Position: Senior Research Fellow

Department: Contemporary History

Address: 1097 Budapest, 4 Tóth Kálmán Street

Room: B.5.39.

Phone: +36 1 224-6700/4655

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QUALIFICATIONS

DSc in History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2023

CSc in Linguistics (Oriental Studies), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1998

MA in History, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), Faculty of Humanities, 1997

MA in Chinese Studies, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), Faculty of Humanities, 1992

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Modern history and foreign relations of China; The Soviet bloc and China; Sino-Hungarian relations; History of Christianity in China

PROJECTS

Collection and Arrangement of Eastern European Archival Documents from the Cold War Period. Supported by the National Planning Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences, People’s Republic of China. Years: 2012–2017. Principal Investigator: Shen, Zhihua, Project coordinator: Péter Vámos

Research into Eastern European Archival Documents from the Cold War Period (Sino–East European Relations). Supported by the Shanghai Planning Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences. Years: 2011–2015. Principal Investigator: Shen, Zhihua, Project coordinator: Péter Vámos.

China, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in transition, 1949–1989. Cooperating partners: Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Institute for World History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Years: 2011–2014. Principal Investigators: Huang, Lifu and Péter Vámos.

PUBLICATIONS

A complete list of publications: mtmt.hu

List of selected publications:

• “’Home Afar’: The Life of Central European Jewish Refugees in Shanghai during World War II.” Acta Orientalia (Hung.) 57, no. 1 (2004): 55–70.
• Sino-Hungarian Relations and the 1956 Revolution. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Cold War International History Project, 2006. Working Paper No. 54. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/sino-hungarian-relations-and-the-1956-revolution
• “’Only a Handshake but no Embrace:’ Sino-Soviet Normalization in the 1980s.” in: Bernstein, Thomas P. – Li, Hua-yu (eds.), China Learns from the Soviet Union, 1949-present (The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series, Rowman and Littlefield, 2009). 79–104.
• James Hershberg, Sergey Radchenko, Péter Vámos, and David Wolff, The Interkit Story: A Window into the Final Decades of the Sino-Soviet Relationship. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Cold War International History Project, 2011, Working Paper No. 63. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/the-interkit-story
• “The Tiananmen Square ‘Incident’ in China and the East Central European Revolutions.” In: The Revolutions of 1989. A Handbook, edited by Wolfgang Mueller, Michael Gehler, Arnold Suppan, 93–111. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2015.
• “From Reconciliation to Estrangement: Relations between China and Eastern Europe.” In: The Regional Cold Wars in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East: Crucial Periods and Turning Points, edited by Lorenz M. Lüthi, 314–337. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2015.
• “A Hungarian Model for China? Sino-Hungarian Relations in the Era of Economic Reforms, 1979-1989.” Cold War History 18, no. 3 (2018): 361–378.
• “The Soviet Bloc and China’s Global Opening-up Policy during the Last Years of Mao Zedong.” In: Alternative Globalizations, edited by James Mark, Artemy M. Kalinovsky, Steffi Marung, 80–99. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020.
• “Friendly Assistance and Self-reliance: Hungarian Geophysical Expedition in China, 1956-62.” in: Journal of Cold War Studies 24, no. 3 (2022): 116–150.

• “’We Are Waging a Consistent, Uncompromising Struggle Against Maoism’: Coordinated Research on Modern China in the Soviet Bloc – a Hungarian Perspective.” In: Sinology in the Cold War, edited by Antonina Łuszczykiewicz and Michael Brose, 72–97. New York: Routledge, 2022.