Chia-Yun Po is the recipient of the 8th Amartya Sen Essay Prize, awarded by Yale University's Global Justice Program. Her prize-winning essay, "China’s Role in Myanmar’s Bloody Jade Industry: Poison or Panacea," examines how the historical Sino-Burma jade trade grants China the power to either sustain or undermine Myanmar's coup d'état. Her article "Vietnam Marine Life Disaster: A Test Case of a Home State’s Jurisdiction in Taiwan," published by the Cambridge University Press Business and Human Rights Journal, offers a glance at how the development of a Taiwanese petrochemical giant and polluter is deeply embedded in the local battlefields of the Cold War. At the Davis Center, she will be concentrating on investigating Russia's Nuclear Energy Politics in the Third World, delving into the International History of Soviet Nationality Policy, and exploring Russian Nazism and Japanese Anti-Semitism in Manchuria from 1931-1945.
