: US Institute of Peace, 1998) Chinese Communist Foreign Policy and the Cold War in Asia: New Documentary Evidence, 1944-1950 Co-edited with Zhang Shuguang. (Chicago: Imprint Publications, 1996) China's Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994) Zouxiang quanqiu zhanzheng zhilu: erci dazhan qiyuan yanjiu (The Road to a Global War: A Chinese Study of the Origins of the Second World War) (Shanghai: Xuelin, 1989) Jiaohun: 1768nian zhongguo yaoshu da konghuang (Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768, by Philip A. Kuhn, Harvard University Press, 1990), co-trans. with Liu Chang (Shanghai: Shanghai Sanlian, 1999) "Redefining 'Cold War' in America's Global Strategy: Implications of Changing US Policies toward China and East Asia, 1969-1973," International Politics Quarterly (Beijing), No. 109 (July 2008) "Bridging Revolution and Decolonization: The 'Bandung Discourse' in China's Early Cold War Experience," The Chinese Historical Review , vol.15, no. 2 (Fall 2008) "The Tibetan Rebellion of 1959 and China's Changing Relations with India and the Soviet Union," Journal of Cold War History , vol. 8, no. 3 (Summer 2006) "Reading and Warning the Likely Enemy: China's Signals to the United States about Vietnam in 1965," co-authored with James G. Hershberg, International History Review, XXVII, no. 1 (March 2005) Selected Chapters (since 2005) "China and the Cold War after Mao," in Odd Arne Westad and Melvyn Leffler eds. The Cambridge History of the Cold War , vol. 3 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) "China and the Bandung Conference: Changing Perceptions and Representations," in See Seng Tan and Amitav Acharya eds., Bandung Revisited: A Conference's Legacy and Relevance for International Order (Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2008) "The Chinese Communist 'Liberation' of Tibet, 1949-1951," in Jeremy Brown and Paul G. Pickowicz eds. Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People's Republic of China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007) "China and the Indochina Settlement at the Geneva Conference of 1954," in Mark Lawrence and Frederik Logvall eds., The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007) "China, the Vietnam War, and the Sino-American Rapprochement, 1968-1973," in Odd Arne Westad and Sophie Quinn-Judge eds., Third Indochina War: Conflict between China, Vietnam and Cambodia, 1972-1979 (London: Frank Cass, 2006) Selected Awards, Fellowships and other Academic Honors
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