Professor Chang received his Ph.D. in modern Chinese history from the University of California, San Diego. He studies the Cold War, US-China relations, and the social history of war and revolution as experienced by the common people, such as WWII interpreters and Korean War soldiers and prisoners. His first book, The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War, was published by Stanford University Press in 2020. He was the Radcliffe-Harvard Yenching Institute Fellow at Harvard University in 2021–2022. 

Research Interests

Korean War; prisoners of war; China in WWII; history of translation and interpretation; Cold War international history; US-China relations

Representative Publications

Book 
 

2020. The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War. Stanford University Press, 2020. 496 pp. 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Chapters

2024. “‘The only American officer standing in the way of Sino-American cooperation’: Haydon L. Boatner, Joseph Stilwell’s Right-hand Man, in the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II,” in Uneasy Allies: Sino-US Relations at the Grassroots, 1937–1949, edited by Judd Kinzley and Zach Fredman. Cambridge University Press. 

2024. “韓戰停戰七十一週年祭：從「被遺忘的戰爭」溯源美國對華政策之失敗” [The Korean War Armistice at 71: Tracing America’s Failed China Policy from the “Forgotten War”]. 思想 (Reflexion), no. 51 (December 2024): 25–87.

2024. “Inflection Points: US-China-North Korea Relations in the Trump Years,” in Divided America, Divided Korea: The US and Korea During and After the Trump Years, edited by David P. Fields and Mitchell B. Lerner, 163–197. Cambridge University Press.

2024. “Cong Guojun dao Jiefangjun, Zhiyuanjun zhanfu zhong qian Guomindang guanbing de sixiang gaizao jingli” 從 “國軍”到解放軍：志願軍戰俘中前國民黨官兵的思想改造經歷 [From the Nationalist Army to the People’s Liberation Army: The Thought Reform Experiences of Former Nationalists Among Chinese Prisoners in the Korean War], 中國當代史研究[Journal of Contemporary Chinese History], no. 4:208–251.

2023. “Chaoxian tingzhan tanpan yu Meifang ‘Ziyuan Qianfan’ zhanfu zhengce” 朝鮮停戰談判與美方「自願遣返」戰俘政策 [The Korean War Armistice Negotiations and the US Policy of “Voluntary Repatriation” of Prisoners]. Ershiyi Shiji 二十一世紀 [Twenty-First Century] 198, no. 8:96–119. 

Reviews

2019. Review of Gao Hua, How the Red Sun Rose: The Origins and Development of the Yan’an Rectification Movement, 1930–1945. Translated by Stacey Mosher and Guo Jian. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2019. Journal of Asian Studies 78, no. 4 (November 2019):898–902.

Other Publications:

2020. “Zhenshi de lishi, zhenzhi de linghun –Eyun yu Yu Jin” 跋: 真實的歷史、真摯的靈魂—《厄運》與于勁 [Factual history, truthful spirit: Eyun and Yu Jin], afterword to Yu Jin, 厄運 Eyun [Doomed fate], 565–599. Hong Kong: Tiandi Tushu (Cosmos Books).