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Past Member

Kaijun Chen

Starr Foundation East Asian Studies Member

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

History of Technology, Material Culture
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Kaijun Chen is interested in the history of ceramics, technocracy, and global transfer of technology and design. While at IAS, he will be working on a book manuscript that investigates the state’s negotiation with local factories and foreign manufacturers in the dozen state-owned porcelain factories in China from the 1970s to 1990s.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies

Degrees

Columbia University in the City of New York
Ph.D.
2014

Honors

2019
Henry-Luce/ACLS Fellowship
2011
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge

Appointments

Brown University
2016
Assistant Professor