Dr Kuan-Jen “KJ” Chen is a historian specialising in the global Cold War, US Foreign Policy, and Modern East Asian History. Before joining Academia Sinica in 2022, he taught history, covering from Imperial Japan, WWII in Asia, modern China, the end of the French Empire in Indochina, and to Global Cold War, at the Universities of Cambridge and Copenhagen. Dr Chen has published his book Charting America’s Cold War Waters in East Asia: Sovereignty, Local Interests, and International Security (Cambridge University Press, 2024). His current book project is G.I. Joe in Cold War Taiwan: A History. Please visit his personal website for his updated CV.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Global Cold War, US Foreign Policy, Modern East Asian History
PUBLICATIONS
Monograph
Charting America’s Cold War Waters in East Asia: Sovereignty, Local Interests, and International Security. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Journal Articles
“Projecting Poseidon’s Trident: America’s East Asia and the Shifting Contours of 1950s Postwar Naval Policy.” Cold War History (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14682745.2020.1752676)
“Fishing for Oil: Natural-Resource Management between the United States and Maritime East Asia in the 1970s.” The Journal of American-East Asian Relations 27:2(July, 2020), pp. 169-197.(https://doi.org/10.1163/18765610-02702004)
Book Reviews
“Book review: Corbin Williamson, The U.S. Navy and Its Cold War Alliance, 1945-1953,” Michigan War Studies Review, 2020-100. (http://www.miwsr.com/2020-100.aspx)
“Book review: Ronald C. Po, The Blue Frontier: Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire,” Frontiers of History in China 15:2(July 2020), pp. 318-320.