Chen Jian (academic)

Chen Jian (Chinese: 陈兼; pinyin: Chén Jiān; born 1952) is a Chinese historian who holds the Hu Shih emeritus professorship of History and China-US Relations at Cornell University. His specialties include modern Chinese history, the history of Chinese-American relations, and Cold War international history. He is also Zijiang Distinguished Visiting professor at East China Normal University and Distinguished Global Network Professor of History at New York University Shanghai.

Chen Jian has held the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at LSE IDEAS (2008–2009), where he remains a Senior Fellow, and was a research scholar from 2009 to 2013 at the University of Hong Kong. He was also a Global Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center (2013–2014), where he has been a Senior Scholar since 2005. He has also been the Zijiang Distinguished Visiting professor at East China Normal University since 2000.

Professor Chen received an M.A. from Fudan University and East China Normal University in 1982 and his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University in 1990.