Visiting Assistant Professor Han Presents at Asia@Noon

Asia@Noon talks are held many Fridays throughout the academic year held in various rooms across North Campus. The presenter usually speaks for about 45 minutes, with time for discussion at the end of each talk. Undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and people from the Buffalo community are invited and encouraged to attend. 

History's Visiting Assistant Professor Zhongtian Han will be presenting, "Institutionalization within Revolution: The Chinese Communist Party’s Radio Communications and Reconnaissance, 1936–1941," on October 13th.

Dr. Zhongtian Han is Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese History at Department of History, University at Buffalo. Zhongtian is a historian of modern China, specialized in the Chinese Communist revolution, science and technology, and intelligence. His work on these topics has been published in War in History. Zhongtian’s book project, Institutionalization within Revolution: The Chinese Communist Party’s Radio Communications and Reconnaissance, 1930–1953, uses Chinese, Japanese, and English-language archival sources to analyze how the Party employed radio technologies to create an institutional framework to centralize the revolutionary movement and seize intelligence advantages in military struggles. His second book project explores how the Party developed the intellectual and institutional frameworks of meteorology to build a knowledge infrastructure for the socialist state in the 1950s and 1960s.  

Before joining University at Buffalo, Zhongtian received his PhD in history from George Washington University. He was also a Hans J. Morgenthau fellow of grand strategy at the University of Notre Dame. Additionally, Zhongtian has been the instructor of record for graduate and undergraduate Asian history courses at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Maryland, College Park.