Hao Chen

Graduate Student

hc4md@virginia.edu

Hao-Chen_CV.pdf (166.06 KB)

Fields/Specialties

Modern China and Korea

Cold War International History

Transnational History

Frontiers and Borderlands

Education

Master of Arts (en route), History, University of Virginia, 2022
Master of Arts (with Honors), International Economics and International Affairs, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), 2020
Bachelor of Arts, History, Peking (Beijing) University, 2018

Biography

Hao Chen is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Virginia. Hao specializes in Cold War international history with a regional focus on East Asia. His research interests include China’s frontiers and borderlands, immigration and transnational history, and North Korea studies. His current project studies the ethnopolitical history of the China-North Korea borderland Yanbian in the mid and late 20th century to examine the interaction between China’s ethnic-frontier affairs and its international relations in the Cold War. He has conducted archival research in dozens of repositories in China and other East Asian countries. He was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam University in Seoul, Korea and the Institute for Modern History at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan. Hao likes soccer, outdoor sports, and photography. He is also a frequent traveler in his spare time.

Publications

Chen, Hao. “The Path to Cultural Revolution Turmoil: The CCP, Ethnic Koreans, and the Ethnopolitics of Yanbian (1945-1969).” M.A. thesis, University of Virginia, 2022.

Chen, Hao. Review of The CIA and Third Force Movements in China during the Early Cold War: The Great American Dream, Journal of Military History Vol. 85, No. 2 (April 2021).

Chen, Hao. "'One Arch Enemy' or 'Two-Fold Danger': The Failed Alliance in Non-Communist Asia." SAIS China Studies Review, Vol 6 (2020).

Chen, Hao. "China's 'Fragmented Authoritarianism 2.0' in the Social Media Age." SAIS Perspectives, 2019 Issue.