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    Jian Ren
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    Jian Ren is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution’s History Lab and a historian of modern China and Latin America. His work examines diplomatic and intellectual connections between China and Latin America, and how their shared history can inform contemporary US responses to China’s growing influence in the region.

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Jian Ren is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, affiliated with the Hoover History Lab. He is a historian of modern Latin America and modern China, with a broad interest in the global circulation of ideas, institutions, and diplomatic practices. His current book project, based on his doctoral dissertation, examines the knowledge exchanges and experimental strategies that shaped China-Latin America relations in the second half of the twentieth century.

Ren’s research explores the intellectual and social histories connecting the US, China, and Latin America, with a particular focus on how these transnational dynamics inform contemporary US strategies toward Chinese engagement in the Western Hemisphere. His other areas of interest include the transmission of economic thought among Global South nations, the intersection of transnational politics with the everyday experiences of the Chinese diaspora, and the comparative history of area studies as a field of knowledge.

Ren received his PhD in history from Rutgers University, his MA from the University of Chicago, and his BA from the University of Sydney.

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