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.