Rate My Professor Chen Jian

Chen Jian is the Director of the NYU Shanghai-ECNU Center on Global History, Economy, and Culture, a Distinguished Global Network Professor of History at NYU Shanghai, and a Global Network Professor in the Department of History at New York University. He is also Zijiang Distinguished Visiting Professor at East China Normal University. He earned a PhD in History from Southern Illinois University and an MA in History from Fudan University and East China Normal University. Prior to his current positions at NYU, Chen Jian served as the Michael J. Zak Professor of History for US-China Relations at Cornell University, Global Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center, Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at the London School of Economics, and Visiting Research Professor at the University of Hong Kong from 2009 to 2013.

Chen Jian's research specializations encompass modern Chinese history, the history of Chinese-American relations, Cold War international history, Chinese foreign policy, and security strategies. His major publications include China's Road to the Korean War (1994), The China Challenge in the 21st Century: Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy (1997), Mao's China and the Cold War (2001), and Zhou Enlai: A Life (2024). He has received the Jeffrey Sean Lehman Grant for Scholarly Exchange with China from Cornell University (2007), served as Chief Faculty Speaker for the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Institute on New Sources and Findings on Cold War International History at George Washington University (summer 1999), Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship for International Peace from the United States Institute of Peace (1996-1997), Norwegian Nobel Institute Fellowship (1993), and shared honors for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in News and Documentary Research for Declassified: Nixon in China (2005).