Chen Jian is an associate professor of history at Southern Illinois University, focusing on Chinese and East Asian history and Chinese-American relations. He was the editor of the journal Chinese Historians and associate editor of the Journal of AmericanEast Asian Relations. The recipient of several major academic awards in China, Chen has also received two grants from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and was awarded a fellowship at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in 1993. Chens extensive publications in English and Chinese include articles in China Quarterly and Diplomatic History. He is the author of Chinas Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation (1994) and co-editor of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy and the Cold War in Asia (1996). He received his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University. During 199697, Chen was a senior fellow in the Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace at the United States Institute of Peace.