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John Delury

Independent Scholar

John Delury is a historian of modern China and an expert on U.S.-China relations and Korean Peninsula affairs. He has been the Tsao Fellow in China Studies at the American Academy in Rome and Professor at Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies. Based in Seoul, he is the author of Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China.