#  Ben Hales 

Ph.D. Candidate in HEAL/China

 

 

 



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 email <bhales@fas.harvard.edu> 

 



 

Ben Hales entered Harvard’s History and East Asian Languages (HEAL) program in 2024. He researches the modern history of China’s relationship with Central Asia, focussing in particular on settler-indigenous and sedentary-pastoral relations from the 1940s-1990s. Beyond history, he has also published on Chinese diplomacy in independent Central Asia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ben holds a BA in Ancient and Modern History and an MPhil in Modern Chinese Studies, both from the University of Oxford.



 

 

 





 

 

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