C. K. Yen Professor of Chinese-American Relations at the Miller Center (2000)

Professor

Chinese-American Relations, Modern China, Cold War International History

Office Hours: N/A

Office: 218 Randall Hall

Phone: '(434) 924-6417, (434) 924-7330'

Fax: '(434) 924-7891, (434) 982-2739 '

Email: jchenvirginia.edu

Education

Publications, Awards, and Activities

Books and Other Major Publications

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

77 Conversations between Chinese and Foreign Leaders on the Indochina War, 1964-1977, co-edited with Odd Arne Westad, Stein Tonnesson, Nguyen Vu Tung, and James Hershberg (Washington, DC: The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1998).

The China Challenge in the 21st Century: Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy (Washington, DC: U.S. Institute of Peace, 1998)

Chinese Communist Foreign Policy and the Cold War in Asia: New Documentary Evidence, 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; paperback edition, 1996)

Zhongxi lishi lunbianji: Liumei lishi xuezhe xueshu wenhui, co-edited with Wang Qingjia (Essays on Chinese and Western History by Chinese Historians in the United States, Shanghai: Xuelin Press, 1992).

Dierci shijie dazhan lishi shijian renwu lu, co-edited with Wang Side, Zhou Shangwen and others, (What's What and Who's Who during the Second World War, Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 1991).

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).

Erci dazhan lishi ziliao wenjian ji, co-edited with Li Julian, Wang Side and others, (Historical Materials on the Origins of the Second World War, Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 1985).

Articles and Chapters

"China's Policy toward Taipei and Washington," in Chien-min Chao and Cal M. Clark ed., ROC on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century: A Paradigm Reexamined, (Baltimore: School of Law, University of Maryland, 2000).

"The External Relations of the People's Republic of China," in Taciana Fisac and Steve Tsang eds., China en transicion: Sociedad, cultura, politica y economia (Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, 2000).

"Beijing's Taiwan Policy and the Taiwan Issue during the Post-Cold War Era," Yazhou pinglun (Asian Review, Hong Kong), Winter 1998; reprinted in Li Hongshan ed., Touguo lishi kan taiwan (Taiwan in Historical Perspective, Hong Kong: Asian Press for Science, 1999).

"Chinese Politics and the Collapse of the Sino-Soviet Alliance," in Odd Arne Westad, ed., Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949-1963 (Stanford University Press and the Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1998).

"China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975," in Peter C. Lowe ed., The Vietnam War (London: Macmillan, 1998).

"Personal-Historical Puzzles about China and the Vietnam War," in Odd Arne Westad et al eds., 77 Conversations between Chinese and Foreign Leaders on the Indochina War, 1964-1977 (Washington, DC: The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC., 1998).

"Deng Xiaoping, Mao's ‘Continuous Revolution', and the Path toward the Sino-Soviet Split," Cold War International History Project Bulletin, no. 10 (Winter 1997).

"Studies on Sino-American Relations by Chinese Scholars in the United States," in Zi Zhongyun and Tao Wenzhao, eds, Jiaqi lijie de xin qiaoliang: zhongmei guanxi shi yanjiu huigu yu zhanwang (Constructing a New Bridge of Mutual Understanding: Retrospect and Prospects in Sino-American Relations Studies, Hefei: Anhui University Press, 1997).

"China's Strategies to End the Korean War," in Shen Zhihua, at el. eds., Guanyu Chaoxian zhanzheng yanjiu de xincai liao he xinguandian (A Collection of New Material and Scholarship on the Korean War, Beijing: Chinese Academy of Military Science, 1997).

"Chinese Communist Policy toward the U.S. during the War of Resistance (1937-1945)," H. H. Wu et al. eds., Papers of the International Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the War of Resistance (Taipei: Academia Historica, 1997).

"The Myth of America's 'Lost Chance' in China: A Chinese Perspective in Light of New Evidence," Diplomatic History, vol. 21, no. 1, (Winter 1997).

"China in 1945: From Anti-Japanese War to Revolution," in Gerald Krebs and Christian Oberländer eds., 1945 in Europe and Asia: Reconsidering the End of World War Two and the Change of World Order (Tokyo and Berlin: Deutschen Institute für Japanstudien der Philipp-Franz-von-Siebold-Stiftung, 1997).

