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Peter Vamos is a Professor of Chinese History at the Gáspár Károli Reformed University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Chinese. He also serves as a scientific advisor at the HUN-REN Humanities Research Center, Institute of History since 2023. Previously, he was an Associate Professor (2009-2024) and Assistant Professor (2005-2009) at the same institution.
His research focuses on Chinese history, particularly Sino-Hungarian relations, the history of Christianity in China, and Cold War-era relations between China and the Soviet bloc. Vamos is the principal investigator for several major research projects including 'History of China, Sino-Hungarian relations' (2022-2024) and 'Hungarian-Chinese relations, 1949-1989' (2019-2020). His work demonstrates how Eastern European countries maintained independent diplomatic channels with China despite Soviet pressure during the Cold War period.
Vamos's scholarly output shows a consistent focus on primary source research, particularly utilizing archival materials from Hungarian, Chinese, and international repositories. His recent publications examine cultural diplomacy between Hungary and China in the 1950s, the impact of the Sino-Soviet split on technological cooperation, and Hungary's diplomatic opening to Taiwan in the late 1980s. His work bridges diplomatic history, international relations, and cultural studies.
- Taiwan Fellowship (2024)
- Affiliated Researcher at University of Cambridge (2018-2021)
- Jing Brand Fellowship at Needham Research Institute (2016-2017)
- External Senior Fellowship at Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (2010-2011)
- Youth Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2004)
- Bolyai János Research Fellowship (1998-2001)
As a supervisor, Vamos has guided PhD students including Tokaji Zsolt Márton, whose dissertation examined Western and Japanese political and military actions in the fall of the Chinese Empire as reflected in contemporary Hungarian press (1839-1911). He has also served as an opponent for doctoral defenses at institutions including PTE, SOAS, and PPKE. His language proficiency includes fluent Chinese and English, intermediate Russian, and reading knowledge of Japanese and Latin, which facilitates his extensive research in multilingual archives.
