Hao Chen
Field & Specialties
Modern China and Korea
Cold War International History
Immigration and Transnational History
Frontiers and Borderlands
Education
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 of 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 20th century to examine the interaction between China’s ethnic-frontier affairs and its international relations in the Cold War. 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.
Awards & Honors
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant (American Historical Association) 2023
MOU-IFES North Korean Studies Fellowship (Ministry of Unification, Republic of Korea) 2023
Kyujanggak Institute Fellowship (International Center for Korea Studies, Seoul National University) 2023
Graduate Global Research Fellowship (University of Virginia) 2022
East Asia Center Travel Grant (University of Virginia) 2022, 2023
Raven Fellowship (University of Virginia Raven Society) 2022
History Department Summer Research Grant (University of Virginia) 2021, 2022
A. Doak Barnett Award for Most Distinguished China Studies Graduate (Johns Hopkins University SAIS) 2020
The Stephen and Christine Liu Fellowship (Johns Hopkins University SAIS) 2019-2020
—Annual award to one distinguished student in China Studies who exhibits potential to lead in the field
Dean’s Scholarship (Johns Hopkins University SAIS) 2019-2020
Korea Studies Scholarship (Johns Hopkins University SAIS) 2019-2020
25 Under 25: Leaders in US-China Relations (China Hands) 2019
Grand Prize of the 25th Challenge Cup Academic Competition (Peking University) 2017
Top 10 Excellent Paper Award (The Third National Forum of History for College Students in China) 2017
Merit Student (Peking University) 2016-2017
Founder Scholarship (Peking University) 2016-2017
Summer Social Studies and Field Research Grant (Peking University) 2016
Courses Taught
Modern China (HIEA 2031)
Russian History Since 1917 (HIEU 2162)