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Education

Ph.D. George Washington University
M.Sc. London School of Economics
BA Peking University

 

Biography

Zhongtian Han is a Visiting Lecturer of Asian History at ¾«¶«´«Ã½. His research focuses on secret information and technological institutions in Republican China, 1912–1949. His current book project examines how the Chinese Communist Party’s information culture influenced its wireless telegraphy and cryptography institutions, 1927–1953. Articles based on the project have been published in Modern China, American Journal of Chinese Studies, and War in History.

Zhongtian’s teaching interests are wide-ranging, but in all his teaching he emphasizes using digital history methods to develop the students’ attitude of applying new tools to respond to changing scenarios.

Before joining ¾«¶«´«Ã½, Zhongtian completed his Ph.D. in History at the George Washington University in 2023, was a Visiting Assistant Professor at University at Buffalo and Trinity University, and a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at University of Notre Dame.

 

Publications

Peer-reviewed

“.” 2025. Modern China, Vol. 51, No. 2: 177–204.

“.” 2025. American Journal of Chinese Studies, Vol. 32, No. 1: 19–35.

“.” 2021. War in History, Vol. 28, No. 4: 889–907.

Selected Book Reviews

Joseph W. Esherick. . Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2022. xxvii + 314 pp. 2025. American Historical Review, 130/1: 406–7.

Ying Qian. . New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. xiii + 305 pp. 2024. China Studies International.

Ying Jia Tan. , Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. xvii + 257 pp. 2022. Journal of Military History, 86/4: 1008–9.

Yan Xu. , Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2019. viii + 238 pp. 2019. American Journal of Chinese Studies, 26/2: 158–59.