Education

Ph.D., Chinese Studies, University of Cambridge, from 2013 to 2018

M.A., International Politics, Peking University, from 2011 to 2013

B.A., International Politics, Peking University, from 2007 to 2011

Research areas

History of modern diplomacy in China

People’s diplomacy

Borderlands and frontiers

Monographs

He Jiani. 2025. Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria: Language, Literacy, and Power in Late Qing Borderlands. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

He Jiani. 2025. Bringing Diplomacy to the Public: The Circulation and Reinterpretation of Diplomatic Knowledge in Modern China. Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe. (《走向大众：近代中国外交知识的传播与重塑》，上海人民出版社)

Peer-reviewed articles

He Jiani. Forthcoming in 2025. “Navigating the Past and Present: Implementing and Writing about the Late Qing New Policies in the Jirim League.” Central Asiatic Journal.

He Jiani. 2025. “Individual, State, and World: The Dissemination of Diplomatic Knowledge in Civic Education in Modern China.” The Journal of International Studies, 3: 101-125. (《个人、国家与世界：近代中国公民教育中的外交知识传播》， 《国际政治研究》).

He Jiani. 2023. “War, Revolution, and the Making of China’s Modern Diplomatic Narrative – A Study Based on Books about Diplomatic Knowledge Published in the 1930s.” Foreign Affairs Review, 2: 76-103. (《战争、革命与中国现代外交叙事的形成——基于20世纪30年代外交知识类图书的考察》，《外交评论》)

He Jiani. 2022. “Diplomatic Triumph or Defeat: The Treaty of Nerchinsk in the Narrative of “Unequal Treaties” in Modern China.” The Journal of International Studies, 1: 138-160. (《外交胜败之争：中国近代“不平等条约”叙事中的<尼布楚条约>》，《国际政治研究》)

He Jiani. 2021. “Myth of High Literacy: The Image of Germany in the Late Qing Narrative of Language Reform.” In Huang Liaoyu ed., German Studies in Beida/Deutschlandstudien Peking Universität, Vol. 9, Beijing: Beijing daxue chubanshe, pp. 209-223. (《高识字率的神话——清末文字改革叙事中的德国形象》，黄燎宇主编：《北大德国研究》（第九卷）)

He Jiani. 2018. “Literate in What Language? The Qing Empire’s Trilingual Policy towards the Jirim League (1901-1911).” Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies. Vol. 15. pp. 85-109. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/saksaha.13401746.0015.005. 

He Jiani. 2017. “Late Qing Multilingualism and National Linguistic Practice in the Qing Borderlands.” History Compass. Vol. 15, No.2. DOI: 10.1111/hic3.12338.

Book chapters and reviews

He Jiani. 2023. “The Transformation of China’s Worldview: From Reform and Opening-Up to Economic Globalisation.”In Wang Zhengyi ed., Rethinking Globalization: Theories, Histories and Prospects, Beijing: Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe, pp. 443-455. (《中国世界观的变迁：从改革开放到经济全球化》，唐士其总主编、王正毅主编：《反思全球化：理论、历史与趋势》)

He, Jiani. 2021. “Circulating the Code: Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China.” China Review International.Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 217-220. (book review)

Postgraduate courses and seminars

Chinese Politics and Diplomacy (core course for Master’s International Programmes, School of International Studies, Peking University; lecture, taught in English, offered since 2019)

Thesis Writing Seminar (core course for Master’s International Programmes, School of International Studies, Peking University; co-taught in English, offered since 2020)

Special Topics in the History of China’s Foreign Relations (seminar for MA and first-year PhD students, optional course, taught in Chinese, offered since 2019)

Chinese Foreign Policy Decision-Making (seminar for MA students, core course, co-taught in Chinese, offered in 2019)

Social Research Methods (core course for the Master of International Public Policy, School of International Studies, Peking University; co-taught in Chinese, with responsibility for academic writing and primary source analysis modules, offered from 2020 to 2023)

Undergraduate courses

History of PRC’s Foreign Relations (undergraduate core course of the School of International Studies and general education core course of Peking University, lecture, taught in Chinese, offered since 2019)

Selected Readings in International Relations I (focused on Modern China’s history and political systems, core course for first-year international undergraduates, lecture, taught in Chinese, offered from 2018 to 2021)

Selected Readings in International Relations II (focused on China’s foreign relations, core course for first-year international undergraduates, lecture, taught in Chinese, offered from 2018 to 2021)