Past Member
Kaijun Chen
Starr Foundation East Asian Studies Member
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
History of Technology, Material Culture
From
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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
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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