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Chen Jian

The Michael J. Zak Chair of History for US China Relations

Office: 132 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 254-6262
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: jc585@cornell.edu

Office Hours: On Leave

Education

Ph.D. Southern Illinois University, 1990
M.A. Fudan University and East China Normal University, 1982

Courses

Fall 2008:   On Leave
Spring 2009:   On Leave

Recent Publications and Awards

Publications

(in English)
Mao's China and the Cold War. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 400 pp.

China's Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994; paperback edition with a new preface, 1996. 339 pp.

(in Chinese)
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 Press, 1989. 423 pp.

Awards

Prize for excellent research artcile ("Questions Concerning China an the International Cold War," published in Journal of East China Normal University, December 2001), Shanghai Association of Social Science and Philosophy, October 2002.

Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Virginia, Summer 2001.

Outstanding Scholar of the Year, Phi Kappa Phi, Southern Illinois University, 2000.

Faculty Research Fellowship, Southern Illinois University, Summer 2000.