Chin Sei-Jeong
진세정 / 陳細晶

Sei Jeong Chin is a historian of modern China specializing in media history, and political and social history in 20th century China. She is working as a professor in the Division of International Studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea. She received her B.A. and M.A. from Ewha Womans University, and Ph.D. from Harvard University. She is currently working on a book manuscript, which explores the rise of the media censorship regime and its impact on the making and unmaking of dissent in China’s authoritarian party-states from the Nationalist era (1927-1949) to the early years of the PRC (1949-1958). Her new project explores Chinese domestic and international propaganda during the Korean War (1950-1953) and Cold War culture in East Asia.

She worked as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the U.S. (2007-2008). During her graduate years at Harvard, she spent a year in China as a visiting scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. She has been conducting archival research in various cities including Shanghai, Suzhou, Nanjing, Chongquing in China, Taibei in Taiwan, London in the UK and Washington D.C. in the US.