Hsiao-ting Lin
Research Fellow

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Hsiao-ting Lin is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He received a B.A. in political science from National Taiwan University in 1994 and a M.A. in international law and diplomacy from National Chengchi University (Taiwan) in 1997. Lin received his D.Phil. in oriental studies in 2003 from the University of Oxford, where he also held an appointment as tutorial fellow in modern Chinese history. In 2003–4, Lin was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley. In 2004, he was awarded a Kiriyama Distinguished Fellowship by the Center for the Pacific Rim, University of San Francisco. In 2005–7, he was a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he participated in Hoover’s Modern China Archives and Special Collections Project. In April 2008, Lin was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland for his contributions to the study of modern China’s history.

Lin’s academic interests include ethnopolitics and minority issues in greater China, border strategies and defense in modern and contemporary China, political institutions and the bureaucratic system of the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) since 1911, and U.S.-Taiwan military and political relations in the 1950s and the 1960s. He has published extensively on modern Chinese politics, history, and ethnic minorities. His recent publications include the award-winning Tibet and Nationalist China’s Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49 (UBC Press, 2006; nominated and a finalist for the International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize for best study in the humanities), T. V. Soong in Modern Chinese History: A Look at His Role in Sino-American Relations in World War II (Hoover Press, 2006), Breaking with the Past: The Kuomintang Central Reform Committee on Taiwan, 1950-52 (Hoover Press, 2007), and more than 40 journal articles, essays, reviews, and translation works. He has completed a book-length manuscript about the Kuomintang and modern China’s ethnopolitics from the 1900s to the early 1950s and is currently undertaking a new book on the role of the United States in the making of Nationalist China on Taiwan from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s.