Hsiao-ting Lin (; born 1971) is a Taiwanese research fellow at the

Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution (officially The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; abbreviated as Hoover) is an American public policy think tank and research institution that promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, and ...

who studies Greater China, including

ethnopolitics ''Ethnopolitics'', formerly known as ''Global Review of Ethnopolitics'', is a peer-reviewed academic journal focusing on the intersection of ethnic groups and politics. It was established in the United Kingdom by the Political Studies Association's ...

, the

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...

, and

Taiwan–United States relations The bilateral relationship between Taiwan and the United States of America are the subject of the Japan-U.S. relations during Japanese colonial rule and China-U.S.relations before the government of the Republic of China (ROC) led by the Ku ...

during the

Cold War The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because the ...

. Lin was born in Taipei in 1971. He received a bachelor's degree in political science from National Taiwan University in 1994 and a master's degree in international law and diplomacy from National Chengchi University in 1997. He holds a DPhil in oriental studies from the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

, which he received in 2003. The 2017 Kingstone Award for Most Influential Book of the Year in Taiwan was awarded for his book "Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan" (Harvard University Press, 2016). In April 2008, Lin was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland are individuals who have been elected by the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society to further "the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science lite ...

Books

*Lin, Hsiao-ting. ''Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49''. .Vancouver UBC Press, 2014. ISBN 9780774855280 WorldCat shows 644 copies. *Lin, Hsiao-ting. ''Modern China's Ethnic Frontiers: A Journey to the West.'' Routledge, 2013. ISBN 9780415855402 WorldCat shows 856 copies *Lin, Hsiao-ting. ''Accidental State: Chiang Kai-Shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan.'' Harvard University Press, 2016. ISBN 9780674659810 WorldCat shows 760 copies.
orldCat book record **Also published in Chinese: 意外的國度 : 蔣介石, 美國, 與近代台灣的形塑 = Accidental state : Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the making of Taiwan / Yi wai de guo du : Jiang Jieshi, Meiguo, yu jin dai Taiwan de xing su. by 林孝庭, transl. Zhongxian Huang ISBN 9789869442534 *Lin, Hsiao-ting. ''Tai hai leng zhan jie mi dang an = The cold war between Taiwan and China : the declassified documents. '' 2015

ISBN 989013430

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lin, Hsiao-ting 1971 births Living people Historians of Taiwan 21st-century Taiwanese historians Taiwanese political scientists National Taiwan University alumni National Chengchi University alumni Hoover Institution people Taiwanese expatriates in the United States Taiwanese expatriates in the United Kingdom Alumni of the University of Oxford 21st-century male writers Writers from Taipei Taiwanese male writers Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society