"Beijing and the Hungarian Crisis of 1956" (translated into and published in Hungarian), The1996/1997 Yearbook (Budapest: The Institute of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, 1997).

"A Crucial Step toward the Breakdown of the Sino-Soviet Alliance: The Withdrawal of Soviet Experts from China in July 1960," Cold War International History Project Bulletin, nos. 8-9 (Winter 1996/1997).

"Understanding the Logic of Beijing's Taiwan Policy," Security Dialogue, vol. 27, no. 4 (December 1996).

"Chinese Policy and the Korean War," in Lester Brune ed., The Korean War: Handbook of the Literature and Research (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996).

"Sino-American Relations Studies in China," in Warren I. Cohen ed., Pacific Passage: Studies of American-East Asia Relations on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996).

"CCP Leaders' Selected Works and the Historiography of the Chinese Communist Revolution," The Cold War International History Bulletin, no. 6-7 (Winter 1995/96).

"China's Involvement in the Vietnam War, 1964-1969," The China Quarterly, no. 142 (June 1995).

"China and the Korean War: A Critical Historiographical Review," Korea and World Affairs, vol. 19, no. 2 (Summer 1995).

"The Ward Case and the Emergence of Sino-American Confrontation, 1948-1950," The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, 30 (July 1993).

"Will China's Development Threaten Asian-Pacific Security?" Security Dialogue, vol. 24, no. 2 (June 1993).

"China and the First Indo-China War, 1950-1954," The China Quarterly, 133 (March 1992).

"China's Changing Aims during the Korean War, 1950-1951," The Journal of American-East Asian Relations, vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 1992).

"The Sino-Soviet Alliance and China's Entry into the Korean War," working paper no. (Washington, DC: The Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., December 1991)..

"Advances in the Historical Study of the Progressive Movement," in Man Yunlong and Cheng Hong eds., Dangdai oumei shixue pingxi (Perspectives in History: Essays on Contemporary Western Historiography by Chinese Historians in the United States, Beijing: People's Press, 1991)..

"Germany, Britain and the July Crisis of 1914: A Case Study of International Crisis Management, " Shijie lishi (World History, Beijing), no. 6, 1990.

"The Making of a Revolutionary Diplomacy: A Critical Study of Communist China's Policy toward the United States, 1949-50," Chinese Historians, vol. 3, no. 1 (January 1990).

"The July Seventh (Marco Polo Bridge) Incident: Fifty Years After," Lishi jiaoxue wenti (Problems in History Teaching, Shanghai), no. 2, 1988.

"The Making of the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis," in Wang Side and Qian Hong eds., Dierci shijie dazhan qiyuan lunwenji (Essays on the Origins of the Second World War, East China Normal University Press, 1986).

"China's War of Resistance against Japan and the Strategic Responses of the Major Powers, 1931-1941," (co-authored with Wang Side) Shehui kexue zhanxian (Front of Social Sciences, Changchun), no. 3, 1985.

"China's War of Resistance against Japan and the Outside Assistance," Shehui kexue (Journal of Social Science, Shanghai), no. 9, 1985.

"American Steamship Merchants in Shanghai in the 1860s and 1870s," (co-authored with Yu Xingmin) Zhongguo shehui jingji shi yanjiu (Journal of Chinese Social and Economic History, Xiamen), no. 2, 1985.

"From Truman to Nixon: The Historical Change of U.S. China Policy," Huadong shifan daxue xuebao (Journal of East China Normal University, Shanghai), no. 6, 1985.

"The Last Days of Hideki Tojo," Shulin (The Journal of Books, Shanghai), no. 6, 1985.

"F. D. Roosevelt's Peace Initiative and the Crisis of the British Cabinet in 1938," (co-authored with Ni Peihua) Shijie lishi (World History, Beijing), no. 2, 1985.

"Chinese-American Relations, 1949-1972," Proceedings of Shanghai Historical Association of 1984, Shanghai, 1984.

"Steamship Industry and Steamship Merchants in Shanghai in the 1860s," (co-authored with Yu Xingmin) Zhongguo shehui jingji shi yanjiu (Journal of Chinese Social and Economic History, Xiamen), no. 2, 1983.

"Hitler's Rearmament and the British and French Reaction to It," (co-authored with Ni Peihua) Huadong shifan daxue xuebao (Journal of East China Normal University, Shanghai), no. 4, 1983.

