Name: Zhong Jian
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Han
Native place: Dingnan, Jiangxi
Education: Ph.D. (graduate)
Title/Position: Associate Professor, Master’s Supervisor
Research fields: History of the Communist Party of China; basic issues in modern and contemporary Chinese history
Department: Teaching & Research Section for “Outline of Modern Chinese History”
E-mail: jianz@scut.edu.cn
Education
B.A. & M.A. in Modern Chinese History, College of History, Culture and Tourism, Jiangxi Normal University
Ph.D. in Modern Chinese History, Department of History, School of Humanities, Zhejiang University
Professional Experience
Sep. 2016–present South China University of Technology
Teaching
Undergraduate: “Outline of Modern Chinese History”, “History of the Communist Party of China”
Postgraduate: “Historiography of Modern Chinese History”
Selected Publications
1. “From United Front to Independence: A Historical Survey of the Guangdong Provincial Committee’s Armed-Work Program (1938–1942)”, Anti-Japanese War Research 2020(3), fully reprinted in Modern Chinese History, RUC Photocopies, 2021(1).
2. “Between Politics and Academia: The Founding, Operation and Fate of National Chung-Cheng University”, Historical Review 2020(2).
3. “Chiang Kai-shek’s Response to the July 7th Incident—A Re-examination at the Meso Level”, Fujian Tribune 2018(12).
4. “International Factors and Chiang Kai-shek’s Decision-Making in the Shanghai Battle: A Re-exploration”, CPC History Research & Teaching 2017(6).
5. “The Hidden Side: The 1947 Chung-Cheng University Student Movement and Its Mediation”, Historical Review 2014(6).
6. (with Xiao Ruping) “National Education and Rural Social Change: A Case Study of Longquan County in the 1940s”, History Teaching 2014(6), fully reprinted in Modern Chinese History, RUC Photocopies, 2014(9).
7. “Chiang Kai-shek and the 1945 CCP-KMT Negotiations—Centered on the Chiang Diaries”, Journal of Jiangxi Normal University 2014(1).
8. “Hu Xiansu’s Presidency of National Chung-Cheng University and His Educational Philosophy”, in Hu Xiansu’s Educational Thought and Spiritual Character, China Social Sciences Press, 2014.
9. “Academics and Politics: The Wartime National Government and National Universities—A Case Study of Hu Xiansu’s Chung-Cheng University”, Journal of Jiangxi Normal University 2012(2).
10. Co-author, Chapter 3 of Why China Won the War: The Great Anti-Japanese War of the Chinese People, Jiangsu People’s Publishing House & Jiangsu Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing House, Sept. 2021.
Research Projects (Principal Investigator)
1. “National Chung-Cheng University in a Changing Situation (1940–1949)” – National Social Science Fund Post-aid Project
2. “Economic Issues in South-China Anti-Japanese Base Areas from a Regional-Social-History Perspective” – MOE Humanities & Social Science General Project
3. “History of CPC-Led Anti-Japanese War of Resistancein Northern Guangdong” -- Guangdong Provincial Philosophy & Social Science Commissioned Project
4. “Economic Construction in South-China Anti-Japanese Base Areas” – Guangdong Provincial Philosophy & Social Science Commissioned Project
5. “National Chung-Cheng University (1940-1949)” – SCUT Central-University Basic-Research Project
6. “Party-Rule Practice and South-China Regional Society during the First KMT-CPC Cooperation (1924-1927)” – SCUT Central-University Basic-Research Project
7. “Factors Affecting the Teaching Quality of ‘Outline of Modern Chinese History’” – SCUT Teaching-Research & Reform Project
Academic affiliations: None