"U.S. Policy toward Germany, 1937-1941," Lishi yanjiu (Historical Study, Beijing), no. 4, 1983.

"Stalin's Struggle against Bukharin Reconsidered," (co-authored with Wang Side) Collection of Articles on Contemporary World History (Chinese Association of Contemporary History, 1982).

Translations

From Chinese to English

"The Sino-Soviet Border Clash of 1969: From Zhenbao Island to Sino-American Rapprochement," by Yang Kuisong, Cold War History (London), vol. 1, no. 1 (August 2000).

"All under the Heaven Is Great Chaos: Beijing, the Sino-Soviet Border Clash, and the Turn toward Sino-American Rapprochement, 1968-1969," (co-edited with David L. Wilson), Cold War International History Bulletin, no. 11 (Winter 1998/99).

"The Discrepancy between the Russian and Chinese Versions of Mao's 2 October 1950 Message to Stalin on China's Entry into the Korean War: A Chinese Scholar's Reply," by Shen Zhihua, Cold War International History Bulletin, no. 8-9 (Winter 1996/97).

"The Emerging Disputes between Beijing and Moscow: Ten Documents, 1956-1958,"(translated and edited with Zhang Shuguang) Cold War International History Bulletin, no. 6-7 (Winter 1995/96).

"Mao Zedong's Handling of the Taiwan Crisis of 1958: Chinese Recollections and Documents," (translated and edited with Li Xiaobing and David L. Wilson) ) Cold War International History Bulletin, no. 6-7 (Winter 1995/96).

"The Shaping of New China's Diplomacy," by Zhang Baijia, Chinese Historians, vol. 7, no. 1-2 (Spring and Fall 1994).

"Chinese Communist Foreign Policy in the Making: Fourteen Documents, July 1944-August 1945," tran. with Zhang Shuguang, Chinese Historians, vol.6, no. 2 (Fall 1993).

"How and When Did China Decide to Enter the Korean War," by Li Haiwen, Korea and World Affairs, vol. 18, no. 1 (Spring 1994), pp. 83-98..

"The Last Campaign to Unify China: The CCP's Unmaterialized Plan to Leberate Taiwan, 1949-1950," by He Di, Chinese Historians, vol. 5, no. 1 (Spring 1992).

"The Soviet Factor and the CCP's Policy toward the United States in the 1940s," by Yang Kuisong, Chinese Historians, vol. 5, no. 1 (Spring 1992).

"With Mao and Stalin: The Reminiscences of a Chinese Interpreter, Part II: Liu Shaoqi in Moscow," by Shi Zhe, Chinese Historians, vol.6, no. 1 (Spring 1993).

"With Mao and Stalin: The Reminiscences of a Chinese Interpreter," by Shi Zhe, Chinese Historians, vol. 5, no. 1 (Spring 1992).

"Mao's Dispatch of Chinese Troops to Korea: Forth-six Telegrams, July-October, 1950," tran. with Li Xiao-bing and Wang Xi, Chinese Historians, vol. 5, no. 1 (Spring 1992.

From English to Chinese

Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768, by Philip A. Kuhn. (co-trans. with Liu Chang), (Shanghai: Sanlian shudian, 1999).

"The Second World War Started at the Lugou Bridge (Marco Polo Bridge)," by Donald Detwiler, Shijie shi yanjiu dongtai (Developments in World History Studies, Beijing), no. 4, 1991.

"Hitler's Decision to Declare War on the United States," by Norman Rich (chapter 20 of his book Hitler's War Aims), World War II History Bulletin (Shanghai), no. 5, 1984.

Awards and Fellowships

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

Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship for International Peace, United States Institute of Peace, 1996-1997

The Nobel Institute Fellowship, Oslo, Norway, 1993.

Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement in Social Science (Stalin's Struggle against Bukharin Reconsidered), Shanghai Association of Social Sciences and Philosophy, 1986

The University Awards for Teaching Excellence, East China Normal University, 1984-85 and 1985-86

Prize for Outstanding Research Article (U.S. Policy toward Germany, 1937-41),

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Editorial of Historical Study, 1984

Current Research

Professor Chen's current research interest is reflected in two ongoing projects, "Revolution under Heaven: Mao's China Encounters the World" and "The Dragon Deals with the Eagle: A History of Chinese-American Negotiations, 1949-1979."